Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20141017184700/@comment-53539-20150223195641

Miku's popularity basically boils down to something she didn';t ask for nor can control. CFM makes the product; they don't force anyone to buy it.

This is the issue, you can't control the mass en force of the Japanese fans, the ones making her super popular. Their JUST not as interested in other voclaoids. As I said, Miku gets about 1000 videos on Nico video a month, her next competitor gets 300. After 6 months, this eans her ext closet rival has 1800 videos, while Miku has 6,000+. And THIS ids why the other voclaoids can't compete. This is why she had 40,000+ original songs and others at a time when others still had only about 8,000+ at the most.

I'm one of those who can't stand the core Miku vocal, because the pitch sets off ringing in my ears. But I dislike other vocaloids for that same fan. And as for your special vocaloids not getting attention. Both Otter and I can both sympathize at least, Otter's a big SeeU fan whose popularity in Japan is pathetic -I'm and Engloid fan and I've had to sit through some BS because fans just can't resist digging at English vocaloid and running it down. And thats just two of the editors here; there are many more who have "underdog" vocals they like and sometimes wish there was more to listen to. >_<

Miku's popularity is something you've just got to learn to tolerate, as a Vocaloid fan there is barely any Japanese website Vocaloid related website not dominated by her name, image or voice. And she is pretty much stealing attention from other CFM vocaloids at this point, even better vocals like Meiko and Luka. So it all boils down to how much tolerance your willing to give her. If you can't tolerate her, then you're not going to have an easy time within the Vocaloid fandom.

Sites like the wikia, at least give grounds for all Vocaloids to get *some* attention, but even we've been accused of playing favourites with Miku. Its not we do, its that so much stuff is on Miku you can't avoid it. If we don't cover Miku's merchandise, for example, then pages like Good Smile Racing get ignored and our wikia is incomplete. In other words, we're not doing the job of covering everything Vocaloid related. All we can do to counter it is make sure we grab every pages, so pages like VOCADOL become REALLY important because without them it will be just Miku on the wikai. These are the things people are MORE LIKELY not to know about.

You also get dedicated people like Otter who enjoy spamming their favourite Vocaloids songs (sorry Otter, thats an example, not a dig at you) for more or less the same reasons.... ^_^'

Other Vocaloids are slowly getting more attention as people learn more about vocaloid, just in english vocaloids alone, you can safely say all V3's were overall more popular then V2s. Maybe the exception being Nana... And there arer 2 new Vocaloids (Ia and Yukari) joining the ranks of "Big 8" level, something that hasn't occurred since Gumi was released in 2009. Time, will indeeed increase Miku's popularity; but it will also increase the popularity of other vocaloids.