Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans’ Instagram feeds
Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans’ Instagram feeds
They are cheap to hire, always look great and they don’t bully their colleagues
I'm not completely against AI but this shit makes me wish we went back to monke.
She is perhaps best-known for an advert for an insurance company in which she danced across the rooftops of Seoul.
We really are living in a Cyberpunk dystopia
Apart from being cheaper, virtual celebrities have other advantages over human ones. “They don’t complain” and firms “don’t have to worry about them ruining their reputation”, says Kim Sang-kyun from Kangwon National University in Gangwon province.
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these virtual influences vtubers etc are the logical conclusion of what that role is anyway. exceedingly fake and plastic, a spectacle for people to gawk at. who cares if it's literally virtual from front to back, 'real' influences or streamers are performing a role anyway, they can't be their true selves, nothing about any of what they do is real or meaningful
Yea, human influencers were already extremely fake af.