What The Hell Are "Virtual Influencers"?

[ChopBlock223]

It sounds like something tremendously cancerous dreamt up by marketing departments.

[Archvile Hunter]

For big corporations whose only goal is to make money, it's a given that they will try to rip off whatever is currently trending, hoping to hop on the lucrative bandwagon. VTubers have been hugely on the rise for the past 2-2½ years, so it's only natural that the emergence of these virtual "influencers" would occur. As is so often the case, these corporates often entirely miss the soul of what made it a popular trend in the first place, only taking the most superficial elements, and end up creating something barely familiar, yet alien. It ends up evoking a sort of uncanny valley-effect, and people just end up disturbed or disgusted.

 

Then there's the fact that we are sold both the meta-verse and these virtual influencers as something entirely novel, when in fact, virtual worlds and virtual idols have been around for years and years. People have been socializing in VRChat, and Hatsune Miku, Gorillaz, Mori Calliope, and probably others, have already performed live concerts using virtual avatars. For anyone who knows anything about any of this, the behavior of trying to pass this off as something entirely original is extremely scummy. They weren't even trying to be subtle about their shameless rip-off, giving Polar turquoise hair and twin tails.

 

 

[Rancid Sam]

Just from the thumbnails, that girl one looks like a Bratz doll, and ol' boy out here lookin' like Riff Raff lmaooo

[Man of Doom]

uhhhhhhhhh

 

influencers who are virtual?

 

(But seriously, what the actual fuck is going on with this metaverse shit)

[PeterMoro]

I don't go to Ravenholm anymore...

[Mr Masker]

This leads me on to a great idea for this site to stay with the times...

 

VIRTUAL DOOMWORLD USERS

 

Now even if the site does die, we'll have virtual people arguing about what the real Doom 3 is, or about Brutal Doom or the best Final Doom wad. We can have a collection of AIs write cacoaward articles with zero soul but double the amount. There'll be some super computer buried under the nuclear wastes of 2256 filled with fake people making TNT 20.

 

Dystopian? I prefer to say, it's open... to the future.

Edited August 29, 2022 by Mr Masker

[Test Tickle]

Why would I wander into Zuck-owned territory to see a virtual influencer when I can stay where I am and watch someone with a sheep girl 3d model play Minecraft on stream?

[BonciuADV]

Martian Buddy was the first virtual influencer.

[Eurisko]

Good God 

[Mr. Freeze]

Can you BELIEVE that people try to SELL YOU THINGS?!?

[thiccyosh]

36 minutes ago, Mr. Freeze said:

Can you BELIEVE that people try to SELL YOU THINGS?!?

 

 

[scalliano]

Never heard of any of this until this thread. I think "design by committee" sums it up pretty well.

[Stupid Bunny]

Sounds like another thing for me to ignore completely

[Ozcar]

Why we need virtual influencers?

Instead we have this masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9J6DKJXoKk

[Ozcar]

Also the design of human look bad

Even human design of doom 3 look more human than this garbage.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Ozcar

[Somniac]

This week, on Boring Dystopia! It just gets worse!

[DSC]

On 8/25/2022 at 2:59 PM, 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.

??? Sorry? This isn't stressing me out all that much, it just confuses and baffle me.

 

On 8/26/2022 at 11:26 AM, Daytime Waitress said:

 

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.

 

 

I know, this event isn't making me particularly mad, but I still care too much about this stuff... Gotta try harder next time.

[Devalaous]

I only found out about this kind of thing via Sims 4's newest expansion pack, where theres a new mini-career called a 'simfluencer' where you sell out advertising random shit online. The other mini-career they added is a sims version of a vtuber, both of them are things are so far outside my zone of knowledge. I'm clearly getting too old for this kinda shit.

[FractalBeast]

On 8/26/2022 at 1:36 PM, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

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.

Man, I miss the good old SilkRoad days.

[Koko Ricky]

I'm 100% able to ignore them with literally no effort. What's the big deal?