Talk:Nekomura Iroha/@comment-5413617-20121121162509/@comment-53539-20121122192020

I have no history with the fando between 2004 and 2009, so when I came across Miku in 2009 and saw how much Vocaloid changed it was a shock. There wasn't really a fandom in 2004, if you had a forum for software in those days it was lucky to have a dozen regulars a month. Other then that, I can't really comment, I never really knew much about the Japanese side in 2004 and vocalodi was "just another software out there".

But I do admit 've never been fond of Miku and I "don't get it" about the attraction towards her vocal, its nothing to do with culture, its to do with the fact I'm always taking her vocals at face value. I also don't uderstand why there was so much resistance to accept English vocaloids and as of vocaloid 3, other languages. Mostly because I'm used to reading articles stating what Yamaha planned to do with this software. There are, however, others in this fandom with more "hands on" experience with how the fandom came to be. :-/

What I can say on the fandom itself from 2009, is that it was very CFM-centred and there wasn't a lot of information to be shared freely. The belief of the "elitist" VO forumer comes from this era, everyone who knew what a Vocaloid was seemed more content with keeping things as they were, critising the things wrong and not lifting a finger. Some went and attempted to do things, but it never seemed quite enough and manmy projects were abandoned for one reason or another. But when you consider that there are 200,000 fans at least signed up to Miku's facebook account and only 500 readers have voted in the poll on the front page since it was put up, we're something like less then 5% of the overseas fandom here on the wikia and reaching out further requires a joint effort of all the fandom.