{"id":130772,"date":"2021-11-17T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-world-order-asias-virtual-influencers-offer-metaverse-glimpse"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:23:17","slug":"new-world-order-asias-virtual-influencers-offer-metaverse-glimpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-world-order-asias-virtual-influencers-offer-metaverse-glimpse","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New world order\u2019: Asia\u2019s virtual influencers offer metaverse glimpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-world-order-asias-virtual-influencers-offer-metaverse-glimpse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sporting neon hair and flawless skin, Bangkok Naughty Boo is one of a new generation of influencers in Asia promising to stay forever young, on-trend, and scandal-free \u2014 because they are computer generated.<\/p>\n<p>Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, these stars are hugely popular with teenagers in the region and will yield increasing power as interest grows in the \u201cmetaverse\u201d, industry experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 17 forever, non-binary, with a dream of becoming a pop star,\u201d Bangkok Naughty Boo \u2014 who uses they\/them pronouns \u2014 said in an introductory video sent to AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting neon hair and flawless skin, Bangkok Naughty Boo is one of a new generation of influencers in Asia promising to stay forever young, on-trend, and scandal-free \u2014 because they are computer generated. Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, these stars are hugely popular with teenagers in the region and will yield increasing power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}