TW- This article has mentions of suicide. If you think you could get triggered, please stop reading here.

Original article- https://ameblo.jp/kooks-chelica/entry-11738349069.html

Screenshots- Dokuzetsuka Screenshots

Note- the original blog is dead, as of 2020 12/03, credit to Tawman for digging up the screenshots

Note2- this is a BLOG by some random dude, we can't take everything he says as the truth, but it's better than nothing, I guess.

Why Are There No Doctors Who Fix "Internet Addictions"? Shiga Prefecture Junior High School Girl Suicide Internet Live Stream

December 28, 2013, 8:19 AM

On November 24th, at 3 AM, a 14 year old junior high school girl living in Shiga prefecture jumped off the mansion she lived in, committing suicide by jumping.

The suicide was said to have been streamed live on the internet using her smartphone.　

An article on the case is written on the February issue of Knuckles.

Note- knuckles is essentially a gossip magazine that covers murder cases, and adult stuff.

This suicide video is apparently still viewable.

I suppose on places like YouTube or something.

She put a something to step on on the rooftop, saying "I'm scared I'm scared", and yet, she jumped off and took her own life.

Note- she didn't jump off the rooftop, she jumped off the emergency stairway

It is said that the video on the internet also has the audio of her being slammed onto the ground.

The girl was a junior high student in the 3rd grade. She called herself "Rorochan",

and streamed live with the title "Erotuc Menhera Virgin JC3", on sites like Niconico, and other video sites.

Apparently they call these people "namanushi".

Note- this is a pretty commonly known term, "nama" meaning live, and "nushi" meaning owner/host.

Apparently the girl's reason for her suicide was because she "wanted to become a legend".

Until then, she streamed herself playing piano, and talked about the anime Minky Momo.

"Minky Momo" was a comic made when I was a student myself. Time has passed.

But that changed, and later on, she started to do reckless things, like breaking objects, and became unstable.

Some thought that this girl committed suicide due to bullying, but when Knuckles interviewed Rorochan's(I don't know her real name, so I'll use her online handle for the sake of convenience) classmate in school, there was apparently no bullying.

She had decent grades, learnt piano, didn't go to any club activities, and was the type of person that didn't stand out.

But, she apparently had a friend she was close to.

Note- The article doesn't make it clear on whether she had multiple close friends, or just one. It could be either.

But, she changed around the middle of the 2nd year of junior high.

Note- This would be about 1 year before Roro's suicide.

It's said that, although she tried to be the piano accompanist for her school's choir contest, she began to distance herself from others when someone else was chosen.

Note- pretty much every school I know of has a choir contest. Each class competes against each other, and the performances are ranked by the teachers, who decide who's the best. A student in the class who can play piano will be the accompanist, and someone else gets chosen to be the conductor. Piano is a common thing to learn in Japan, and when teachers decide which class a student goes to, they make sure that each class has at least 1 pianist in it, so that these events can actually happen.

This overlaps with the time that Roro started to stream on the internet.

According to news reports, Roro was worried about her grades going down.

When taking a look at her twitter, you can see that the cause was likely her addiction to the internet.

Previously, she only streamed in the afternoon when her parents weren't home, but after a while, she would stream even when it was the middle of the night.

She stops studying, and her grades drop.

The parents, who saw how the internet was negatively affecting their child, took her smartphone and computer, and didn't allow Roro to use the internet.

However, she was writing things such like

"Give me my internet back!!" on Twitter, through a game console which can connect to the internet.

Maybe what the parents should've done here, was to take Roro to a mental clinic, and not just disconnect her from the internet entirely.

Roro herself wrote that she needed to resist the urge to be on the internet, and attempted to stop, but she was completely addicted.

She felt stress from forcing herself to take time away from the internet, which caused her addiction to get worse and worse.

I think that her suicide wasn't because of some realistic reason like her grades dropping.

Although her reason for suicide being "wanting to become a legend" can sound like nonsense and feel ridiculous to us, to Roro in her mentally ill state, it could've meant something significant.

The people around Roro who took her internet addiction lightly and brushed it off as nothing, could be the ones to blame here, depending on how you look at things.

I don't want to say that the internet is evil, but those who are mentally weak, and have the risk of being consumed by it shouldn't be using it.

Roro chan isn't the only one to have streamed their suicide, Knuckles even has several other articles on people who streamed their suicide live.

The girl who cut her wrists while streaming on Nico Nico, a 22 year old man smiling while committing suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, the woman in her 20's streaming herself on Stickam jumping off the 4th floor of a building, the 24 year old woman streaming herself hanging on Ustream.

Note- both niconico and stickam are streaming websites which are well known in Japan.

Not everyone is mentally ill because of an addiction to the internet, but there definitely are others who are like this.

You apparently can't become a legend just by committing suicide on a live stream.

If anyone out there is seriously thinking about this, something's wrong, and you should seek mental help.

It's easier to go to a psychiatry and talk to a doctor than it is to commit suicide.

It does cost money though.