Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-53539-20160615160119

Scintillarescenza wrote: Yes, but these days there are so much sources of information where people can easily find out what Vocaloid is like this wiki for example. Back when KEI had to illustrate Miku, Vocaloid wasn't really a known thing and neither were voice synthesizers. Now we have many other voice synthesizers like UTAU, Cevio, Chipspeech, Alter/Ego, etc. Yet we still have people in this fandom who don't know that Miku was voiced by a real person and claim that her voice was computer generated. Also, like 80% of them don't know most of the Vocaloids and around 40% only know the "Big 8 plus IA" group. That's why I don't like any form of misinformation whether it can be easily corrected or not. But here is the thing; most won't.

As I said, the MAJORITY don't know Vocaloid past the music on youtube, itunes, Nico video, etc, and don't want to really do that research.

Its like this... I know what Star Trek is, but I haven't seen ever episode nor do I know more then the initial popular and cultural references. This is how the MAJORITY of people will be. Consider also, that tops 95% of the news coming out of the works will contain at least 1 reference to Miku and the other 5% are the other Vocaloids. Now you want to tell me, with so much coverage, why anyone will presume that there is more to Vocaloid then Miku? All they have is what they see, and what the see is Miku.

This is where it all begins and ends, and the root of the problem. I honestly only expect Vocalonuts like us to know these things and not the general public. Its not right, I agree, what its kinda to be expected. Lets put it this way... Fans of Justin Bieber don't always take into account that he is a asshole who is a spoilt brat who does stupid things like peeing in janitors buckets because his drank and has no respect for others. Its exactly the same as the issues within our fandom. Lets face it, an awful lot of people don't want to know, are ignorant, bias to the idea of knowing to avoid being "uncool" and taking as a geek/nerd/dork. :-/