User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Can anyone rememer?/@comment-24.137.125.201-20140129194141

I think this is because of mothy's Aku-no series/the Evillious Chronicles. One of the first things you run into, entering the VOCALOID fandom, is a bunch of mainstream Miku music and Aku no Musume/Daughter of Evil. All of these characters are relevant in that, and due to it being frequently the first encountered VOCALOID productions people start to think of them as being the figureheads. The Crypton VOCALOIDS in general are taken as icons, despite the fact that KAITO and MEIKO aren't used nearly as much as Miku/Kagamine. If you look stuff up on deviantART or fanfiction.net, most of the stories feature those characters as the protagonists/spotlight image. It's curious, as characters like IA, who's vocals are very popular, get so little attention from the mascot-based part of the fandom. *Shrugs* I've never heard the term big 8 before, but I know what you mean. ^^