User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Really sick of "Vocaloid lists..."/@comment-27378625-20160914231210/@comment-53539-20160915071826

I expect new comers to get it wrong, but I expect them to learn. If they still believe Teto is a Vocaloid a year after "joining the fandom" then what are they really a fan of? Its not 100% Vocaloid because they don't know what one is. Thats what I used to believe, but there are more theories now to that.

The two main theories I've had for post-noob fans is this;
 * 1) A lot of the time people want the term "Vocaloid" to mean a lot more then it is it seems. A few people recently gave similar answers on DA, that they do not know what to call Alys.  So they use Vocaloid trying to make it mean more then it is.  But Vocaloid is not a catch-all term for any virtual singer, its a copyrighted name which means it can only apply to the vocals released for the sim.
 * 2) Another one I've come to the conclusion on... The old argument for Teto was "she is basically a Vocaloid". Which is the other issue.  People think Vocaloid is 'the best' of what it does or look at its popularity.  Either way, they hold it to a standard that does not belong to it and want characters to that same standard. Its again another reason applied to Alys.

Either way, Alys has as you can see become my biggest pet peeve right now. She was never really a Vocaloid to begin with.