the one thing i find rlly annoying about this whole "robot ai influencer" thing is they act like they just invented a new thing when vtubers and vocaloid have existed for YEARS
He’s not even the first “virtual rapper.” Mori Calliope had a huge concert in Tokyo. Gorillaz have had Del as a virtual character on stage and in music videos. This is typical tech bros late to a trend and acting like they invented it so they can make catchy headlines in their friends’ tech magazines.
the funniest part about these "virtual influencers" is how obviously the creators are trying to recreate hatsune miku without knowing anything about hatsune miku, like they don't understand that her entire appeal is being a vocal synth and think that just getting some random dude to voice the character & then animating on top of it is good enough
i feel like no ones acting like they did it first just doing it ? like sure afew suck but you obviously dont know much about vocaloid to be saying they are all copying hatsune miku cause they arent these ai things are more like gorillaz but its not then its now and things are allowed to change and grow and evolve as genres no ? not every rap song has a shout out to big or pac cause they did rap famously yk its silly they arent even the first no where near the last
@@bodegacat204 the thing is, they're going out of their way to sell it as a revolutionary AI rapper for the Metaverse. It would be far more honest to sell it as an avatar or a virtual rapper, but that wouldn't sound as new and exciting, so they call it AI.
@@bodegacat204 i think you should watch jarvis’ vid about polar if you haven’t, then you’ll see that a bunch of media outlets and the creators are acting like an AI or virtual singer has never been done before
hatsune miku and gorillaz have been doing the whole “fictional band/artist” thing for years. this “virtual metaverse artist” stuff is all just buzzwords and the news coverage they get is totally unprecedented
Thank you for mentioning them 👏 Jarvis talked a lot about Hatsune Miku in the last video (as he should! She's iconic and super relevant to all this) but Gorillaz have been doing the virtual band thing incredibly well for yeeeaaars. They even have a mini podcast lol
they've done it so much better too. even gorillaz' early stuff is fantastic, especially compared to these 'metaverse artists'. gorillaz and vocaloid don't need to constantly remind you that 'hey, this is fictional!' because the stuff produced is genuinely great on its own.
@mi someone made a video on here called “the twitter experience pt 2” and it’s such a good summary to me. It shows both the insane rightwing morons and obnoxious disrespectful leftwing white savior types. On “society” twitter truly either you’re an enemy of black ppl, use black ppl for personal grievances or are a black ppl
@@Rad-Dude63andathird i mean, theres a lot of reasons why free speech is important, but the radical "left" has been using "harrasment", "hate", "cultural appropriation" and so on as a means to "shut down" questioning and opposing viewpoints they dont want to deal with for a while now
Fr, if you have seen AI generated songs they cannot form any words, they also don't understand the concept of a chorus. So that's all written by a person, and the backing track likely is too
Watching a little robot man in my phone talk about how much more virtual money he has than me is reminding me we really are living in late stage capitalism.
I've noticed this with Polar, and I feel that I should mention it: These virtual artists are SO UNEXPRESSIVE. The temporary model I made in VRoid Studio is more expressive than Polar & Meka. While Polar's hair bounces, there is no expression in her face. And for Meka, his braids don't even move, and his movements have no bounce. The clothes (especially the necklace he wears) don't bounce or move with his movement. Not only that, his face feels more like a character suited more for a horror game than an influencer. Emotions are an integral part of who we are. This is why animation places an emphasis on exaggerating the emotions of a character; the facial expression and body language can help the viewer know how the character is feeling in that moment. Especially when the viewer is autistic (including myself), since we often struggle with figuring out how people are feeling when there's either little emotion or none at all visibly shown, the exaggeration that is an essential part of animation helps us know the emotions of the character. I'm aware that I'm being harsh, but as an artist who draws characters and designs them I need to mention these things for those who aren't that familiar with it.
It's why I don't watch vtubers. There's no expression in their faces, the range is so limited! Yeah, nice that their tits are animated to bounce but when the lips just open and close and the rest of the face stays mostly blank, I'm better off just watching a streamer with their camera off.
You nailed it. I would not be surprised if the only people who genuinely liked this are suburban middle-class white dudes who see it as some sort of money opportunity. "Yo bruh, I should make digital rapper NFTs bruh, that would be fire bruh"
First a Dollar Tree Version of Hatsune Miku, now FN Meka, who looks like Takeshi6ix9ine tried to cosplay Polar who is also trying to cosplay Hatsune Miku, but unlike Polar, he quit halfway through, not 90%.
@@waterwolfyxx727 i think the person who posted this comment meant cosplay only in a dress up sense, not acting like how the character acts (except basically doing what the other does as a “job”). But this is just based off what I know, idk if they were hinting at Miku somehow being racist or something.
19:18 This is literally my reaction whenever I see a shirtless man "sexy" like this (I am an asexual lesbian) but in those cases what gets me through it still is the idea that that person has achieved confidence in themself and their body. This isn't even that.
@@Human_85im also asexual and yeah pretty, much. Think about like romantic love and sexual love and just separate them. it's just basically dating someone and just doing romantic things and not really doing as much (or any) sexual activities together.
@@Human_85 Asexual just means "lacking sexual attraction." So there's a wide range of relationships open to an asexual person as long as their partner(s) are okay with them not feeling that attraction. A lot of asexual people have happy and fullfilling romantic relationships. And some asexual people even enjoy sexual relationships (it's not as wild as it sounds. It happens with people who aren't even asexual too. Those "help a buddy out" relationships, are one example). Asexuality is also a spectrum. You have some people who actually do on rare occasion experience sexual attraction, and then you have people who are actually sex repulsed and hate even the idea of it. Basically, the take away is that sexual attraction and romance might generally go together, but not always. 🤷🏻♀️ (There are also the aro/ace folks that are aromantic and asexual. They don't feel romantic attraction or sexual attraction. I know that's not specifically related to your question but it felt wrong not to include.)
If I see someone trying to pass something off as a "virtual singer", or a "robot singer", or especially an "AI-powered singer", they'd better be using fucking vocal synthesis! It's so tiring as a vocal synth enthusiast every time I hear about some new "virtual singer" and get excited only for it to turn out to be basically another fucking VTuber. Like, animated musicians/bands are fine and all, Gorillaz is great and Studio Killers is one of my favorite bands; I just hate when people try to trick me into mistaking one for the other.
YOU THERE! I make music and want to do a virtual singer but I songwrite and produce. Can you speak more of this vocal synth sorcery? Is this a bthing people like? Where do I get one?
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Vocaloids, my brother! Well, vocaloid has been the name brand standard for many years at least, and it's a recognizable program. There are other voice synthesis programs you could use, though I'm not familiar with all of them. UTAU is a free alternative to vocaloid if you just want to play around with it, and I've heard some stuff produced in SynthV that sounds nearly human.
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 vocal synths are usually made up with sound libraries/voicebanks that hold samples that are strung together using software and/or ai. available vocal synths vary by software company (yamaha's vocaloid, dreamtomic's synthesizer v, cevio). once purchased or with a trial, notes and lyrics (which may require a special alphabet to input) can be drawn usually into a piano roll. tuning (pitch-bending, dynamics) can then be manually done or done by an ai to make vocals sound different. further processing can be done, as it is all up to the producer. it can be time-consuming, but very rewarding with a unique sound. i'd search up tutorials to get a whole feel on the vocal synth process. as a taste for what vocal synths can do, covers that use solaria are very expressive, and hatsune miku is used in many different vibes since she's the most popular.
I love how they're talking about this virtual technology where they project the characters onto reality like it's new as if Gorillaz hasn't been doing that for over 20 years.
And gorillaz has been doing it WELL for over 20 years. These ugly ass models with their tiktok dances can't beat the fully animated videos + lore of gorillaz. Also gorillaz music is actually good.
People who think your skin color should allow you to do or say things, or the inverse, is by definition racist. Congrats, yall tried so hard to not be racist you came up with a new racist idea nobody managed to arrive to before
The term "virtual band" is already a thing. Gorillaz, vocaloids like Hatsune Miku, Studio Killers, even cartoon characters like The Simpsons qualify as virtual bands
this bro !! as someone who's both a vocaloid and gorillaz fan this type of stuff is just straight up annoying. people have been doing this for years, it's just some tech dudes who are just now learning they exist and trying to take all the credit for it
Feels like a convenient way for a studio to have full control over their „artists“ brand, body and being, without those pesky worker‘s rights getting in the way and having to appropriately pay ANYONE in the actual creative process.
This is literally Polar and meka: We’re the first Virtual influencers to exists EVER!! Vocaloid, vtubers, and literally every hologram and virtual concert: Allow us to introduce ourselves
@@ember9361 Breaking news: Vtubers have now spontaneously stopped existing. The reason for this seems to be tracked down to a youtube comment just saying "No" to the concept of vtubers
Yeah youre spot on with the minstrel nature of writing a rap then saying "hey black man recite this make us money" this is all sorts of fucked but I doubt anyone besides 10-11 yr old TikTok fans would give this staying power. It's just as corny as Zuckerberg's meta avatars
It always feel so fake because they try rap like the a big rapper not realising the rapper is just being themselves. Just feels like an imitation no substance
I bet those 10-11 year old boys who see this on TikTok are going to think this is the coolest shit ever though. But you're right, it has no staying power; they're gonna age out of thinking this is cool, and this whole project will fade away.
I don't understand how these "virtual artists" and metaverse stuff have SO MANY INTERACTIONS. It's absolutely believable that it exists bc the internet has some wild corners, but I can't wrap my head around the fact that MILLIONS of people watch these things and enjoy them. It feels dystopian somehow
Tbh I feel like the majority are botted bc followers (edit: and views) are imo the easiest to fake. While theres ways to fake engagement its at least. not as easy to pass off compared to just plain follower counts (disregarding the quality of follows) That and views are easiest to automate (though to be fair i havent had scripts do stuff like that)
The more I'm hearing about FN Meka, the more it sounds like it's a Gorillaz/VTuber type thing -- there's a real life person singing and doing the mo-cap, but they're acting like they're a virtual character as part of the gimmick. Still on the fence about whether or not FN Meka's lyrics were AI generated (then sung by a human being), but I think that's beside the point. The "virtual rapper" is just a stand-in for a real person. There's nothing new or unique about that, and it kinda frustrates me that they're acting like it's some crazy breakthrough.
