Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25386934-20150528230847/@comment-53539-20150529200225

Dizzyzebra wrote: Angel Emfrbl wrote:

Misteryeevee wrote: -snip- You pretty much summed up the over reaction... It was pointless. The English overseas fandom needs to acknowledge it has next to 0 influence on 80% of Vocaloid. It seems so hard for it to do so though. Sometimes I wonder if our more freedom of speech stance our countries take gives us the wrong frame of mind, the ability to speak freely comes at the cost of thinking about what we're saying often first. :-/ I don't think anyone believes they have influence over the Chinese fandom's decisions, I think everyone know's their opinion doesn't matter to the Chinese fandom. Western fans were just observing and discussing the Vocaloid, the same as always. Sometimes people will have strong opinions, sometimes they will be angry at how the company is marketing to their target audience.

Even if the Vocaloid isn't marketed at the West, people will still have thoughts about the product and will probably want to share them with others. ( ´ ⌣ ` )ﾉ People will discuss political goings on in other countries, even when they are not involved themselves. Just because something isn't aimed at you doesn't mean that you can't talk about it, haha.

I would agree if not for the fact back during my days where I was posting on VO forums, some fans pretty much gave all the signals that made them think that it will matter what the overall western fandom thinks, like if 100 westerners say the same thing it might change what 1000 Japanese fans think.... Or what others not in the Japanese fandom, nor their veteran circle, think. A example being the items for Engloids, none of that has become official, save James, Tonio + Martini and a few other bits. Now fans coming into the fandom just accept it without question sometimes. :-/

And even when they don't believe it, their strong opinions when tallied up make the western fandom look like it, as as whole, could be pushing ideas onto other fandoms. So you can appear to be trying to change something even if thats not the intention. :-/

I'm not saying its not like discussing the politics of other countries, but some people will make the wrong impression, maybe disrespectful. A lot of the time their opinion is because, like in the fandom, they lack a circle of knowledge or there is a cultural barrier.

Either way, it kinda gets boring seeing it, as I said I didn't really develope my opinions on her design because the immediate distraction is "hello Miku clone!" taking over all talk.