Japanese netizens responds to ISIS hostage crisis with internet meme and moe

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.