Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-25147000-20141019023013/@comment-30602727-20141112054945

Let's see where this one goes and hopefully I don't make them feel bad. When I speak "intellectually" about VOCALOID, people tend to not like that and get offended.

Here goes:

"I can understand why you feel this way about Miku. I felt the very same many months ago and genuinely hoped someone else, particularly outside of the popular 8 VOCALOIDs, to step in and take a turn and enter the popular circle. And there are plenty of other fans who can be much worse, who wants a VOCALOID to take Miku down and dethrone her, even to the point when they use overshadowing as an excuse to hate her, when it should be the voice that matters. This is "VOCAL"OID, right?.

Yeah, Miku and the other popular ones overshadow the 40+ VOCALOIDs who not everyone knows about. And it's not fair. But everything that happened to Miku was pure chance. Nobody knew she was going to be this popular and take VOCALOID to where it is now. It's nothing she should be blamed for because she has no control of it. But keep in mind, there's lots of fans who ignore or deny the existence of the 40+ VOCALOIDs. So it's not just the overshadowing, it's the ignorant fans who CHOOSES NOT to look or hear the other ones, even calling them fake or not official. If you really want to help the other VOCALOIDs become more noticed and less labelled as "fake/unofficial", then you yourself should share them and spread awareness. Don't focus on Miku's downfall. Do what you can to help the other ones. Share pictures, share songs, share news. That's all. "