Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20141017184700/@comment-53539-20170821073950

Well... To some the amount of popularity Miku has is kinda unfair. This one vocaloid in a month can get more then half of the uploads to her name compared to the many other vocaloids. Instead of trying new voices, people lean on her and the other CFMs. The amount of merchandise, the references... Etc... Etc... 80% it seems about what focus there is on Voclaoid ends up being focused on this one character who overshadows the others to crazy levels. It would be understandable if her voice was the best, but its consistency varies per release. Plus, she tends to not only take priority over other releases, but her release can cause other Vocaloids develop to have their own time hit hard. Best example is the Kagamines V4x, which seems to have been rushed out so that Miku V4x come out several months later. As a consequences, the Kagamine package is the least versatile of the 3 V4x. Also, the Appends were put into production resulting in every other Vocaloid project in V2 being halted that was coming out of CFM except the Kaito and Meiko updates.

Miku is also not the best Vocaloid to introduce others to, but she is being sold to the world these days. HEr higher pitched vocal tens to put off many audiences abroad outside of Japan because we have different tastes. There have been better Vocaloid to show off, but they are ignored. There are people out there who believe the jest of Vocaloid is Miku and co.:-/

Its safe to say, that there is some sort of "fairness" here, but I will say Miku herself never asked to be popular. All of this is a result of Japanese fans buying into her OTT style. If things were more even between her and other vocals, then the amount of backlash wouldn't be too high.