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I'm fine with the yuma stuff more because it pales in comparison to the problem wth fans sticking to 66(roro) as VY2's avatar. I've seen someone say they use Roro because if they don't no one will acknowledge its VY2, which is even more sadder then anything else. This same comment was said in regards to tagging Alys as a Vocaloid, because if they don't Alys doesn't get fans.

This isn't dumb on the tagger and Roro user's part, but shows that the fandom as a whole has trouble getting things sorted.

I still relate most of this back to the fact, unlike a game, movie, book, etc franchises, everything doesn't have a core ground to centre the franchise through.

Saying that, I've said it a few times, a "Vocaloid" is only a "vocaloid" when its made to sing within the copyrighted software "Vocaloid" owned by Yamaha. If it does not have a voice within Vocaloid, its not a vocaloid. Its a simple thing, but the trouble is... People are using the word "vocaloid" because they have nothing else they can use to describe electronic words and they presume if they say "vocaloid" everyone may know what you mean. It sadly doesn't work that way, but this is a problem with not having a word to describe something I guess. That and they fail to understand the meaning of Vocaloid to begin with often....