While the entertainment industry keeps recycling the same reference points, something major has been happening online: streamers have quietly become the new cultural power brokers.
Before Hello Kitty, before Sanrio, before the $80 billion empire built on kindness and cuteness, there was a lonely boy named Shintaro Tsuji.
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