These virtual artists creep me the f*** out and not in a “oh they’re so real” way
“we don’t need _ __ on our roster, have the product department make some queer-signaling AI and push that on our socials”
These virtual artists creep me the f*** out and not in a “oh they’re so real” way
How come?
How come?
It doesn’t sit well with me that most “virtual people” (not just music acts but also the fake influencers, public relations ARGs, etc) I see come off as queer-bait that homogenates modern gay/trans internet culture into marketable aesthetic and seems to take the place of an actual living individual who could do whatever these firms are attempting to do more authentically. I don’t search for these things explicitly to be clear but from what I get out of cultural osmosis I haven’t really seen an exception to the rule. Maybe SOPHIE? But they stopped the “I’m a digital idea, not a person!” shtick, I would guess for the same reason I was talking about above