There isn't any NSFW art of her character. All followers are 100% botted.

Remember, Hatsune Miku/Vocaloid wasn't trying to be anything more than vocal demo software. It's the people that made her what she is. You can't manufacture that kind of support. If we ignore it, it will go away.

When the lyrics said “I thought that emotions are taking a forever nap inside me”, I literally had a flashback to “Lets together bath” 😭😭😭

also from an animation standpoint if they make all her clothes form-fitting they don't have to deal with the movement simulation of baggy clothes. sexualization AND laziness!

The reason why miku succeeded was because her image was almost entirely created by the fans: the songs, the memes, stories. Miku was a blank slate that people could turn into *their* virtual diva. I don't see much to work with this xbox avatar

"pushing the boundaries of merging digital and real world spaces." no, what they're pushing is their fucking luck.

A) i really wish the singer behind Polar got more credit, cause she’s actually really skilled, and could have her own career outside this, and B) I just realized something: her design is straight up like a Bratz doll. The eyes, the pin-thin body, Polar’s design is a LOT like a Bratz doll, lol

The thing about Hatsune Miku compared to Polar too is that Miku's rise was 100% grassroots. Sure, she was created by a multimillion-dollar corporation as a voicebank for a vocal synthesizer program made by Yamaha, but she was originally created as just a mascot for that product. Crypton Future Media's intent was for Miku to voice other characters in songs; not for Miku herself to be depicted as the one to be singing. Yet the community that formed on Nico Nico Douga back in 2007 depicted her as the singer almost universally, and through that they changed Miku from mascot to idol. Polar? Five Minute Crafts controls everything about her. That makes her feel _far_ more inauthentic to me. Miku's most iconic songs, despite her being basically a J-pop idol, have bite and substance to them - because they were made away from the prying eyes of the record label industry. And as long as Miku and Vocaloid software are sold to anyone regardless of whether they're with a label or not, new hit songs will always emerge from the indie scene, and new Vocaloid artists will always emerge. Meanwhile, since Five Minute Crafts is the only entity in charge of her production process, Polar's music feels safe and sanitized by comparison, like any other idol music.

I think the worst part is that they make it seem like she's the first virtual idol to exist, but her design is boring. Miku's design is simple but recognisable and she can morph into different Miku's for different producers and still be recognizable. Polar just looks like a bad e-girl lol

She has that “click this add and play this suspicious porn game” aura

I'm so glad they took unrealistic body standards into the metaverse. What would the world do without them

4:31 Pros of polar: - nothing - has a KZfaq channel? - has a Tiktok? Pros of Hatsune Miku: - everyone can buy a license to use her voicebank(P.S. I know that she might not be affordable for everyone, but compared to Vocaloid 6, Piapro NT is pretty accessible and it comes with Miku NT. And it's very easy to use compared to traditional instruments) - she has a great voice - has multiple MMD model - She can be represented however you want according to her creators. - she got songs composed by many artists all over the world and those songs have actual meaning. - she has many voicebanks for many languages, including English and Japanese (I believe she has a Spanish, chinese and Korean voicebank too) - even Miku's oldest MMD model (MMD Miku legacy model which is obviously V2 Miku's design) is way better than polar's newest model. - everyone can make MMD models for Miku because Unity is free. - Miku can have Vroid models too which can be used with DSS and DSS is very cheap and achieves the same thing as MMD. - Miku's voice sounds amazing, even in her latest voicebank. - Miku's voice is easily palettable Ok, I think Miku clearly wins over Polar

Miku has literally opened for Lady Gaga,been on TV,was planned to be at Coachella 2020 before it got canceled,and is literally all over the world and is one of the most popular vocaloids. There’s no way they Didn’t know about Miku

this whole thing just feels WAY too manufactured. part of what makes hatsune miku so appealing is the fact that, since she’s an instrument anyone can use, she’s never had a set personality or appearance. they’re trying way too hard to make polar seem like a relatable human celebrity while trying to keep those vocaloid inspirations, which just doesn’t work, especially combined with how they’re seemingly not gonna acknowledge how similar she is to more popular vocaloids

