Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-7171996-20140113035546/@comment-32500188-20140113064022

Kind of preaching to the choir there, but things have slowly been getting better with concerns to more fans gaining interest in non-Crypton Vocaloids. But part of me kind of disagrees about it mainly being people stuck in the old days.

The biggest contributing factors to the CFM Vocaloid craze is the promotional material and merchandise. I mean, they  collaborate with Sega to make both a popular game series as well as putting together live concerts annually. And when it comes to hopeful producers who want their music to be performed in that kind of format one day, as well as the fans that hope to see their favorite songs in formats they can actually interact with in some way, it's kind of not that shocking that the majority would look at the CFM crew for the opportunity to do so, since they've proven to be pretty successful at it so far.

So in saying that, as long as the companies that are heavily promoting these Vocaloids keep on doing so, they're more than likely going to be the very first set of Vocaloids anyone new would get to know, because their faces (especially Miku's) are everywhere in related media.