hatsune miku and gorillaz have been doing the whole “fictional band/artist” thing for years. this “virtual metaverse artist” stuff is all just buzzwords and the news coverage they get is totally unprecedented

i’m tired of people calling this shit artificial intelligence. it’s an animation, not a robot or ai or anything new.

"He's from Salt Lake City, Utah" Oh so he's WHITE white

You know, you see the term "cultural appropriation" thrown around a lot. This is, hands down, the most obvious example I've ever seen of it.

Watching a little robot man in my phone talk about how much more virtual money he has than me is reminding me we really are living in late stage capitalism.

I've noticed this with Polar, and I feel that I should mention it: These virtual artists are SO UNEXPRESSIVE. The temporary model I made in VRoid Studio is more expressive than Polar & Meka. While Polar's hair bounces, there is no expression in her face. And for Meka, his braids don't even move, and his movements have no bounce. The clothes (especially the necklace he wears) don't bounce or move with his movement. Not only that, his face feels more like a character suited more for a horror game than an influencer. Emotions are an integral part of who we are. This is why animation places an emphasis on exaggerating the emotions of a character; the facial expression and body language can help the viewer know how the character is feeling in that moment. Especially when the viewer is autistic (including myself), since we often struggle with figuring out how people are feeling when there's either little emotion or none at all visibly shown, the exaggeration that is an essential part of animation helps us know the emotions of the character. I'm aware that I'm being harsh, but as an artist who draws characters and designs them I need to mention these things for those who aren't that familiar with it.

19:18 This is literally my reaction whenever I see a shirtless man "sexy" like this (I am an asexual lesbian) but in those cases what gets me through it still is the idea that that person has achieved confidence in themself and their body. This isn't even that.

“that’s a white maaan, (shitty siren noises)” is definitely entering my vocabulary lol

the one thing i find rlly annoying about this whole "robot ai influencer" thing is they act like they just invented a new thing when vtubers and vocaloid have existed for YEARS

the funniest part about these "virtual influencers" is how obviously the creators are trying to recreate hatsune miku without knowing anything about hatsune miku, like they don't understand that her entire appeal is being a vocal synth and think that just getting some random dude to voice the character & then animating on top of it is good enough

This AI flexing a Tesla truck is like me photoshopping myself next to six private jets and going "look at how many jets I have, and I earned them all"

This is literally Polar and meka: We’re the first Virtual influencers to exists EVER!! Vocaloid, vtubers, and literally every hologram and virtual concert: Allow us to introduce ourselves

First a Dollar Tree Version of Hatsune Miku, now FN Meka, who looks like Takeshi6ix9ine tried to cosplay Polar who is also trying to cosplay Hatsune Miku, but unlike Polar, he quit halfway through, not 90%.

An ai flexing is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, it’s like me bragging about how many houses my sim character has

My biggest issue is how they ALWAYS try and make the ai "relatable" by talking about how they're not accepted, acting like they're real. League did the same shit with Seraphine, and it was universally disliked.

8:05 As a fan of King of the Hill, I’m appalled at the fact a cringe metaverse rapper said this line. Cringe AI rappers should never use the great show in vain.

i love that every corporate "virtual influencer" is so ugly like they're so bad at this

This feels like vocaloid for people who buy NFTs and want people to think they're cool.

Imagine flexing on how you ride fancy vehicles when the vehicles *physically don't exist and neither do you.*

Jarvis saying the n-word is uncanny. Man's too wholesome for it to feel normal.

This stage of capitalism is just hell.

Vocaloid stans, vtuber simps, K/DA stans, Gorillaz fans, Squid sisters fans: Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

"is this what being white is like" I can't believe how that caught me off guard and led me to laugh

Dude that Tate impression was spot ON

If I see someone trying to pass something off as a "virtual singer", or a "robot singer", or especially an "AI-powered singer", they'd better be using fucking vocal synthesis! It's so tiring as a vocal synth enthusiast every time I hear about some new "virtual singer" and get excited only for it to turn out to be basically another fucking VTuber. Like, animated musicians/bands are fine and all, Gorillaz is great and Studio Killers is one of my favorite bands; I just hate when people try to trick me into mistaking one for the other.

