Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20141201072351/@comment-30602727-20141208150427

With the whole design conversation...

The problem with this fandom is that it's ridiculously overly picky :|

Make it too cyber/too much like Crypton's, then you get accused for stealing designs.

Make it too original or different than other VOCALOIDs, you risk getting bashed for it. Or to the extremities that Bruno and Clara's original artist had to face, which was just ridiculous and immature from the fandom. :/

You can't really win either way, unfortunately.

Yeah, I understand that borrowing or making most of the VOCALOID look like a past one can be bad. But do I blame them for wanting to have a VOCALOID to be successful like those past ones, so they try to use aspects from that VOCALOID? No, not really. I do want them to be more original, but I've already accepted that if they want cyber/borrow from past VOCALOIDs to attempt to attract attention to their VOCALOID and be on the safer more "accepted" side of the fandom, then I don't mind it. Again, it's one of the things I expect when it comes to new VOCALOIDs. First three things on my mind are either: Cyber, influence from past VOCALOID, or anime-esque.

The fandom just makes me sick when they ask for an original design. A company offers one up and the fandom rejects it. You asked for a new and more original design compared to the old ones! THIS IS WHAT YOU ASKED FOR! But no, the fandom responds in negativity. :|

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Damned if you do a new and more original designed. Damned if you don't. Damned if you use cyber/past VOCALOIDs for design ideas. Damned if you don't.