Otaku oxymoronically 'creepier'

[Taro Toporific]

AKB48 Otaku 'Still Getting Even Creepier'
Sankaku Complex | 2012/12/09 (Warning NSFW banner ads)
...an SKE48 fan who spent $12,000 on handshaking event tickets in order to secure several hours of “quality” time with his favourite maiden, and another maniac auction in which a single cookie made by AKB48′s Mariko Shinoda reached a similar sum at auction.
The fanatic in question reports buying enough copies of new SKE48 single “Eien Pressure” to obtain no less than 1019 handshaking event tickets, and shares proud pictures of his various stacks -- which are estimated to have cost him 1,000,000 yen ...more...

[Coligny]

Weren't those pseudo coupon milliunnaire sender ousted as just marketting chills to influence idiots on spending as much as possible on redundant crap ? (monkey see, monkey do syndrome)

[matsuki]

Weren't those pseudo coupon milliunnaire sender ousted as just marketting chills to influence idiots on spending as much as possible on redundant crap ? (monkey see, monkey do syndrome)

Which is creepier? It being real or it being viable marketing here?