Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-29714788-20160608184042

Fingersoop wrote: I've said this before, Miku fans usually imply that just because you dislike anything related to Miku you automatically hate her (dislike and hate are different approximations).

Also, there are many genuine reasons to dislike Miku, so, again, her fans imply you hate her because of her popularity (as if she were so flawless that it couldn't be possible to dislike her voice, design, merchandising, concept or productions). It's actually rare to find someone who really dislikes her because of her popularity. Most of people just dislikes (mainly) her particular skirl-y voice or her blatantly idealized anime design. Emphasis in how I write dislike and not hate. Are you sure about that? Because from my experience, most people dislike/hate Miku in favour of another Vocaloid that's slightly less popular like IA or the Kagamines. I'm not saying that everybody who dislikes/hates Miku does for her popularity, because there are a lot of people who dislike/hate her for logically justified reasons. But at the same time, there are also a lot of people constantly shitting on Miku just because she's more popular than IA or the Kagamines when in reality IA and the Kagamines are the most popular right after Miku. I don't like Miku either, in fact I dislike her voice more than Ryuto's voice and think that other Vocaloids deserve to be more popular than her, but voice should be the most important factor to base your opinions of a Vocaloid on, not design or fandom assigned popularity. There's this one person on YouTube in particular who hates Miku because of her high-pitched voice but likes the Kagamines even though the Kagamines' voices are just as high-pitched as Miku's. They also think that producers who frequently use Miku do so because of her cute design when that doesn't make sense at all. I once saw a comment thread where someone said that they prefer IA's musical style to Miku's, when neither of them have a musical style because like I said before, they are musical instruments and not individual artists. So while there are people who dislike/hate Miku for legitimate reasons, it's false to say that people disliking/hating her for her popularity or any other irrational reason is rare when it's really a common occurence.