User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Can anyone rememer?/@comment-12633677-20140126002407

Back when I first found Vocaloid, those 8 were the ones I saw around. This would have been 2011, and a lot of what I heard was older than that. I knew there were other Vocaloids, but I didn't know too much about them. I became familiar with Oliver and Cul, but wasn't impressed by either too much.

The funny thing is, when I very seriously got into Vocaloid early in 2013 and actually started paying attention (and finding my own stuff instead of stalking my sister's finds.... lol), I was shocked that Gumi was so popular and Gackupo wasn't. Although he was part of the "big 8" and my sister loved him, he was never really terribly popular. Heck, IA is way more well-known than him right now.