User blog comment:Serza5/Things this fandom needs to let go of/@comment-173.53.115.174-20130821142511

Man, it's good to know we're on similar wavelength! :-D

Fanloids/Deratives: I'm not too big on fanloids, but I also acknowledge that not all fanloids are bad... heck, CUL started out as one, and look where she's at now. I don't really care for the popular fanloids like Haku or Neru even to this day, but at least there were more creative liberties taken with character designs. (Well... not so much with Neru, since she has a recolored and slightly modified version of Miku's outfit... but at least her hair is different.)  And there are a few others that aren't really known, but do have some interesting character concepts.

The real problem is there's a true lack of creativity with a lot of them that I have seen in the past and even now, especially when it comes to color shifting the original art and passing it of as an original character. I know there are a lot of people who just can't draw for the life of them, but that has always bugged me... in any fandom. :-/  We're in an age where there are free online character/"doll" generators, etc., as well as thousands of ideas for a variety of character styles right at our fingertips... yet color shifting and falling back to the old and over-used "fan-mades" still seems to be "the only way" for a number of folks. So much out there, but in such little use. :-(

Pitchloids: Guilty as charged. However, in my own recent personal exploits, I've been messing around with the Vocaloid parameters to see what I could come up with, no longer with the actual track + vocals itself. Not having much luck in the results, but I'm seeing how fun it is to mess around with V3 and see what you can do in terms of voice manipulation and VST Effects. XD

Character items: I never really got why some people felt that every Vocaloid requires one, as well as numbers, "mini-mascot" animal versions, etc. It must be that big of a deal to have one's favorite Vocaloid get an item tacked on so that it gets popular, the company that created them acknowledges it's popularity through merchandise, and then the fans of the trendy item then feel they have the vidication to claim it as "official cannon"... when in the end it's just a fan favorite gone viral and and somewhat of an ego stroker to boot for those that kicked it off. (Let's face it, that's how the majority of the character items for the "Big 8" came about.)

Meh... I think stuff like that is cute to a point, but I don't think it's that big a deal to try to implement it as popular cannon. Vocaloid is open-ended for good reason when it comes to the characters sprung forth from the software, but there's always going to be people that want to accept whatever they see as "official" and won't try to stray away from it either... (YouTube, I'm looking right at ya.)