Lol i remember those days, back when the american sf4 meta was "No dp'ing until you have 2 bars to make it safe", Japan didn't give fck though and they let those unsafe dps fly like crazy, and like u said they were cheered on every time they did it
There was a SFV tournament where Tokido mirror matched an American Akuma player who was also pretty good, but the best part was the commentary. There was like some setup with Akuma that wasn't easy to do apparently.
If I remember, the commentary was like "Rough timing, he dropped it and didn't capitalize on it but that's alright he's still on a good health lead!"
But when Tokido did it, it was like "JESUS Tokido purposely dropped it so that he can keep the pressure up!...-Wins-. Commentators and James Cheng: UNBELIEVABLE"