I think it's much more likely that FN Meka is created by a team who are paid almost nothing and given few resources. They are relying on the "novelty" as you said of how "new" this idea is. They are not concerned if the animation or music are good.
Yea but also gorillaz has lore and a storyline and a whole reason to be “virtual”. However, this almost just feels like some type of gimmick to popularize the metaverse.
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Yeah, this couldn’t possibly suck worse: - First and foremost, racism - “Esports” - “Metaverse” - NFTs - Every moonbro buzzword imaginable - Focusing on cheap gimmicks instead of the art
@@Sam-eu9go yeah sure but that’s only really cool if the person voicing him is black which I don’t know if they still are and there aren’t any concrete answers on whether or not he is powered by AI, the lyrics are generated by AI but it’s never been specified if the ai is the same they claim he’s powered by
My biggest issue is how they ALWAYS try and make the ai "relatable" by talking about how they're not accepted, acting like they're real. League did the same shit with Seraphine, and it was universally disliked.
The thing that makes these ‘ai virtual characters’ different from vocaloids is that it’s clearly a real person singing (not very well might I add) part of what’s so cool about vocaloids being virtual artists is that the computer program itself can sing. It’s super impressive and has a cool effect. Then with gorillaz you have a much more artistic approach with Jamie Hewlet drawing and animating the characters and Damon Albarn making the music. There’s really nothing remarkable about these characters
a note, though, is that most developed voicebanks still have a human touch because of voice providers, but the samples as the voicebank are transformative enough to be a new character/artist :)
8:05 As a fan of King of the Hill, I’m appalled at the fact a cringe metaverse rapper said this line. Cringe AI rappers should never use the great show in vain.
@@violetbackedstarling no jokes, full honesty, it is a great show. i cant say its "one of the best" (cause idc to rate things that way) but i watched it as a kid and genuinely enjoy seeing it still. that show has something in it others dont and idk what it is
6:28 physically cannot get over the fact that the clip of him "producing" is him sliding random things around and then putting them back exactly where they were. that shit is so funny
WHAHWHWHAHWJSBS HE LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE KID SEEING THIS THING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER HELP ME hes like “woah i wonder what this does!!!” and doesn’t even question why it doesn’t do anything at all, like a younger sibling playing mario kart with you on a controller that isn’t even on
The thing is that these virtual artists aren't just trying to capitalize on Hatsune Miku, I think they're also trying to capitalize on Vtubers. The difference between what they're doing and why Hatsune Miku and Vtubers are so popular is because with the latter, everyone is perfectly aware that there are humans behind it, and it's not something they're trying to hide lol, and yet, the "virtual" aspect is still a selling point. Hatsune Miku is not really her own person or anything like that, she is a voice synthesizer, and the appeal has been that vocaloid producers "bring her to life" with their songs. That has been a huge marketing point for vocaloid since the community came into existence, I think. It also has to do with the fact that people like personifying technology. I just wrote about this for school lol, but there was actually a study done about people who own roombas and many of them acted like their roombas had human-like qualities, and some were so attached they even considered them to be on the level of a pet or family member. This information also served as the basis for stuff like Siri and Cortana's personalities. So of course, it works even better with vocaloid because people directly contribute to it and project onto. And as for Vtubers, it's a little different... when Kizuna AI says that she's an AI trying to learn about human culture through content creation, we all know that's just a gimmick, and that's why it's fun. The fact that anything is possible in Vtuber lore, but it's still a regular person making normal, relatable content is a huge part of the appeal. It's just fun to pretend it's real for a bit. I once heard someone compare it to a play, where everyone is going along with the illusion for the performance. Virtual artists like FN Meka and Polar don't have that and so they feel manufactured and uncreative and immediately fail.
Him always moonwalking means that they don’t have to get the walk cycles right. A hard part of animation is making the feet realistically stick to the ground as you move about. By saying he is moonwalking everywhere they fix this problem. This is also why roller skates/blades are so popular in cheap anime as well.
@@RusticRonnieare they not portrayed as cartoon characters though? real people make and sing the music, sure. but the band is portrayed as cartoon characters right?
@@RusticRonniedid you.. watch the video? The music and lyrics are written and produced by real people. Real performers sing/rap “as” him. They basically use the minimalist amount of AI in order to legally claim it as AI, but it is real music produced by real people with an animated character to be the ‘face’ of the music and bring something of interest. It’s much easier to get an ‘AI’ robot to produce a bunch of content than real people so it absolutely makes sense. There’s a lot of talent behind it (as Jarvis often mentioned) but the people who’ve created and manage it are def being misleading in their advertising of this character, and trying to claim it as this new, unheard of thing. When in reality there are multiple ‘bands’ and artists that have been doing this much more creatively, artistically and successfully for many years
This is why NFTbros are a plague to art and literally everything they touch. They're acting like they invented this concept as if Vocaloids never existed. Even if they did pretend that Japan doesn't exist (why not, they're already racist) there's already so many more examples out there of more interesting, better crafted, and more widely enjoyed "digital" musicians that have made global hits DECADES before these fools. Its kind of depressing actually, it makes the creators of this "rapper" look kind of pathetic. Like they feel they have to rely on hype over substance. Its so uncool its sad. Thanks for taking the time to look into this Jarvis, this information was awful but your commentary helped me get through it.
@@j.r.765 It's soulless. When it comes to actual art, there's usually soul and passion put into crafting it; something NFTs completely lack because 9 times out of 10, they're made by some randomly-generated AI bullshit. It's the same principle that applies to the comic book bubble of the 90s where dipshit investors thought all they had to do was buy multiple variants of covers and they'd appreciate in value... and they never fucking did. It's also a huge part of why nobody fucking likes tech bros; they take age old ideas and think they can sucker people into investing and/or getting hyped into it by slapping some fucking gamer lights on it and calling it a day, even though most of the time the ideas are literally a hundred years old and it never took off for a fucking reason.
What I dont understand is why virtual musicians/influencers still look like humans, like them being virtual gives you all the possibilities in the world, yet they still make them look like people. I probably wouldn’t be interested enough to listen to music by a human virtual rapper, but rap music by an ominous biblically accurate angel? Hell yeah.
In the 90s, a comic book artist and a musician created a fake band to satirize the manufactured personalities of pop stars, it’s 2022 and record labels are doing the same thing but without any hint of irony or social commentary. They took the creativity and ingenuity that made the Gorillaz so special and replaced it brand appeal. It hurts me that I’ve lived to see the day were an concept as cynical and vapid as Meka can find success in the music industry.
Naw, im happy he said the N word and the black community clapped him! Bye bye to that trash, let actual artist perform, and let Gorillaz reign SUPREME!!!
AI or not, he’s literally just not a robot. He’s on screens, nothing more. If he was an actual real life robot controlled by AI? That’d be pretty fuckin sick but this is just a downright lie
What really confuses me about this whole thing is, why bother advertising it as an AI? Instead of working your ass off to make it technically fit into that category, just advertise him as an animated musician. That’s a thing that’s been done to great success before. The Gorillas, Hatsune Miku, that sort of thing. This is just combining animated musicians and VTubers. You don’t have to try and spin it as some AI thing.
they dont want to actually put the passion that that kind of thing requires into the work. making good vocaloid music requires passion, and the gorillaz are real musicians who have made amazing art. they want to throw a 3d model over some low quality music and expect it to do as well as miku, when miku is popular because of the passion behind the vocaloid users.
The entire basis for it is market research. Like a word cloud of what's "popular" shoved into a single package. It's the virtual equivalent of an industry plant.
As someone who's been learning blender for awhile, I definitely agree with Jarvis that the tiktoks are visually impressive but unfortunately feel somewhat souless
@@Duckbusinessman And Blender is an extremely good program for 3D modelling and rendering. I honestly don't get where you are even coming from with your idea that Blender is somehow inferior, because every person I know considers Blender the best program for doing that. Just because it's a free program that anyone can use doesn't mean that it's easy to use, or "unimpressive". And it gets even more complicated once you are no longer just working in Blender, but also with real life video footage. Point being, what are you on about?
@@Ze_eT my point being, I’ve used just about every modeling software even the bad ones. I admit. Blender is still my favorite. But that’s due to simplicity of it and overall charm. (And it’s free) but the truth is, other software can do things blender can, but better and faster. I’ve literally been in animation schools. Sure, blender would’ve been a nice option. But there’s a reason it wasn’t.
These digital guys should probably realize that they are digital beings and don't require modes of transportation. You move effectively at the speed of light bro.
I think the real reason for the royalty free music is that AI cannot legally own copyright. If they want to publish an original song with Only FN Meka's name on it, it'd be pretty difficult to determine who's got copyright over the song because so many people worked on it and there's not one big name behind it.
calling him an AI robot is hilarious...like, he's nor one or the other😭 he's not artificial intelligence because there's obviously people behind him, and he's not even a physical robot lmaoo
I love that Jarvis actually Knows Things about tech so he can properly rip apart why these kinds of things are bullshit. puttin that degree to good use
Well I guess he wasting it because meka is by definition a robot (a machine designed to do a task) whose lyrics are ai generated the only thing that isn't mentioned is that he is virtual Jarvis ignored that because it would nullify his argument that meka isnt a rapper or a robot that sings ai generated lyrics
@@snailsaredumb9412 ‘written by an ai’ like one of those websites that existed for years that write song lyrics for you, that might as well be called ai too since it’s higher quality than this. And even if it is ai generated, whos’ ai? I’m sure as hell these guys did not develop an ai for this soooo they probably owe Google some royalties for writing the songs if they didn’t do it themselves
I can't believe they don't even make these influencers look good or interesting in any way make them actually enjoyable to look at, take advantage of them being digital and just give them a cool artstyle. instead they just look like the least inspired claymation I've ever seen
I think they look like wall advertisements you walk by in a dirty urban landscape. It's this grimy, corporate aesthetic that takes real talent to produce... but isn't made to convey artistic value. It's made to convey monetary value. tl;dr Capitalism. It's the capitalism aesthetic. lol
its so annoying hearing people call something a "virtual singer" when everything about it is human except just the visuals. like its literally just the same thing as The Masked Singer ☠
@@annamelvina216 well Elsa is a character from a movie so, no one would consider her as a virtual singer, but if she was signed to a label, than yeah I think people would consider her a virtual singer.
