1-san

>>1-san (>>1さん, ichisan) is a common Shift_JIS art character on the popular Japanese BBS 2channel (2ch for short), standing in for the user who started a given thread. He is commonly characterized as a clueless newbie who rarely thinks through his posts and can't deal with the consequences of his actions.

On 2ch and related BBSes, two greater than signs followed by a number is automatically linked to another post in the same thread: >>1 links to the first post, >>2 to the second, and so on. As many 2ch users post anonymously, these links are also used as shorthand to refer to the persons behind the linked posts. Hence the name ">>1-san", -san being the most common honorific for personal names.

>>1-san is distinguished by a spiky hairdo, formed by a row of less than and greater than signs. When unhappy, his face is rendered with the Cyrillic character De ( Д ) for an open, frowning mouth and, like Mona, an apostrophe and grave accent for eyes. When happy, his face is identical to Morara, with dots for eyes and a universal quantifier symbol (an upside-down capital A) for a mouth.

He is frequently threatened and beaten by other 2ch Shift_JIS art characters such as Kukkuru in retaliation for posting threads that other users find ridiculous or objectionable. Hattoushin Mona was originally created to threaten >>1-san with murder, but since has been reinvented as a homosexual lusting after him—attention that >>1-san does not appreciate.