>>3761166>Vocaloid and similar virtual idols are nowhere as popular as they were 10-20 years agoWrong. The number of newly released songs since 2020 has never been this high, Google Trends shows interest in Hatsune Miku has grown in the past 5 years and is at the same level of 2010-2012, there are Vocaloid songs on youtube regularly getting tens of millions of views niow when in the past they'd struggle to break 1 million, Project Sekai is the 5th most tweeted about game in 2022 and consistently in the highest grossing apps list. The vtubers you mention also regularly make song covers of famous recent Vocaloid songs.