“The company’s goal is to keep pushing boundaries of merging digital and real world spaces” Vocaloids: *Hold my microphone*

I love how intensely he defends hatsune miku. he truly understands what an icon she is.

is she even a voicebank...it sounds like a real person is singing...if that's the case then this is literally no different from Studio Killers or Gorillaz

she's literally just a v-tuber minus the part where v-tubers can go live and interact in real-time with their audience, which is what makes them cool. so she's just an animation project at this point

I want someone to make a horror story out of this sort of digital persona where over time the songs start to be about the singer lamenting their existence and begging the listener not to click away from the video so they don't cease to exist.

she has a hidden talent!...and that talent should stay hidden

Hatsune Miku and vocaloid in general were such a phenomenon because it wasn’t just “ohh this singer doesn’t exist” but it was also a tool available for everyone to explore their creativity, across music genres, languages, etc. This Polar girl doesn’t bring anything new to the virtual singer thing that vocaloid and vtubers haven’t.

I feel like Polar is basically a 60 year old saying, "Hey fellow cool kids" Its like an old person's idea of what Gen Z is, if that makes sense. It just screams cooperate.

> Steals Miku's consept > Makes her look like a Walmart version of SmookeBee > Make musics about nothing > Refuse to elaborate further

11:54 "I need technical support" would actually be a great lyric sung by a robot lady. They really should have leaned into the fact she's a computer.

They had the opportunity to make this character look like literally anything and they chose to make her look like a fucking stickbug and dress her in Breshka clothing. It is ridiculous.

It seems more like a vtuber than a virtual influencer: she's voiced by a person, not software, so that means she has a voice actress and is therefore, to an extent "real"

Literally the gorillaz and Hatsune Miku have been doing this for DECADES. And they act like it’s groundbreaking to have a virtual influencer who does hologram concerts

My favourite part about Close to You is that Vocaloid producers have been exploring that exact premise for years and doing a massively better job of it

If she's voiced by a real human, then doesn't that make her like a v-tuber insted of a hatsune miku clone

The fact they made her with a mask so she wouldn't need lipsync feels like when an artist hides the hand behind the back so they won't have to draw it

The thing is tho... They literally could've made her hair ANY other color and it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. But they chose to make it teal, and like the EXACT teal of Miku. That was a bold choice, and a REALLY bad choice 😂

The KZfaq channel description reads like she was made to be a soldier and then discovered a love for music and dancing, killed her captors and escaped to become a pop star

She doesn't even have a design that would be recognizable with different hairstyles and outfits, give her a unique body type and skin color, cool hair color combos, a specific style, she only really has a mask... She looks like one of my rushed ocs

as not just a hatsune miku fan but a vocaloid fan as well, seeing polar’s design offends me in every way tbh

“Forever nap” = *”TOGETHER BATH”*

the funny thing about the "AI in love with a real person" thing is it's SUCH a common concept hell, we had an album about that, but leaned into the horror aspect

They had the audacity to market her as an artist for Gen Z, as if we wouldn’t be able to sniff out an industry plant from a mile away 🙄 Jokes aside though, I don’t even think comparing Polar to Miku is fair because Miku was built on the mutual work of a community that’s been around for years! Polar is just somebody’s Xbox avatar, sorry not sorry-

Polar is doomed to fail because she's made to be "trendy", the clothing etc is so "today" Whereas Miku has a rather timeless design that keeps evolving. Especially if you collect figurines you know how creative some of her outfits get Edit: not to forget polar has a personality, whereas Miku is literally just a voice bank

This polar character looks like if they found a single human in the splatoon universe.

