On November 1, a video distributed by a popular YouTuber couple caused a firestorm, claiming that it was a case of child abuse. The couple announced on their official website, “[Report] The police have conducted an investigation. Please refrain from reporting it in the future. The center of the uproar is a YouTuber who works as a married couple under the name “Ponkotsu Rice”. The 27-year-old husband married his 40-year-old wife, a single mother with two children. The couple’s daily life as a family of five, including a stepson in the first year of junior high school, an eldest daughter in the fourth grade, and a one-year-old boy, their biological son, has been broadcast in an unabashed manner, and the number of registered users exceeds 310,000. On October 31, a viewer of “Ponkotsu Rice” posted a screenshot of the couple’s TikTok video along with the caption, “Mother (40) asking her remarried partner (27) in front of their children, ‘Did you disturb my stepdaughter? and asking her with a laugh, “Was my stepson in the way?” too gross, not funny, not funny, even in jest,” she posted. This screenshot shows a husband who was asked by his wife, “Was your stepdaughter in the way when you got married? The screenshot shows the husband’s response in front of his eldest daughter, Hika, when asked by his wife, “Was your stepdaughter in the way when you got married? The post quickly went viral, with more than 80 million views and over 6,600 reposts. In addition, along with the proliferation of the post, the past videos of his words and actions were also dug up. For example, an exchange on Instagram in April of this year, in which the 27-year-old husband introduces his stepdaughter as “my wife,” and the daughter-in-law as “my husband,” and the wife says “one husband, two wives” and so on, has been spreading again. In a video posted by the couple on October 30, the husband invites the eldest daughter to take a bath with him for the first time in a while, and the wife says, “You always take a bath with her. Criticisms poured in, suggesting that such “sexual conversations” were being repeated in front of elementary school children on a daily basis. Many viewers were concerned about the excessive skinship between the couple and their eldest daughter, and many reported the incident to the police. In May of this year, the couple appeared on the popular YouTube channel “Machiroku Channel.” They commented that they were sleeping together as a family in the shape of a river, and that they would continue to do so even if their child woke up during sexual intercourse. The couple also appeared in an interview with “SPA! They talked about the beginning of their marriage, such as how they got married when they were suspected of receiving illegal child support payments and reported to the police when they were going to his wife’s house as a single mother. The couple talked “nakedly” about how they got married after the marriage. In response to the flames, the couple’s sexual interactions were “lover’s quarrels,” and they posted a succession of videos of their eldest daughter herself talking about excessive skinship, such as, “I don’t mind being touched. As for her comments on the “Machiroku Channel,” she said, “I have never intentionally exposed my child to my eyes. However, before dawn on November 2, she released a video titled “[Urgent Report] I’ve cooled down, about my stepdaughter and the direction I’m going. In the video, he says, “[Our future policy] – Hika (and the child) will not be mixed in the lovers’ comedy – Hika will continue to appear in the future – but only in family and educational genres, etc. *We will respect her wishes the most, and the same goes for other children. We will be especially careful about sex, violence, and abusive language toward children. We have taken it very seriously that we can no longer accept that the world is just a story. Comments on the video were “turned off. The video was “off.” “It seems that a police officer came to my house after receiving a report from a viewer, and I was told that the Child Guidance Center would be contacting me in the future,” he said. The couple said that they would continue their activities in the future, but that they would “be careful. However, they also commented, “I won’t change my style of saying what I want to say, but I will update it,” which also drew fire. The couple has stated that they will continue to feature their eldest daughter in their videos in the future. We are concerned that the same furore may repeat itself again.
