User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-5051846-20150417195007

I think your experience depends most significantly on who you happen to meet.

However, I do have a theory that there is more room for arguements in the Vocaloid community, than, say, a TV show or book fandom. This is because we are very eclectic and scattered. The Vocaloid fandom isn't really one fandom, but a collection of many fandoms. You have a fandom for each indivisual Vocaloid, a fandom for each producer, a fandom for each company, even a fandom for each song. The range of media within Vocaloid has much more variety than your average fandom. Our only connection is the software that happens to make these singers run. Therefore, perhaps it's natural there would be more to argue over.

Vocaloid isn't one franchise like a cartoon is, it's many companies under one brand. This means that Vocaloid fans can be very different from each other. One fan my love making headcanons for Hatsune Miku based off popular songs, another may love producing music with Sonika. Because there can be such a difference between fans, there is a lot of room for disagreements and different 'world views'. In contrast, if you are a fan of a television series, you are a fan of one company, one creator and one overall storyline. In that senario, you will have much more in common with your fellow fans.

But despite it's downsides, we have open source creation to an extent rarely seen, and a huge variety of media produced by a truly industrious community. In its own way, I think it's worth it. Afterall, Vocaloid fans aren't just the fandom, they're also the creators. Without the work made using Vocaloid, where would we be? (*´・ｖ・)