User blog comment:V3-CHAN/How did you find out about Vocaloid, and your favorite Vocaloid?/@comment-25147000-20141229213118

How did you find out about Vocaloid?

(Brace yourself, this is a long one)

When my brother stopped the frame of a YouTube montagei was watching a fan-made music video for some anime song when my brother stooped on one of the pictures and said, "that girl is real, you know". I didn't believe him. I thought it would be a 2-D anime girl on a tiny screen. Boy, was I wrong. He showed me "World is Mine" from the Miku no Hi Kanshasai 2010 concert. I initially thought Miku might have been a bit racy (from the short skirt and initially intimidating sound of the songs signiture guitar riff). However, I explored still. From there, I clicked YouTube sidebar links to other clips from the concert, showing me Rin, Len, and Luka. I also saw a mistitled video for the performance of "Po Pi Po" and thought that that was the name of another VOCALOID, but I eventually realized my mistake. I was hypnotized by this amazing technology, by the strange unintelligible words of Japanese, by the unatural hair colors and big eyes. I once forgot Miku's name and considerded this passing novelty overwith. However, I was still curious to try to remember her name. So I asked my brother, and he said "Hatsune Miku". From that moment, I never forgot her name and I became a fan. I continued my research; I lookd at videos and at the wikipedia article, I learned what Miku WAS. Eventually, I stumbled upon VOCALOID Wiki, and I burst into a world of true knowledge. It was magical, all the voicebanks and trivia and demos and info. I brushed up on my knowledge and went from annoying YouTube Miku fan to true novice VOCALOID enthusiast. I downloaded a new VOCALOID song every week, and became obsessed with VOCALOID, especially Miku and her concerts. Eventually this died down; I had delved deep into the fandom, but not deep enough and it was becoming stale. So, for a year or two, I kept my distance from VOCALOID and let it develop. When I left, AVANNA had been recently announced. Down the road, I met a girl who also knew about VOCALOID. We talked about it and this sparked my interest in traveling down memory lane on VOACLOID Wiki. So, I came back, right around the time that IA Rocks was getting released. I noticed small things wrong with articles, like missing concerts (*ahem ahem* MIkuExpo Indonesia, Matsuri Da Diva) so I posted about them in the comments. When nothing changed, I edited anonymoosly, without any basic knowledge of wikitext programming. Long story short, I sucked. Later, I decided to go ahead and make a full account. I considerd something like "UltraSoup", my twitter handle, but ultimately I went with The Ultimate Dude, which simply popped into my head. I slowly gained nowledge of page editing and creation by looking at finished pages, and eventually becames quited adept. I learned how to add events, create live event pages, add links, cite sources, and sort derivatives into tabs. This all led up to where I am now, with over 1,000 edits in just 4(ish) months. I'm so thankful to all of you guys who help edit these pages and my work. You rock.