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Isn't it basically just Wāpuro rōmaji, i.e. how you input Japanese using romaji with a keyboard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%81puro_r%C5%8Dmaji

When typing in Japanese I tend to type "tu" instead of "tsu" or "si" instead of "shi" because the end result is the same (つ/し) and I save a keystroke, I assume most people who regularly input Japanese with a QWERTY keyboard do the same. The revised romanizaton from the article prefers "tsu" and "shi" though.

That's true—the actual IME is much more flexible than this.

My point is more that this isn't really anything new. It's a fairly common way to Romanize Japanese in practice, even though it doesn't strictly follow Hepburn or Nihon-shiki. In fact, this style seems to be more widely used in the Western "fandom" world—on platforms like AniDB, Danbooru, and others—than the two "official" systems.

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