{"id":24015,"date":"2019-04-01T07:19:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24015"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:19:51","slug":"the-top-5-virtualsimulated-characters-and-how-they-foretold-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24015","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 Virtual\/Simulated Characters and How They Foretold the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lil-miquela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24016\" src=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lil-miquela-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"lil-miquela\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lil-miquela-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lil-miquela-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lil-miquela.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Virtual Character #3: Virtual Influencers: Kizuna Ai and Lil Miquela<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This spot goes to two (real life?) virtual characters that never existed on TV or in the movies. They are among the biggest YouTube stars \u2013 in fact, the days of YouTube celebrities being human may be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>The trend stated In Japan, with Kizuna Ai, an anime-inspired character who looks cartoonish, is a major star in Japan. In 2018, the character has not one but two YouTube channels and has over 2 million subscribers. She was known as the first \u201cvirtual YouTuber\u201d and later, Mattel launched virtual Barbie as a real character. Today YouTube estimates over half a billion views that have been attributed to virtual influencers on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/features\/the-top-5-virtual-simulated-characters-and-how-they-foretold-the-future-1203176886\/\">here:\u00a0https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/features\/the-top-5-virtual-simulated-characters-and-how-they-foretold-the-future-1203176886\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Character #3: Virtual Influencers: Kizuna Ai and Lil Miquela This spot goes to two (real life?) virtual characters that never existed on TV or in the movies. They are among the biggest YouTube stars \u2013 in fact, the days of YouTube celebrities being human may be a thing of the past. The trend stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-3d-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24017,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions\/24017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}