Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-30602727-20150918192357/@comment-4704113-20150921222641

208.71.157.148 wrote:

It says a lot about the kinds of people in the Vocaloid community, and how shallow some people can be. If her skin is Lighter or brighter... it's a problem for someone. Why?

There are plenty of fair skin vocaloids. Almost all. Why is there drama, when one isn't? You kinda answered your own question there. The vast majority of Vocaloids (and voice synth characters in general) are fair skinned, and Ruby was always intended by her creators to be darker skinned. And that's important to a lot of dark skinned people, having characters that look like them. But then PFX almost made her yet another light skinned character, and a lot of people felt like they had something taken away from them.

Ah, whitewashing is a big problem in just about every fandom, and maybe I'm not the best person to explain it, being white myself. If you really want to know why it makes people so upset, I'd suggest researching it further yourself.