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What's the Matter and what's the Background?

You keep mentioning Hololive and other related products. I'm out. ipagd What is that, and what's the context behind it? A personal view could be helpful. I often work for long hours at home at my desk, sometimes late at night, and I find that playing something on the second monitor can keep me from becoming even more distracted and wasting time on Twitter or other social media sites.

For a while I was a faithful listener to many podcasts, such as networks like This Week in Tech or The Incomparable. As we approached 2020, the majority of the podcasts I was listening to was turning uncomfortable politically. I don't mean geek culture or tech topics. The same kind of stuff that wrecked Twitter by 2018.

However, around the time, this surfaced in my suggestions on YouTube the only time Google has done anything right since about 2013.

Although it's only a twenty second clip, it was enough to make me think "What do I mean?" and take a closer look. Then I realized there was no escape from the rabbit hole.

This is Hololive.

Yes, there are a lot of them. (This is seven videos that were edited by a fan. This explains why certain transitions aren't flawless.

Basically Hololive is an international 24 hours a day all-girl comedy channel that improvises. Unwoken, unpolitically correct and irreverent. They even have their own Bugs Bunny characters You can see her for a short time in the video. Her name is Usada Perkora. She has 1.8million YouTube subscribers.

They sing, they dance live - they perform in concerts using full motion tracking and 3D models. They draw at least two successful commercial artists They play a lot of Minecraft and do not take shit from anyone.

Hololive's background is also fascinating. Cover Corp, the parent company, was working on an AR device that would replace expensive motion tracking using a regular iPhone. However they were not having much success in gaining traction in the market.

Two high school students from Japan approached them in 2017 and demanded a virtual spokesperson. One of them is Tokino Sora with 900,000 subscribers, and the other is referred to as A-chan and is the senior manager in charge of activities across the entire company.

The pivot was a huge success and Hololive has become essentially an investment bank. Their smallest channel, of which they have manyof, has around 300,000 subscribers. The biggest channel has almost 4 million subscribers.

I believe that a majority of people are tired of hypocritical woke crap and are seeking entertainers who will simply tell it like it is. The 2D characters they employ and the stage names (and the very strict corporate policy to protect their privacy) provide them with enough distance that they don't need pretend to be a person in their opinions.

They don't make explicit political statements but in this benighted age , that's a profound political statement.

Beyond the official content - which is so many that it's difficult to watch all of it - there's an absolute flood of fan content, including adorable videos.

To entire virtual worlds

So forget Hollywood and forget Netflix for a minute, or podcasts, I don't care anymore. I'll be there in the corner playing with hedgehogs.

Hololive is also the primary reason why I decided to get back on Twitter. They announce their stream on there.

This is Gawr Gura from Hololive EN. It's the most successful virtual YouTube ever:

She's a bit of a fool in certain areas. She can engage in a conversation for up to four hours every day, and not repeat herself. And she can do this while doing three other things, which is a rare talent.

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