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Comment by sph

8 hours ago

> The two largest vtuber agencies/companies are publicly traded in Japan.

Which makes their popularity as organic as the explosion of the K-Pop mania.

I have extremely bad news for you about the authenticity of pop stars, going back at least to the 1950's.

  • Did I say 1950 pop stars popularity was authentic? I'm just saying the implicit question of this post's title can be simply answered with "they're so popular because of marketing, duh"