User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-24899360-20150422001625/@comment-53539-20150422102153

I'd rather be in this fandom where everyone has the freedom to crit the art, then the dragon cave fandom where your afraid in case Frilled Dragons round 2 occurs and yet another dragon is removed from breeding.

Sure we've had some re-designs like Sonika, Bruno and Clara, but no vocaloid has been pulled because of its art.

You don't see the artists so far leding a white Knight army to find and call out the critics for saying "This dragon is ugly!".

You can't please all the people - if you appear to be plaseing everyone, something is wrong. Basically, everyone has their own set of opinions. I remember when I first lurked on VO and Big Al's art and voice were renewed and how everyone praised it. Now you see people saying "Big Al is scary", contrasting the things spoken back in 2009. Sweet Ann, another example, was not originally put down for her artwork until Miku and the other Big 8 came along with their cutesy designs, as Ann was made to appeal to a different audience compared to the one that came out of Miku and co. So sometimes, time can impact what the general opinion is.

Even Miku herself was once idolized without question even here in the west along with all members of the Bi 8. Now you see people who wish she wasn't so popular as the vocaloids they like barely get a look in sometimes. So even other areas get this impact of time opinion change. :-/