Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-112.207.28.209-20140124094740/@comment-3076833-20140208141453

@Anon 107: You give Miku far too much credit there. But let's take this in points :

- While she has been updated i've hardly seen her been used at all. Not that she hasn't sold and people aren't using her I find, in this generation, that people would much rather use alternatives, notably Gumi and IA.

- You also give Cryptonoids too much credit too. If anyone could potentially top her at this point it would be Gumi and IA mentioned above as it's been shown that fans prefer those two to Miku.

- As you can most likely see from where i'm going with this, people have started to move on from Cryptons with even the Western Vocaloids getting much more attention than what they did in V2 generation. That is to say fandom has started to grow up and expand their view on Vocaloid. The only reason why Miku still gets attention is because Miku is still the only well known one outside the fanbase.

- That is to say that if any Vocaloid get's "meme'd" on be it another Crypton, another Japanese Vocaloid or even a Western one, they would instantly get popular nearly or even hitting Miku's popularity. This has, of course been proven to work as it's why Miku is there in the first place.

TL;DR: Miku is only still really popular outside the fanbase, inside she is in fact starting to be overshaddowed by other Vocaloids and it isn't going to be that long before she will eventually taste the dark.