User blog comment:Serza5/English Vocaloids - Their Boom?/@comment-5665682-20140717184825/@comment-53539-20140720080929

^All this is true, but I look at the reasons for lack of a "boom" and the number of times "marketing" comes up is crazy. Its the most common thing or anyone to focus on, that isn't a snark remark about the English version of Vocaloid itself. ¬_¬

But whenever it normally comes up, the focus is on the "now" rather then the "then". I've seen a few VO'ers criticize me for constantly pointing out how unmarketed Miku was originally, but when you go back in the web time to the early stuff.... There honestly isn't much.... There were 2 books on how to use Vocaloid, Karen-T was not around and merchandise took nearly a year to get going as we know it. And the racing thing took until the last few races of the 2008 season to happen. :-/

I think marketing wise, a lot of the issues I found early on with this fandom wasn't that it was lack of marketing, it was despite the marketing going on, few knew outside of the Big 8. And thats with the other Japanese Vocaloids in mind. Often in my early days as a fan in the fandom, when I brought up English vocaloids they were shocked there was a version. And often I had to point out that they were released first, not the Japanese.

And then came the snarky remarks and digs at English Vocaloid, which to this day still put it down. ¬_¬