In the 1980s, the popularity of Gundam stimulated people's enthusiasm for giant mechas and the universe galaxy, and also affected the image design of the heroine in another phenomenal animation work "Macro Fortress". Cosmic special database singer Lin Mingmei appeared, and she became the earliest "Virtual Idol" (Virtual Idol) through the release of a single. If the image of idols at that time was to give people who were uneasy under the bubble economy a narcotic injection.
Then it is difficult to think that virtual idols are just a carnival of self-advancement. In 2021, the scale of China's virtual idol core industry will reach 6.22 billion yuan, and virtual idols have become a trend and will gradually become a red sea. new focus. Japan's Johnny special database and Sony launched the "Virtual Idol Project", South Korean SM company aespa tested the real-life + virtual idol dual-track mode, domestic Lehua Entertainment and ByteDance cooperated to operate the virtual girl group A-SOUL, and major manufacturers covered virtual idols.
Admiration is undoubtedly setting off a new content production revolution, which is reshaping the way we consume entertainment. The information flow tells us that we are about to enter a future of "loving the virtual and being loved by the virtual". So, what special database kind of mentality should we, who are watching from the edge of the vortex, approach this technological fantasy without a real carrier? 1. From a paper man to a moving wife, what is a virtual idol? To this day, there is still no universally recognized definition of "virtual idol". If divided according to function, compared with other vertical categories of virtual people