Whitney Houston Hologram To Go On Tour, Internet Reacts With Confusion

Whitney Houston, known affectionately as "The Voice" by fans, will now be able to add "perennial" to that nickname, as a deepfake hologram of her will have an upcoming residency in Las Vegas, with plans to do a full tour in the works. This news was broken by Variety yesterday, with the announcement itself coming from the Whitney Houston estate.

Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of people not quite happy with the idea of a hologram of a dead celebrity being used to peddle new merchandise and sell tickets. Entertainment Weekly, while having to cover the story, broke ranks by conveying a very clear and simple message that this "isn't the right way to act."

A growing sentiment among fans was that you should still have some sort of personal autonomy even after you die, with Twitter user @IWriteAllDay summing up multiple different takes into one succinct reply.

While Houston's hologram is not the first to revive a dead celebrity, as we saw with Tupac's during Coachella in 2012, this could point toward a growing trend in the years to come.