Kancolle Sleep / Kagaposting

About

"Kancolle Sleep" refers to various images from the online card game Kantai Collection. The most commonly feature chibi art of the Aircraft carrier Kaga by Pixiv artist Rebecca.^[1] "Kagaposting" refers to posts about the Aircraft Carrier Kaga on 4chan. These posts very frequently use Kancolle sleep images.

Origin

Rebecca began drawing Aircraft Carrier Kaga and the commonly paired Aircraft Carrier Akgai in 2013 ^[2]. Initially starting with comics, Rebecca later started to draw more macros. The phrase "sleep" refers to Kaga's in game lines, some of which mention that she is sleepy ^[3]

Spread

Translations of the original Rebecca images began to pop up on Kantai collection threads on 4chan in late 2013 ^[4]. Mutations of said images also began to occur. While the most common phrase associated with the image is "It's time to sleep" other variants would say things such as "It's time for tea". Likewise, the original phrase would get edited into other art that was completely unrelated to Rebecca's.

Due to the nature of people posting these images, as well as many people appearing to be large fans of Kaga in general there also began backlash. Images and posters of said images are sometimes called "Autism" or "Rebecancer"

Various Examples

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