Thread:Lukesams/@comment-3004323-20180114200739/@comment-31524231-20180117203159

"There must be a theory behind PPAP.

Around the time of the rebrand, some news channel (Makeizai, probably) had someone saying "pure petrol, Anglosovic petrol" in mangled English.

And so it came to pass that the creative team behind Counter-Information created the joke.

So fifteen years later, a Hokuseiese "reused" the initials for something else. I smell a conspiracy!"

-hypothetical /r/mujuki post in English on the spoof, apparently rediscovered from the vaults of YouTube user ShobuTerebi