/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>13056317
Awww, now you're getting really adorable. Not only all of this has no bearing whatsoever on my other post, but the monkey is also starting to parrot word for word some banalities he read on someone's else "critics" corner, for lack of personal experience. Let me guess where you took it from... Japantimes? Here, have a peanut.

Let me tell you a secret: not only meet and greets are probably one of the most commonplace forms of celebrity PR ever in the world (even in the West where the "great alternative" is charging 200 to 300 bucks per entrance tickets, see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2162298/Celebrities-charging-fans-meet-It-s-pure-greed.html)), but it's always been there.
In the case of idol groups, for the last 30-something years they have been always held to celebrate the released of a new recording and they've always associated the entrance to these events with the proof of purchase of some fan goods. The practice dates far before "CD sales being in decline", so it's hardly a novel idea invented on the spot to cope with "these harsh times".
Here's Morning Musume circa 1997 for you, same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTi01Zj3aA

Side note: "moe" is a term I have never seen anyone use outside of a restrict niche of aniotas, you'd better save it for those time you circlejerk on /a/, if you want to be taken seriously.