Talk:Episode Glossary/@comment-207.244.72.201-20150927200658/@comment-7888499-20150927231406

hmm, I have no understanding of Java and how 2chan works, so with my beginner's Japanese, I'm falling to understand the wikipedia entry. Please, take what I'm about to write with a truckload of salt. In a a year or two if no one else has taken care of that entry and my Japanese has improved, I will come back to it and try again.

What I can make out so far is that "nullpo" stands for the Java term "NullPointerException", which is abbreviated as NPE internationally, and one day someone made a cat emoji on 2chan that you can see in the wikipedia entry, which is cutely saying "nullpo"(ぬるぽ). Then someone replied with "ga"(ガッ) and even more cat emojis got made and the whole thing went viral on 2chan.

It seems that rather than in its original meaning -I'm not sure what the original meaning is, sorry ^^;- "Nullpo>Ga" is often just used in situations where one wants to poke fun. Also, because "NullPointerException" is often seen as an error due to a bug in programming, it can have the connotation of "not good"... At least I think that is what the article is explaining...?