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ISIS-chan (ISIS（アイシス）ちゃん, aishisuchan) is a fictional manga character that originated on the Japanese internet textboard 2channel and was created in 2015 after a series of incidents in which Japanese nationals were kidnapped and beheaded by ISIS. The character is portrayed as a moe-style girl.

Overview

ISIS-chan was originally conceived by users of 2channel as a response to the propaganda of the Islamic terrorism group ISIS. The character is a moe anthropomorphism of ISIS and soon became a meme across some Japanese social media.

Their intentions were to flood the web with ISIS-chan's images to make the character rank highly in Google's search engine results, the goal being that an internet search for ISIS would come up with the moe character instead of militant propaganda sites. The campaign has become a part of the social media war that the US and the UK have already launched against ISIS.

ISIS-chan received an UTAU voicebank in December 2015.

See also

• Afghanis-tan
• Hinomoto Oniko

References

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4. "Melons instead of tanks: Meet "ISIS-chan" - the anime that fights 'Islamic State'". Deutsche Welle. September 7, 2015. Archived from the original on October 13, 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
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8. ^ "匿名ハッカー集団「アノニマス」が「ISISちゃん」の画像を大量送信してイスラム国の広報活動を妨害か". BIGLOBE. 2015-07-22. Archived from the original on 2015-07-22. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
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10. "ISIS-chan - UTAU Wiki 2.0". utau.wiki. Archived from the original on 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2019-05-13.

• Internet characters introduced in 2015
• Moe anthropomorphism
• Twitter
• Propaganda
• 2channel
• Works about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Internet meme characters
• Internet memes introduced from Japan
• Information operations and warfare