every time a new one of these drops, i am filled with a fury and fervor to understand 'why?" like, on the studio end it's easy--studio heads are fucking idiots. But, on the end of the person making shit like this, what are you doing? You could just make the character and let them roam the internet, but you're jumping into influencer marketing and trying to be hatsune miku but miku exists and you'll never catch that lightning in a bottle for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which being you claim sole ownership over the thing and the 'music' it makes.
idk, these technofetishists who glom onto anything that looks like even a prototype of a sci-fi thing are fascinating to me.
