User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-53539-20150413080258

There are worst fandoms... I've been in the Mortal Kombat and Sonic fandoms, and both were stuck in the 90s, unable to move forward because they couldn't seen anything but what they felt were "the golden days" of each franchise.

Sonic fandom, being the worst of the two.... Since "Sonic only works in 2D", which at this point is BS. Basically when Sonic '06 came about, they never let go of how bad Sonic had gotten and all 2000s Sonic games seemed to have been tainted with the black spot. There were people who said that Sonic was best when it was him on his own... But last time I checked it was only a few years. Nostalgia is the bane of a lot of franchises, but the Sonic fandom definitely takes the cake.

Mortal Kombats fandoms issue has to do with Midway milking the franchise because they were going bankrupt and it was only the sale of MK games keeping them afloat. They literally had not invested any money into the franchise since MK4 had been released, forcing the team to use the same tired equipment. Games were being kicked out before they were ready, meaning no polishing up time had occured. Once Warner took the company over, we even saw a delay time to allow MK9 time to polish up as many bugs as possible. The game was finished several months before it was released and they were not rushed to release it by Warner.

Theother fandom with some serious problems I came across was Dragoncave, which had a lot of drama over nothing and TJ09 basically influenced by the artists to the level of insanity. When Frilled dragons were retired, it was the artist causing drama because they were tired of people saying bad things about them, because they "clogged" up the abandoned eggs/hatchlings page. There was a topic created to encourage everyone to suck up to the artist, despite the artist saying it was to get both sides of the coin, as per say. When finally they were called out on their actions as the artist, instead of listening to reason they just called the Frilled dragons "dead". And they pretty much forced TJ09 to retire them. And in the end... It was because they couldn't convince TJ09 to do what the artist wanted.... Which was to make the dragon have a special action which encouraged the Frilled dragons to make hatching grow up faster... Or something like that. Either way, the whole situation was just STUPID, and the artist cause a witch hunt amongst the forum, wherein anyone who said anything ill of the sprites was hounded out of the forum for simply not finding them appealing or speaking out against the artist. The drrama was literally about white knights gathering to dfefend the artist and instead of TJ09 putting his foot down and tell the artist off, he let the artist get away with it, retired the sprite and she got away with no consequences of her actions... This meant that the artist could repeat the same issue later with the Valentine's dragons... Further more that particular artist was knwon to have a habbit of trying to re-write the lore of her dragons post-release. That... TJ09 did put his foot down then... :-/

Compared to everything that Vocaloid comes up with... Most of its problems amount to the subduing of anything negative against Miku, Kagamine talk which is annoying... Naivty/ignorance... Honestly... I think this, One Piece and MLP:FiM are overall good fandoms with a LOT less issues then the previous 3.

I'd give it a 6 out of 10 in terms of badness, because those problems amount to problems that are common when your fandom has a lot of teens in it... Who don't have full maturity yet but have the rebellious streak that comes with being young and not yet aware of things in the world. You get this same problem with any fandom that has most of its fandoms being non-adults. It has matured a lot in the last 5 years though and things are getting better slowly... Give it another 10 years and the fandom will have matured further.

Trouble is, at that point you'll risk becoming like the aging Sonic or MK franchise, wherein everyone will just talk abotu the good ol' V2 days or something... >_<