"Continuous performance of 50 pictograms" attracted a lot of attention at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
On SNS, pictograms of your choice are posted in a state of great joy, and the episode is spreading with sympathy.
Forgetting to press the rice cooker button that spreads sympathy
There were many sympathetic voices such as "something" and "understanding" in this pictogram.
It is a "pictogram forgot to press the rice cooking button".
The figure shows a person holding his head and collapsing from his lap when he inadvertently forgets to press the button on the rice cooker and notices that the rice is not cooked.
I posted on SNS "Iris Ohyama", a major household goods manufacturer headquartered in Sendai.
On the 26th, when I sent it on the company's official Twitter account, it spread all at once, and I received more than 10,000 likes in one day.
Some of the people who saw the post noticed that they had forgotten to press the rice-cooking button that they had just set, in addition to the voices such as "This was the last time" and "There is only despair" ... You can also see the words of gratitude, "Thank you!"
We asked a female employee in her twenties who made this pictogram to talk to us.
After seeing the performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics held on the 23rd of this month, he came up with the idea of making it, inspired by the pictograms posted one after another on SNS.
A few days before the opening ceremony, I forgot to press the button on the rice cooker while trying to cook rice at home, so I made it in about an hour using image editing software.
When I asked the woman why she thought it was so widespread, she said:
"I think it's fun and widespread to think about replacing pictograms with myself, as I myself. At the Olympics, athletes are engaged in competition, but there are many things in everyday life. I feel that pictograms show people doing their best in childcare, housework, and work. "
"Like" 170,000!
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“Preposition” pictogram
The "preposition pictogram" is expanding rapidly.
I combined figures such as cubes and circles so that I could imagine the meaning of about 30 kinds of English prepositions such as "on" and "into".
Many reactions have been received mainly from parents and students who have children.
"It's very easy to understand." "It's hard to imagine in words!" "It's my daughter's study of English." "If this was when I was studying English, my understanding might have been different."
So far, it has received more than 170,000 likes, has been retweeted more than 36,000 times, and has spread.
I posted this to Mr. Koatan, who lives in Australia and posts illustrations on the internet every day so that he can enjoy learning English.
I have omitted all the detailed explanations so that even people who are not good at English can enjoy learning, so that anyone can intuitively imagine it.
"I hope that by getting involved in trends, people who have never been interested in learning English will be interested in it."
"Like" exceeds the national population
More than 20,000 likes, which exceeds the national population, were posted by the Japan Office of the Tourism Bureau of Nauru, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean.
On the night of the 26th, I posted a pictogram in the shape of a country on SNS.
The area of Nauru is about 21 square kilometers, about the size of Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, and the pictogram has a white, island-shaped oval on a blue background.
Nauru has the third smallest population in the world, about 13,000, but as of 2:00 pm today, it received more than 20,000 likes, which exceeds the population.
In addition to the positive impressions such as "cute", the post received many comments saying "sora beans !!" and "looks like rice grains" that resemble the shape of an island. However, some people are saying, "I'm talking about whether I can go to Nauru once the corona is settled, but is there a good spot?"
According to the Japan office, the number of Japanese tourists who visited Nauru was three in 2019, and last year no one visited the island due to the effects of the new coronavirus.
"It's a country I'm not familiar with in Japan yet, so I wanted you to know it even a little. I thought it was simpler and easier to convey than explaining using a map. There are various reactions, but there are many reactions. There are no modern tourist facilities on the island, but you can enjoy the beautiful sea and the life of being in contact with nature, which is difficult to experience in the city, so the spread of the new coronavirus infection is spreading. If you calm down, I definitely want you to visit. "