Shudu is a harbinger of the future of modeling, a digitally created and enhanced supermodel created by Cameron-James Wilson. “Digital influencers” like Shudu are already clogging up Instagram and Snapchat, where kids these days can’t get enough of the more-human-than-human beauties.
Via Cosmopolitan:
Whether you’ve noticed it or not, computer-generated “digital influencers” have slowly been infiltrating your Instagram feed since April 2016, when Lil Miquela, a Brazilian-American “pop star” who wears Supreme and captions her images with social-justice hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, posted her first photo. She now has 1.3 million followers.
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