15:59 this is literally the plot of the gravity falls episode ‘soos and the real girl’

They wrote the lyrics so painfully wordy, while also decimating the rhythm. Usually it is one or the other, but they are truly pushing the envelope on what is considered music with this one

Girl could have easily rhymed “I’m not steel and wires” with “Ive got real world desires” but noooo, we can’t have that because this song was written in under 5 seconds

Polar:I’m gonna bring digital influencing to real life! Miku:Hold my leek

They really wrote close to you like it was revolutionnary ignoring that "Your Reality" and "Sad Machine" exists with the same theme and just better on every aspect-

The Wikipedia article for virtual bands: "The term virtual band was popularized with Gorillaz in 2000. However, the concept of the virtual band was first demonstrated by Alvin and the Chipmunks in 1958, when their creator, Ross Bagdasarian, accelerated recordings of his own voice to achieve the 'chipmunk voice'." The idea of fictional musicians releasing their own music with real humans behind them has been around since _1958._ Everyone behind Polar has to know it's not a new phenomenon in any way, they just have to pretend to in order to make as much money as possible

People need to understand that these “AI influencers” aren’t AIs. They’re glorified VTubers with scripts written by professional copywriters. Not even the animation is automated, they’re just bored millennials cosplaying as robots for money.

She legit feels like a character in an episode of a Black Mirror episode especially with how 'popular' she is when people don't even know her, and now that I'm thinking about it...that doesn't sound half bad. A plot where an popular digital music artist becoming sentient the more 'characteristic' the producers add to her before she tries to take over either a random beautiful lady's body or an celebrity that already exists in order to 'feel more realistic'

8:49 her dancing feels more robotic than patchwork staccato's choreography

To think Miku and all the other Vocaloids have no canon traits but somehow have more personality than Polar is quite baffling tbh, lmaooo

HATSUNE MIKU DID IT BETTER

The way they said that she’s the first 3d singer or some shit made me so offended. They did not just ignore our queen Hatsune Miku like that

11:49 YOU COMPUTER HAS VIRUS

What makes Vocaloid so special is the community behind it. Yeah, she's cute and all, but first and foremost Miku is an instrument-one that makes creating lyrical music a lot more accessible than it would be otherwise, and because of that she (and Vocaloid as a whole) has garnered a massive community of artists who are able to use these instruments to create something they otherwise wouldn't have been able to, along with fans of said artists like myself. Most Vocaloid songs out there weren't made by a corporation, they were made by real, everyday people just doing something they love, and there's a lot of beauty in that you don't really get to see anywhere else. It only makes Polar all the more insulting, too. Imagine missing the point _that_ badly.

Referring to miku as an "influencer" is a crime,she's an icon,a legend,she stabbed me outside a 7/11,she's a queen

There is something more unique about Miku than Polar. Miku's songs are not made by one person, but instead hundreds of producers and fans, which was why she became popular in the first place. Anybody could make anything with her!

i know this a year ago already and Polar's "career" is probably dead already but i do love how they keep bringing up ABBA as inspiration instead of the other well known virtual bands that came before it. They really banking on you not knowing who Hatsune Miku is so the statement "We took inspiration from a real human band and made a virtual one" sounds more impressive and original than "we took a popular virtual star and made a shittier version"

Another thing: Hatsune Miku and her appearance is under Creative Commons, and you can do whatever with her. And she can be any race, gender, sexuality as you want to. And anyone with a voicebank licence can make songs and profit from it. She's the oposite of everything shitty with Polar lol

oh no jarvis you are correct in being put off by her design and terrible outfits. she's not a real person, or even a real person's individually designed virtual persona. she was designed by committee to hook prepubescent kids with the vague sexuality so that theyd stay hooked. its gross. this isnt a real woman making her own outfit choices.

I went to college for Music Composition, and I vividly remember one class where we had an in-depth discussion about Hatsune Miku and whether she could be considered a musician, and what that meant to people like us who were writing music. Polar has nothing on that. Why make a digital pop star if you’re just going to hire someone to sing anyway?

They saw hatsune miku, ariana's fortnite concert and aespa's whole deal and were like "put that shit in a blender"

One of the great things about Miku... She's not restricted the way other singers are. There's so much vocaloid content because anybody can write and producer for her as long as they pay, and this new pop star has nothing on that.

Idk why she targeted Gen Z, she should target Gen Alpha. They’re like maximum 8-9 and are easier to entertain.

