Talk:MEIKA Hime & Mikoto/@comment-43482139-20190916153519/@comment-53539-20191005122605

^Arguable on how "well".

The Vocaloid franchise has been sliding in popularity since 2014, but this is not a surprise since the craze finished. A lot of people have yet to move over to Vocaloid 5, coming up with excuses not to and a number of producers were waiting for CFM to update one of their vocaloids to V5 before buying it... Leading to the next problem of in 2020... Miku and co leave Vocaloid.

We're looking at up to 40,000+ Producers following Miku or just giving up because Miku is leaving next year and we don't know the impact long term this will have on our fandom. So we're on the fringe of a big major event and thats got some folks such as myself on the edge. But generally, for the moment there is still about 2-3 years of V5's life and thats still time for some more Vocaloids to come out. Plus, your have to bare in mind that there are little differences between V3 and V5 Japanese vocals, to the point a lot of Vocaloids yet have had a reason to come out, and a number of studios didn't make it due to how many V3 vocaloids were released overall (when V3 is retired, we're looking at the largest mass extinction of voices ever).

So right now, yeah, sure, the Vocaloid fandom is alive, but we have reasons to fear the future. In note as well of Vocaloid:AI, its been put out as a Vocaloid franchise product but it may become its own thing. In addition, one possibility is that Vocaloid itself could even be renamed if need at any point in the future and become something else. There is no indication this will ever happen, but you have to bare in mind "Vocaloid" is a product and a franchise after all.