Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-14494460-20140313041251/@comment-53539-20140317080609

I don't know how to react to the OP when I first saw it, except to explain about this wikia.

We kinds got set up to tell others about Vocaloid and help promote all the vocaloids. At the time of its main structure being set up in 2010, Miku and the other Big/great 8 were pretty much all the vocaloids everyone knew about. This despite that that point there being many others, even ones before Miku. For me, the final straw with the fandom was just the myths and lies spread about English Vocaloid, but also because other Japanese Vocaloids were getting ignored too... But mostly I sympathised with English Vocaloids. This is why I have such a connection myself with the English version of Vocaloid.

It was the same with the Wikipedia Vocaloid page, I also worked to set up the UTAU page on Wikipedia correctly for the same reason. Unfortantely, despite all effort, there are at least 1,000,000 fans, and each day we only can appeal to 5-10% of those fans, many of which are return fans.

The other reason I lesser talk about was just I got fed up with the way some Vocaloid fans criticised noobie/newer fans without doing a thing to improve the situation. As I said on VO forums at the time, you improve the wiki pages, you improve the fandoms general knowledge.

Just a note, for the first 6 months of most Vocaloids life, they are slow to gain popularity. In the current state of Vocaloid as I write, we have about 60 Vocaloids, if not more. So standing out takes time at this point, And most Vocaloids get less then 100 Videos uploaded onto NND. Compare that to the 3 top vocaloids; Miku (who gets 1,000-1,500 videos), Gumi (who gets 300-500) and Kagamine Rin (100-300 videos). While that % may have changed by now, as things are always shifting, Vocaloids like Tone Rion have videos with only 30,000+ views compared to some of their peers at this point.

I'm sure the girls are fine, but I am worried about how the fandom is treating newer Vocaloids at this point. :-/