Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-24.102.244.72-20151011002811/@comment-53539-20151011143659

Not just popularity but also the amount of attention she gets. Miku's voice has never been "the best" voice on offer for Vocaloid, but due to her success and marketing, she overshadows everyone else.

Just off the top of my hat, I can recall the situation of V2 as the best example of this. Her V2 vocal was one of the LQ in V2, for one reason or the other, mostly owed to her status of being a early, release for that era. She was never the worst and her Appends were among the best, but she herself was never the best singer. For example, when one looks at the V2 voice, she is off pitch a lot, sings more in sing-spiel style and can't hold notes well.

But she was easy to use and since she sounded "cute" there wasn't much you couldn't go wrong with her voice itself. She didn't have Prima's problem, for example, of trying to have to SOUND like a opera singer to the point where faults didn't sound "quite right" when Prima got it wrong. In comparison, despite Gumi being a better singer she wasn't a better vocal and took longer to take off then Miku.

I know one guy who supports the Game Theorists' channel (forget his name) hates Miku because when he went to Japan, her face was quite basically everywhere he looked... On every street, corner, etc. To say she was a cultural hit, is quite an understatment. I myself can't help but notice that 95% of every article on the Japanese blogs, tends to be Miku-themed with the oddity being if there is a article on any Vocaloid (especially non-CFM ones) there.

People get annoyed with her for all of these little things, like they get annoyed at Justin Bieber for being popular. Except Miku is a cartoon character and can't make an ass of herself like Bieber does. When you look at things that are popular... Twilight, Mario, Call of Duty, Minecraft, FNAF.... The same patterns and reactions appear. :-/