Build your fanbase using the K-pop method

Re:Build your fanbase using the K-pop method by rippercushions on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:44PM (#33061610)

This was the old Japanese supergroup model with AKB48 etc, but it never worked outside Japan and is starting to fail there as well.

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Re:Build your fanbase using the K-pop method by jrockway on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:21PM (#33061892)

I was a Morning Musume fan in high school but the members of the group kept getting younger as they were replaced, and I kept getting older. After a while, it stopped making sense to be a fan. (They never did a song "I'm sad about only being able to contribute $20,500 per year to my 401(k)".)

I never got into AKB48; is that they problem they are having, or is it something else?

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Re:Build your fanbase using the K-pop method by YurgenJurgensen on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:31AM (#33064513)

I'm not familiar with the post-COVID situation, but I suspect VTubers may have eaten their lunch by operating a similar business model but without the risk of showing your face in public and becoming an IRL retelling of Perfect Blue.

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Re:Build your fanbase using the K-pop method by jrockway on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:26AM (#33064850)

Oh yeah, people really like the vtubers don't they. I see it all the time on r/all, but never really made the association with the AKB48 type fans.

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