My fellow brothers, I, Billy Herrington, stand here today, humbled by the task before us, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our Nico Nico ancestors. We are in the midst of crisis. Nico Nico Douga is at war against a far-reaching storm of disturbance and deletion.

Nico Nico's economy is badly weakened, a consequence of carelessness and irresponsibility on the part of management, but also on the collective failure to make hard choices and prepare for a new mad age.

Today, I, say to you, that the challenge is real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be easily met, or, in a short span of time. But know that Nico Nico, they will be met.

In reaffirming the greatness of our site, we understand that greatness is never given, our journey has never been one of short-cuts. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted or seek only the fleshly pleasures. Rather, it has been the risk-takes, the wasted genii, the creators of mad things.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops, endured the lash of the spanking. Time and time again these men struggled and sacrificed so that we might live better.

We remain the most powerful site on the internet, and minds are no less inventive, and services no less needed than they were last week or yesterday or the day before the day after tomorrow. Starting today, we must pull up our pants, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking Nico Nico Douga.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our server system cannot tolerate too many movies. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what Nico Nico already has done, what free men can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose.

And so, to all the people who are watching this video, from the grandest cities to the small villages where Ikzo was born, know that Nico Nico is a friend of every man who seeks the future of love and peace. Now we will begin to responsibly leave authorized common materials to Nico Nico people and forge a hard-earned peace in this mad world.

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility. This is the price and the promise of Niconi commons' citizenship.

Nico Nico Douga, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words: 'Ass we can'. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested by DOS attacks and refused by youtube.com, we did not turn back nor did we falter, and we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Thank you, God bless, and God bless Nico Nico Douga


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