The threat announced by ISIS to execute two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, unless the government pays them $200 million shocked many.
But not Japanese netizens. They responded with amusement — by mocking the extremists through a series of composite images on social media.
Yes, a Photoshop contest is apparently the best response to terrorism. Maybe the government will follow suit with its own montage.
There are allegations that the video is a fake — the shadows are strange and the background coloring looks imposed — but regardless, two lives are potentially at stake.
This hasn’t stopped the Japanese rogues from posting funny pictures of the video image re-jigged so that the three in the desert are now Tenga onacups (great advertising — even terrorists have Tenga!).
Or how about this one — where the captor is holding not a knife but a Fairy massager vibrator?
And don’t worry — the two captives have plenty of anime character to keep them company. Moe will save the day. Or perhaps not when the deadline expires.
