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EmbraceEvil wrote: the decline of vocaloid by Kouhey, translated by Coleena Wu

http://papercoleena.tumblr.com/post/123558413480/why-the-popularity-of-vocaloid-has-declined http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/12/11/state-of-the-otaku-union-survey-reveals-vocaloids-up-adult-games-down-in-2014/

$73.8 million... Thats the TOTAL value of the Vocaloid franchise and it had an INCREASE last year of 19.7%.

Vocaloid is not over yet, its just harder to get more noticed. You don't have everyone concentrated on just 8 Vocaloids anymore, and there is no longer just 2 companies getting noticed. Vocaloid has become more diverse. Nearly 1/3 of all uploaded Nico videos are STILL about Vocaloid.

In addition, bare in mind the Rankings style on Nico Nico Doyga was flawed, allow the same song to remain at no.1 for WEEKS. This allowed that 1 song to get most of the attention. not only that, but Memes aren't sprouting up so much anymore and Vocaloid is now a lot more serious then it was in 2007. :-/

The culture of Vocaloid is as strong as ever, but things have changed.

This isn't the only "Vocaloid is in decline" post I've seen, but all of the stuff about Vocaloid being in decline is BS at a point in time when Voaloid is still gaining popularity. Not only that, but even English Vocaloid is slowly picking up speed, just take Avanna. Sure, Yohioloid was a disappointment, but people are slowly waking up, realizing that CFM isn't the only ones with English voicebanks and buying the voices. We have a "Engloid fandom" within the vocaloid fandom. We have a growing Chinese fandom that is quickly starting to gain speed. Its only the Spanish and Korean versions lagging behind still, especially the Korean part. >_<