Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-30602727-20150918192357/@comment-5051846-20150921131851

Misteryeevee wrote: I know I said I wasn't gonna say what it was, but since nobody pointed it out, the thing I was speaking of earlier that was ridiculous involved skin color.

Apparently Dex being darker skinned was not "okay" because Ruby was.

Like gee, I didn't know being darker skinned had to apply to one VOCALOID only. I thought you people wanted "diverse skin colors"... :/

Not to mention that the way it was written made it 10x worse than what it should have been... and I hated that some people were agreeing with it.

It's why I can't exactly tolerate Ruby fans and why I'm hesitant to like her myself (not that I can find much to like at the moment anyways *sighs*). Of course, not all Ruby fans are like this, but a handful of vocal ones are.... :( I never saw anyone saying this. o: Must have been a strange person.

The main controversies as I knew them surrouding were this:

Race: Some comments were made by those hosting the announcement livestream which were considered racially insensitive. I'd really want to give you the exact quote, but as far as I remember they referred to white skin as 'normal skin colour', and said that maybe Dex appeared 'ethnic' because Daina was so pale. These have since been apologised for. Some of the people most angry at the comments were involved with Ruby or Ruby fans, but I don't think Ruby was bought into the controversy by most participants.

Comparison to Ruby: Kenji ofhandedly compared Dex/Daina to Ruby, saying that they were less metalic and nasal. He said that he did not intend this to be a taken negatively, but Syo was extremely angry. Syo felt betrayed because he had provided the materials used to make Dex and Daina. This controversy specifically caused Ruby to be pitted against Dex/Daina by participants.