User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/getting out of hand/@comment-25172465-20141130114347/@comment-53539-20141130123336

There is some BS about the Jewel project. Planty-P can say one thing or another about Jewel, what the fans try her as may not be any different or they may not.

Most commonly used UTAU are still Japanese ones. Some are bad received but most UTAU don't go anywhere. There are at this point thousands of vocals, so you can imagine a good chunk are abandoned or failures to get attention. Good reception doesn't necessary means they are going to be widely noticed or used. UTAU is a fandom thats spread thin and much like the Vocaloid franchise, a handful of vocals got uber popular and people are less liekly to use any other.

People also use UTAU to "make Vocaloids" of their own, this is also true. Its also annoying that in the flow of information on V4, someone elsewhere in the fandom (not on the wikia) someone said "the Vocaloid wikia should note Jewel". I don't use my same user name on every site and this was in a non-vocaloid community. There were some other things said about Jewel, that from a newbies point of view made me cringe for their incorrectness but are not worth noting. I was so peeve about it I visited the One Piece wikia and was in chat for a couple of hours (I only return to the OP wikia when the Vocaloid community has rattled my feathers about something, and it takes a lot for them to do it these days so I've been getting adjusted to this).

Basically the problem with being within the sphere of the fandom like here at the wikia and VO forums, is that you don't always see some of the crap people come up with. Things I've mentioned here are sometimes the icing on the cake. I've actually said a few months ago (don't know when) that the problem with the situation now is we've got things written down on pages and wikias and we're pointing out places to find the correct information. But the trouble is a random person spewing crap on youtube still is often more then not taken more seriously then anywhere else in the fandom.

To sum up the situation with Jewel, every UTAU and every Vocaloid every made and to be made, is that once the voice is out there in the hands of producers, there is nothing you can do to control it. Likewise, in regards to how people spread information tends to be cherry picked to make someone like something.

I knew I was going to be hated for the blog entry, but its nothing new. My own rep int he Vocaloid fandom is pretty bad since I tend to be rude, either intentionally or otherwise and stubborn. I'm used to being portrayed as a "bad guy". I call BS on a lot of things, calling bias on peoples' opinions towards certain vocals is one of them. Example; Saying you love HQ vocals only, but you loved the original Galaco voice which had a ton of issues with it. I'm not saying the new Galaco wasn't a issue because that was much, much better.

So yeah, I knew how this blog was going to be taken, was prepared for it, it likely came off ruder then intended but a few days after a person in another fandom said something about Jewel I snapped. But only a few days ago, I snapped at the situation with Alys.