{"id":29137,"date":"2024-03-29T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=29137"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T05:38:01","slug":"false-news-of-pedophile-using-splatoon-to-contact-underaged-victim-broadcast-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/false-news-of-pedophile-using-splatoon-to-contact-underaged-victim-broadcast-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"False news of pedophile using Splatoon to contact underaged victim broadcast in Japan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A major Japanese news outlet reported on March 27 that a 35-year-old man had been arrested for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl after contacting her via chat in Nintendo\u2019s casual TPS <strong>Splatoon. <\/strong>The report even made it to television, but netizens familiar with the game were quick to point out a major contradiction \u2013 Splatoon does not have a chat function. The false report and emphasis on the game\u2019s title have angered many users.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4eba\u6c17\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u300c\u30b9\u30d7\u30e9\u30c8\u30a5\u30fc\u30f3\u300d\u306e\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u6a5f\u80fd\u3067\u77e5\u308a\u5408\u3063\u305f\u4e2d\u5b66\u751f\u3068\u2026\u2026\u3063\u3066\u8a00\u3063\u3066\u3066\u3073\u3063\u304f\u308a\u3057\u305f\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3051\u3069<br>\u30b9\u30d7\u30e9\u306b\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u6a5f\u80fd\u306a\u3093\u3066\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304c\u3001\u30d5\u30b8\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u3055\u3093!? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j6TPld8sye\">pic.twitter.com\/j6TPld8sye<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u307b\u3057\u3051\u3093 (@hosiken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hosiken\/status\/1773181025264214201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>When I heard, \u201cGot to know the junior high school student through Splatoon\u2019s chat function,\u201d I was shocked. Hey Fuji television, there\u2019s no chat in Splatoon!?<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to (now revised) initial articles and TV reports by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/677601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fuji News Network<\/a> (FNN), a 35-year-old office worker from Japan contacted a female junior high school student (14 years old at the time) via \u201cSplatoon\u2019s chat function.\u201d This escalated to the man sexually assaulting her on two occasions in 2023 while taking photographs and videos of the act. The incident was uncovered by police in March 2024 after an anonymous tip-off, and the culprit has since admitted to violating child prostitution and pornography laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news focused significantly on the word \u201cSplatoon,\u201d with TV chyrons reading \u201cContact established through popular game Splatoon.\u201d However, as it has been pointed out by netizens and Nintendo themselves, Splatoon does not have a chat function, making the report misleading. FNN has since issued an apology and corrected the article, which now states that the pedophile had contacted the victim through X (formerly Twitter), while using common interests (one of which was Splatoon) to get close to her. FNN&#8217;s apology ends with, \u201cWe were informed by Nintendo that there is no chat function in Splatoon. We apologize.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mistake has caused many negative reactions from the public for doing damage to Splatoon\u2019s reputation \u2013 a game known for being family- and child-friendly despite belonging to the shooter genre. Last year, reports of a man being arrested after <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231018-22351\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stalking a woman through the MMORPG Final Fantasy 14<\/a> had, although truthful, also been criticized by Japanese users for mentioning the game\u2019s name in their headlines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese users were outraged by a news report claiming that a pedophile contacted a minor through Splatoon, after which he assaulted her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":29142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>False news of pedophile using Splatoon to contact underaged victim broadcast in Japan\u00a0 - 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