Talk:Re: Chapter 125/@comment-10733658-20170524055618/@comment-10733658-20170524084622

^^ My understanding is that this is all taking place over Twitter. That's the primary method fans across the world use to interact with Ishida. So it could realistically be people from anywhere in the world, doing so independent of each other.

^ Looool, and that is how we slowly went mad attempting to make sense of things.

I think the general answer is that different words are used in Japanese. We translate them as "Western" and "West", but in Japanese they are two totally different words/concepts. So they wouldn't be confused, since one discusses basically "People that aren't Us" and the other discusses a direction.