Talk:ZOLA PROJECT/@comment-112.208.140.218-20130407095823/@comment-53539-20130407175938

This issue was why I quit being a beaucrat here at the wikia because for me it was the fandom showing just how bias, swallow and stupid it could be to the point it was blinded by a belief that Miku was a special snowflake and there was no way another vocaloid even could have resemblance to her. This despite as I mentioned there are vocaloids like even Gakupo who HAVE mentioned borrowing something from Miku and co. I got really stressed out explaining to a bunch of brick walls and didn't want to be in the fandom. :-/

There was never a "Miku Formula", it was a descriptive name we used as a place holder for a page name of a pageexplaining why some designs may appear to look like Miku's.  There was some vocaloids who took notes from Miku but the goal was never to flat out say "this vocaloid looks like Miku" and to this day the attitude still annoys me that the fandom took it the wrong way and continues to do so.

The fact the OP has brought it up pretty much goes back to what I said I hated about the whole ideal. The female vocaloids are just popping out of nowhere these days, its getting overused...especially the whole Miku-formula thing. It seemed to be just timing with the fact a lot of females came out and common otaku culture traits were shared amongst the vocaloids because Miku herself also had a lot of the design tropes on her. In short... People just overreacted. :-/