User blog comment:Serza5/Miku N' Pop (Or much rather a GameChap & Bertie rant)/@comment-24840832-20140624064918

I see your point. That game in the first video was just plain stupid, I couldn't even watch the whole thing. It's seriously a problem if people look at that and think THIS is what Vocaloid is about. And the second one, the way I understood it, you're upset about Vocaloid becoming only about the character in this video and not about the software at all, in which case I'll agree. And the amount of "Kawaii desu!" (or in one case "Kawii di su") in the comment section. Dammit Vocaloid fandom, calm your weeaboo.

But the general non-fandom coverage of Vocaloid things has been pretty disappointing to me. Aside from making it out like either Miku or the Crypton ones are the only Vocaloids or all Vocaloids are like Miku, getting facts wrong and showing only World is Mine concert footage like there aren't any other songs (or concerts) out there. There was this great (japanese) google chrome ad which I feel is the first ad to capture the essence of Vocaloid I've seen and even that was only about Miku.

Yet, within the fandom people don't seem to get the point either. I can't even understand that, for me it comes naturally that you'd be interested in wanting to know and understand more after a while and still, people who've probably been in the fandom longer than me make those basic mistakes. Heck, the very friend who introduced me to Vocaloid knew hardly anything about it. Luckily, I've been able to turn her into a Mew and Maika fan since that discovery and make her a little more interested in other Vocaloids and the software but when I told her I had Yukari and she didn't know Yukari she looked her up -and commented only on how cute she was without even thinking about listening to a single song before I showed her one.

It's such a crowd of, pardon me, idiots the Vocaloid fandom has to deal with. I can't name any other fandom where the majority of fans don't even understand what the very thing they supposedly love so much is even about.

I think we should put a big, fat disclaimer on everything Vocaloid related "VOCALOID is not about the character!" (I said in the "Dumb things people say in the fandom" thread that some people believed Sega adopting Teto makes her a Vocaloid rather than, you know, having a Vocaloid VOICEBANK).

Made your rant my own. Probably misunderstood what you were angry about. If not, please tell me.