Why do they call it "graduation"?

[Anonymous No.]

I know vtubers borrowed the term from the idol industry, but why does the idol industry use it? I can't think of any other profession that uses that sort of school analogy.

[Anonymous No.]

because idol agencies were originally for training up new TV celebs

they would 'graduate' from the agency and into the wider industry

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>>49875659
Graduation sounds better than we fired this bitch for getting old and ugly

[Anonymous No.]

jesus christ just go back man
you can literally google it and know the answer in 2 seconds
you need to create a thread for this? fucking newfags shitting up the board i swear

[Anonymous No.]

>>49875659
Because hololive is a like a big girls high school I think Miko explained it better than I could.

[Anonymous No.]

>>49875746
This, agencies are basically considered a way of training and evaluating idols to become full-fledged celebrities, like a school or college.

[Anonymous No.]

Cause in Japan if you get fired or quit your job it's basically a death sentence for future employment. There, I spoon fed you. Now lurk more and never make a thread again.

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>>49875890
>it's basically a death sentence for future employment

[Anonymous No.]

>>49875959
She had to join an American company, so yeah.

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>>49875659
well it's like this OP, i fucked your mom vs i had sex with your mother.

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>>49875804
>you need to create a thread for this?
Yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>49875659
Idols are supposed to emulate underaged, teenage girls.

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>>49876570
You'd be surprised, anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>49875659
>I know vtubers borrowed the term from the idol industry
It's been for a long time a Japanese way of saying that you quit doing something, it's not an idol term.
The same goes for "anti" which is just the Japanese word for "hater".

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>>49875659
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_idol#Retirement
>The term originated from the idol group Onyanko Club, as the group's youthful concept drew similarities to an after-school club, and the fact that Miharu Nakajima's final single before retirement was released around graduation season in Japan. Prior to the 1980s, the terms "retirement" and "disbandment" were used.

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>>49875761
can you imagine seething like that for just an image?
chinks are a different breed, a worse one at that.

[Anonymous No.]

No one in Hololive has graduated yet. Stop using this word. They have either been fired, let go or quit.

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>>49875659
They call it "graduation" because their uncle buys them a fancy analog watch with their school's logo on it that they will never wear.

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>>49875659
Because idols have an expiration date. They can't be idols forever just like you can't stay in school forever either, so you graduate. The idols work, learn, grow up and graduate. It implies they are a better person too.

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>>49875659
It all started a long time ago when a famous idol group used the concept of a school graduation ceremony to send off its retiring members.

Since then, the term "graduation" has come to describe the retirement of an idol.

[Anonymous No.]

Because they want you to think of their members as nubile young high school girls that you want to fuck