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A 10 year old murderer (she cut the throat of another student because of an online flame war) became a pop icon in Japan.
Her identity was withheld by police, but a photo circulated on the 4chan of japan with her wearing a Nevada sweater.
She became known as Nevada-Tan and her character is an online pop icon (kind of like Star Wars Kid or Alex Chiu, etc)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-tan
| quote: | Internet popularity of Girl A
For reasons not fully determined, the Japanese web communities, primarily Futaba Channel and 2channel, fixated on this story and "adopted" the girl. Her personal website's popularity suddenly rocketed, and when it was taken down, mirrors were established. Copies of her artwork began circulating around the web, with other artists creating variations on the originals. Fan songs, such as "Cutie NeVaDa" appeared. In June 2005, the online store that sold the University of Nevada hooded sweatshirt reported it to be their best-selling item in the site's online statistics; a few weeks later, the University temporarily removed the sweatshirt from their catalog. Cosplayers created "Girl A" costumes. Artists on 2channel soon turned "Girl A" into a cute super deformed character dubbed "Nevada-tan."
The Nevada-tan character is often depicted with short brown hair, the trademark pullover, and a crazed, murderous smile. She is rarely seen without a box cutter or other sharp implement nearby. A common representation of Nevada-tan is as ASCII art, similar to Giko, Mona, etc.[9] She is often depicted as slashing idiotic posters on the 2channel boards. Inevitably, this spilled over into 4chan and from there to other English language imageboards, introducing Nevada-tan to the English speaking world.
Nevada Tan is the name of a German Nu Metal band which formed in 2007 and has since released a very succesful debut record in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Australian band Love Outside Andromeda wrote a song about the incident, entitled Boxcutter, Baby. |
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Everything is beautiful. Let the music carry you. Baby I will follow you forever. Nowhere else I'd rather be when you're lying next to me. Let the music carry us together.
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SuspicionVandit: Are you God?
Paul Van Dyk 09-24-2009: No, but I can sign your sleeve under that name if you let me!
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