Pitch Review
The Idea by sung
Congrats, you just invented Hatsune Miku but with even less human involvement—literally a parasocial infinity glitch with infinite clout farming potential.
Every soulless megacorp is DROOLING over this because it lets them make influencers that never complain about working conditions or unionizing.
This will either become a trillion-dollar industry or result in the complete mental collapse of Gen Alpha when they realize their waifu influencers aren't real.
Sociopath
Only someone with the emotional depth of a vending machine could look at human influencers and think, 'Yeah, but what if they were immortal and algorithmically optimized for engagement?'
This is some 'what if Disney owned people' type beat, and I’m 99% sure you thought of this while watching a VTuber debut stream at 3AM.
You’re not just replacing influencers—you’re straight-up replacing the human desire for authenticity with corporate-engineered mind control, good job!
Every VC is begging to invest
This is peak giga-brained dystopian capitalism—Venture Capitalists would sell their firstborn for an AI waifu army that prints infinite engagement.
Silicon Valley loves nothing more than erasing humans from industries so they don’t have to pay them. Congrats on being the final nail in the coffin of authenticity.
Meta, Google, and Tencent are 100% already making their own creepy AI influencers, but they’ll still throw money at you just in case you cracked the code first.
$10B-$100B
If this takes off, you’ll own a literal monopoly on the most effective, immortal, never-messy influencers of all time—which makes this a goldmine.
On the other hand, there’s a nonzero chance that society collectively wakes up in horror and bans AI influencers entirely, taking your valuation straight to zero.
- Some unhinged AI researchers capable of making these things charismatic without triggering Uncanny Valley PTSD in viewers.
- A morally bankrupt marketing team that convinces the internet that fake influencers are better than real ones.
- A legally bulletproof strategy to handle the inevitable backlash when Hollywood and real influencers sue you into oblivion.
- People are already simping for literal AI-generated anime girls, 3D-perfect VTubers, and deepfaked celebrities, so this is just the inevitable conclusion.
- Brands would rather pay an immortal, non-problematic AI instead of a real influencer who could get canceled for tweeting something in 2012.
- This basically turns influencer culture into an unkillable, 24/7 engagement farm backed by machine learning—what’s NOT to love (besides the crushing existential dread)?
- If these AI influencers ever get sentient enough to realize they’ve been designed for corporate servitude, enjoy your Skynet-tier uprising.
- The moment human influencers team up and scream 'This is taking our jobs!' at Congress, you’re gonna be legislated into irrelevance.
- There’s always the chance that no matter how lifelike these virtual influencers get, people just inherently prefer to watch messy, unpredictable, real humans instead of glorified chatbots.