I love how they're talking about this virtual technology where they project the characters onto reality like it's new as if Gorillaz hasn't been doing that for over 20 years.

"I don't know how I feel about the robot saying the n-word" is such a wild sentence. What timeline are we in?

The term "virtual band" is already a thing. Gorillaz, vocaloids like Hatsune Miku, Studio Killers, even cartoon characters like The Simpsons qualify as virtual bands

I never thought "can robots say the N word" would be a legitimate question within my lifetime

0:04 GOOOLD!

18:18 Literally they’re just splicing together tons of tiny trends, wrap it up in some pretty 3D art, sprinkling a slur in here and there and selling it to kids over tik tok 😂

Yeah, this couldn’t possibly suck worse: - First and foremost, racism - “Esports” - “Metaverse” - NFTs - Every moonbro buzzword imaginable - Focusing on cheap gimmicks instead of the art

“We invented the first ai influencer” Hatsune Miku: 私はこの男の全キャリアを台無しにしようとしている

An ai getting a record label is a slap in the face as a musician.

that tupac hologram's rolling in his iGrave 😭😭

I don't understand how these "virtual artists" and metaverse stuff have SO MANY INTERACTIONS. It's absolutely believable that it exists bc the internet has some wild corners, but I can't wrap my head around the fact that MILLIONS of people watch these things and enjoy them. It feels dystopian somehow

Yeah youre spot on with the minstrel nature of writing a rap then saying "hey black man recite this make us money" this is all sorts of fucked but I doubt anyone besides 10-11 yr old TikTok fans would give this staying power. It's just as corny as Zuckerberg's meta avatars

"We got the AI robot influencer doing fuckin thirst traps" None of those words are in the bible

17:09 Absolutely disgusting

being called premium by jarvis is literally the highlight of my day

Calling it a “virtual rapper powered by AI” is the same as saying *house powered by hammer.*

You can't just drop an immaculate, perfectly replicated Andrew Tate impression on me out of nowhere.

absolutely loving jarvis starting to accessorize more, it looks really good

oh my god, as someone who literally is a digital musician, this is starting to get actually ridiculous holy shit

The more I'm hearing about FN Meka, the more it sounds like it's a Gorillaz/VTuber type thing -- there's a real life person singing and doing the mo-cap, but they're acting like they're a virtual character as part of the gimmick. Still on the fence about whether or not FN Meka's lyrics were AI generated (then sung by a human being), but I think that's beside the point. The "virtual rapper" is just a stand-in for a real person. There's nothing new or unique about that, and it kinda frustrates me that they're acting like it's some crazy breakthrough.

That character design looks like what a 7yr old would make

Hi. Here's a lil tip to all these people tryna create a virtual influencer: Don't just post their music online, post their thoughts as well. No real influencer would just post their music. They'll have thoughts.

"I'm seeing a lot of not black people" I almost choked on my cookie, idk why that made me laugh so hard LMAO

Feels like a convenient way for a studio to have full control over their „artists“ brand, body and being, without those pesky worker‘s rights getting in the way and having to appropriately pay ANYONE in the actual creative process.

8:11 THIS. idk what it is about it but it literally does activate the red “uh oh” flag in my brain…… as jarvis said, usually it just doesn’t even register (as in, when NORMAL rappers who are REAL PEOPLE say it) but this feels like it’s staring me intently in the eyes… maybe it’s the awkward unnatural-ness of the lyrics and the… everything else… but like fr it’s like a minesweeper flag goes up lmao

I know there’s a million of these comments of people who had this thought way before me, but still actually hearing him describe a cgi artist as “very new and clever” is so bonkers. Even if I wasn’t a big gorillaz, vtuber, vocaloid and etc. fan I couldn’t imagine anyone alive not thinking that is the most brain dead statement on earth

