I looked around and it seems that it’s a kind of VR (?) streaming thing where really people (or not) act as virtual characters? It’s all quite fuzzy and inexact so hoping someone can help to explain how it works and how it came about a bit better.
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Hololive is a sort of talent company that deals in livestreamers (hope we don’t need to explain that too) that use virtual avatars. They are called vtubers, they livestream on YouTube.
As for why they are popular, I don’t really know. I watch other Vtubers on other formats that aren’t Hololive so I have an idea. But the range of fanatasism I see for hololive is vast. People watch them to see cute hyjinks while some young girl puppets a digital avatar.
It’s just obsessive idol culture at the end of the day, they are in fact virtual idols. Some like them in a reasonable healthy way, but some can be a little mental in the level of support they give.
The use of “graduation” is a weird sinister term to me, all it means is that their contract with Hololive is up and they are stepping down. If the Vtuber in question is popular, it makes sense that there’d be a big crowd in attendance to see them off.
It’s basically a group of streamers (there’s both Hololive in Japanese and the English counterpart, HololiveEN) using an animated VR character instead of a webcam and kind of giving them a unique personality through role playing. Not really much more to it.
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Think of it as streaming, except the streamer is playing a fictional OC and looks like one digitally. I personally disagree with the notion that anyone who watches them are either incels or virgin simps without a life, but that’s neither here nor there.
It’s really just a niche, more specific form of streaming.
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