Ayu possibly leaving Twitter? (her Twitter is now a staff account)

[truehappiness]

So she is still using Weibo?

[tasking]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

Make sure to follow my @ayu_weibo_bot account on Twitter for Ayu's Weibo updates! I made it a while ago because know Weibo can be weird for some people. I'm a bit slow in updating sometimes, but I always make sure to date everything unless it's posted on that same day

[visionfactory]

Good noght ayu

[ayumisrael]

lol ayu re-inventing Middle English. <3
Well yeah, at least she still has Weibo.

[Gustavopc]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

lol ayu re-inventing Middle English. <3
Well yeah, at least she still has Weibo.

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[Montebello]

Loving the engrish. <3

[BlackSilence]

i guess i'm moving to weibo now lol

[xLuna&1LOVE]

lol, whatever Ayu

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

This is some middle-school level dramatic bullshit.

agree. sad but true.
but it all makes me worried anyway.
twitter is a good means of promotion though.
I hope this drama won't affect her image any further?
I mean, with her relations being public she did much damage to her image.
but then she released A ONE and it seemed like she kinda restored herself in the eyes of the public a bit. I was happy about it.
but now it's like again it's gonna hurt her.

I just hope she's alright.

somehow it made me appreciate the fact that Kuu has no social media lulz

[mi|kshake]

Awww that's a shame, I really enjoyed her Twitter. Although I can understand why she might want to step away.

[Delicious n Bold]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

lol ayu re-inventing Middle English. <3

Screaming (especially as a linguist, I found that funny)

[Delirium-Zer0]

Ugh. IMHO, Ayu has done absolutley everything she can to be diplomatic, but fans have been screwing that up for years.

Ayu's twitter presence has been a privilege, and I'm delighted I ever got a reply from Ayu. ^_^ But some fans acted like it was something they had a right to. These photos & tweets were always HERS to give, not OURS to read and interpret however we wanted to.

Like some others here, I saw nothing cryptic in her tweets at all. And whenever Ayu has had truly major, big news, she's ALWAYS been up-front about it - stuff like the death of someone close to her, and the startings & endings of her relationships (as soon as she knew a "starting" was serious, anyway), and even her ear... It might take her awhile to say something if it's hard for her, but she always does say something.

The lack of trust fans have that Ayu would say "Yes, this is happening" as soon as she was ready to is just baffling and disturbing for me.

And poor Ayu had to deal with this crap on the TeamAyu BBS years ago and it got closed... She probably thought things might be better now, but apparently not.

Stuff like this happens and it's not hard to see why TA doesn't really get the closeness with Ayu that members got back in 2003 and earlier. If I were her I don't think I'd be handling it well either. Just for the sake of her own sanity, getting off Twitter may not be the worst idea.

EDIT:

Just adding my translation of "kanariya" because I think the two different uses of the word "naku" are deliberate (since Ayu used kanji for one and hiragana in the other, according to the kanariya single), and this translation of the first verse is different (I've used "~iku" as a verb ending instead of a separate word here, even though there's a pause in the vocals & a line break).

The city is bustling,
people are irritated,
And the birds that
fly into the night
are already sleeping.

Just as a dream
is afraid of awakening,
I'm afraid my heart
will be broken.

There's not a single thing
I've tried to give,
And not a single thing
I've tried to obtain. As such,
I was always
searching for a reason.

The canaries stifled their voices
But they weren't making themselves unable to sing,
it was so they wouldn't cry.

The canaries stifled their voices
But they weren't making themselves unable to sing.

The canaries stifled their voices
But they weren't making themselves unable to sing.
"Maybe not crying
was just their choice."
Hurry up and realize it...

"Maybe not crying was just their choice."
If you'd just realized it faster...

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

So Timmy's officially a woman, good to know.
And now we have confirmation that all that drama was indeed because of mean tweets. She'll be fine and protected from Twitter bs, so it's for the better.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I read one of the supposed tweets on Yahoo News and it was basically like... "What's wrong Ayu? Are you divorcing your American husband?"--and this really bothered me. On the surface it just seems like an innocent question. And perhaps to the person they meant no harm.

But the fact that this person/fan included American, as opposed to just husband, was really off putting to me. As if an "American" husband is any different than just a husband (i.e. Japanese man).

It's another case of us (the Japanese) versus others.




I also saw a comment on the news article that was calling Ayu out for yet another example of a year-end scandal/news worthy event that she tends to have.

[Raiu-Ayu]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

I also saw a comment on the news article that was calling Ayu out for yet another example of a year-end scandal/news worthy event that she tends to have.

I hate when news places do that. It's a complete oxymoron. They put ayu in the news to say that she is not news worthy; there's your first contradiction. And then they say that ayu is trying to cause a news worthy event but the people that made it an event was the news. She's rebranding her twitter; she didn't kill someone.

[Delirium-Zer0]

I almost feel like Ayu should have an essay contest rather than a yearly fee to see who belongs on TeamAyu... Just answer the question "Why do you deserve to be a member?" and whoever speaks most respectfully about Ayu and her career (you can criticize, of course, but be respectful) gets to be a member

There would have to be a bunch of unpublished criteria for getting in... like if you mention "You're a goddess, you're too good for that American husband!" or "I own all your merchandise and CDs so I deserve to be a member!" or "I should be a member because you shouldn't keep your life to yourself!" then you don't get in !!

And then all her behind the scenes stuff is all just on TA again, no more public social media

[ExodusUK]

This woman is such a drama queen. I love it.

[tasking]

For you crazy archivists, here's all of Ayu's Twitter photos from on or about 2/20/15. I'm working with Aderianu to get the rest

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...4&postcount=22

[Delirium-Zer0]

Tasking, you da real MVP. And aderianu too

[tasking]

I try