Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130413201158/@comment-24840832-20140620002454

@Candii

I agree with you just one thing that kinda bugged me is referring to Vocaloids as fictional characters. The mascots are but the Vocaloid in and of itself with the sound (which would be what people compare it to) is not a fictional character but a Synthesizer and the somewhat offensive thing about it is that people are getting confused with such a synthesizer. And precisely that also isn't "fake" or "fictional". The character isn't a real person but the voice exists and is in fact real. At least according to my definition of "fake" and "real". But again, other than that, I agree with you.

Huh, well then I eventually did end up commenting on this thing and it feels kinda pointless.

Hmmh, perhaps, continuing from my previous point, the whole "Vocaloids are fake" thing bothers me a lot in general. It makes no sense. Yeah, they aren't real people but they aren't fake either. They exist. Their voice providers are real people and the companies are real and it's an actual voice. You can listen to it, you can use it, everything, that proves it's real. The character is also real. Not as a living person but as a character that was designed by someone. The design exists. Ergo, the character exists. Even if not as a living human being. That's how I see it. Maybe this has been said before (I didn't dare take on this whole thread to check). But most of the posts here I did see I agree with.