@@LittleIcarus i hope this is sarcasm lol. Cause otherwise you look dumb. You claim you're an artist but have zero videos or socials with any music on them.
But not virtually. A virtual robot is either redundant or counterintuitive as Jarvis was fuming over lol it’s like, virtual object are digitally encoded objects by default. So, non-physical …physical hardware is just a goofy ah sentence 😫😂💀
@@Bradyboy26 characteristically absolutely. Ai and vtubers are programs nonetheless so that’d be fair to say. Only thing is there’s no indication of physical properties so still doesn’t meet the robotic requirements just quite. Even if they do a live performance it’s not until they meet the physical properties requirements that they are transcended beyond virtual capabilities. I.e. mechatronics, sentient beings, dedicated robots, electrically engineered performers etc
@@MrRedstoneready ah I see. Fair enough. Then again he’s a virtual representation of a robot (like virtually depicting robotic characteristics and qualities). Ig, is that really a true robot? Like is my reflection truly me? Now we’re getting a bit existential Lmaoo but yeah I get ya
Gorillaz has been around for a good chunk of years, since '98, as a virtual band with normal human voices, and Hatsune Miku and other vocaloid artists have been around for well over a decade also, so it's just ridiculous for these people (even moreso the polar team) to act like they're doing something groundbreaking when they're actually extremely late to the game and doing it much worse than p much all the predecessors just to use as a cash grab.
That is NOT the same they were a actual band with real humans and real talent and artistry! The lyrics and persona of this FN Meka we're AI generated.... they're trying to get rid of artist. Yes he has a human voice for NOWWWW 🙄 but how for how long until they do away with that??
I wanna talk about how these metaverse "idols" are quick to lose attention. There are many virtual/animated bands and idols out there, all formed in different years with different styles, and yet they all have dedicated followings. Why? Because these bands and idols have something the metaverse can't achieve: CHARM. Look at any virtual idol or band out there: Hatsune Miku, Gorillaz, K/DA, Studio Killers. Even obscure bands like Prozzäk and Vbirds and extremely old bands like Alvin And The Chipmunks and The Archies all have something that make them stand out from each other even if the music isn't all that special. Even Kizuna Ai, an idol who was originally a vtuber, managed to do that and inspired other vtubers to follow her lead and make music for their fans. The metaverse idols aren't interesting in design (which are mostly unappealing) or in music or even in personality. They can't build followings because everything has been botted for them. They try to be "innovative" when really these concepts were done years ago and way better. They don't have charm as a result of being an obvious industry plant and are quickly forgotten as they are humiliated for years...As they should be.
18:18 Literally they’re just splicing together tons of tiny trends, wrap it up in some pretty 3D art, sprinkling a slur in here and there and selling it to kids over tik tok 😂
All of these virtual influencers and "musicians" feel so corporate and lifeless. As you said, it really just feels like they're taking a bunch of shit that's popular/cool and make something based off that, but there's absolutely zero heart or passion in it. The goal is literally just to make money, and it shows. I understand that the music business as a whole has been extremely manufactured for a long time now, but this is just so so so much worse. Also, as an artist and robot enthusiast: what a bunch of cowards. They're making a robot character, but they make him look fully human except for his weird jaw thing. Like, that's so lame... bad and unappealing character design, 0/10
Strings are being pulled here. The massive amount of followers, the high profile collabs, it’s obvious this is the music industry giants prodding a new area of music
@@MrZip420 but they didn't create an ai, either. no way fn meka actually has artificial intelligence, and isn't just primarily scripted, animated, and voiced by others.
They should have just made an utau. Like have the actual singer record the voice clips and have the design based off of the rapper himself. Utuas and vocaloids are kinda marketed as robot/ ai characters already so it’s perfect. Oh also get rid of the nfts and racism and junk
@@jaimayy "Utau" is a subset of the Vocaloid community. (Vocaloid with Hatsune Miku as a singer for example) People can make Vocaloids/Utauloids of their own voice and use that to sing their songs/covers. (I hope that was helpful in any way)
@@jaimayy Sort of like VOCALOID, but unlike it, people can make their own voicebanks in UTAU to use to sing songs whereas with VOCALOID, the community does not have that option.
It's like they looked at Gorillaz, Vocaloids and VTubers and said “how can we make something underwhelmingly worse and unimpressive?” All they did did was make a generic video game character and mislabel it as AI even though there's nothing about it that seems remotely AI-like, because less face it, those lyrics were so bad that they could have ONLY been written by a human.
Every time I hear a crypto/NFT bro talk about “blurring lines between the physical and virtual worlds” or whatever their bullshit line is it makes me want to jump out a window
It’s a shame that Zero from Steam Powered Giraffe is already a really cool robot character, designed and portrayed by a black man with a gorgeous voice, and actually songs - and a character like this gets way more attention. Different musical genres, but as a band made up of robot themed characters who has been around for at least a decade, it seems to me like anyone making a robot musician character should really take notes from them.
i almost died when jarvis said “is this what being white is like?” after the kid just pushed up some faders, because yes, i’ve been in almost that exact situation. i used to want to be a music producer and my highschool had an internship program, i interned at a small music school with about 25-30 kids, it was the end of the year and they were all creating their end of the year projects and they literally told me to play with the faders and everyone was like DUDE YOU JUST PRODUCED A SONG and they told me to bring the song back for my presentation on how my internship went and tell everyone i produced it
As a super amateur hobbyist music producer myself this reminded me of when someone on tik tok found the EQ in their phone settings, played around with them while a song was playing and everyone was like "YOOOO THATS MAGIC" 💀
I couldn't believe that NFTs would get worse, but here they are, ruining rap and everything else I enjoy. They better stay the hell away from video games.. I will cry.
Sorry to break it to you man but there's tons of NFT and crypto/blockchain-powered games out there. A well-known one is Axie Infinity which briefly was making headlines because players in the Philipines could make minimum wage playing it. Of course, it has since crashed and now the trade value of the tokens associated with the game is well below 1 cent and certainly isn't possible to be a job anymore.
Actually there going to be “NFT” “game” “soon” but most i seen are usually scams and they made genre they called “play to earn” so yeah coming to gaming soon
As a consolation, they are not ruining the creation of rap and video games etc, these sorts of corporate products will always be inauthentic and shallow. In short, they're really bad and will only gain fame among people who already like nfts
That's NOT how you make music? I sit at the computer for 6 hours straight turning the reverb up and down, pressing random shit on an equalizer, and wiggling the volume slider back and forth, and it creates an entire song and I don't even have to do any of the work! Technology truly is incredible!
I want to emphasize that Meka isn't special just because he can rap. If you take the time, any vocaloid, utau, or synth v voice bank can rap. It just takes time to tune it.
8:11 THIS. idk what it is about it but it literally does activate the red “uh oh” flag in my brain…… as jarvis said, usually it just doesn’t even register (as in, when NORMAL rappers who are REAL PEOPLE say it) but this feels like it’s staring me intently in the eyes… maybe it’s the awkward unnatural-ness of the lyrics and the… everything else… but like fr it’s like a minesweeper flag goes up lmao
I like how the company behind this likes to pretend that vocaloids havent existed since 2004 (even before that they were in develpoment) and that anybody cant just make a character model and call it a AI generated character.. also I would like to point out that vocaloids are able to rap too, with ACTUAL AI GENERATED VOCALS. Kinda sad how they make this seem like a new thing, they know for a fact the vocaloid fandom has not been active (not since project sekai at least) so to take advantage of the people who think this is groundbreaking and profit off of this is pretty funny to me. I would also like to say that you can easily purchase a vocaloid, make your own music, and not have to listen to '' an AI generated robot rapper" for his n-word pass and strange animation. credits to this company for trying tho
Despite Vocaloids being able to rap and only a few people who are able to make them rap proficiently, vocarap isn't done as much; mostly due to vocal synths being able to sing and not so much rap, and a lot of vocaproducers don't focus on rap (especially English rap). But also, there is a V5 tutorial on making mumble rap, so I believe V5 is marketed towards a very different audience but at the same time, not marketed much. African Americans are responsible for a lot of music we listen to today. Imo, the vocaloid/vocal synth community needs more English rap. We don't want this Polar and FNMeka shit.
hol 'up not ai generated, he's powered by ai which in term means he's powered by knowledge somehow lmao I'm not even gonna pretend I can comprehend how that would work I'd need a gpa of 5 and a group of the best scientist to figure that out but that's a story for another time
As someone in the Vocaloid fandom, it's far from dead. Sure, a lot of people have moved on to Project Sekai or other vocal synth softwares like Synth V and Cevio, but we're still kicking lol
@@ikeasotbarnslig5228 its not particualry far from dead, but what I mean to say is more often a younger audience (like teenagers) are intrested in vocaloid (or sum like that)
How on earth do these people expect me to believe these things are “AI artists”?? It’s just straight up an animation created by humans voiced by other humans?? They need to stop acting like it’s some ground breaking work when people in Japan have been doing more in depth and creative “virtual artists”
I do a lot of work with AI in my work. Basically the only reason why ai is racist is because of the fact that the majority of people in western countries are white/Hispanic. Asians and blacks are significant minorities, meaning that there’s naturally less data to feed, and it’s much harder to feed that data in. This is talking about facial recognition though. Otherwise AI isn’t really anymore racist than the sources it learns from. That’s the reason why Facebooks bot said crazy shit, because people fed it racist junk. In other words the only solution is either A) control the inputs with human intervention (which is what I do) or B) spend a boat load of money developing the inputs yourself and get things from all over the world. You don’t need to be scared of robot racism really. Neural networks are still evolving and we don’t even understand WHY they’re so effective yet. One day we’ll solve all these problems
Miku is like "yeah I'm a program and I'm slowly being corrupted and being deleted, but that's alright" while these metasingers keep whining about not being real people
Hi. Here's a lil tip to all these people tryna create a virtual influencer: Don't just post their music online, post their thoughts as well. No real influencer would just post their music. They'll have thoughts.
