Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-53539-20160129091332

I don't particularly pay much attention to the designs of vocaloid, however, I do find that a lot of people don't take advantage of the avatarless vocaloids. You can make them all anything you want however, Leon and Lola where not just avataless.... They had direction. Unfortunately, White Leon and Lola became popular without anything to do with the "soul" part of the box. Nobody in the west knew their providers were black anyway, though I had protesting over white versions for over a year before the 2009 article was dug up.

The White depictions of the soul siblings just leaves a lot of hypocrisy from the fandom. In one case they will protest over Ruby being white, yet in another they will choose white avatars. Then again, the same lot of protesters wanted to hurt PowerFX and support Syo by not buying her, yet buying her saw Syo get a bonus and Ruby get more vocals (leading to the chance of more of a bonus).

Aside for the abuse of the Roro image (because people are often either too lazy or get attached to the popular), the image of Leon and Lola being white bothers me because Black singers have difficulty getting noticed. I remember a few years back the there was a list of the top influential 100 singers, but only a handful were black- despite the fact black singers had more influence on modern music genres then white.

And even Clara and Bruno had similar problems in some respects.

I'm not of darker skin myself, but I still believe ll this is coo-coo.