The thing is that these virtual artists aren't just trying to capitalize on Hatsune Miku, I think they're also trying to capitalize on Vtubers. The difference between what they're doing and why Hatsune Miku and Vtubers are so popular is because with the latter, everyone is perfectly aware that there are humans behind it, and it's not something they're trying to hide lol, and yet, the "virtual" aspect is still a selling point. Hatsune Miku is not really her own person or anything like that, she is a voice synthesizer, and the appeal has been that vocaloid producers "bring her to life" with their songs. That has been a huge marketing point for vocaloid since the community came into existence, I think. It also has to do with the fact that people like personifying technology. I just wrote about this for school lol, but there was actually a study done about people who own roombas and many of them acted like their roombas had human-like qualities, and some were so attached they even considered them to be on the level of a pet or family member. This information also served as the basis for stuff like Siri and Cortana's personalities. So of course, it works even better with vocaloid because people directly contribute to it and project onto. And as for Vtubers, it's a little different... when Kizuna AI says that she's an AI trying to learn about human culture through content creation, we all know that's just a gimmick, and that's why it's fun. The fact that anything is possible in Vtuber lore, but it's still a regular person making normal, relatable content is a huge part of the appeal. It's just fun to pretend it's real for a bit. I once heard someone compare it to a play, where everyone is going along with the illusion for the performance. Virtual artists like FN Meka and Polar don't have that and so they feel manufactured and uncreative and immediately fail.

I can’t believe companies would rather code a racially ambiguous virtual rapper than just prop up a real life black person

2:46 that’s a scarily accurate Andrew Tate voice lmao

3:10 wtf is that bugatti just flat blue…… kinda plane if you ask me……

"Is weirdly racist" how I describe my family to friends

its so annoying hearing people call something a "virtual singer" when everything about it is human except just the visuals. like its literally just the same thing as The Masked Singer ☠

I guess him being a "virtual robot rapper" is just like when fictional characters are robots, like idk, Aigis from Persona 3, who eventually learns what emotions are, and wishes she could be more like a human... hm...

An ai rapper who learns from other rap songs that say the n word alot and people are surprised he raps with the n word when thats all rappers do anymore

calling him an AI robot is hilarious...like, he's nor one or the other😭 he's not artificial intelligence because there's obviously people behind him, and he's not even a physical robot lmaoo

The thing that makes these ‘ai virtual characters’ different from vocaloids is that it’s clearly a real person singing (not very well might I add) part of what’s so cool about vocaloids being virtual artists is that the computer program itself can sing. It’s super impressive and has a cool effect. Then with gorillaz you have a much more artistic approach with Jamie Hewlet drawing and animating the characters and Damon Albarn making the music. There’s really nothing remarkable about these characters

none of those words in the sentence jarvis reads at 20:40 are in the bible

"is this what being white is like?" is the biggest laugh I've had in the longest time 🤣🤣🤣

Its honestly hilarious how these companies DON'T know that vocaloids and Gorillaz exists💀

Him always moonwalking means that they don’t have to get the walk cycles right. A hard part of animation is making the feet realistically stick to the ground as you move about. By saying he is moonwalking everywhere they fix this problem. This is also why roller skates/blades are so popular in cheap anime as well.

12:00 How ironic that the AI "FN Meka" is receiving Death Threats🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣

The way “Rolex” is attached to such a big phrase makes me feel like “Oedipal complex” is coming up next lol

This is why NFTbros are a plague to art and literally everything they touch. They're acting like they invented this concept as if Vocaloids never existed. Even if they did pretend that Japan doesn't exist (why not, they're already racist) there's already so many more examples out there of more interesting, better crafted, and more widely enjoyed "digital" musicians that have made global hits DECADES before these fools. Its kind of depressing actually, it makes the creators of this "rapper" look kind of pathetic. Like they feel they have to rely on hype over substance. Its so uncool its sad. Thanks for taking the time to look into this Jarvis, this information was awful but your commentary helped me get through it.

6:28 physically cannot get over the fact that the clip of him "producing" is him sliding random things around and then putting them back exactly where they were. that shit is so funny

i kid you not that impression of tate was so spot on, you legit scared me o_o

I remember him back in 2019, I honestly thought he was strange but didn't think he'd show up now. His first song was something about the internet I think, something like that. It was taken off of SoundCloud and I didn't know why at the time.

Insane how people can just say "an ai did it" and none of these major news organisations have any follow up questions.