Kid laroi, Billie eilish bunch of these “Lil insert rapper name here” are all plants, the industry is absolutely rife with them. Because it’s much easier to prop up a manufactured one where they get most of the control, than actually having to get someone talented to sign a deal, as most nowadays know how bad record deals are, tho they are a route to quick fame. It’s a common place in the industry now, and this was just another attempt.
same dude same. once you turn like 20 anyone under 18 seems so naive and childish. Its not even a big gap in age but maybe its a gap in life experience.
@@disgust4941 fr like i was born in 2005 (17 yrs old rn) and i always get confused when i see ppl my age in more adult-like positions cause i still feel like a kid but maybe thats just me lol
i feel like at this point they are just using the word “ai” to gain traction and as a trend. polar and this dude aren’t actual ai, they are just 3d models with voice actors that they create a stupid backstory for. they aren’t actually computer programs they just wanna jump in the digital trend
the one thing i find rlly annoying about this whole "robot ai influencer" thing is they act like they just invented a new thing when vtubers and vocaloid have existed for YEARS
vtubers are kinda dumb though. they’re all weeb-bait. I hate meme culture
Not just that: Hatsune Miku exised before the concept of modern influencers. You cant make this shit up
exactly and it also annoys me that it’s just some guy rapping like it’s not even a new voicebank or vocal synth
He’s not even the first “virtual rapper.” Mori Calliope had a huge concert in Tokyo. Gorillaz have had Del as a virtual character on stage and in music videos. This is typical tech bros late to a trend and acting like they invented it so they can make catchy headlines in their friends’ tech magazines.
@@ShallowVA also MC Skat catz
the funniest part about these "virtual influencers" is how obviously the creators are trying to recreate hatsune miku without knowing anything about hatsune miku, like they don't understand that her entire appeal is being a vocal synth and think that just getting some random dude to voice the character & then animating on top of it is good enough
Right also they're acting like creating a virtual character and having a real guy sing for them is new when Gorillaz has been doing it for 20 years
i feel like no ones acting like they did it first just doing it ? like sure afew suck but you obviously dont know much about vocaloid to be saying they are all copying hatsune miku cause they arent these ai things are more like gorillaz but its not then its now and things are allowed to change and grow and evolve as genres no ? not every rap song has a shout out to big or pac cause they did rap famously yk its silly they arent even the first no where near the last
@@bodegacat204 the thing is, they're going out of their way to sell it as a revolutionary AI rapper for the Metaverse.
It would be far more honest to sell it as an avatar or a virtual rapper, but that wouldn't sound as new and exciting, so they call it AI.
@@bodegacat204 i think you should watch jarvis’ vid about polar if you haven’t, then you’ll see that a bunch of media outlets and the creators are acting like an AI or virtual singer has never been done before
@@bodegacat204 I feel like you didn't read the original reply well, you're just talking bares
hatsune miku and gorillaz have been doing the whole “fictional band/artist” thing for years. this “virtual metaverse artist” stuff is all just buzzwords and the news coverage they get is totally unprecedented
not to mention miku and gorillaz do it well, all these new artists are pure gimmick
Don't forget KDA as well, who are probably the closest and most modern version of a legitimately popular "fictional band".
Thank you for mentioning them 👏 Jarvis talked a lot about Hatsune Miku in the last video (as he should! She's iconic and super relevant to all this) but Gorillaz have been doing the virtual band thing incredibly well for yeeeaaars. They even have a mini podcast lol
they've done it so much better too. even gorillaz' early stuff is fantastic, especially compared to these 'metaverse artists'. gorillaz and vocaloid don't need to constantly remind you that 'hey, this is fictional!' because the stuff produced is genuinely great on its own.
Daft Punk as well!!
You know, you see the term "cultural appropriation" thrown around a lot. This is, hands down, the most obvious example I've ever seen of it.
And that, i will die on hill for.
@mi someone made a video on here called “the twitter experience pt 2” and it’s such a good summary to me. It shows both the insane rightwing morons and obnoxious disrespectful leftwing white savior types. On “society” twitter truly either you’re an enemy of black ppl, use black ppl for personal grievances or are a black ppl
Thats racist. Why? Because everything is racist.
@@dinonuggies2276 "Wahhhh, why can't I call people slurs on the Internet?"
@@Rad-Dude63andathird i mean, theres a lot of reasons why free speech is important, but the radical "left" has been using "harrasment", "hate", "cultural appropriation" and so on as a means to "shut down" questioning and opposing viewpoints they dont want to deal with for a while now
i’m tired of people calling this shit artificial intelligence. it’s an animation, not a robot or ai or anything new.
But if they don’t use sci-fi buzzwords, how will they trick you into buying NFTs!?
"AI" voiced by a human, animated by a human, made by a human, nothing really automated about it at all... yeah that's the definition of AI I think
Maybe they got an ai to generate some lyrics. Idk I’m just guessing. I’m also confused on how it’s an ai.
Idk, I would call the intelligence of all these "creators" pretty artificial
Fr, if you have seen AI generated songs they cannot form any words, they also don't understand the concept of a chorus. So that's all written by a person, and the backing track likely is too
Watching a little robot man in my phone talk about how much more virtual money he has than me is reminding me we really are living in late stage capitalism.
Yep, it’s hilarious when people try and make me feel bad for not having as much money as them. I laugh because they just don’t see past it yet lol
We truly do live in a society 😔
Hell stage capitalism
you misspelt Society**
@@robotcactus_mk1882 You misspelled misspelled**
I've noticed this with Polar, and I feel that I should mention it: These virtual artists are SO UNEXPRESSIVE. The temporary model I made in VRoid Studio is more expressive than Polar & Meka. While Polar's hair bounces, there is no expression in her face. And for Meka, his braids don't even move, and his movements have no bounce. The clothes (especially the necklace he wears) don't bounce or move with his movement. Not only that, his face feels more like a character suited more for a horror game than an influencer. Emotions are an integral part of who we are. This is why animation places an emphasis on exaggerating the emotions of a character; the facial expression and body language can help the viewer know how the character is feeling in that moment. Especially when the viewer is autistic (including myself), since we often struggle with figuring out how people are feeling when there's either little emotion or none at all visibly shown, the exaggeration that is an essential part of animation helps us know the emotions of the character.
I'm aware that I'm being harsh, but as an artist who draws characters and designs them I need to mention these things for those who aren't that familiar with it.
It's why I don't watch vtubers. There's no expression in their faces, the range is so limited! Yeah, nice that their tits are animated to bounce but when the lips just open and close and the rest of the face stays mostly blank, I'm better off just watching a streamer with their camera off.
Excellent points, all.
I appreciate the heck out of this, because it helped me understand why he looked "stiff"
"I'm aware that I'm being harsh". bro you aren't being harsh. this sucks lmao 💀
You're right though. Bare minimum effort was put into those 3D models
"He's from Salt Lake City, Utah" Oh so he's WHITE white
Yeaah
They be saying the n word the most too 💀
He is probably mormon too
Can confirm, white Utahns are that fucking white.
This feels like vocaloid for people who buy NFTs and want people to think they're cool.
This is the best possible description for this "thing"
I was thinking the exact same thing lmao
It definitely is.. NFT bros are wild
You nailed it.
I would not be surprised if the only people who genuinely liked this are suburban middle-class white dudes who see it as some sort of money opportunity.
"Yo bruh, I should make digital rapper NFTs bruh, that would be fire bruh"
@@Dylanquinn666 it’s literally white highschool kids and that’s it
An ai flexing is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, it’s like me bragging about how many houses my sim character has
ong 😭
this is the best comment in this comment section
Wait you can have more than one house in the Sims?
@@deimoskaischylos that’s a good ass idea actually
Yup, but hey, when it's pushed to 6 year olds, it doesn't matter now does it? This is why any music made post 2008, is utter 🚮
First a Dollar Tree Version of Hatsune Miku, now FN Meka, who looks like Takeshi6ix9ine tried to cosplay Polar who is also trying to cosplay Hatsune Miku, but unlike Polar, he quit halfway through, not 90%.
Don’t forget about that fucking Lil Miquela shit
The breakdown on the layers of cosplay is 😘 .
How is Miku racist? /gen
@@waterwolfyxx727 i think the person who posted this comment meant cosplay only in a dress up sense, not acting like how the character acts (except basically doing what the other does as a “job”). But this is just based off what I know, idk if they were hinting at Miku somehow being racist or something.
@@imanastydawg you’re correct
19:18 This is literally my reaction whenever I see a shirtless man "sexy" like this (I am an asexual lesbian) but in those cases what gets me through it still is the idea that that person has achieved confidence in themself and their body. This isn't even that.
How does that work, (genuinely curious) do you have relationships with women just without anything sexual?
@@Human_85im also asexual and yeah pretty, much. Think about like romantic love and sexual love and just separate them. it's just basically dating someone and just doing romantic things and not really doing as much (or any) sexual activities together.
@@Human_85 Asexual just means "lacking sexual attraction." So there's a wide range of relationships open to an asexual person as long as their partner(s) are okay with them not feeling that attraction. A lot of asexual people have happy and fullfilling romantic relationships. And some asexual people even enjoy sexual relationships (it's not as wild as it sounds. It happens with people who aren't even asexual too. Those "help a buddy out" relationships, are one example).
Asexuality is also a spectrum. You have some people who actually do on rare occasion experience sexual attraction, and then you have people who are actually sex repulsed and hate even the idea of it.
Basically, the take away is that sexual attraction and romance might generally go together, but not always. 🤷🏻♀️
(There are also the aro/ace folks that are aromantic and asexual. They don't feel romantic attraction or sexual attraction. I know that's not specifically related to your question but it felt wrong not to include.)
@@mapleboo @TheACRainey thanks so much for clarifying
So because your asexual and lesbian a man can’t have a shirt off double fucking standards in this world are crazy
If I see someone trying to pass something off as a "virtual singer", or a "robot singer", or especially an "AI-powered singer", they'd better be using fucking vocal synthesis! It's so tiring as a vocal synth enthusiast every time I hear about some new "virtual singer" and get excited only for it to turn out to be basically another fucking VTuber. Like, animated musicians/bands are fine and all, Gorillaz is great and Studio Killers is one of my favorite bands; I just hate when people try to trick me into mistaking one for the other.
I sympathize so much with you.
YOU THERE! I make music and want to do a virtual singer but I songwrite and produce. Can you speak more of this vocal synth sorcery? Is this a bthing people like? Where do I get one?
