Talk:Merli/@comment-96.49.237.207-20120731033715/@comment-53539-20120805122118

Yes, people are stupid, but you can correct their information. It doesn't make them any brighter; but it does mean they at least don't sound stupid.

Strickly speaking, you get people who like anything because of one little reason. When I was a beyblade fan, a lot of the fangirls on the forum I visited were perverts who wanted to sleep with the characters. And at highschool, half the girls following a boy band liked the boyband for similair reasons. Music was almost nothing to them, least to the "pop" music genre since those who care about the music tend to end up liking music that isn't suppose to be popular to begin with, but tackle a selective fews interests. :-/

I could comment on Miku's inital raise to popularity, and all,but do understand that some of the things you've just said are becauser of the Japanese culture is as it is to begin with. Its not something you can change, nor force to like as its only for the itnerests and tastes of Japan. Everyone else outside of Japan is not their target adueience; but we do have our own Vocaloids at least to form our own traditions and things with instead.

But yeah, more and more will become interested in Vocaloid because more and more Vocaloids are created to appeal to the person. We can't ask someone not to be so swallow and not to judge a Vocaloid by their appearance, we can critise them thats it. But right now the fandom is still panning out and finding its footing here in the west. Please, at least give it the growing space it needs to figure out what it wants to be.

We're slowly getting people to acknolwedge Neru or Haku are not real, but again, as Vocaloid makes new Vocals, people are not interested in fanmades that existed in 2009 so much anymore. Neru and others stick around though, because their part of the Japanese Vocaloid culture; therefore thers nothing we can do about it.