User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-3026881-20150414111531

I can't say I can really give the fandom a rating, given that I've never truly interacted with it to a major degree. I'm pretty much a lurker/observer (heck, I'm a lurker here too. I think I've only commented on like, one? two pages? and that was to point out mistakes I was too timid to fix myself). I'd say I've had the luck to meet up the more mature portion of fans, if I meet up with any at all. I kind of found Vocaloid by accident, and started with it by watching all of those stupid MMD clips. I can say for certain I see more of the childish weaboo/ship-hungry fans on MMD videos than actual song ones.

I guess I'm just lucky to mainly meet up with people that actually appreciate the work that goes into even a single Vocaloid song. I had VOCALOID for a brief period before getting a new laptop, and it's quite difficult (though my main problem was transferring the melody in my head to the lyrics in the program xnx), and that's just with VOCALOID! You need to find ways to add music, whether it be a program or you recording it yourself. (I didn't have a music program and was looking into a friend who could possibly help me out. Maybe if I can get VOCALOID on the new laptop I can have another go. It was more of a "i like the arts and all aspects of it including music and i'm interested in this way of making songs" thing anyway.)

Because of that I tend to cringe when people making videos on youtube credit Vocaloid songs to the Vocaloid rather than the producer (I will admit being guilty of it a few times, but that was around the time I first started getting into it) and ask the obvious question of "is it an anime?"

I guess what I'm trying to say is, yeah the newer fans can be annoying and sometimes they just don't learn, but I find them rather easy to tune out. I never really shipped or anything, I just listened to whatever songs I like and looked into the producers to see if they had similar stuff.

So with my l i m i t e d, skim-the-surface, interactions and observations, I would say a 5 or a 6 if you paid attention even slightly more than I did. But once again, I'm a lurker, so I don't feel I can give an accurate report or anything.

woops i rambled