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Frankly, in the fashion industry, unless she is extraordinarily lucky age will take it far sooner. The buried lede here is that back in 2019 there was already a
by eindiran 4y ago
Frankly, in the fashion industry, unless she is extraordinarily lucky age will take it far sooner. The buried lede here is that back in 2019 there was already a push to create CGI models (and give them backstories and personalities, which imo seems to echo the virtual idol subculture in Japan). The most interesting implication there is that it is worth the effort to give them a personality at all, which implies corporate curation of a parasocial entity with fans.
If you have an interest in the downstream side-effects of these kind of corporate parasocial relationships becoming normalized, I would highly recommend giving Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue a watch[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue