Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-53539-20130506185212/@comment-53539-20130519123514

Miku English is pretty much the reason why Miku FB is where it is. CFM announced they would only make a English vocal if it reached a X amount of views, prior to this there was not much following on the FB account. In a month and a half so it reached 40,000+ followers. The other 940K followers have come in since November 2010. :-/

Regardless, there is a very realistic reason why 'fans' can miss a vocaloid... When I first came to this fandom back in 2009 few had heard of other Japanese vocaloids, let alone English vocaloids.

Reason?

Lets take for example, the series "Ben10". A typical kids hero show... Now if I wanted to learn everything about Ben10, I don't necessary have to read a internet page, I can watch the show, form it learn the 'canon' storyline of Ben10's series.

Back to Vocaloid this is NOT the case. The 'vocaloid canon' is speard over no common grounds. 'Fans' of Vocaloid don't in some cases even know what their a fan of... Depending on your experiences, you may not even understand what a 'vocal synethiser' actually is even if you bother to research it... But for the most part, depending on yours experiences you may think that vocaloid is a band, a game, a manga, and due to the PVs, a anime series. :-/

There are a good chunk of the overseas fans who are still learning there are other vocaloids beyond Miku still... People still come to this wikia and are surprised to learn there are 40+ Vocaloids when at the most they were aware of 6 or 8, maybe even 10 if their aware of Ia and Mayu because their only following the Exit Tunes releases.

So yes, it is POSSIBLE to not be aware of the existence of characters like Kamui. Add with no confirmation Kamui is going to be a Vocaloid, tell me... How are people suppose to take Kamui serious even if they are aware of her?

We get at least 1,000 vistors a month here, based on our poll results over the last couple of years. When I was beaucrat I recall working out there was roughly at least 5,000+ visiting us. Yet of the 5,000+ how many are talking in the comments section? And even yet, we're having only 1% of the 980,000+ fans, if that, visit us. And yet we have pages on Miku, we should have visitors here just for Miku alone, forget if their 'vocaloid fans' or not. :-/

Be aware everyone in this fandom is not activity engaged and mingling with each other. And at this point, add in a little bias/personnel preferences into this and since we just have a pretty cat-girl as a picture, people will take her at face value. Therefore, Kamui currently MAY NOT appeal to everyone and some might feel they should skip her, especially as mentioned there is no confirmation on her going to be a vocaloid.

As someone who has been fighting to get all vocaloids acknowledged since 2010, I'm fully aware of the heap of things plaguing this fandom. I've had to bust an awful lot of myths in the process and encountered a lot of responses.

Be aware hen you dismiss my notes, that I'm speaking from a lot of experience here of being directly involved with the fandom. :-/