Juan Alonso

unremarkable

[Hoops @Hoopss]

If Lionel Messi scores for Argentina tonight we will send $500 to one person who likes this tweet. Must be following

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

I love America, but I hate to burst your bubble: if you are on Twitter, and you are getting posts about how Europeans visiting for the World Cup are completely in awe of American food and grocery stores— I have to be honest with you and tell you you are being fed complete nonsense by the algorithm.

I’ve traveled to almost every European country, and there isn’t a single one which doesn’t have better grocery stores and higher-quality restaurant food than the USA.

Just being honest, as a doctor should

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

The 4th largest company in the world. It doesn't produce anything. It doesn't make money. It has no plans to make money. It wouldn't even have stayed afloat if not for taxpayer dollars. I mean y'all cannot be serious rn

[Jago @HEISJAGO]

Olise get Kane for club, still get Mbappe for country

Yamal get Ferran for club and Ferran for country😭😭😭

[Eggy @2eggwhite]

@ii_rick57363 https://t.co/e92VW0VHQt

[Eggy @2eggwhite]

Watching a budget cooking video and the woman has to adjust a literal Great Depression recipe because the ingredients would be too expensive in 2026

[Atsuko TAMADA @atsukotamada]

日本人男性によるサッカー場でのゴミ拾いが注目されているようだが、日本人男性の家庭内労働時間は国際的にみても極めて低い水準。まず家の中のケア労働を分担してほしい。

[Raunak @caps_raunak]

Bro I'm so fucking sick of pretending this is normal.

AI was trained on Stack Overflow answers written by developers who got zero dollars and zero credit, and now those same developers are losing their jobs to the thing their free labor built.
We built the rope. They just used it.

[Mundo Despectivo @MundoDespectivo]

Mi Jefe: “Donde estará el cabrón este que fue a mear hace una hora”.

Yo en el bar de la esquina animando a Senegal:

[Juan Alonso @madhunter89]

@JuankPiza No está bien. Pero en Millonarios les importa nada, por no usar otras palabras, lo que pase deportivamente con el equipo

[Bd@irB@ll @Bd_irB_ll]

Two games ago the MOTM was telling us he couldn't bring his mom to watch the most important moment of his entire career cause her visa got rejected

[Boichi @Boichi_Bo1]

In 2016, I received an email from an aspiring manga artist in Morocco.

It began like this:
“I want to become a mangaka, but there is no manga publishing industry in Morocco.”

Many people around the world love manga and read it, but when you look globally, there are many countries where manga is simply not published at all.
In some places, there is not even a publishing system(including publishing, translation, and distribution) in place.

Even where books exist, the infrastructure for printing, distribution, and bookstores is often lacking, making it very difficult for a true industry to develop.

Telling manga fans in those countries, “Your country has a relatively high GDP per capita, so you should buy manga,” is meaningless if there is no actual way for them to buy it.

That is something I find deeply painful.
Why is it that the manga industry has not been able to properly serve those regions?

Even in countries where publishing exists, manga books are often too expensive.
The price of a single tankōbon book is $ 15 to $ 20, which is high even in the United States, especially when today’s digital entertainment offers so many alternatives at much lower prices.

So, this is why I believe the future of manga is clearly not limited to print publishing, but must include digital services—manga that can be enjoyed in a reasonably accessible and affordable way.
If such systems are established globally, I believe the manga industry could grow dramatically.
In North America alone, a tenfold expansion would not be unrealistic.
Even countries without any publishing tradition could develop sustainable manga industries.

Once official digital services exist in each country, they can generate tax revenue, and governments can more seriously address piracy.
At that point, creators and aspiring manga artists can also demand proper enforcement and protection.
Most importantly, it would create opportunities for local aspiring manga artists.
And those opportunities would, in turn, strengthen the global industry as a whole.

When a country’s manga ecosystem develops properly, it becomes a cultural export industry.
From a government perspective, piracy then becomes something that can and should be actively addressed.

The first people to pay for legitimate manga services will, in many cases, be the very readers who once relied on piracy. They are not enemies of the industry—they are its earliest supporters in waiting.

Pirated manga readers are not our opponents.
They are our future audience.
They are proof that demand already exists.

In late 1990s Korea, manga piracy was widespread, and attitudes were often very hostile toward paid content.
Many believed that paying for manga was unnecessary, or even that the industry itself should not exist.

At the time, Steve and I did not fully understand this.
We were wrong in many ways.
But later, when proper legal services were introduced in Korea, readers were more than willing to support them. They paid for content gladly, and the Korean webtoon industry grew stronger, eventually becoming a major source of IP for film and television.

We learned, through experience, that the joy of not paying cannot compare to the deeper satisfaction of supporting and sustaining the culture you love.
Piracy users were never the enemy.
They were simply manga fans.
And all manga fans, in the end, are on the same side.

Through our mistakes, Steve and I came to understand this more clearly.

What needs to be done is simple: build proper digital manga services.
Ensure fair pricing.
And most importantly, help each country develop its own manga ecosystem.
Because only then can a truly global manga industry exist.
And only then can the works we create truly reach the world.

To be continued...

[Juanma Tucci @juanmatucci]

Ni el cooling break, ni la publicidad invasiva, ni las distancias imposibles: lo peor de este Mundial es que una madre no pueda ver a su hijo cumplir el sueño de su vida por no tener autorizada una visa.

Hasta a los propios jugadores los requisan como si se tratara de delincuentes.

El fútbol era de la gente. Qué asco que la FIFA lo haya convertido en esto.

[Juan Alonso @madhunter89]

@theoldzealand because it isnt

[Juan Alonso @madhunter89]

@jmhorp If you watched those games, I don’t see how you were bored

[Juan Alonso @madhunter89]

@DjMaRiiO Cabo Verde invicta

[Trucha @Trucha_chitos17]

Los de la FIFA pensaron que pagarían por servicios de streaming

Un camionero transmitiendo toda la copa del mundo desde su camión en roja directa:

[Stop That Neuer @Goatkeeper1_]

The Curaçao goalscorer after the game tonight