Like many teenage couples, Kazumasa and Riko love documenting important memories in their relationship ¡ª say, an anniversary or a trip to Okinawa. They also like to share short movies about their life as a couple online, and so far their clips have been viewed more than 18 million times.
¡°It was almost two years ago we started, and I don¡¯t think we were shy about posting videos,¡± Riko says about their creations, which they share under the name Cyanrico. ¡°We are more embarrassed about how our videos in the beginning sucked.¡±
The Kumamoto-based couple post videos on MixChannel, a social network that has become a popular digital destination for Japanese teens. Statistics provided by Donuts, the company behind MixChannel, show that by the end of 2015 the smartphone application had been downloaded around 5 million times. The main user base comprises teenagers, primarily in high school, with 81 percent being women. It has become the second most-used video application in Japan, behind only YouTube.
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