Virtual bands are fun when they’re the product of an artist’s creative vision, but Meka just exists to sell you NFTs.
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Vocaloids, my brother! Well, vocaloid has been the name brand standard for many years at least, and it's a recognizable program. There are other voice synthesis programs you could use, though I'm not familiar with all of them. UTAU is a free alternative to vocaloid if you just want to play around with it, and I've heard some stuff produced in SynthV that sounds nearly human.
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 vocal synths are usually made up with sound libraries/voicebanks that hold samples that are strung together using software and/or ai. available vocal synths vary by software company (yamaha's vocaloid, dreamtomic's synthesizer v, cevio). once purchased or with a trial, notes and lyrics (which may require a special alphabet to input) can be drawn usually into a piano roll. tuning (pitch-bending, dynamics) can then be manually done or done by an ai to make vocals sound different. further processing can be done, as it is all up to the producer. it can be time-consuming, but very rewarding with a unique sound. i'd search up tutorials to get a whole feel on the vocal synth process. as a taste for what vocal synths can do, covers that use solaria are very expressive, and hatsune miku is used in many different vibes since she's the most popular.
i love that every corporate "virtual influencer" is so ugly like they're so bad at this
If your gonna make a virtual influencer atleast make it look good.
i really want to know, because clearly this has to be by design they have to be making them ugly… but WHY
Just gotta shout out the current Gorillaz 3D designs here, they seem to get it
Somehow Japan gets this right
Its sad when a kid making a vrchat/vtuber model does it better than a million dollar company
I love how they're talking about this virtual technology where they project the characters onto reality like it's new as if Gorillaz hasn't been doing that for over 20 years.
FO REALLL OML.
Gorillaz, Vocaloid, so many bands have done this
literally☠️
@@urmom-zh6zs don't forget splatoon!
And gorillaz has been doing it WELL for over 20 years. These ugly ass models with their tiktok dances can't beat the fully animated videos + lore of gorillaz.
Also gorillaz music is actually good.
“that’s a white maaan, (shitty siren noises)” is definitely entering my vocabulary lol
People who think your skin color should allow you to do or say things, or the inverse, is by definition racist. Congrats, yall tried so hard to not be racist you came up with a new racist idea nobody managed to arrive to before
The term "virtual band" is already a thing. Gorillaz, vocaloids like Hatsune Miku, Studio Killers, even cartoon characters like The Simpsons qualify as virtual bands
Including the Squid Sisters and Off the Hook from Splatoon (they did hologram concerts)
Don't forget hank trill bro
this bro !! as someone who's both a vocaloid and gorillaz fan this type of stuff is just straight up annoying. people have been doing this for years, it's just some tech dudes who are just now learning they exist and trying to take all the credit for it
Your Favorite Martian counts too.
@@GumSkyloard That they do.
I never thought "can robots say the N word" would be a legitimate question within my lifetime
what a world we live in
Real tech ethics questions
Because AI are white biased. To me the answer is NO. 😅✋🏿
Stuff like this is why we’re all constantly having an existential crisis
Feels like a convenient way for a studio to have full control over their „artists“ brand, body and being, without those pesky worker‘s rights getting in the way and having to appropriately pay ANYONE in the actual creative process.
yeah.. no one wants to invest in the blood sweat & tears of real artists
@@drbuni What? That makes no sense. People are still involved with creating the AI.
This.
THIS!!!!👆👆👆
@@kingexplosionmurderfuckoff9376 programmers and engineers aren’t really considered artists by the masses tho 😅
This is literally
Polar and meka: We’re the first Virtual influencers to exists EVER!!
Vocaloid, vtubers, and literally every hologram and virtual concert: Allow us to introduce ourselves
(Mick Jagger voice)Please allow me to introduce myself.
you remember that hatsune miku pipebomb video? *_that pipe bomb was meant for meka_*
Are we not gonna mention UTAU?
As a Namine Ritsu Stan I feel offended
>vtubers
yeah no
@@ember9361 Breaking news: Vtubers have now spontaneously stopped existing. The reason for this seems to be tracked down to a youtube comment just saying "No" to the concept of vtubers
Yeah youre spot on with the minstrel nature of writing a rap then saying "hey black man recite this make us money" this is all sorts of fucked but I doubt anyone besides 10-11 yr old TikTok fans would give this staying power. It's just as corny as Zuckerberg's meta avatars
It always feel so fake because they try rap like the a big rapper not realising the rapper is just being themselves. Just feels like an imitation no substance
That's just the music industry in general, marketability is more important that talent. They've been doing it for white folks for a long ass time too.
I bet those 10-11 year old boys who see this on TikTok are going to think this is the coolest shit ever though. But you're right, it has no staying power; they're gonna age out of thinking this is cool, and this whole project will fade away.
I’m not sure if the rapper is even black tbh. Sounds more like six ix nine ine
@@atanvardecunambiel8917 6ix9nine is black. He's literally mix
I don't understand how these "virtual artists" and metaverse stuff have SO MANY INTERACTIONS. It's absolutely believable that it exists bc the internet has some wild corners, but I can't wrap my head around the fact that MILLIONS of people watch these things and enjoy them. It feels dystopian somehow
Tbh I feel like the majority are botted bc followers (edit: and views) are imo the easiest to fake. While theres ways to fake engagement its at least. not as easy to pass off compared to just plain follower counts (disregarding the quality of follows)
That and views are easiest to automate (though to be fair i havent had scripts do stuff like that)
@@pknerdchimera totally, no way those are organic follows or views
virtual artists are cool, the metaverse isn't.
It's 100% bots. Like the vast, vast majority. It's so easy to buy views, followers, literally anything so robots enjoy other robots content
@@sophitiaofhyrule So True
metaverse: we'll make a potientially cool concept in the most soulless way imaginable
The more I'm hearing about FN Meka, the more it sounds like it's a Gorillaz/VTuber type thing -- there's a real life person singing and doing the mo-cap, but they're acting like they're a virtual character as part of the gimmick. Still on the fence about whether or not FN Meka's lyrics were AI generated (then sung by a human being), but I think that's beside the point. The "virtual rapper" is just a stand-in for a real person. There's nothing new or unique about that, and it kinda frustrates me that they're acting like it's some crazy breakthrough.
I think it's much more likely that FN Meka is created by a team who are paid almost nothing and given few resources. They are relying on the "novelty" as you said of how "new" this idea is. They are not concerned if the animation or music are good.
Yea but also gorillaz has lore and a storyline and a whole reason to be “virtual”. However, this almost just feels like some type of gimmick to popularize the metaverse.
@@Talyuhhh Agreed. As a group Gorillaz has far more depth, sound variety and likeability. FN Meka feels like a terrible knock off brand.
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@@panicark148 I agree
This AI flexing a Tesla truck is like me photoshopping myself next to six private jets and going "look at how many jets I have, and I earned them all"
Yeah, this couldn’t possibly suck worse:
- First and foremost, racism
- “Esports”
- “Metaverse”
- NFTs
- Every moonbro buzzword imaginable
- Focusing on cheap gimmicks instead of the art
Wacism, but not when black ppl use the word, right. That's a metaphor for everything
@@Anonymous38572 you can call me a “Dago” to my face and see what happens, but I wouldn’t recommend it…
@@fancydan1262 ...based on your pfp I'd say nothing will happen.
Ohh no waycism! Poor black people ): they just can't catch a break.
@@pavolpatriot your username says a lot
Vocaloid stans, vtuber simps, K/DA stans, Gorillaz fans, Squid sisters fans: Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
All of the splatoon idol 🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾
you forgot about the most important one, your favorite martian 😫
@@formykalormie you cant forget them
Hell if you wanna go back even further, the archies had a hit song in the SIXTIES
why specifically the squid sisters
"I'm seeing a lot of not black people" I almost choked on my cookie, idk why that made me laugh so hard LMAO
Your watching gold
Like a BLM protest
@@cimo8daimao13 DAMN that one made me choke on my coffee LMAO
The data that the ai is using to make music is by black artists.
@@Sam-eu9go yeah sure but that’s only really cool if the person voicing him is black which I don’t know if they still are and there aren’t any concrete answers on whether or not he is powered by AI, the lyrics are generated by AI but it’s never been specified if the ai is the same they claim he’s powered by
My biggest issue is how they ALWAYS try and make the ai "relatable" by talking about how they're not accepted, acting like they're real. League did the same shit with Seraphine, and it was universally disliked.
making ai "relatable" gives into the uncanny effect
The thing that makes these ‘ai virtual characters’ different from vocaloids is that it’s clearly a real person singing (not very well might I add) part of what’s so cool about vocaloids being virtual artists is that the computer program itself can sing. It’s super impressive and has a cool effect. Then with gorillaz you have a much more artistic approach with Jamie Hewlet drawing and animating the characters and Damon Albarn making the music. There’s really nothing remarkable about these characters
a note, though, is that most developed voicebanks still have a human touch because of voice providers, but the samples as the voicebank are transformative enough to be a new character/artist :)
they just made worse vtubers
True, and Studio Killers and League of Legends artists are also good examples of virtual music groups done right.
@@JoppingBen10Fan dont forget yfm, its run by 2 people yet have 4 members and a large fanbase
@@sberky98 they do not deserve credit
Calling it a “virtual rapper powered by AI” is the same as saying *house powered by hammer.*
lmao underrated comment
AI my ass. It's like someone playing with a puppet and calling it AI
PFFT-
Rofl! 😂
to be fair most virtual artists aren’t ai based at ALL (vocaloid is a voice mixing software, gorillaz is an animated band with real human vocals, etc)
being called premium by jarvis is literally the highlight of my day
True though
thats what you get for being a premium member of jarvis johnson GOLD!
My dopamine hit for the week undoubtedly.
Same. It is free. It is-it is free
SAME! :)
8:05 As a fan of King of the Hill, I’m appalled at the fact a cringe metaverse rapper said this line. Cringe AI rappers should never use the great show in vain.
i've heard koth really is one of the best shows out there
@@violetbackedstarling no jokes, full honesty, it is a great show. i cant say its "one of the best" (cause idc to rate things that way) but i watched it as a kid and genuinely enjoy seeing it still. that show has something in it others dont and idk what it is
@@violetbackedstarling they're wrong, but koth is such a good fucking show on its own
"Dang it bobby, I told you to stop being an AI powered rapper online"
“We invented the first ai influencer”
Hatsune Miku: 私はこの男の全キャリアを台無しにしようとしている
This comment is deeply underrated
This comment is gold.
