What The Hell Are "Virtual Influencers"?

[DSC]

I came across those videos on YT, and just... Wow...

 

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For those of you that don't have the time to watch it, I'll try and summarize it... Basically, they are now creating fake, fictional celebrities to try and make some cash off this new Metaverse novelty, while also trying to appeal to cryptobros and impressionable young people. It feels so... Wrong. Dystopias are usually portrayed as apocalyptic hellholes, but I can't help but feel this whole Meta and Web 3.0 are even worse in their own way.

Edited August 25, 2022 by DSC

[heliumlamb]

they are psyops from deep within the data mines, probably

[vyruss]

https://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+influencer+what+is

 

Maybe spend a little time away from anything with internet access (if at all possible) if things are stressing you out this badly about shitty companies doing shitty things.

[SplinkWizard]

It's like hatsune miku or something I guess. It was lightning in a bottle there is no way this is going to take off.

[Ludi]

Fake women for neckbeards that thrive off the moss growing on the walls of their mother's basement.

[DeathWolf1982]

I bet these virtual Influencers were made by Skynet and Meta.

also the animation looks like a kids show you'd see on the hub during 2010.

Edited August 25, 2022 by ElmStreetSlasher1984

[DannyMan]

Bad influence

[Murdoch]

I just heard about them and can confirm they are the one thing I care less about than the non-virtual influencers.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

48 minutes ago, Murdoch said:

I just heard about them and can confirm they are the one thing I care less about than the non-virtual influencers.

The only people I care less about are the ones who are actually influenced by these "people".

Edited August 25, 2022 by TheMagicMushroomMan

[Murdoch]

11 minutes ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

The only people I care less about are the ones who are actually influenced by these "people".

 

Spot on. People shouldn't idolise anybody who wouldn't notice or care if they dropped dead tomorrow. It's not mentally healthy.

[Nikku4211]

So basically, v-tubers?

[dasho]

A byproduct of being in the shitty timeline where social media has any significance.

[indigotyrian]

Every so often a gaggle of venture capitalists decide to reinvent vocaloid from first principles but without understanding what makes vocaloid appealing or enjoyable in the first place. They do this once every few years while breathlessly trying to convince everyone that this is the very first time this has ever been done, and each time it gets dumber and more desperate. This one doesn't even have an animated mouth.

 

33 minutes ago, Nikku4211 said:

So basically, v-tubers?

 

The thing about vtubers is that there's an actual person on the other end playing a character, and through that play and audience interaction parasocial relationships are created. "Virtual influencer" stuff like just about every other anglo stab at "virtual celebrity" is design-by-committee at all times with the aim to create something that appeals to as many people as possible, in the end appealing to nobody.

Edited August 26, 2022 by segfault

[Goat-Avenger]

There is no cloud; and there is no, 'metaverse.'  heh.

 

runaway..

[Thelokk]

14 hours ago, SplinkWizard said:

It's like hatsune miku or something I guess. It was lightning in a bottle there is no way this is going to take off.

 

At least the miku thing had the grace to provide some actual content (the music, which one might or might not dig). 

Virtual influencers offer nothing but what meat ones do: unneeded, unwarranted opinions for sheeple to follow. And they do so with crappier graphics.

[Redneckerz]

• I dont get influenced by influencers.
• I dont get influenced animated versions of influencers.

I do get influenced by imps, but that's mostly because i want to shoot them in the face when they do.

[Stupid Bunny]

But do you get impfluenced by impfluencers?

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

7 minutes ago, Stupid Bunny said:

But do you get impfluenced by impfluencers?

You get fluenced as hell.

[heliumlamb]

33 minutes ago, Thelokk said:

 

At least the miku thing had the grace to provide some actual content (the music, which one might or might not dig). 

Virtual influencers offer nothing but what meat ones do: unneeded, unwarranted opinions for sheeple to follow. And they do so with crappier graphics.

after seeing these things, nobody will ever be able to convice me that hatsune miku is genuinely soulless! (i was once a miku hater, but i am long reformed) miku's soul is a soul similar to the ones us humans have found in a Yamaha OPM, OPP, OPZ, OPN2 or OPL3, with a fit to match!

 

these have none by design, and are but another microcosm of extended efforts in data collection and algorithmically determined "content" delivered to viewers passively, taken to a sketchy ass extreme. the perpetual wireless internet, its ease of access and the hyper-centralization of the normie-net to like 4 services has amplified these practices to a terrifying degree, to be honest. when we start hearing about the adverse effects of 5g waves pumping through all that is solid on those who have experienced nothing but that, i will definitely not be surprised.

[Graf Zahl]

Metaverse: Virtual Hell on Earth.

 

I truly feel sorry for those incapable of escaping this latest form of digital excrement...

 

[Daytime Waitress]

20 hours ago, vyruss said:

https://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+influencer+what+is

 

Maybe spend a little time away from anything with internet access (if at all possible) if things are stressing you out this badly about shitty companies doing shitty things.

 

Gotta agree with this. This is like the second or third thread you've made with the theme of "something shitty and stupid exists on the internet and I hate it." I totally get that stupid shit existing is a pain in the ballsack, but you seem to be spending so many words and so much energy on things that don't matter in the slightest. Bruv, our time here is short - spend it on stuff that brings you joy.
 

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Like typing well-meaning but ultimately half-arsed advice on a messageboard for a 29 year-old video game.

 

 

[Majin]

digitla influencers 

[Gez]

What if corporate mascots were turned into vocaloids, and also sprinkled with empty buzzwords and a dash of NFT scamming?

[Walter confetti]

21 hours ago, DSC said:

For those of you that don't have the time to watch it, I'll try and summarize it... Basically, they are now creating fake, fictional celebrities to try and make some cash off this new Metaverse novelty, while also trying to appeal to cryptobros and impressionable young people. It feels so... Wrong.

 

So, it's like the Vtubers thing, only more... corporate-like? Sure they look ugly, at least visually. I don't like the model design guys.

[ＤΞＬＴΛ]

I don't like this... Shady as hell in my opinion.

[Graf Zahl]

Of course it is shady as hell. Par for course for big publicly traded corporations.

 

Edited August 26, 2022 by Graf Zahl

[ＤΞＬＴΛ]

1 minute ago, Graf Zahl said:

Of course it is shady as hell. Par for course for big publicly traded corporations.

 

Yeah, because apparently there's nothing better for corporate entities (and random toxic influencers) to do than make a quick buck out of a digital fad that'll probably die out within a few months (Or a year if we're being generous) :/

[Biodegradable]

This seems like the natural progression of things given the meteoric success of Vtubers over the past few years. Welcome to the future, kids. We're going to have weird, motion-tracked animated avatars shilling you all sorts of shit across the internet now.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Shit like this is why it's good to limit how deep you get into internet culture. I didn't even know what a Vocaloid or Vtuber was until just recently. I knew it was something stupid so I never even bothered to waste my time reading about it. I came across an explanation incidentally. Don't waste your time on wastes of time, it's not healthy. The deepest I've ever gotten in terms of the internet was buying heroin and plastic explosives off the dark web, and I intend to keep it that way.

[Casketkrusher]

"Virtual Influencers" that alone makes me cringe.