ISIS-chan (ISISちゃん,aishisuchan)[1][2][3][4] is a fictionalmangacharacter that originated on the Japanese internettextboard2channel and was created in 2015 after a series of incidents in which Japanese nationalswere kidnapped and beheaded by ISIS. The character is portrayed as amoe-style girl.
ISIS-chan was originally conceived by users of2channel as a response to the propaganda of theIslamic terrorism groupISIS.[5][6][7][8] The character is amoe anthropomorphism of ISIS and soon became ameme across some Japanese social media.[8]
Their intentions were to flood the web with ISIS-chan's images to make the characterrank highly in Google's search engine results,[1][2][9] the goal being that an internet search for ISIS would come up with themoe 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.[5]
ISIS-chan received anUTAU voice bank in December 2015.[10][user-generated source]