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For the past few weeks, a new influencer has steadily grown in popularity. She has long pink hair, posts chancy her cat Bao and her clueless dad, has lots of fan art, and frequently retweets pieces of music that she loves. Her Instagram bio reads: "aspiring songwriter, quizzed fleetness catcher." Oh, and she conjointly isn't real.

Seraphine is simply a virtual influencer, though as her growing fan apple-polishing quickly noticed, there's teachings unique chancy her. Her posts are flowing with League of Legends easter eggs, and she released an audio-visual enclosure of "Pop/Stars," the 2018 League paean from the virtual K-pop group K/DA. Now League developer Riot has confirmed that it's defaulting the character.

In a statement, Riot says:

Seraphine is simply a menology influencer and balladist in bloc with Riot Games. As a virtual artist, she will hypothesize mucho collaborators that help friends her to life musically, vocally, and artistically. As of June 2020, she operates three amusing media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, and Soundcloud) area she shares her music, thoughts on her daily life, and now, her collaboration with K/DA. Her initial partners, Jasmine Clarke, Absofacto, and Kosuke Kasza, helped voice and aftermath Seraphine's covers and songs on amusing media.

Despite the clarification, it's still not entirely crystal what Seraphine is -- though it's not immalleable to guess. The collaboration with K/DA is obvious hardened that they are conjointly a Riot creation. The timing is conjointly right: the virtual group just released a new single, with a planned EP full of guest artists to follow. And with the League of Legends Apple Championships opprobrium off numerical this month, hyping up a predisposed act, which will okey-dokey be ramified in the opening ceremonies, makes quite a few sense.

thanks for the afflatus everyone, here's my take on @kda_music 's POP/STARS.. #kdaisback pic.twitter.com/n4IvVEbcv3

-- Seraphine?. (@seradotwav) August 22, 2020

Asked and answered. @seradotwav #KDA #SERAPHINE #COLLAB #CALLINGALLBLADES #BLADES #COMINGSOON pic.twitter.com/HRAG7e3rZs

-- K/DA (@KDA_MUSIC) September 4, 2020

However, it's not inconceivable that this could conjointly be an elaborate sass for the verging League champion. Riot has made a recent addiction of axis essentia announcements into huge events; when the developer released the long-awaited ronin Yone in July, it did therefore with multiple, gorgeous anime shorts. In this way, Seraphine's lengthy amusing media sass isn't too out there.

It conjointly fits into a long-running trend of virtual influencers, which occasionally navigate over with the apple of gaming. Recently, CG characters hypothesize released music videos at Lollaplooza and partnered with Ikea on installations, while in the past Final Fantasy characters hypothesize appeared as fashion models and in the pages of Maxim. Even Riot previously partnered with Louis Vuitton to dress up its virtual hip-hop group True Detriment last year.

As for Seraphine, with Worlds quickly approaching, it's okey-dokey we'll lasso more chancy how she fits into the League of Legends universe actual soon.