@@alysandrajackson2083 I wholeheartedly agree.
My girl starting speaking Japanese.
stooooooop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Is weirdly racist" how I describe my family to friends
my family is just a casual racist
My family has been victim of racism
same
😉Bruh, we need a word for when someone is sideways racists. How can we address the issue without a term for it?
@@evanjuleen ^^ spread the word we need to raise awareness
6:28 physically cannot get over the fact that the clip of him "producing" is him sliding random things around and then putting them back exactly where they were. that shit is so funny
As a music producer, I can confirm this is what I do for a living
WHAHWHWHAHWJSBS HE LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE KID SEEING THIS THING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER HELP ME hes like “woah i wonder what this does!!!” and doesn’t even question why it doesn’t do anything at all, like a younger sibling playing mario kart with you on a controller that isn’t even on
Dude that Tate impression was spot ON
The thing is that these virtual artists aren't just trying to capitalize on Hatsune Miku, I think they're also trying to capitalize on Vtubers. The difference between what they're doing and why Hatsune Miku and Vtubers are so popular is because with the latter, everyone is perfectly aware that there are humans behind it, and it's not something they're trying to hide lol, and yet, the "virtual" aspect is still a selling point.
Hatsune Miku is not really her own person or anything like that, she is a voice synthesizer, and the appeal has been that vocaloid producers "bring her to life" with their songs. That has been a huge marketing point for vocaloid since the community came into existence, I think.
It also has to do with the fact that people like personifying technology. I just wrote about this for school lol, but there was actually a study done about people who own roombas and many of them acted like their roombas had human-like qualities, and some were so attached they even considered them to be on the level of a pet or family member. This information also served as the basis for stuff like Siri and Cortana's personalities. So of course, it works even better with vocaloid because people directly contribute to it and project onto.
And as for Vtubers, it's a little different... when Kizuna AI says that she's an AI trying to learn about human culture through content creation, we all know that's just a gimmick, and that's why it's fun. The fact that anything is possible in Vtuber lore, but it's still a regular person making normal, relatable content is a huge part of the appeal. It's just fun to pretend it's real for a bit. I once heard someone compare it to a play, where everyone is going along with the illusion for the performance. Virtual artists like FN Meka and Polar don't have that and so they feel manufactured and uncreative and immediately fail.
just made a comment saying p much the exact same thing, scrolled down, you worded yours much better than i did and far more articulately
yes
VTubers and Pngtubers were a mistake
@@fbimom4205 debatable
@@fbimom4205I like vtubers but pngtubers are ok
Insane how people can just say "an ai did it" and none of these major news organisations have any follow up questions.
Ah yes, the secret to good journalism: take everything at face value
They probably don't want to be the ones to point out that they're interviewing white guys who created a song full of the n-word 💀
Him always moonwalking means that they don’t have to get the walk cycles right. A hard part of animation is making the feet realistically stick to the ground as you move about. By saying he is moonwalking everywhere they fix this problem. This is also why roller skates/blades are so popular in cheap anime as well.
He's just a big fan of Twinkle Nora Rock Me
Duuuuude that makes so much sense
You'd think a corporation with corporation money could swing a walk cycle, but I guess that just shows how low-effort this is
He's just like Mike Eel JakeSon frfr
@@1WEareBUFO1 Found the Kenny Lauderdale subscriber
Imagine flexing on how you ride fancy vehicles when the vehicles *physically don't exist and neither do you.*
Jealous about not physically existing much?
Its honestly hilarious how these companies DON'T know that vocaloids and Gorillaz exists💀
Gorillaz is an actual band. thats like saying daft punk is the same
@@RusticRonnieare they not portrayed as cartoon characters though? real people make and sing the music, sure. but the band is portrayed as cartoon characters right?
@@RusticRonnievocaloid also has actual artists tho..
@@RusticRonniedid you.. watch the video? The music and lyrics are written and produced by real people. Real performers sing/rap “as” him. They basically use the minimalist amount of AI in order to legally claim it as AI, but it is real music produced by real people with an animated character to be the ‘face’ of the music and bring something of interest. It’s much easier to get an ‘AI’ robot to produce a bunch of content than real people so it absolutely makes sense. There’s a lot of talent behind it (as Jarvis often mentioned) but the people who’ve created and manage it are def being misleading in their advertising of this character, and trying to claim it as this new, unheard of thing. When in reality there are multiple ‘bands’ and artists that have been doing this much more creatively, artistically and successfully for many years
This is why NFTbros are a plague to art and literally everything they touch. They're acting like they invented this concept as if Vocaloids never existed. Even if they did pretend that Japan doesn't exist (why not, they're already racist) there's already so many more examples out there of more interesting, better crafted, and more widely enjoyed "digital" musicians that have made global hits DECADES before these fools.
Its kind of depressing actually, it makes the creators of this "rapper" look kind of pathetic. Like they feel they have to rely on hype over substance. Its so uncool its sad.
Thanks for taking the time to look into this Jarvis, this information was awful but your commentary helped me get through it.
What do you expect from people who are literlay only in it for the money
Wait, NFTbros created this? Damn, guess Hatsune Miku, Gorillaz and YFM don't exist..
@@GumSkyloard explains why it looks so bad from an art perspective.
@@j.r.765 It's soulless. When it comes to actual art, there's usually soul and passion put into crafting it; something NFTs completely lack because 9 times out of 10, they're made by some randomly-generated AI bullshit. It's the same principle that applies to the comic book bubble of the 90s where dipshit investors thought all they had to do was buy multiple variants of covers and they'd appreciate in value... and they never fucking did.
It's also a huge part of why nobody fucking likes tech bros; they take age old ideas and think they can sucker people into investing and/or getting hyped into it by slapping some fucking gamer lights on it and calling it a day, even though most of the time the ideas are literally a hundred years old and it never took off for a fucking reason.
@@GumSkyloard Gorillaz aren’t vocaloids
What I dont understand is why virtual musicians/influencers still look like humans, like them being virtual gives you all the possibilities in the world, yet they still make them look like people. I probably wouldn’t be interested enough to listen to music by a human virtual rapper, but rap music by an ominous biblically accurate angel? Hell yeah.
Hell yeah biblically accurate rapper
"is this what being white is like"
I can't believe how that caught me off guard and led me to laugh
In the 90s, a comic book artist and a musician created a fake band to satirize the manufactured personalities of pop stars, it’s 2022 and record labels are doing the same thing but without any hint of irony or social commentary. They took the creativity and ingenuity that made the Gorillaz so special and replaced it brand appeal. It hurts me that I’ve lived to see the day were an concept as cynical and vapid as Meka can find success in the music industry.
Naw, im happy he said the N word and the black community clapped him! Bye bye to that trash, let actual artist perform, and let Gorillaz reign SUPREME!!!
i wouldn’t say he’s found success lol i’m pretty sure he’s going to be almost universally hated
AI or not, he’s literally just not a robot. He’s on screens, nothing more. If he was an actual real life robot controlled by AI? That’d be pretty fuckin sick but this is just a downright lie
exactly, he’s just a 3-D model you added a voice to. he’s not “ai powered”, hes a snapchat filter
What really confuses me about this whole thing is, why bother advertising it as an AI? Instead of working your ass off to make it technically fit into that category, just advertise him as an animated musician. That’s a thing that’s been done to great success before. The Gorillas, Hatsune Miku, that sort of thing. This is just combining animated musicians and VTubers. You don’t have to try and spin it as some AI thing.
they dont want to actually put the passion that that kind of thing requires into the work. making good vocaloid music requires passion, and the gorillaz are real musicians who have made amazing art. they want to throw a 3d model over some low quality music and expect it to do as well as miku, when miku is popular because of the passion behind the vocaloid users.
The entire basis for it is market research. Like a word cloud of what's "popular" shoved into a single package. It's the virtual equivalent of an industry plant.
Yeah but then they'd no longer be "Pioneers" and "Innovative" and "The FUTURE"
Why u getting so mad over an ai 💀
@@poisonmantis4191 the only reason miku so popular cus it's anime girl 😂
Jarvis saying the n-word is uncanny. Man's too wholesome for it to feel normal.
Nah fr like I was only half paying attention and was just like "HUH!?" when I heard it lmao
As someone who's been learning blender for awhile, I definitely agree with Jarvis that the tiktoks are visually impressive but unfortunately feel somewhat souless
Impressive? Bro this stuff was made on blender
@@Duckbusinessmanand a lot of 3D art on blender is very impressive lol, big companies have used blender before and it looks amzing
@@Duckbusinessman And Blender is an extremely good program for 3D modelling and rendering. I honestly don't get where you are even coming from with your idea that Blender is somehow inferior, because every person I know considers Blender the best program for doing that. Just because it's a free program that anyone can use doesn't mean that it's easy to use, or "unimpressive". And it gets even more complicated once you are no longer just working in Blender, but also with real life video footage. Point being, what are you on about?
@@Ze_eT my point being, I’ve used just about every modeling software even the bad ones. I admit. Blender is still my favorite. But that’s due to simplicity of it and overall charm. (And it’s free) but the truth is, other software can do things blender can, but better and faster.
I’ve literally been in animation schools. Sure, blender would’ve been a nice option. But there’s a reason it wasn’t.
These digital guys should probably realize that they are digital beings and don't require modes of transportation. You move effectively at the speed of light bro.
what about when the wifi slow
Yeah it would save a lot of money on virtual cybertrucks
Lol, Just turn off their WiFi and they effectively "die."
Dino! Big fan!!
