User blog comment:IAliceVoice/Vocaloid Fandom Rant/@comment-5059503-20140601234736/@comment-53539-20140602092226

Its really hard for anyone to be balanced, people tend to hate something and therefore not want to talk nice about it, or like it and therefore talk nice about something. Even I struggle at times to find good in what I dislike and I have no Vocaloid I absolutely hate.

For example;
 * I dislike Miku myself, but I acknowledge why she has her popularity, I'm not too stupid I can't see her flaws and I admit her V3 version has overall less flaws. Miku is one of two of the CFM who sets off a ringing in my ears, and I can't stand certain songs because of it.  Things got better when her Appends got released and I was able to find songs I listened to, but it created fear, because although that ringing wasn't much in the way of painful, it was bloody annoying.
 * I don't find Luka's english impressive because the native Engloids did better in V2 already, so when people used to go on about her English I got annoyed.  When I joined the fandom she was often regarded as the "first to do English" when we all know this wasn't true. As for her Japanese, while the best of CFM's vocaloid, by the end of V2 it was not that impressive anymore.  She kept getting used for songs that didn't suit her voice, basically Luka kept being used as if she was Miku which can often be an issue for many Vocaloid songs. Either way I never grew to like her vocal because nothing impressed me and that impacted the way I forever percieved her. :-/
 * Then we get to the Kagamines... The Kagamine's were a "two for one" package and designed to be a good deal for a bidding producer with a low budget, since their vocal had a all round nice coverage and capabilities. We all know how bad their act1 was, though Act2 was better it still had issues. Their fans spoil any enjoyment for casual die-hard fans like myself because know their awful in many, many songs, but they get over hyped by the fandom and made to be something really special.  And knowing the English version is going to be developed puts me for ever at discomfort with them. Basically, the Kagamine's have become to represent everything bad about this fandom and franchise.
 * I like Kaito, therefore I have less bad things to say about him. I don't whine about how small his V3 range was, because its actually overall bigger then his V1 range which was small, but thans to V1 you could get away with murder with it.  I dislike his English version though, because it sounds like he is talking through his teeth and trying to get everything out in one breath.

Despite all due aside, I can fin balanced arguments for each CFM with the exception of Meiko. Because I can't find anything too good or too bad to talk about her. So I can see how easy it is for lesser balanced argumentative fans to fall into the trap of being one sided. here on the wikia, often we have less of a call to say positive things then negative, since we're often left to correct the mistakes of the fandom, so we tend to be one-sided ourselves. Its not always our own fault. :-/

CFM is popular so therefore people are going to notice them more. Therefore they will form a opinion of them more. Their songs are the most popular and well known and they have their largest fanbase. The issue is, jealously and perhaps even anger/annoyance because other Vocaloids go ignored.

In the case of the Kagamine's as I mentioned they have come to represent everything wrong about the vocaloid fandom at times, but often CFM Vocaloids as a whole tend to be considered together and collectively this when weighed in all as one part of the franchise. When a fan is asked to name Vocaloids, and all they can do is pull up the same popular 6-8 Vocaloids, or fans don't drift away from the popular 50+ songs, how is the non-CFM fans suppose to feel? Their favourite Vocaloids get ignored and even put down when acknowledge. Or when Teto, Haku and Neru are pulled up... Its getting less and less of an issue and the fandoms getting "better" to the point where I don't spend everyday saying "there is more to Vocalodi then Miku, Len, Rin, etc" and the whole issue of naming vocaloids is getting less and less... But... Right now there are new issues coming up which are replacing the old ones.

Complaints and whining about every new vocaloids... Comparisons which bring new voices down rather then lift them up as comparisons should... And the most important issues that remain and have been with us since the very beginning of ignorance and bias are still too loud. Not only that but at this stage, the fandom is slowly getting mixed as time goes by. As the fandom gets "better" at accepting vocaloids besides the Big 8, the fans end up becoming more divided and varied on their tastes. Whent he fandom was united under the CFM fandom only, there were more fans with simiilair ideas, and things like the Kagamines' fan issues were less of a people because everyone had 'similar' (I'm using this word in a more vague way then it should be here btw) feelings to each other.

Tl;dr version is the fandom is its own worst enemy, it creates problems for itself.