Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-29714788-20160613233928

-Momoiro-Saru- wrote: ...?

I honestly don't see what's so cringey about that article? Considering that far worse has been said about the concept of VOCALOID, that is actually one of the more positive and accurate ones I've seen. (Not the best way to word some things, but at least they even bothered to mention the software and creative concept at all, unlike previous years where writers have written on more of the lines of "anime hologram apocalypse coming to take our RL pop stars away, we are complete screwed" and all those other misconceptions... (•-•) I've literally never seen any commercially published article describe Vocaloid as "anime holograms that are taking over the world" or whatever. I've only heard that from YouTube ranters and people who don't understand what Vocaloid is at all or had it wrongly explained to them. Anyway it's cringey how they described Vocaloid fans as if Vocaloid is some kind of niche hipster thing. They also could have focused less on Miku being a "virtual pop star" and more of her being a musical instrument, as well as talk more about the producers and other Vocaloids. Every Vocaloid-related article or informative video briefly mentions producers then goes on to talk about how Miku made such an emotional impact on people or something like that. They also talk about Vocaloid as if Miku is the entirety of it when there are 64 others and not everyone who likes Vocaloid likes Miku. It's not a bad article but it's still way too glamorized and is obviously written to appeal to the indie hipster #2deep4u teenager demographic.