10:03 I'm French so i can confirm that she is NOT speaking French x( I think she is speaking some kinda sims language (or alien language maybe xD)

For literally forever, all I can ever hear in the GOLD intro is "Jarvis Johnson, GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAL"

Jarvis, Hatsune Miku isn't JUST the first virtual influencer, she's OLDER THAN THE CONCEPT OF INFLUENCERS! She really is an og

It's funny how her first single is called "close to you" which is LITERALLY the name of a very well known vocaloid song lmfao

“And no one can stop me from dancing…” *presses off button*

3:33 my favourite thing about polar is that her face never moves, her body moves alot but she never really blinks, moves her eyebrows or makes any kind of facial expressions. Even VTubers have this down better than polar, and they arent owned by a giant company

Hatsune Miku, Studio Killers, Gorillaz and even Splatoon have done what TheSolar publishing is trying to do and way better come the fuck on lmao Also really funny that they gave her a mask to avoid lip syncing, I mean her animation is already janky and weird as hell, girl moves like a sim

Here to pick at her design bc art design: - Overall there’s no personality communicated in her design beyond an attempt to be ‘relatable’ by being trendy. This has the adverse effect of making her feel flat like a badly written young adult fiction protagonist as she has nothing personal about her. She will also become dated as trends change. - She doesn’t express. Like at all. You don’t need a character’s mouth to show emotions (look at Gromit) so the mask is no real excuse for that. This just makes her feel more like a robot than a person. - Either they need to make her hair less neon or darken her skin tone a tad because everything around her head is too bright. I can’t look at it comfortably. - She has no unique silhouette which makes her design seem generic and forgettable. I hate to reference the corporate mouse but you know the shape of Mickey’s head from a glance. She has no stylisations to proportions or anything to add to her silhouette that would make her feel less like a default model they slapped neon hair on. Just adding some lil hair buns or a hair piece would have helped with that. Everything about her feels more like a 3d model barbie they dress up than an actual personality, which is what they seem to be marketing her as. Overall it aint it chief. If you wanna see some decent designs of fictional musicians go look at Gorillaz

If they would have tried to make something interesting they should have given her a personality by threating her like a Story Charakter, and by giving her interesting hidden Lore for Madpad to uncover. You could make a real project out of this concept by making her kinda interactiable by her interacting with the community, but on the other side giving her deep lore. That takes place inside the Internet. And you could follow her journey over time

its funny because people mostly relate to a lot of vocaloid songs given the deep meanings or specific feelings that they express, while polar just seems like a parody of what a gen z kid seems to be in the eyes of adults, as in liking electronics and ariana grande

The worst part is her voice provider has a gorgeous voice, she has so much more potential than voicing a Hatsune Miku ripoff. Hopefully (if she hasn't already) she gets her own career.

As a gen z seeing companies trying their darn hard to relate with gen z and failed miserably is amusing.

“What stage of capitalism is this” perfectly encapsulates what companies are doing these days.

The dancing might be better if they either gave Polar actual human proportions instead of the twig and meatball skinnygirl with huge head thing they got going on, or embraced stylization and let her be stretchy and bendable in unrealistic but fun looking ways like a cartoon. Or maybe if they just wanted to make actual art via a Hatsune-like creation instead of just a soulless grab for cash and clickthrough.

As if this creepy green haired girl has even a smidge of the iconic power of Hatsune Miku, embarrassing that she’d even try

Polar feels so weird to me, because her design and marketing are clearly meant to appeal to kids, specifically kids who are left to scroll on TikTok and KZfaq endlessly with no parental supervision. She's doing the TikTok dances that are very suggestive but also very popular with kids watching, and her entire design looks like it's from a talking-Tom-esque app for children. She's very "grown-up", but in a way that's clearly meant to be consumed by children. And given the way this company seems to market almost exclusively to children with their other brands, it seems more than likely this was the goal. IDK, the whole thing gives me the ick.

Jarvis: HELLO?! "Miku pops out" Miku: SEKAAIIDEE!!!

