Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33060919-20180228003730/@comment-53539-20180410085542

@Cats, I was at school when Red/blue and yellow came along, there was only a few electric pokemon at the time. There were far more pure types then hybrid types and the game was a lot less complex then it is now. Pikachu and its evolution Raichu had more of a chance, you got them early enough to consider them for a team. If you weren't going with Jolteon, you had a stone free for use for Pikachu. Magneton wasn't so good in those days, a electric type without so many decent electric moves, and moves that didn't really decide much of the battle. It was outclassed basically a lot of the time.

The Miku comment is not so much so. Miku's songs on average actually can get far less views then many of the other Vocaloid. There are just so many, so while the no. of views she gets overall is huge, those views are spread thinly compared to some other vocaloids. Standing out with Miku is much harder then some of the other Vocaloids for this reason, it takes luck for the most part to get famous with her. Think of it this way, she has well over 40,000 songs by now that are original works, and in each project diva game only X amount (so 30-50) get in, many being repeated from previous games in addition. A lot of the songs are also by producers with the CFM Karen-T label, and this label can make a heck of a difference in getting somewhere too. You also have the Piapro website, wherein standing out there can make more of a difference then elsewhere like Nico video.

Basically, its harder to stand out with Miku then anyone else. Its why Haku exists, people created her to mock the users who put out work and didn't get anywhere, either because they weren't talented or their work just was lost in the sea of videos. They then moaned about it. When you have some 3000 or so songs a month, only about a dozen songs are going to get anywhere. And many end up being that producers one-hit wonder.