Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-53539-20150624074554

Miku is indeed insanely popular, at one stage her face was practically everywhere in some parts of Japan. Thats why no other vocaloid can ever take her down, no other vocaloid has had success AND popularity on her level and it annoys me whenever someone believe that it can. At this point we have 60+ Vocaloid and for 1 to stand out now is hard. This is whyso many relyon the same vocaloids and don't often drift onto the others. Miku has a rep for reliability to do the job most are buying for and the appeal to boot. When you consider that Miku V2 wasn't that high quality and yet somehow it stood up to later V2's of higher quality, it kinda says it all.

That said, while I don't dislike Miku's popularity, it is boring to constantly log onto Japanese sites and be met with the same face peering its emotionless blank eyes at me. So I can understand why some hate her. Some blame the unpopularity of other vocaloids on the popularity of her and want her to be knocked down so their vocaloids can take the spotlight, or at least stand a chance. I kinda think if Miku looses popularity its a bad sign for Vocalod itself. Consider that Vocaloid had a sale raise last year of 19.2% and it was put mostly down to Miku V3 sales buffing the amount... I'd go with this pretty much.