Vocaloids, Utauloids, SynthVs, Gorillaz and K/DA: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

Facebook Meta is advertising Polar as a sentient AI, but every song she sings sounds like a real human person is voice acting her, not a robot. They should've made all her songs come from a voice bank, like Vocaloid, rather than voice act each individual song if they want to advertise her as an AI and not a person.

5-minute crafts really did just say "i want my own hatsune miku."

POV: You pressed the crosswalk button 15:26

When 5 minute crafts start teaching people how to make their own metaverse character in 5 mins

I'm shocked TheSoulPublishing didn't craft her out of hot glue, spraypaint, and coke bottles.

Man, as a vocaloid fan, I might just start gatekeeping virtual artists. Miku did NOT walk so Polar could run

“Mom, can we have Hatsune Miku?” “We have Hatsune Miku at home.” Hatsune Miku at home:

The creaters of Polar must have been like: "Miku Who? never heard of her."

She's not even the 2nd virtual idol after Hatsune. Get in line behind Gumi, Rin/Lin, Kaito, Teto, Meiko, Luka, and hundreds other. Them acting like this is a unique and new thing is a slap in the face of the many talented producers and tuners doing amazing things with digital voice technology. They've been doing incredible things for 15 years now!

I like how in almost every dance, she tries to throw it back when she has literally nothing to throw back

what stage of capitalism are in tho fr💀

Things like these are so clearly targeted towards children, or are failing so miserably at targeting actual gen z that they end up targeting gen alpha by mistake. Everything from her costuming to her dancing and the style of her design and music videos are in line with the high contrast, extreme saturation, colours everywhere type of entertainment that little kids are growing up with in entertainment media like mobile games now. Usually if you see something strangely popular, it’s because majority of the fan base are little kids. Which is totally fine, though it does irk me that this then reaches news sites where they report it like it’s revolutionary (because the writers and readers of those sites are all boomers who can’t tell the difference between a money vacuum for children and an actually established concept like Hatsune Miku, who is mostly supported by fan passion).

What I find particularly interesting/insulting about Polar trying to be the next miku is how badly it misses the mark on what made Miku popular in the first place: well over a decade of participatory culture. Crypton (the company that made Miku) are not responsible for her rise to fame, its the thousands of small-time artists that loved miku's design/concept/voice enough to create songs with her, draw her, etc. Thesoul publishing doomed Polar from the start by making her follower count and views a core part of her identity as a virtual star also her design sucks lol

The fact that Polar feels so hollow and generic literally set her up for failure immediately. Why she feels that way is obvious- she's a simple marketing tactic and money grab. She feels hollow, because there was no true artistic intent involved in her original concept or creation, and even in the song writing. Part of the reason why Miku is so popular is because of how versatile the concept of a "voicebank" is; anyone has access to it and can create what they want. This creates a community of independent artists free of any limits that would be put into place if associated with companies or the like. Thanks to this, many talented people have gotten the chance to express their artistic vision through music and lyrics, which is what gives Vocaloid its "personality" and "passion," something Polar could never achieve bc of all the corporate insanity going on. She will never have the range in genres and topics Miku could ever have, considering the lack of artistic freedom and individuality.

15:10 blud is brushing his teeth

"Mom can we have miku " Mom : "we have miku at home" The miku at home :

i’m honestly sorta surprised no one has talked about the dang Gorillaz, they’ve been around since 1998 even before miku. they were one of the first popular bands that was like completely fake/made up and rose to a huge fame. even now the Gorillaz are popular and still producing bANGERs ! as well as have been performing concerts since 2001 with holograms but live instruments so like blEndinG of reality and digital media.

Her visual design isn’t even that appealing? I think part of the reason Miku has stayed relevant so long is because she has had good character design multiple times over.

5:56, wheb miku was at her peak popularity and more companies began working on vocaloids, there occurred this problem called "miku formula" where all those vocaloids would follow the same design elements as miku, including her iconic long blue ponytails. i will be absolutely not surprised if the same is happening with polar, there's no way these people haven't heard of vocaloid or miku at the very least

Love how she pronounces Z as some weird inbetween of the American "Zee" and "Zed"