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Japan's virtual celebrities rise to threaten the real ones
- square_usual 6y ago> They are immune to damaging drug scandals and other controversies. That's flat out false: most recently, hololive VTuber Mano Aloe left the platform because of a controversy surrounding her IRL identity. There is always a real person behind the virtual avatar, and those real people tend to get into the same kind of scandals and controversies as everyone else.
- searchableguy 6y agoI think what they mean is that they can replace the person behind the character and salvage it. Actor behind Kizuna AI was replaced recently: https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/04/24-1/the-first-kizuna-ai-has-been-revealedand-shes-back-to-advise-the-vtubers-new-company https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/04/24-1/the-firs...