User blog comment:IntrinsicHappiness/My 1 year anniversary!/@comment-53539-20151109094840

I bought Lola "back in the day". Couldn't do much with her (V1 was always a nasty engine) shelved her. I was most in the anime fandom up until 2006, because I left a year before Miku was released, I didn't really see her rising at all. I was with the One Piece wikia though, so "eventually" the fans began posting more and more image over time.

So eventually I asked "who is that gal" so to speak and was told her name. I looked her up and was kinda shocked that she was a vocaloid because of how different her approach was. Grant it I never saw Meiko and Kaito, only Lola and Leon (knowing Miriam and Japanese vocals were on the way).

To me Vocaloid was an impressive concept by V1 was not an impressive software. Eventually I joined vocaloid otaku after following a link from someone's signature at DragonCaves forum.

At the time I was starting to fade out in the One Piece wikia because I wasn't able to keep up anymore with editing. Faster editors rendered me redundant. t the time I had come here I had also lent aid to some other wikias, so I was begining this circle of chipping in and leaving when I wasn't needed. I didn't plan on hanging around, hence wh my VO forums name was "SomebodyRandom". I tended to post, see what the community was like and leave.

I was sick of communities and had had enough of them after the DragonCave community had a huge drama fest where one of the Artist decided to use her Thrilled dragons to make a point about the fans and punish them. The drama caused a general witch hunt of which I had witnessed from lurking and was appalled by. TJ09 didn't step in, did nothing to stop this and in the end let the artist get away with leading a White Knight crusade. This is whyfor a long time I've hated White Knights, and was angry when someone on VO forums accused ME of doing it once.

Between how disappointed I had grown from anime fans up until 2006 when I stopped being a anime fan and that, I was not prepared to join another fandom and was happy sticking to the One Piece one.

To be honest... I only stayed in the end because I wasn't happy with VO forumers responses when I pleaded about the wikipedia pages. The wikipedia Vocaloid pages were a disappointing mess, they contained too much incorrectness, were heavily bias in favor of a few vocaloids (CF ones) and had few sources. I was angry at VO forumers at the time becuase I had boycotted the site since something like 2003 over the OP pages being butchered by politics while we were left franktically trying to save them while lacking direction and resources. We spent so much time fighting delete templates that none of the editors had time to do their jobs when we did get there, and a lot of the time we were stuck arguing for "Zoro" over "Zolo" because of the 4Kids dub.

I came here and admitted I hadn't a clue how to edit this wikia. I'd only ever worked upon wikias with a game or book or series that was a serial with canon storyline. So most mistakes I had made over time where shot in the dark moments where I was trying to guess what I was suppose to be doing. I've found myself several timesover the years near quitting because, when you make a page the fandom doesn't like, it becomes as bad as the DragonCave community and you get angry, rabid fans baring down on you. This limits you're desire to experiment with wiki pages I find. I haven't made much since the Miku formula and CV pages, because it got to the point I became too afraid to start them.

I guess I stick around because I feel there is something beyond the drama that makes the community worth the investment of time and energy. wen people aren't trying to be A-holes to each other in the community, there is some honest good things about it. The excitement, the passion... When I look back at the other fandoms is I've been with... There wasn't any of that with the older ones. You feel with the Vocaloid community that 1 person can make a difference and change the way the entire community looks at a vocaloid. Yo can see the improvements and expanson of parts of the fandom, even if its spoiled by a few people that are stubbornly holding onto V2 era mentalities.

Overall... I feel like the Vocaloid community, despite having some of the largest flaws of any community I've ever been in, has some of the largest pros in response.

I didn't plan to stick around this long... The Vocaloid community SHOULD have been a brief moment of my net life and the fact I had had so many bad experiences with other communities I wanted none of it... Yet now I lurk around the FNAF and MLP communities is something. Voclaoid basically changed my disappointment around.

Ironically, the longest fandom I'd been with, the One Piece one, I hardly hang around anymore. :-/