User blog comment:The Ultimate Dude/Remembering Old Vocaloid Wiki/@comment-25147000-20141113043703

I remeber when "Live Events" was a little old stub called "Concerts". I remember being super excited for and then super dissapointed by the first Mikupa concert. I remember the infamous Engloid hate and neglect of the V2 era (like having all Engloids on one page). I remember when more genderbends like Hatsune Mikuo were allowed and fan images were in galleries. I remember when VOCALOID galleries were on the corresponding pages. I remember the featured video sections on the sidebar. I remember the excitement of the release of V3 and the first korean VOCALOID, SeeU, untainted by her VP's bad rep. I remember SeeU's first demo in whiuch it was revealed she was singing with her VP. I remember the insane Vocafarre 2011 concert live stream and I remember when live event pages had links to clips from concerts and the japanese, romaji, and english titles were each seperate. I remember when VY2 was getting old and we were wondering if there would be any more V2s before V3. These sweet yet dysfunctional memories of the past make me cry, remembering VOCALOID when it was novel and new to me, when I thought concert technology was amazing, I was confused as to whether or not they were using puppets. When I first discovered famous miku songs like Melt. When I realized that there were VCALOIDs other than the CV series. When my brother stopped the frame of a YouTube montage video on a picture of Miku. He said "that girl is real, you know". I didn't believe him. I thought it would be a 2-D anime girl in a small vertical screen. Boy, was I wrong. He showed me "World is Mine" from the Miku no Hi Kanshasai 2010 concert. I initially thought Miku might have been a bit racier (from the short skirt and initially intimidating sound of the songs signiture guitar riff. however, I explored still. From there, I clicked sidebar links to other clips from the concert, showing me Rin, Len, and Luka. I also saw a mistitled video for the performance of "Po Pi Po" and thought that that was the name of another VOCALOID, but I eventually realized my mistake. I was hypnotized by this amazing technology, by the strange unintelligible words of Japanese, by the unatural hair colors and big eyes. I once forgot Miku's name and considerded this passing novelty overwith. However, I was still curious to try to remember her name. So I asked my brother, and he said "Hatsune Miku". From that moment, I never forgot her name and that was the moment that I became a fan. I continued my research, I lookd at video sand at the wikipedia article, I learned what Miku WAS. Eventually, I stumbled upon VOCALOID wiki, and I burst into a world of true knowledge. It was magical, all the voicebanks and triviua nad demos and info. I brushed up on my knowledge and went from annoying YouTube Miku fan to true novice VOCALOID enthusiast. I downloaded a new VOCALOID song every week, and became obsessed with VOCALOID, especialyy Miku and her concerts. Eventually this doed down, I had delved deep into the fandom, but not deep enough and it was becoming stale. So, for a year or two, I kept my distanmce from VOCALOID and let it develop. when I left, AVANNA had been recently announced. Down the road, i met agirl who also knew VOCALOID. We talked about it and this sparked my interest in traveling down memory lane on VOACLOID wiki. So, I came back right around the time that IA Rocks was getting released. I noticed small things wrong with articles, like missing concerts (*ahem ahem* MIkuExpo Indonesia, Matsuri Da Diva) so I posted about them in the comments, when nothing changed, I edited anonymoosly, without any basic knowledge of wikitext programming. Long story short, I sucked. Later, I decided to go ahead anf\d make a full account. I considerd som thing (like "UltraSoup" my twitter handle) but ultimately I went with The Ultimate Dude, which simply popped into my head. I slowly gained nowledge of page editing and creation by lookung at finished pages, and eventually becames quited adept. I learned to add events, create live evnt pages, add links, cite sources, and sort derivatives into tabs. This all led up to where I am now, with over 1,000 edits in just 4(ish) months. I'm so thanksful to all of you guys who help edit these pages and my work. You rock. On a side note, that started ou as memories, than myy history of membership in the fandom, and then as a speech. Weird, lol! :)