Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26341692-20150610113934/@comment-53539-20150610121917

I think someone said something like this in a blog a while ago... Thoguh that was more about thinking the fandom was "toxic".

Having been on the net since 1998/9 I kinda have been around long enough to know that every fandom has a lot of things in common with each other and certain traits aren't isolated to just one fandom.

You get the prude, veteran fans who want to step on noobs and clueless fans, but thats part of the geek culture the net breeds. So this isn't a bad thing, its just a cliched thing and its something you have to bare and get used to.

In my opinion, the Dragoncave fandom is a lot worst, because the artists abuse their position when faced with drama to basically teach their fans a lesson about daring to speak an opinion against their work... Some are better, then some are totally unprofessional. I've also been in the Sonic fandom and hated that too... As I said before ost of the fandom seemed stuck int he 90s and refused to go forward... And Mortal Kombat fandom as enjoyable, but the heavy Americanized franchise in the early-mid 2000s meant pro-American attitudes could render the few foreigners afraid. Plus they were also stuck in the 90s. Then we have the comic fandoms of DC comics which were just a underground nerd fight scene when they set off on their big degree worthy arguments. ¬_¬

Fans always represent the best and worst of every franchise... So I'm always gonna stick by saying "its not so bad as everyone thinks". Other then the MF situation, I've not felt things were so bad I'd want to leave and that was because like the MK fandom, I had a pair of idiots attacking me on a personnel level.

I mean some think we're arrogant for just having a anti-pocaloid stance or feeling the need to express our opinions to begin with. Both nothing one, one is because of the greater wikia policys which mean we can't without risking the wikia shut down.... The other is just having the freedom to express what we think. And everyone can do that here. Unless its spam or trolling, then thats not allowed. But this is to keep the enviroment safe and clean for everyone to enjoy right?

VO forums has its highs and lows also. On the one hand, its a source of information and a forum to nerd it out... On the other you get a few alpha fans who dominate the boards and don't like it when you express an opinion which contradicts their belief. But thats the problem with a forums, from experience of the one piece fandom... Where Greg attacked wikia editors all the time at one stage... And believed some BS theories... It happens also in every forum. I found this in the Sonic fandom, if you liked Sopnic adventure everyone just seemed to look at you funny...They seemed to forget that the game was super popular, one of the more popular Sonic games in fact... It seemed to be because it wasn't one of the 90s 2D games....

Yeah... I can talk a lot of fandoms, because I've had a lot of experience here. But on Vocaloid specifically... I just find ignorance and bias the biggest 2 issues the fandom has. If it lost those, it would be better. Bias hurts large areas of Vocaloid, due to the boycott based on opinion and not facts... And ignorance is because of the way the fandom had always been introduced to Vocaloid. As I've exampled recently, there is that example from DA of that person who told someone "Vocaloid is a band" when its not... And was ignorant to why that was an issue even after a explanation as to why.

But time has been one of the best healers for Vocaloids fandom, so lets just let time progress... >_<