From Teletext to Android TV: Isn't this quaint, I didn't know what the "teletext" option on my TV was when I was growing up, but now I know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teletext_services These are Japanese teletext services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(videotex) "Captain differed from comparable European videotex systems by not being based on the transmission of alphanumeric characters.[1] The Japanese kanji character set has over 3,500 characters, and in the late 1970s to try to include a character generator in the user's terminal that could retain and then generate so many characters on demand was seen as prohibitive. Instead pages were therefore substantially sent to the end user as pre-rendered images, using coding strategies similar to facsimile machines.[1]" Well, at least it displays this pretty image! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captain2.jpg So what if you can't display 3,500 kanji on a simple computer system? Didn't the Portuguese invent romaji hundreds of years ago? I had stated in my statements about rap music that romaji can actually be used to INCREASE MEANING using homonyms to mean two or more different meanings at the same time. And this is when those school students would have started writing all cutesy which lead to the emojis we have today, right? So, let's consider some alternate timeline or history in a lucid dream I want to have where the Japanese population just shrugged and said, "Right, communicating messages in romaji would have some merit from time to time," and then they considered alternate methods of differentiating meanings with a simple character set. For example, pitch accent alone would not be useful unless you made the Osaka pitch accent standard, so these Japanese engineers could simply jump on the cute handwriting bandwagon and you know, add little iconographic pictures from time to time to differentiate "hashi" and "hashi", ("bridge" and "chopsticks", obviously, what, you couldn't tell?) and they eventually discovered a little character from the obscure Hausa language that could be used in serious news to designate that some chinpira was so angry that he rolled his R's as he spoke. (A report on an angry man yelling "DAMAR̃E, KUSO GAKI GA!") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%CC%83 Oh, and you can use the Spanish n letter to distinguish between ん and no ん. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91 And you can make your romaji text look good with fancy fonts from one of those free font tester sites! You could test how this paragraph looks! "Kaeri ni, sukosi Kaimono wo suru tame, Hongô, no Tôri wo aruita.  Daigaku Kônai no Sakura wa Kyô iti-niti ni hanbun hodo hiraite simatta.  Yono-naka wa mô sukkari Haru da.  Yukiki no Hito no muragatta Timata no Asi-oto wa nani to wa naku Kokoro wo ukitataseru.  Doko kara kyû ni dete kita ka to ayasimareru bakari, utukusii Kimono wo kita utukusii Hito ga zoro-zoro to yuku. Haru da !  sô Yo wa omotta. Sosite, Sai no koto, kaaii Kyô-ko no koto wo omoiukabeta.  Sigatu made ni kitto yobiyoseru, Sô Yo wa itte ita : sosite yobanakatta, ina, yobi kaneta.  Ah ! Yo no Bungaku wa Yo no Teki da, sosite Yo no Tetugaku wa Yo no midukara azakeru Ronri ni suginu !  Yo no hossuru Mono wa takusan aru yô da : sikasi jissai wa hon no sukosi de wa arumaika ?  Kane da !" https://takuboku-no-iki.opal.ne.jp/romajimokuji.html https://thelanguagecloset.com/2024/03/09/the-handwriting-that-schools-banned/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTES For Korea and China, their solutions are different, both North and South Korea just decided to ditch Hanja, which is a very important tool for preserving the connections to the past of old poetry and painting and stuff, this is the exact reason why the two Koreas have absolutely no animation works that resemble traditional painting, and all their animation consist of brightly colored characters with designs inspired by obscure Japanese shoujo artists such as Jun'ichi Nakahara and Katsuji Matsumoto, for example, even though Koreans and Japanese are supposed to hate each other, and all the characters have pale skin like Caucasians and clearly non-Asian looking hair and eye colors such as purple, pink, green, red, blue, etc, except for "actual Caucasians" who are consitently drawn like HITLER'S PERFECT PEOPLE AND I AM SPEAKING SERIOUSLY AND NOT JOKING PLEASE STOP DOING THIS BECAUSE I'M A "CAUCASIAN" AND I FIND IT GENUINELY OFFENSIVE TO BE TYPECAST AS SOMEONE WITH BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES BECAUSE I DID NOT CAUSE HARM TO ANY ISREALI SOLDIERS OR WHATEVER BECAUSE I NEVER EVEN MET THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE LIKE 0.2 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION AND IT'S HARD TO SEE THEM IN REAL LIFE AND NOT ON TV PLEASE STOP WHY ARE WARS ONLY IMPORTANT TO DOCUMENT ON THE NEWS IF THEY INVOLVE MOSSAD OR ZELENSKY OR WHATEVER and also Korean characters are never really drawn to resemble African-American basketball jocks because apparently racism is a huge problem in Korea and I'm also racist myself because I made a reference to African-Americans playing basketball; meanwhile, China is patriotic enough to have developed "ink wash animation" which exists in neither Japan nor Korea, and since Taiwan is a part of China, they also adopted the Bopomofo or Zhuyin or whatever script because it was created by a Chinese person and not a Western non-Soviet foreigner who isn't part of the Dungan community either, but then they decided to make an "emergency" limited written language using a speciallly selected collection of 256 hanzi characters that have the most meanings available within an 8-bit collection of characters, (but I don't know hanzi, maybe some worldbuilder who natively knows of has studied Chinese would like to invent 256Hanzi for me,) meanwhile, there's a little pocket of China that South Koreans, at least, like to immigrate to because they don't like that the CEO of Samsung and the president of South Korea are the exact same person because South Korea is a corporate dystopian nightmare run by Samsung, that pocket is Yanbian and less frequently Changbai as well, and there's actually Korean ink wash animation works that exists in those places because they haven't just made the stupid decision to completely ditch hanja unlike with Japan that even decided to ditch kana but that's okay because kana is Chinese-based characters anyway, now we're adopting another foreign culture. But nowadays, there's smart TVs, and they have quite a lot of untapped potential. You could have independent channels, channels that show indie animation by "deaf mangaka," independent "experimental games" that are advertised and allowed to be immediately downloaded to your smart TV, various "alt-tech" livestream channels just like with regular TV promoting Alex Jones and such, rogue smart TV stations that "drive-by download" viruses or spyware to your TV by disguising it as an experimental game created by a deaf mangaka, which is why smart TV should start to have more regulations if it were to succeed. How to read without direct staring: I came up with Squigglevision or other moving text and/or coloured letters so foreign otaku can watch anime and read the subtitles with their peripherical vision. Because peripherical vision is designed to catch moving objects, not to focus on detail. This also applies to deaf viewers who have to watch closed captioning, they can finally pay attention to what is happening on the screen!