Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-73.223.188.220-20180528023317/@comment-53539-20180529162717

EarthlingnAkumi wrote: ^^ fair point I wasn't expecting my post to get that much attention let's hope that person never comes onto the wiki they know who they are I feel that one thing our fandom in particular is lacking in is respect for others and producers in the fandom. When someone pocaloids, i see a flock of fans running to them giving them death threats. when someone ships something other than you do, they say "but my ship is better!". people disrespect producers just because their works don't fit their tastes. That, imo, is something that the fandom as a whole needs to work on The Pocaloid is because despite claims, in the Vocaloid franchise that software hurts sales, unlike some other things pirated. So fans get angry because UTAU exists for those who can't afford Vocaloid, and at least UTAU doesn't hurt sales. In other cases of pirating, say a manga, then merchandise is often where they pick up sales profit from since fans buy that and not every manga suffers. In Vocaloid most vocaloids can't afford merchandise and therefore the pirating hurts their sales as that's often a sale that cannot happen forever.

Its different to shipping stuff, I can understand why people get unhappy. In my books the issue isn't that you pocaloid, its that you were dumb enough to let people find out you did it and therefore somewhat deserve things for you stupidity.

I know the fandom can be passionate, but not all examples of fans being that are equal the same. Some like the Ruby protests were uncalled for, as are ships, but others like Pirating is not so bad. Fans should know better then death threats and I do agree with this never being the level. This impacted the Spanish Vocaloid original designs so its somewhat of an issue.