POW 🏗
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oh my god, as someone who literally is a digital musician, this is starting to get actually ridiculous holy shit
OMG ITS YOU !!! (love your stuff
@@smallheinz not even that, I’m referring more to vtubers!
oh shit hey!
omg hey 😳
but no fr it’s really ridiculous. like i’m tired of these “AI influencers” bruh 💀
didn’t expect to see you here, but yeah. pretty weird
I think the real reason for the royalty free music is that AI cannot legally own copyright. If they want to publish an original song with Only FN Meka's name on it, it'd be pretty difficult to determine who's got copyright over the song because so many people worked on it and there's not one big name behind it.
calling him an AI robot is hilarious...like, he's nor one or the other😭 he's not artificial intelligence because there's obviously people behind him, and he's not even a physical robot lmaoo
Apperently the songs are written by ai and performed by a black man idk tho
@@shpoggytv6596 then it's probably the AI at fault for making them sound awful😭
Periodt
@@shpoggytv6596for real????? have the kurtis conner ai-writing-videos really taught us nothing…
as someone who really loves robots this pisses me off
I love that Jarvis actually Knows Things about tech so he can properly rip apart why these kinds of things are bullshit. puttin that degree to good use
That’s all a college degree is good for these days loln
Well I guess he wasting it because meka is by definition a robot (a machine designed to do a task) whose lyrics are ai generated the only thing that isn't mentioned is that he is virtual Jarvis ignored that because it would nullify his argument that meka isnt a rapper or a robot that sings ai generated lyrics
@@snailsaredumb9412 ‘written by an ai’ like one of those websites that existed for years that write song lyrics for you, that might as well be called ai too since it’s higher quality than this. And even if it is ai generated, whos’ ai? I’m sure as hell these guys did not develop an ai for this soooo they probably owe Google some royalties for writing the songs if they didn’t do it themselves
@@pete5516 thats a non argument. ai is ai IS AI. The fact is that an animated robot is singing ai generated lyrics, that is all I mentioned
@@snailsaredumb9412 yeah I agree if that is true, but it’s pretty hard to prove that’s actually what happened no?
I can't believe they don't even make these influencers look good or interesting in any way
make them actually enjoyable to look at, take advantage of them being digital and just give them a cool artstyle. instead they just look like the least inspired claymation I've ever seen
Ironically if they looked like actual proper claymation that'd probably be cool
@@gilbertbeilschmidt4129 TRUE gimme the claymation influencers, I'd love that shit
I think they look like wall advertisements you walk by in a dirty urban landscape. It's this grimy, corporate aesthetic that takes real talent to produce... but isn't made to convey artistic value. It's made to convey monetary value.
tl;dr Capitalism. It's the capitalism aesthetic. lol
They’re trying to appeal to kids
@@LilyCelebiFlipnote it’s called bad cyber punk
"I don't know how I feel about the robot saying the n-word" is such a wild sentence. What timeline are we in?
its so annoying hearing people call something a "virtual singer" when everything about it is human except just the visuals. like its literally just the same thing as The Masked Singer ☠
not the masked singer LMFAO
It’s more like that one masked singer like show where they have people sing behind the ugliest vtuber models, I forgot what it was called.
It's like saying Elsa from Frozen is a virtual singer. Like... No...?
I’m curious, what would you call it than? People call VTuber, VTubers, if you use a virtual avatar your consider virtual.
@@annamelvina216 well Elsa is a character from a movie so, no one would consider her as a virtual singer, but if she was signed to a label, than yeah I think people would consider her a virtual singer.
I can tell you that the 'fanart' he was showing off was probably commissioned from an underpaid artist.
Bro I’m a rapper I swear I’m super super famous give me free art and I’ll repay you in influence :)
@@LittleIcarus i hope this is sarcasm lol. Cause otherwise you look dumb. You claim you're an artist but have zero videos or socials with any music on them.
It was definitely from one of those “Anime yourself” companies that trace over other people’s art
Deep take, thank you. Totally believe you.
unpaid* tiktok has a history of users doing that "like, hey if they post it it's f r e e" stupidity
The robot thing makes sense...it means they can have some “hardware” that half obscures his mouth/jaw, and that way they don’t have to animate it 😁
But not virtually. A virtual robot is either redundant or counterintuitive as Jarvis was fuming over lol it’s like, virtual object are digitally encoded objects by default. So, non-physical …physical hardware is just a goofy ah sentence 😫😂💀
@@overanalyzing I mean to be fair being a robot or an ai is pretty common from vtuber point of view
@@Bradyboy26 characteristically absolutely. Ai and vtubers are programs nonetheless so that’d be fair to say. Only thing is there’s no indication of physical properties so still doesn’t meet the robotic requirements just quite. Even if they do a live performance it’s not until they meet the physical properties requirements that they are transcended beyond virtual capabilities. I.e. mechatronics, sentient beings, dedicated robots, electrically engineered performers etc
@@overanalyzing Well I mean, Wall-E is a virtual robot... I read it like that
@@MrRedstoneready ah I see. Fair enough. Then again he’s a virtual representation of a robot (like virtually depicting robotic characteristics and qualities). Ig, is that really a true robot? Like is my reflection truly me? Now we’re getting a bit existential Lmaoo but yeah I get ya
absolutely loving jarvis starting to accessorize more, it looks really good
Gorillaz has been around for a good chunk of years, since '98, as a virtual band with normal human voices, and Hatsune Miku and other vocaloid artists have been around for well over a decade also, so it's just ridiculous for these people (even moreso the polar team) to act like they're doing something groundbreaking when they're actually extremely late to the game and doing it much worse than p much all the predecessors just to use as a cash grab.
they just put out that song 'Cracker Island' and i think maybe it sums up this situation here somewhat well...
That is NOT the same they were a actual band with real humans and real talent and artistry! The lyrics and persona of this FN Meka we're AI generated.... they're trying to get rid of artist. Yes he has a human voice for NOWWWW 🙄 but how for how long until they do away with that??
@@OhNoBohNo Who?
@@LakeofCrystalclan Gorillaz
@@aderam648 FN Meka was not AI generated lol
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I wanna talk about how these metaverse "idols" are quick to lose attention. There are many virtual/animated bands and idols out there, all formed in different years with different styles, and yet they all have dedicated followings. Why? Because these bands and idols have something the metaverse can't achieve: CHARM.
Look at any virtual idol or band out there: Hatsune Miku, Gorillaz, K/DA, Studio Killers. Even obscure bands like Prozzäk and Vbirds and extremely old bands like Alvin And The Chipmunks and The Archies all have something that make them stand out from each other even if the music isn't all that special. Even Kizuna Ai, an idol who was originally a vtuber, managed to do that and inspired other vtubers to follow her lead and make music for their fans.
The metaverse idols aren't interesting in design (which are mostly unappealing) or in music or even in personality. They can't build followings because everything has been botted for them. They try to be "innovative" when really these concepts were done years ago and way better. They don't have charm as a result of being an obvious industry plant and are quickly forgotten as they are humiliated for years...As they should be.
Miku alr tho
I 100% thought of Gorillaz in this video and how it's just a worse version of them.
😭😭bro said alvin and the Chipmunks
@@zackattack9228 They were the first animated band to exist. I wish they weren't but they just are.
@@zackattack9228 best band ever bro on god
18:18 Literally they’re just splicing together tons of tiny trends, wrap it up in some pretty 3D art, sprinkling a slur in here and there and selling it to kids over tik tok 😂
All of these virtual influencers and "musicians" feel so corporate and lifeless. As you said, it really just feels like they're taking a bunch of shit that's popular/cool and make something based off that, but there's absolutely zero heart or passion in it. The goal is literally just to make money, and it shows. I understand that the music business as a whole has been extremely manufactured for a long time now, but this is just so so so much worse.
Also, as an artist and robot enthusiast: what a bunch of cowards. They're making a robot character, but they make him look fully human except for his weird jaw thing. Like, that's so lame... bad and unappealing character design, 0/10
Yeah, it feels like they just wanted an excuse to not animate the jaw lol
How is a real life rapper like gunna only brag rapping about fashion brands and expensive cars less corporate and lifeless?
dude ANOTHER dollar tree vocaloid ripoff??? THAT IS ALSO RACIST?!!?
Also, don't buy cyber songman from shein‼️‼️‼️
whar
Strings are being pulled here. The massive amount of followers, the high profile collabs, it’s obvious this is the music industry giants prodding a new area of music
100%
“””new””” area of music
The could've watched any anime and copy/pasted idols and would've still been cooler.
An ai getting a record label is a slap in the face as a musician.
We legit had songs from a virtual bands go viral on TikTok before(Studio Killers, Savlonic, Gorillaz), I don't get how this is still such a novelty
And they’re infinitely better
“Is this what being white is like??”
Best Jarvis quote, possibly ever
Greeks are white
Imagine being black in the 50s. That’s what being white is like in 2022.
Black is White
And they had a socially accepted practice of sleeping with boys…
is not happy that some vr rapper said the N word proceeds too be racest himself
I can’t believe companies would rather code a racially ambiguous virtual rapper than just prop up a real life black person
Just another way for them to erase the original face of rap
the whole idea was to create an AI that raps, ie not a human...this would literally go against the goal they had in mind 😅
@@MrZip420 but they didn't create an ai, either. no way fn meka actually has artificial intelligence, and isn't just primarily scripted, animated, and voiced by others.
You can't believe that? It's completely within the realm of shit they would do
@@keona5560 would cost way too much money for them
0:04 GOOOLD!
They should have just made an utau. Like have the actual singer record the voice clips and have the design based off of the rapper himself. Utuas and vocaloids are kinda marketed as robot/ ai characters already so it’s perfect. Oh also get rid of the nfts and racism and junk
A utau?
@@jaimayy "Utau" is a subset of the Vocaloid community. (Vocaloid with Hatsune Miku as a singer for example) People can make Vocaloids/Utauloids of their own voice and use that to sing their songs/covers.
(I hope that was helpful in any way)
@@jaimayy Sort of like VOCALOID, but unlike it, people can make their own voicebanks in UTAU to use to sing songs whereas with VOCALOID, the community does not have that option.
Plus it costs nothing to make an Utau
Utau is also free to download and open source
It's like they looked at Gorillaz, Vocaloids and VTubers and said “how can we make something underwhelmingly worse and unimpressive?”
All they did did was make a generic video game character and mislabel it as AI even though there's nothing about it that seems remotely AI-like, because less face it, those lyrics were so bad that they could have ONLY been written by a human.
Gorillaz's new album is really good, btw- Like, just, maybe just everyone check out that instead? =_=
this is literally a Snapchat filter with a voice gimmick, why are people treating it as if it’s revolutionary or groundbreaking
Even Nintendo pulled off virtual concerts before this dude.
