Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-27916289-20160304224651/@comment-53539-20160305080751

What makes Miku popular is the Japanese fans buying into her, so you would have to change the culture of an entire nation. Ranting here about it in the west, where we have little influence will not change a thing. And because Miku is so popular, CFM will exploit her, they HAVE to - if they don't she will loose popularity. It basically amounts to a vicious circle wherein Miku is popular so creates more merch for her that in turn makes her more popular and makes even more merchandise.

The reason for the lack of merch on other Vocloids is that compared to Miku it doesn't sell as well. Even other CFM Vocaloids.

Lets go back to V2, by the end of V2 Miu ahd been uber popular yes... But none of the Vocaloids - even better vocls then her, experienced anywhere near the popularity. CFM turned their attention in V3 from trying to overall promote Miku to just promoting Miku, for reasons. She ha the most software investment for this same reason - to get what money they could back. :-/

To note Disney, Disney himself said that he did not make movies to make money, he mde money to make movies. The sad reality is to give fans what they want, first a Vocaloid must sell. And this is a problem, since Vocaloid is a low profit product in many cases. This is why most Vocaloids have only a bare bone release. True, Luka V4x has a lot of stuff in it, but this was a risk because the more they added to her, the less profit they would have gathered. But a product like Sachiko, has only 1 vocal in it because its a new vocal.

True Arsloid and Fukase being male vocals, on the other hand, had to take this risk because "Males don't sell" in Japan. And with so many producers just opting for Kaito or Gackpoid, the only way they could compete would have been to have these extras. IF they did not, they likely would not attract much attention at all and would have little reason to sell to begin with. Male Vocaloids in Japan cannot be released anymore without some gimmick it seems. We won't know sadly if the gamble paid off, but I ccan understand why they had no choice but to take this risk.

The only way to beat Miku is just to focus on promoting the other Vocaloids. You waste time running Miku down as your preaching to the choir.

In regards to mature content... I confess I do flag images of Len that turn up on DA because they have policy against underage minors being depicted in certain ways even as cartoon characters, but I also flag Oliver, Ryuto and Rin. I do not touch Miku, Luka, etc. Sex is not a moral wrong, but certain things are. A lot of the time, that stuff is only produced for like-minded individuals, if you don't like it therefore its likely its not for you anyway so don't bother with it. To be honest, sine I'm 31 myself... I.e. an adult by far... This doesn't bother me as much as it did when I was a teenager. I agree its often bad but the thing is, even back in the days of Miriam's release this was an acknowledgement.

Rather then focusing on the existence of porn, it would be better to just focus on the line that should be drawn on it, for example back to underage minors being in it. Kids are too young to understand the consequences of something and would take too lightly something that turns out to be a heavy issue in the real world. Being a mother at 12 is a bigger burden then 22, because you loose valuable time that you could have spent at 12 trying to be a child yourself because you have to look after one. So on top of exams, job hunting, the risk of damage to your own health, etc. It shouldn't be encouraged at all. But I'm not here to lecture safe sex or anything like that.

I'm just saying there are far worst things. There are currently girls held at gun point and forced onto the set of a porn studio to do things or die. There are girls dying because some sick mind wanted to make slasher porn. She is not suffering any pain compared to the REAL girls out there being exploited. And when those girls are out of their 20s, they will be forced to work in a casino, until they are even older and then tossed aside, having lost their entire life and having tons of mental health issues. Now compare this to a picture of Miku naked, likely drawn badly or not even realistically enough to be taken seriously... Which does more harm? The entire real life porn industry or the cartoon side? Both are seeing to male fetishes and fantasy?

I've seen far worst content make by fangirls then anything fanboys make to jerk off to. :-/