Net idol
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Net idol (Japanese: ネットアイドル, Hepburn: Netto aidoru) is a Japanese term for a person who achieves celebrity status through the internet. Unlike an Internet celebrity, a net idol is more focused on Japanese pop culture.[1]
History
Net idols emerged as an offshoot of Japanese idols in the late 1990s.[2] The world's first "cyber idol" or "virtual idol" was Kyoko Date in 1996.[3][4] She has a fabricated history, statistics, and her own songs. Meanwhile, gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru) such as Yoko Matsugane, Rio Natsume and Eiko Koike, net idols themselves, have largely appeared skimpily clad in "cheesecake" photographs.
See also
References
- ^ Lukacs, Gabriella (13 October 2015). "The Labor of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Digital Economy in Contemporary Japan". positions. 23 (3). Duke University Press: 487–513. doi:10.1215/10679847-3125863.
- ^ Lukacs, Gabriella (22 March 2007). "The Net Idols: New Forms of Creative Employment and Neoliberal Labor Subjectivities in 1990s Japan". AAS Annual Meeting. Retrieved 31 May 2007.
- ^ Considine, J.D. (16 May 1997). "Kyoko Date: The world's first virtual pop star". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ Vertinsky, Patricia; Hargreaves, Jennifer (28 November 2006). Physical Culture, Power, and the Body. Routledge. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-134-22705-1. Retrieved 25 September 2019.