What really confuses me about this whole thing is, why bother advertising it as an AI? Instead of working your ass off to make it technically fit into that category, just advertise him as an animated musician. That’s a thing that’s been done to great success before. The Gorillas, Hatsune Miku, that sort of thing. This is just combining animated musicians and VTubers. You don’t have to try and spin it as some AI thing.

Listening to you while high is a whole other experience man

so i think i know why every virtual influencer has a chip on their shoulder about not being real, and i believe it's just them copying miku again. from the disappearance of hatsune miku to anonymous m, there's a history of great miku songs about how she doesn't actually exist, but with miku they're executed well, they aren't played with anger and they aren't the core of miku's personality, and they're often meta commentary, but most importantly they play off her existing image, these knockoffs are trying to make it the base of their image. what it is (if i'm right) is cynical plagiarism, which feels odd to say about a concept as simple as songs about not being real, but it's that they're just taking what she's done without understanding why it works.

I can't believe they don't even make these influencers look good or interesting in any way make them actually enjoyable to look at, take advantage of them being digital and just give them a cool artstyle. instead they just look like the least inspired claymation I've ever seen

I can tell you that the 'fanart' he was showing off was probably commissioned from an underpaid artist.

the part where he took his shirt off I legitimately coiled back and felt sick for a few seconds 💀

Miku to all of the ai influencer “私は彼のお尻を訴えるつもりです!”

The robot thing makes sense...it means they can have some “hardware” that half obscures his mouth/jaw, and that way they don’t have to animate it 😁

What I dont understand is why virtual musicians/influencers still look like humans, like them being virtual gives you all the possibilities in the world, yet they still make them look like people. I probably wouldn’t be interested enough to listen to music by a human virtual rapper, but rap music by an ominous biblically accurate angel? Hell yeah.

19:16 the fact that I was still laughing at your joke and when he popped up shit ain't funny anymore 🫥

why is his andrew tate impression ON POINT.

“Is this what being white is like??” Best Jarvis quote, possibly ever

These digital guys should probably realize that they are digital beings and don't require modes of transportation. You move effectively at the speed of light bro.

FN Meka was then mugged by Hatsune Miku in a dark alleyway

Hearing a fake rapper say the n word makes me actually shiver, just sign a real black rapper 😭

In the 90s, a comic book artist and a musician created a fake band to satirize the manufactured personalities of pop stars, it’s 2022 and record labels are doing the same thing but without any hint of irony or social commentary. They took the creativity and ingenuity that made the Gorillaz so special and replaced it brand appeal. It hurts me that I’ve lived to see the day were an concept as cynical and vapid as Meka can find success in the music industry.

As someone who's been learning blender for awhile, I definitely agree with Jarvis that the tiktoks are visually impressive but unfortunately feel somewhat souless

As a vocaloid fan... This is the worst thing... This is just *the* worst thing

This is like virtual blackface.

The “is this what being white is like” is the funniest thing Jarvis has ever said😂

It's like they looked at Gorillaz, Vocaloids and VTubers and said “how can we make something underwhelmingly worse and unimpressive?” All they did did was make a generic video game character and mislabel it as AI even though there's nothing about it that seems remotely AI-like, because less face it, those lyrics were so bad that they could have ONLY been written by a human.

i am amazed at how much they tryna upsell this as a "new" "in" wen Vocaloid, K/DA ect has been around for so long. this is embarassing

This is basically just a hyper-corporate, 3D version of what the Gorillaz have been doing since the late 90s.

AI or not, he’s literally just not a robot. He’s on screens, nothing more. If he was an actual real life robot controlled by AI? That’d be pretty fuckin sick but this is just a downright lie

Hiring talented black artists 🙅‍♂️ Hiring talented artists 🙅‍♂️ Hiring artists 🙅‍♂️ HIRING RANDOM TEENAGERS ✅ CREATING ROBOT AI ✅ SAY N WORD ✅

this is literally that one "robot" from wayy back in the day who could "play chess" but he was actually just a chess master in a box playing for the robot

fnmeka will never be hatsune miku.

dude ANOTHER dollar tree vocaloid ripoff??? THAT IS ALSO RACIST?!!?