Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20141017184700/@comment-68.49.88.91-20170824010357

I think why some producers use Miku a lot is that she's supposedly easy to tune. There's a reason why Lily (a minor VOCALOID) is so overshadowed is because she is so difficult to tune, and if you tune her wrong she'll sound terrible. It's no surpise why producers would use Miku because she's so easy to use compared to other VOCALOID, and even if you're a beginner at tuning, she'll sound at least okay. Or that's what I've heard anyway.

I don't mind Miku, but she's not my favorite. Her voice doesn't necessarily bother me, but it's not my taste (except when MASA tunes her). Her design is fine with me, (since I'm an anime fan :/) and I try to stay away from the toxicity of her fandom as much as possible. So she's not too bad in my perspective. I haven't hear much of her so-called Mary-Sue personality, since I usually don't pay attention to the personality area of her (I view her as more of a tool). In my opinion, I don't really see her as "caring" or "loving."

Her popularity doesn't bug me too much. It's not her fault, really. She's just a program after all. You could say blame the producers, but it's their song so they have every right to choose which VOCALOID or software to use. You could say blame the fans, but they are either new to the VOCALOID community so that's the only VOCALOID they have probably heard (besides a few Crypton VOCAlOIDs here and there), or they just like her voice. You could say blame Crypton, but then again Miku is the one who keeps VOCALOID from falling, so you can't really blame them. It's a strange situation, where everyone's at fault, yet not at the same time.

That's just my opinion on the whole idea. ;-;