This virtual influencer has a thousand times more followers than you

This virtual influencer has a thousand times more followers than you

World May 9, 2018 12:24

- While the average amateur Instagrammer scrambles 100 likes for a carefully processed selfie with a lot of pain and effort, they flow in with influencer Lil Miquela. And she does not even exist!

Over 1. 100,000 followers she has: Lil Miquela, a 19-year-old Brazilian American model. Or naja, model: she is not real. Her 'photos' are made with AI techniques: on the computer, that is. The Brud company does that and the creations are so real that they can not be distinguished from a real model.

Her followers still have to get used to the virtual influencer. Many people are convinced that Lil Miquela is a robot. 'Why are you in bed?', A man asks himself. 'You are a robot, you do not have to sleep!'

Many followers also write responses to Lil Miquela as if it were a 'Little Girl, What are you beautiful' real woman. 'Gee, what are you beautiful', writes a fan. 'I wish I looked like you!', Another person reacts jealous.

That confusion is not so surprising. It is precisely the intention that Lil Miquela resembles a real person as much as possible. Anyone who follows her for a while will find that she has emotions and convictions besides expensive clothing and lucrative schnabbels. In this way, she arrives at the LGBT community and makes herself strong for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Even for her own single (Not Mine) or taking over the Prada account, Lil Miquela turns her 'You're a robot, you do not have to sleep anyway?' do not hand over. In the meantime, the animated influencer already has so many followers that gold money is undoubtedly earned from deals with advertisers. Who knows, maybe we will not follow Nikki Tutorials, Negin Mirsalehi or Romee Strijd in the future, but their virtual friends...

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