The year is 2021.
It had been about a year since singers who performed without revealing their faces began attracting popularity.
But that was only when they began gaining widespread popularity; internet singers with a similar vibe had existed for quite some time.
The popularity of Vocaloid culture through Vocaloid producers, and the success of utaite.
Yet that culture was still a major force within a minor scene.
No matter whether they racked up hundreds, thousands, or tens of millions of views, that culture never rose into the mainstream.
It was like TikTok failing to become mainstream even if every teenager in Korea used it.
But now, the generation that had enjoyed Vocaloid culture had reached its thirties and gained social influence and financial power.
The situation was gradually changing.
A comet-like newcomer utaite(?) had just racked up forty million music-video views in a single month...
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