---
title: "Meet the Virtual, Anime Camgirl the Internet’s Most Toxic Men Are Obsessed With"
description: "A virtual anime stripper, Projekt Melody, has taken the internet by storm. It's also piqued the interest of virulently-misogynist incels."
date: "2020-02-19"
modified: "2020-02-19"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/virtual-anime-camgirl-internet-toxic"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "incels"
  - "projekt melody"
  - "sexuality"
  - "the digest"
---

# Meet the Virtual, Anime Camgirl the Internet’s Most Toxic Men Are Obsessed With

![A virtual anime stripper, Projekt Melody, has taken the internet by storm. It's also piqued the interest of virulently-misogynist incels.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/incels-obsessed-virtual-camgirl.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: DigitrevX\</em\>*

## Waifu Guys

Earlier this month, a virtual, anime-inspired avatar named Melody [started hosting](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgbz4/projekt-melody-hentai-anime-camgirl-chaturbate>) sexually explicit livestreams — a cartoony recreation of how many adult entertainers and sex workers make money online.

Since then, *[Wired](<https://www.wired.com/story/projekt-melody-anime-porn-stars/>)*[ reports](<https://www.wired.com/story/projekt-melody-anime-porn-stars/>) that Projekt Melody has amassed a following of nearly 20,000 horny fans on the adult streaming site Chaturbate and has an even bigger audience on social media. While some of those followers [may be horny in general](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/digisexuals-love-lust-robots>), Projekt Melody has attracted some unsavory corners of the internet — and the digital stripper's fans are posting hateful things about real live women in the meantime.

## Fedora Tipping

A significant chunk of the Projekt Melody is made up of incels: a virulently misogynistic subculture of men who believe that women owe them sexual favors as a birthright.

To that community, Projekt Melody is a glimpse of a techno-utopian future. It's one where [women are replaced](<https://futurism.com/digisexuals-tech-replacing-human-intimacy>) by digital entities existing explicitly and exclusively for their sexual pleasure. And now incels are taking to social media, *Wired* reports, to gleefully bash and harass women not as keen on that future.

## Private Room

While it's hard to imagine a future where digital avatars like Projekt Melody replace human sex workers, it's likely that Melody — and an inevitable slew of imitators — will become increasingly common in the future.

"She appeals to many different groups \[including\] online communities that politically lean right. Although that depiction might make one assume that her fans are all incels, that's not really true," a Projekt Melody subreddit moderator told Wired. "Yes, they make up a significant part of her fanbase."

**READ MORE:** [Do Fans of Cartoon Porn Stars Hate (Real) Women?](<https://www.wired.com/story/projekt-melody-anime-porn-stars/>) \[*Wired*\]

**More on digisexuals:** *[Sex Researchers: For Many, Virtual Lovers Will Replace Humans](<https://futurism.com/digisexuals-tech-replacing-human-intimacy>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)