Talk:Kagamine Rin & Len/@comment-9085892-20190224133825

Ok, this is quite frustrating. I've been an errant of fandoms since my beginnings on the Internet, which means that I never leave any fandom, but I always have my tendencies, which means that sometimes I'm in fandom A, next I'm in fandom B and then I just stumble again in fandom A.

I've been part of the Vocaloid fandom since 2010, probably. I've been here and there since then. I haven't watched anything Vocaloid related since 2017, so I just returned from my Vocaloid holidays this year.

And I still manage to find the same questions, the same fights, the same everything.

What is frustrating, though, is that... c'mon people, it's 2019 already. There are some things we should have left behind long ago. Which one is the best vocaloid? Are the Kagamines a couple or siblings? Those kind of things we should have left long ago in a garbage can.

Now, don't get me wrong. New vocaloid fans should always be welcomed, because they are the ones who will keep the fandom going, and the special thing about Vocaloid is that the fandom makes everything, from the songs to the communities. The companies just provide us with the tools. The art comes from us.

Some basic etiquette should be encouraged, though. And I'm writing in the Kagamine article because I know this is the "sub-fandom" that struggles the most with this. It's 2019, and I'm still recieving comments in YT about how great the Kagamine ship is and how cute Len is, and every stereotypical Kagamine comment since 2010.

Recognizing technical flaws in the voicebank is not insulting them, it's just accepting the facts. I'm a huge Kagamine fan, but I know how much people struggled to make decent songs with them in those early V2 years. Thanks to their popularity, this voicebank has been pushed to its limits. Some producers are known for using the ACT 1 VB and it's such a struggle that they let others know that they have used that VB specifically. So, yes, you can keep being a fan of a technically flawed VB, enjoying some amazing tuning talent.

No Vocaloid is better than other. Unless both voicebanks are trying to fill the same niche, I find it difficult to just find the better VB. Think about this: Miku's VB is softer, while Rin's VB is powerful. Miku can sound cuter, hence most of her popular songs are cute. Most of the popular Rin songs are rock songs, accompanied with some heavy guitar tones. As I said once, you just can't expect Oliver to sing death metal (unless you have some amazing editing capabilities).

Let's keep this party in peace (we use this metaphor a lot in spanish, dunno in english). Let's inform ourselves with what the Vocaloid world has to offer and be responsable fans. Once you're part of the Vocaloid fandom, you're also a Vocaloid contributor.