Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20131227015437/@comment-53539-20160807075839

Whynot?

Here is the thing, if your one of those who finds "took an arrow to the knee" as a meme dated and annoying and you engage in this dated meme, your arguably a hypocrite. None of these discussions will have any influence on the Japanese fandom who are leading the Vocaloids people want to discuss items for. Its like the Kagamine fans who just want to discuss their relationship, there is more to Vocaloid then this and the items are old and redundant.

There is nothing to stop people discussing it, but there are some who believe they can force it becoming a thing. This is how it originally began; someone pictured Miku with a spring onion (not a leek) doing a silly video. It spread and fans depicted her with it. CFM decided to cash in on it and feature it too to cash in on the meme. They did the same for their other vocaloids. Nobody else outside of a few instances like Gumi cared for it, so it died with Luka pretty much.

Now there is 70+ Vocaloids from a dozen or so related companies studio or tie-in wise, few care for it. Its a CFM or rather a 2008 "thing". As fun as it is for some, its annoying for others since we've had 7 years of a dated meme being tossed around.

ITs not quite the same as internet cats as there is a lack of content. Most will come in and say "I believe X Vocaloid should have Y item" anon like you did. And thats it. End of discussion. In the first place, the items were not only discussed by had tons of related content that was shared across a dozen places within the fandom, like the Spring Onion was, or the ice cream, or whatever. Without anything to back up the item its nothing but a comment with no substance. and the fact it happens so much within the fandom... Often from people who don't understand how they work or back anything up that its JUST as annoying as the Kagamine relationship discussions, really.

Its not harmful, but its... Well... Dried up. Item meme discussions are one of the "beating a dead horse" discussions.