Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-120.22.8.178-20190921003803/@comment-53539-20190922082452

Actually, she hasn't been a Vocaloid since 31st August when they announced her departure. Its already happened. The moment a character announces their departure is the moment things stop being what they are.

The Vocaloid though has no ego, she is a blank slate with a voicebank, an image and a bio. Her popularity is owed to the fact people bought her and kept buying her throughout the versions. In Japan at the height of the Vocaloid craze there was 120,000+ producers. Of them, at least 85% of them were using Miku. Some only Miku.

In contrast here, you have to bare in mind UTAUs height was 25,000+ users and these days they have about 5,000+, but most months only about 600-1,000 post anything on Nico Video. CeVIO had a demo that saw 180,000+ downloads, but it doesn't have nearly that many producers who bought it. Most were just trying it out and then thats it. I don't have a stat on it, but it hasn't got the audience Vocaloid has ever had.

As I said before, Miku's departure is set to at least take out the 40,000+ current active Miku producers who still use and work with her. We don't know the scale, but Miku's tag on Nico Video has been known to be more popular then Vocaloid itself from time to time and thats because she can be used for MMD as a character model, as well as games and so fourth. Some of this will not be impacted, but there are also producers who will not be sticking with Vocaloid any longer nor moving with her to Piapro Studio. We'll be loosing producers foreverl. Sales of Vocaloids increase around the time of CFM's releases especially the first release on an engine as producers wouldn't buy a new version until that moment.

I've had some criticism for saying this, but those critics just aren't accounting for scales at all and thats vital. When a Vocaloid thats getting almost 1/5 of all Vocaloid sales is gone, that means you've got a lot lost with it. To put it bluntly, it amounts to putting fingers in ears and go "lalala can't hear you". Japan has been the main source of Vocaloid purchases since 2007, buying far more then everyone else in the world. And about 1/5 of them by Miku approx. if they don't buy her, they buy another CFM, the most popular Vocaloid outside of Miu is Gumi and sadly, the number of people who've heard of Gumi is far lower then Miku even in Japan. They did a survey in 2013 I believe and asked a college campus which of the Vocaloids they've heard of, and only 5% had heard of Lapis, Gumi and I forget who else it was. Almost everyone else they asked had heard of Miku.