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I went to a virtual influencer's sold-out concert and the fan base was unlike anything I'd seen

www.businessinsider.com I went to a virtual influencer's sold-out concert and the fan base was unlike anything I'd seen

VTuber Mori Calliope's live concert at the Hollywood Palladium was packed with screaming adoring fans and a community unlike anything I'd seen.

Virtual influencer Mori Calliope performed a sold-out show at the Hollywood Palladium in February.
These influencers, also known as VTubers, appear as digital avatars and are gaining popularity.
I went to the concert. It was unlike anything I've seen before.

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I went to a virtual influencer's sold-out concert and the fan base was unlike anything I'd seen

www.businessinsider.com /inside-hololive-vtuber-mori-calliope-live-sold-out-concert-2025-2

I went to a virtual influencer's [Calli's] sold-out concert and the fan base was unlike anything I'd seen

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"Virtual Influencer" is probably the worst way I have ever heard someone talk about a streamer that uses an anime avatar.
- Sounds derogatory.
  The content mill vtuber, Polar would probably fit as a Virtual Influencer, but she's dead in the water.
- TBH, the whole "virtual idol" and "virtual avatar" thing predated not only Kizuna Ai, but also YouTube, with me first finding one through forums, and said virtual avatar was part of a "manga style webcomic-formatted blog", and apparently Japan already had some virtual idols at that time, allegedly even before the internet boom. It's just the "influencer" term is quite dehumanizing IMHO.
- Virtual influencer would be more like Hatsune Miku not a Vtuber

What fresh horrors doth this day bring?
- There’s a Black Mirror episode that fits perfectly here. This is the future!

I read the article. Didn't live up to the title. Its a growing trend with a dedicated fanbase, nothing was "unlike anything I've ever seen before".

Lol imagine the stench in that place.

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