Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-25618373-20160105104739

Dizzyzebra wrote: ^Embrace: But Syo isn't active on VO? O:

However, I have observed that drama is a trait that's common everywhere a group of hardcore fans meet. The more obsessed you are with something, the more you care about it, and the more you care about something the stronger your reactions will be. So Vocaloid discussions among hardcore fans easily become heated because we become emotional more easily. Take the wikia, when you've seen a mistake 10 times it's much easier to get mad over someone making an error regarding Vocaloid. Like when someone mistakes Flower's gender, or assumes ALYS is a Vocaloid. c': The average person would not care, but to myself and many other members it's hard not to get riled.

Every forum I've been to has been the hub of heated discussions in a fandom, because it's where the most knowledgable and therefore opinionated people in a community meet. It's true outside the internet too. Academia has a long history of bitter fewds, fights and drama. Punches have been thrown over the classificiation of a fungus, careers destroyed by research rivals. This seems absurd to someone who isn't interested in plants, but to an outsider it appears no less crazy than our arguements over Vocaloid. :D When you care about something a lot, it can be very difficult to maintain a sense of perspective. despite not being active, he still  interacts with them via twitter. he's sort of there without being there. having trouble phrasing here. i've been on A LOT of forums, and for whatever reason VO is the angriest. I'm having trouble placing the reason why, but I think it's more than the reasons you've stated. Actually, now that I think about it, at least part of it may be how a lot of the members are a bit.... possessive of Vocaloid.