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Music, gatherings, shared spaces and the creative cultures around a digital body. Follow the community as well as the character.
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Crypton’s 2007 software release paired a synthetic singing voice with a named, illustrated character that creators could reinterpret.
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dispatch 2001
The official Gorillaz store dates the self-titled debut album to 26 March 2001 and credits Jamie Hewlett's original artwork. The four drawn members worked because the visual identity was a repeatable storytelling system, not a one-off disguise.
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research 2026
A small comparison with older adults asks what changes when a remote conversation acquires a digital body or a physical machine.
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opinion 2025
A year-end company recap positioned searching and repeated avatar revision as signals of taste and belonging.
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research 2025
A large comment corpus shows how viewers make meaning around one AI-driven VTuber. The scale is substantial, but the case does not erase the people who build, moderate and sustain the act.
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profile 2025
Hoshimachi Suisei's first solo exhibition organized her musical career across five physical gallery sections in Tokyo and Nagoya.
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research 2025
A study of avatar making looks beyond the purchase to self-expression, belonging and the favorite character that gets worn again.
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research 2024
A mixed-methods study finds that avatar appearance can shape harassment judgments alongside behavior. That makes appearance a design concern, not a substitute for conduct rules.
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dispatch 2024
The End of Genesys brought Anyma's audiovisual world to a venue whose screen surrounded the audience rather than framing one stage rectangle.
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research 2023
A study of repeated social VR sessions follows how groups use distance and orientation over time, giving world builders evidence beyond a single demo.
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profile 2020
Cover introduced the five-member Myth unit in September 2020 with coordinated channels and debut streams.
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dispatch 2014
The first MIKU EXPO combined concerts, exhibitions and creator work in Jakarta in May 2014.
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Crypton’s 2007 software release paired a synthetic singing voice with a named, illustrated character that creators could reinterpret.
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