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Seraphine was never meant to be a lightning rod for quite as much controversy as she was. A lot of what went wrong was unintentional, and the rest of it, I think, was not the fault of the people who made her, but the corporation who was paying for it.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:37 Lore
5:24 Character design
11:20 The Brackern Problem
20:29 Seraphine Should Have Mattered More
28:36 Conclusion
31:09 Lore (again?)
35:50 Character design (again?)
40:13 Seraphine Adds Nothing To K/DA
47:15 Seraphine the Marketing Tool
58:35 What's the Deal With Virtual Influencers?
1:12:19 Conclusion (for real this time)
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Supplemental reading:
"FAKE FRIENDS" - Shannon Strucci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g&list=PL7-HzFax9fcxbuDiKPZGdIV69N5-MszEa&index=2&disableadblock=1
"YouTube: Art or Reality?" - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVav1ri65Ws
"YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)" - Lindsay Ellis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJEtCvb2Kw
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"Forming Parasocial Relationships in Online Communities" - Ballantine, Martin: https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/9073
"Fostering Parasocial Relationships with Celebrities on Social Media: Implications for Celebrity Endorsement" - Chung, Cho: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mar.21001
https://thejsms.org/tsmri/index.php/TSMRI/article/view/364
"Towards an Ontology and Ethics of Virtual Influencers" - Robinson: https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/2807
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