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Ken Ken Ken

2025-08-17 Entertainment
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Collaboratively Crafting an Original Japanese "Ken" Tongue Twister

Discover the intensive, multi-layered process of brainstorming dozens of meanings for a single Japanese word ("Ken") to construct a complex, original tongue twister designed for high difficulty.

Short Summary

  • Hosts launch multiple new content formats, including the "Barugi" series and a collaboration with Matcha Samurai.
  • The core activity involved crowdsourcing and documenting multiple meanings of the Japanese word "Ken" (fist, sword, healthy, name, house, etc.).
  • The team built a narrative around these meanings, culminating in a complex story about a rabbit named Ken needing a specific ticket for a duel.
  • This session demonstrates agile content creation, moving from technical hurdles to a finalized (though difficult) linguistic challenge.

This session captures the hosts' return to live streaming following a busy production period. They review recent successes, including the launch of their new "Barugi" series and a highly admired collaboration with Matcha Samurai. The main focus then shifts entirely to creating a unique, challenging tongue twister using only words containing the core sound "Ken," demonstrating extensive linguistic exploration before settling on a final, narrative-driven phrase.

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We're making a new original Tongue Twister

Top Comments (10)

@danbeforetime 2025-08-18

I love that I genuinely cannot tell if Sugi is acting or not.

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@LunarAgent 2025-08-17

I live in Arkansas, USA. Just happened to wake up in the middle of the night and got the notification for the Live. I watched it all, went back to sleep, and had dreams of someone saying "Ken" over and over and over. 😂😂

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@christinagipperich2780 2025-08-17

I loved the Matcha Samurai collaboration! You guys also did a great job at the comedy bar. Taking your content from a video format to a stage was probably hard but you did it well. Please be careful in NYC…just be situationally aware whenever you’re out in the streets.

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@__________686 2025-08-17

It’s been already 13 hours since the live ended and I still think about ken ken ken ken

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@Emmelive 2025-08-17

"I was hungry, I was panick, hungry panick" GREAT interview LUL (GRASS wwwwwwwww)

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@Kcalien 2025-08-17

I failed Japanese in high school. This gives me new appreciation for such a hard language to learn. Ty

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@thelividdeads 2025-08-17

He's really just like that, huh? lmfao I love that goofball

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@likelyme 2025-09-19

めちゃくちゃ英語で喋ってるのに思いついたとき「あ!」て言うCameron可愛すぎる🥺

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@XenoFractal 2025-08-17

Why does he kinda look like the main dude from dandadan. It's definitely the glasses but its a vibe

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@blackpekoe4163 2025-08-18

Aww, Sugi drew us a helpful map of Japan!🗾

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