rehashed online article; article written from the comfort of a kotatsu
Internet slang for an article that merely rehashes information already available online or on TV, often written lazily without original reporting. The literal meaning is an article written while staying warm under a kotatsu.
See also: こたつ
That news site is full of rehashed articles, with hardly any new information.
He is famous as a writer who churns out kotatsu articles.
A heated table used in winter; コタツ記事 derives from the image of writing lazily from under a kotatsu.
Common spelling using katakana for コタツ and kanji for 記事.
Hiragana variant of the same compound.
Kanji spelling for 炬燵 is rare and may not be recognized by all readers.
Compound of コタツ (kotatsu, a heated table) and 記事 (article). Internet slang coined from the idea of writing an article without leaving the comfort of one's kotatsu, implying a lack of original reporting.