@@OhNoBohNo Huh gorillaz new album? All I'm finding is 3 song EP's etc. What new album and when was it released?
@@OhNoBohNo Song machine 1, 2 and 3??
Every time I hear a crypto/NFT bro talk about “blurring lines between the physical and virtual worlds” or whatever their bullshit line is it makes me want to jump out a window
hatsune miku did that well over ten years ago, makes it even more obvious they're trying to plagiarise her
unironically sounds like a quote from Sword Art Online and that is not a good thing
that tupac hologram's rolling in his iGrave 😭😭
It’s a shame that Zero from Steam Powered Giraffe is already a really cool robot character, designed and portrayed by a black man with a gorgeous voice, and actually songs - and a character like this gets way more attention. Different musical genres, but as a band made up of robot themed characters who has been around for at least a decade, it seems to me like anyone making a robot musician character should really take notes from them.
steam powered giraffe is underrated tbh
i almost died when jarvis said “is this what being white is like?” after the kid just pushed up some faders, because yes, i’ve been in almost that exact situation. i used to want to be a music producer and my highschool had an internship program, i interned at a small music school with about 25-30 kids, it was the end of the year and they were all creating their end of the year projects and they literally told me to play with the faders and everyone was like DUDE YOU JUST PRODUCED A SONG and they told me to bring the song back for my presentation on how my internship went and tell everyone i produced it
im sorry thats so funny 💀
pls😂
As a super amateur hobbyist music producer myself this reminded me of when someone on tik tok found the EQ in their phone settings, played around with them while a song was playing and everyone was like "YOOOO THATS MAGIC" 💀
@@vglycorpse2001tf is an EQ, dawg?
@@an0rmalp3rson70equalizer i think
I couldn't believe that NFTs would get worse, but here they are, ruining rap and everything else I enjoy. They better stay the hell away from video games.. I will cry.
Sorry to break it to you man but there's tons of NFT and crypto/blockchain-powered games out there. A well-known one is Axie Infinity which briefly was making headlines because players in the Philipines could make minimum wage playing it. Of course, it has since crashed and now the trade value of the tokens associated with the game is well below 1 cent and certainly isn't possible to be a job anymore.
Actually there going to be “NFT” “game” “soon” but most i seen are usually scams and they made genre they called “play to earn” so yeah coming to gaming soon
As a consolation, they are not ruining the creation of rap and video games etc, these sorts of corporate products will always be inauthentic and shallow. In short, they're really bad and will only gain fame among people who already like nfts
Sorry man poppy playtime already did it :(
@@northstarjakobs no..
NOO... NOO[OOOOOOOOO
"We got the AI robot influencer doing fuckin thirst traps"
None of those words are in the bible
"I am THE Lord" see, one of them is
The “is this what being white is like” is the funniest thing Jarvis has ever said😂
That was brilliant 😂
@@theautisticacademic5927 some would even say it was
!!
I was dying at that line!
Agreed lmao. And yeah. It's EXACTLY what being a white kid is like 💀
“Pretend you did something”
As someone who actually produces and engineers music, seeing Clix fake it in the studio annoys the shit outta me.
You're telling me you don't get paid to wiggle a single one of those slider things all day? :p
That's NOT how you make music? I sit at the computer for 6 hours straight turning the reverb up and down, pressing random shit on an equalizer, and wiggling the volume slider back and forth, and it creates an entire song and I don't even have to do any of the work! Technology truly is incredible!
I want to emphasize that Meka isn't special just because he can rap. If you take the time, any vocaloid, utau, or synth v voice bank can rap. It just takes time to tune it.
it's a human voice actor so it's not impressive at all actually
8:11 THIS. idk what it is about it but it literally does activate the red “uh oh” flag in my brain…… as jarvis said, usually it just doesn’t even register (as in, when NORMAL rappers who are REAL PEOPLE say it) but this feels like it’s staring me intently in the eyes… maybe it’s the awkward unnatural-ness of the lyrics and the… everything else… but like fr it’s like a minesweeper flag goes up lmao
I like how the company behind this likes to pretend that vocaloids havent existed since 2004 (even before that they were in develpoment) and that anybody cant just make a character model and call it a AI generated character.. also I would like to point out that vocaloids are able to rap too, with ACTUAL AI GENERATED VOCALS. Kinda sad how they make this seem like a new thing, they know for a fact the vocaloid fandom has not been active (not since project sekai at least) so to take advantage of the people who think this is groundbreaking and profit off of this is pretty funny to me. I would also like to say that you can easily purchase a vocaloid, make your own music, and not have to listen to '' an AI generated robot rapper" for his n-word pass and strange animation.
credits to this company for trying tho
Despite Vocaloids being able to rap and only a few people who are able to make them rap proficiently, vocarap isn't done as much; mostly due to vocal synths being able to sing and not so much rap, and a lot of vocaproducers don't focus on rap (especially English rap). But also, there is a V5 tutorial on making mumble rap, so I believe V5 is marketed towards a very different audience but at the same time, not marketed much.
African Americans are responsible for a lot of music we listen to today. Imo, the vocaloid/vocal synth community needs more English rap. We don't want this Polar and FNMeka shit.
hol 'up not ai generated, he's powered by ai which in term means he's powered by knowledge somehow lmao I'm not even gonna pretend I can comprehend how that would work I'd need a gpa of 5 and a group of the best scientist to figure that out but that's a story for another time
As someone in the Vocaloid fandom, it's far from dead. Sure, a lot of people have moved on to Project Sekai or other vocal synth softwares like Synth V and Cevio, but we're still kicking lol
@@ikeasotbarnslig5228 its not particualry far from dead, but what I mean to say is more often a younger audience (like teenagers) are intrested in vocaloid (or sum like that)
@@ikeasotbarnslig5228 also i am aware of the vocaloid fandoms status because i am in fact a very big fan, i just chose the wrong wording
There are so many independent artist who create 3D characters with way more depth than something these labels can create
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You can't just drop an immaculate, perfectly replicated Andrew Tate impression on me out of nowhere.
How on earth do these people expect me to believe these things are “AI artists”?? It’s just straight up an animation created by humans voiced by other humans?? They need to stop acting like it’s some ground breaking work when people in Japan have been doing more in depth and creative “virtual artists”
Animation created by humans voiced by other humans works perfectly fine, if the people who make it give a sh*t.
See: Studio Killers, Gorillaz.
It's very disheartening seeing even ai
Being racist, not making me very excited for the future
I choose to believe that racists and crypto-bros are in the minority
To be fair it’s 100% not an ai, just a person behind a 3D model! But yeah also ai is as racist as the person programming it :(
@@kells4315 AI doesn't quite work that way, it's as racist as you _teach_ it, it'd be pretty tricky to _program_ it to be racist.
I do a lot of work with AI in my work. Basically the only reason why ai is racist is because of the fact that the majority of people in western countries are white/Hispanic. Asians and blacks are significant minorities, meaning that there’s naturally less data to feed, and it’s much harder to feed that data in. This is talking about facial recognition though. Otherwise AI isn’t really anymore racist than the sources it learns from. That’s the reason why Facebooks bot said crazy shit, because people fed it racist junk. In other words the only solution is either A) control the inputs with human intervention (which is what I do) or B) spend a boat load of money developing the inputs yourself and get things from all over the world. You don’t need to be scared of robot racism really. Neural networks are still evolving and we don’t even understand WHY they’re so effective yet. One day we’ll solve all these problems
it's not AI
Miku is like "yeah I'm a program and I'm slowly being corrupted and being deleted, but that's alright" while these metasingers keep whining about not being real people
Miku is a real G, who’s comfortable in her own programming. What a legend.
@@aquaabouttogetfunky we love her
MIku has songs like Disappearance of Miku, Intense Voice of Miku, Glass Wall, and Digital Girl and now corporate virtual people be like
@@chaotickreg7024 no one asked, they’re using Miku as an example cause she more well known
@@chaotickreg7024 ah, my bad. Thought you just slotting your opinion in where it wasn’t really necessary, sorry about that
Hi. Here's a lil tip to all these people tryna create a virtual influencer:
Don't just post their music online, post their thoughts as well.
No real influencer would just post their music. They'll have thoughts.
These are some of the most blatant industry plants since the “Tramp Stamps”
Oh god you're right
At least Tramp Stamps is a fun name, meka has nothing
At least Tramp Stamps actually was revolutionary to internet history and Tumblr’s beautiful renaissance of non-corporatism, this is just sad
Not me thinking you were talking about the lower back tattoos
Kid laroi, Billie eilish bunch of these “Lil insert rapper name here” are all plants, the industry is absolutely rife with them. Because it’s much easier to prop up a manufactured one where they get most of the control, than actually having to get someone talented to sign a deal, as most nowadays know how bad record deals are, tho they are a route to quick fame. It’s a common place in the industry now, and this was just another attempt.
You're Andy Taint impression was so good it made me wanna cover my drink
Andy taint.. what
@@ArvoHentschel i mean, he did taint the internet with his presence.
There is something surreal to me about an influencer born in 2005. I was also born in the 2000 and I still go "That's a child" every single time.
I was born in 1994 and I still get called a child even though I’m almost 30🫠
Technically they are, I was born in 2005 and I’m almost 17 which still is a minor
as somone born in 05 we really are just children lol
same dude same. once you turn like 20 anyone under 18 seems so naive and childish. Its not even a big gap in age but maybe its a gap in life experience.
@@disgust4941 fr like i was born in 2005 (17 yrs old rn) and i always get confused when i see ppl my age in more adult-like positions cause i still feel like a kid but maybe thats just me lol
17:09 Absolutely disgusting
Dude, that Andrew Tate impression was scarily accurate.
frr
i was looking for this comment 😭
i feel like at this point they are just using the word “ai” to gain traction and as a trend. polar and this dude aren’t actual ai, they are just 3d models with voice actors that they create a stupid backstory for. they aren’t actually computer programs they just wanna jump in the digital trend
They can't even bank on people who relate to buy into their garbage
Nobody with money to purchase their junk would happen to be AI people.
This!
Using the term "Based" on AI is a way of having wiggle room, like those wildly inaccurate movies that say "based on real events"
3:10 wtf is that bugatti just flat blue…… kinda plane if you ask me……
Insane pun that i didn’t see coming at all