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On the e-girl army psyop phenomenon

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  1. Grzmot
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    You might've seen youtube shorts or tiktoks of a cute girl doing fun stuff on a us army range somewhere. It's just their newest attempt to get recruits. Still hot though.

    You might've seen youtube shorts or tiktoks of a cute girl doing fun stuff on a us army range somewhere.

    It's just their newest attempt to get recruits. Still hot though.

    6 votes
  2. [3]
    Kitahara_Kazusa
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    Until they start copying the JSDF and doing official collabs with gacha games I think this effort is doomed to failure.

    Until they start copying the JSDF and doing official collabs with gacha games I think this effort is doomed to failure.

    5 votes
    1. [2]
      Legerity
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      Didn't the JSDF make the anime "Gate" as a recruiting tool or at least I remember that being a meme when it first released.

      Didn't the JSDF make the anime "Gate" as a recruiting tool or at least I remember that being a meme when it first released.

      1 vote
      1. Kitahara_Kazusa
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        GATE is definitely JSDF propaganda, mixed in with your standard Isekai tropes and a decent amount of fanservice, but it wasn't actually funded by the military, it was just written by a...

        GATE is definitely JSDF propaganda, mixed in with your standard Isekai tropes and a decent amount of fanservice, but it wasn't actually funded by the military, it was just written by a nationalist/pro military author and happened to do well enough to get an anime.

        But the JMSDF will actually collaborate with Kantai Collection (aka kancolle) and do things like promote the game at official JMSDF events, and have recruiters at events for the game.

        Just search something like "JMSDF Kancolle" and there should be plenty of results, a lot of what you're looking for will be on Japanese Twitter so you'll either need to use Google translate to go there or look on English forums like r/NCD for people reposting that content.

        6 votes
  3. [11]
    kaos95
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    Jeez, back in my day they just showed up at High School "Career Day" and lied their asses off. 100% believe they are doing this, might work okish . . . but I really feel that recruiter lying is...

    Jeez, back in my day they just showed up at High School "Career Day" and lied their asses off. 100% believe they are doing this, might work okish . . . but I really feel that recruiter lying is always the way forward.

    3 votes
    1. [4]
      doogle
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      When I was in high school (a decade ago) recruiters would set up a table in the cafeteria and try talking to students during lunch. They'd challenge kids to pushup contests and lose on purpose so...

      When I was in high school (a decade ago) recruiters would set up a table in the cafeteria and try talking to students during lunch. They'd challenge kids to pushup contests and lose on purpose so they could say "wow, you're really strong, have you ever thought about joining the military? It's a much smarter choice than college".

      My younger brother just got DMs on instagram from recruiters. Always thought it was weird how these grown men were hitting up young boys online like that.

      7 votes
      1. [3]
        Promonk
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        It's rather a shame that this isn't really a lie anymore, if it ever was.

        "...It's a much smarter choice than college."

        It's rather a shame that this isn't really a lie anymore, if it ever was.

        4 votes
        1. [2]
          FeminalPanda
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          if you make it out alive and with much trauma it's good.

          if you make it out alive and with much trauma it's good.

          1 vote
          1. Promonk
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            I made it through college with alcohol trauma and a mountain of debt. It's tough to judge whether psychological trauma and a trade cert would be any better.

            I made it through college with alcohol trauma and a mountain of debt. It's tough to judge whether psychological trauma and a trade cert would be any better.

            4 votes
    2. [6]
      Ecrapsnud
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      Yeah this is a far cry from the old chin-up bar in the corner of the high school cafeteria. Maybe more people would have done it if there was an e-girl recruiter watching lol

      Yeah this is a far cry from the old chin-up bar in the corner of the high school cafeteria. Maybe more people would have done it if there was an e-girl recruiter watching lol

      1. [5]
        Grzmot
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        It honestly surprises me that, considering who the main audience for military advertisement is and that they were trying to get young kids straight out of high-school, they didn't put more hot...

        It honestly surprises me that, considering who the main audience for military advertisement is and that they were trying to get young kids straight out of high-school, they didn't put more hot girls in.

        3 votes
        1. [4]
          MimicSquid
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          Online it only takes one or two "hot girls". If you think that there's enough women who would recommend joining the military to have one at every recruitment event, you've never seen the...

          Online it only takes one or two "hot girls". If you think that there's enough women who would recommend joining the military to have one at every recruitment event, you've never seen the statistics on sexual abuse in the military.

          2 votes
          1. [3]
            Grzmot
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            If you think women wouldn't fuck over other women for money or because they didn't have the specific experience that abused women had, you've never seen people.

            If you think women wouldn't fuck over other women for money or because they didn't have the specific experience that abused women had, you've never seen people.

            3 votes
            1. Sodliddesu
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              I wouldn't say that it's about finding people to screw people over, it's about impacts. Yeah, one female soldier may get a few extra recruits but think of that on scale. Either a, you've got to...

              I wouldn't say that it's about finding people to screw people over, it's about impacts. Yeah, one female soldier may get a few extra recruits but think of that on scale. Either a, you've got to fly your hot recruiter around the country to every high school or b, you've got to have a lot of hot recruiters.

              Or, c, just have the hot girl make videos and have the recruiters tell the future joes that the hot girls are out there in the field, doing their fun jobs, and if you sign up for airborne too, you might just catch a glimpse of them.

              Now, there's plenty of attractive women in the military - most of them probably in the SoCal Air National Guard - but recruiting as a job kind of sucks. Actually, skip the kind of, recruiting is terrible. So, how do you get an attractive Soldier to sign up for one of the worst stateside jobs you can have when their current job has them actually doing fun things and they get good treatment (likely due to the fact that the ugly joes will handle the motorpool work)?

              Hate to put it this way but a bombshell is more effective when dropped over a large area. The hot girl TikTok gets then in the door and we can promise them that the babes and the Camaro are out there on the other side of basic training - and a signed contract.

              It's not really about trauma, though I need a few extra digits to count all the women I know in the military with sexual trauma, but that being a recruiter blows chunks when the alternative is cruising in a gator playing spec ops for Internet points.

              2 votes
            2. MimicSquid
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              That's definitely true of some people, given that military recruiters exist at all, but I think there's limits to how much people who've experienced trauma would willingly and knowingly throw...

              That's definitely true of some people, given that military recruiters exist at all, but I think there's limits to how much people who've experienced trauma would willingly and knowingly throw other people into that situation.