Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130413201158/@comment-3076833-20140613210158

99.25.12.130 wrote: "You think X Vocaloid sounds like Y Vocaloid? You need to wash your ears/get off the internet." Gee, I'm "sorry" that people hear things differently than you, so you have to be a pretentious twit about some guy's opinion. In this day and age Vocaloid comparisons are so absurd and not only that, but they're usually used in a negative connotation, like "Mew sounds like Luka, so boring!". Do people have to be mean about calling out on it? No but it certainly does need to be called out if the comparison is used in such negative light as it promotes un-willingness to accept new voices because they aren't your favourites.

"You can't name ALL the OFFICIAL Vocaloids? Get out the fandom then!"

1: You're not encouraging new people to learn more about Vocaloid, you're encouraging them to leave the fandom and say negative things about it.

2: Do you people not know how many offical Vocaloids there are? More than 40. So of course it's going to take a while to remember all the Vocaloids. In fact, maybe those people probably won't remember every single one of them because there are new Vocaloids coming out every second.

Again this is one that obviously shouldn't be mean but as Mistery said the people who usually "don't know all the vocaloids" are ones that are so narrow-minded they downright refuse to acknowledge more than 8, perhaps 10 if you're lucky. Do we expect people to know them all of by heart? No but we expect them to respect the fact that there is a handful of Vocaloids out there. By no means am I saying they must like them all or none at all or even try new Vocaloids but saying that your favourites are the only good ones are just setting up a superiority complex and ultimately divides fandom and thus drives away potential fans.