User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-5051846-20150417195007/@comment-53539-20150418085603

I've been saying that the biggest issue is the lack of "canon" for several years is one of vocaloids biggest faults. There is no "central" direction and if you follow the games, the concerts, the songs... You can be left thinking vocaloid is something its not depending on what you follow.

In this sense also the fandom can bring in those interested in any one of a number of areas.

Sites like the vocaloid wikia and Vocaloid Otaku forum remain one fo the few places where general fans of any fandom can linger. And even then the VO forum is mostly focused on Japanese vocaloids thanks to the majority interest.

And even then... Our sites have reps... From VO bouncing out fans who go in with the "Len is so kawaii!" attitude from the wikia basically being overbearing trying to be over-correct on everything. Both sites have reasons for doing so and it amounts to being because of "hardcore" nerds/geeks/whateve.

Having been in closed subject fandoms in the past, I somewhat like the diversity of Vocaloids fandom and just feel a lot of the problem is tolerance related when it comes to fan disputes. You have everything from over praising one area of the franchise to those who see other areas as something best nipped in the bud. You don't know what to expect and a lot of the time its just trying to get one side to see things in light of the other side. :-/