PARASOCIALIZE

A mechanism or tactic · 2016 · Live

The virtual creator

A performer with an animated persona, a persistent character and an industry-standard model where the audience pays for the character's recognition.

ApplicationManipulation

Character and person separated, and the character commercialised. It is the first format where the parasocial object is explicitly a designed asset, and it is also the format with the healthiest documented fan boundaries.

SOURCE

Kizuna AI, 2016

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