She was originally supposed to just be a XSY-made Vocaloid, a legal one, too (between two Miku V4 voices). STELLA was my biggest fuckup, but she wasn't meant to be what she was.
But I never cracked anything again, wasn't smart enough. Was using them a shitty thing to do? Absolutely.
Because I was typically the first to use a newly-cracked Vocaloid, I was constantly the one who was blamed for cracking them. AlexVox was the one who cracked and distributed Project 575 and AnonKanon, I simply used them. Hacking things was never in my skillset I wasn't that smart. Tea on myself and tea on others as a semi-popular Vocaloid producer, I was privy to a lot of things that went down behind the scenes. However, there are some things that have been on my spirit and I would like to share them with you guys "Spill the Tea", as it were. BUT, that being said, my Vocaloid career is over and in the past, and I reaped what I sowed. To preface this post, yes, I'm a shitheel who did a lot of shitty things to some people who may not have deserved it.
Vivi on the other hand, was left unreleased by its parent company VocaTone due to not even owning a license for it. Akuo no longer has a presence in the fandom due to VocaloidOtaku shutting down, however he is most notorious for being a two-faced bitch that talks shit about other artists. Luan was voiced by a then-prominent milky cow in the spanish fandom, Akuo. Now, the most notable drama there was Luan and Vivi, two vocaloids that were announced by independent companies.
However, with the website shutting down in April of 2018, the vast majority of drama threads and user pages were never archived due to lack of time to archive it effectively.Īrchive of the webpage as it appeared in February of 2018. That was only part of the reason it shut down however, the main reason was was the rampant pedophilia there. He used to earn $250/mo in PayPal donations to cover "server costs", even though it was simply a vBulletin message board. The lead admin had a mental breakdown after he was accused of abusing donations, leading to the website shutting down. Naturally it became the #1 hub for drama and bullshit. It being the most popular website for Vocaloid fans, before Twitter drama and Amino drama there was VO drama. The most popular choice for the Vocaloid fandom back then was VocaloidOtaku. Links to lolcow.farm threads here 1 2 3įor the average internet user in the late 00s and early 10s, forums were a common thing used to get together with your fellow fandom people. *Take everything here with a grain of salt, the majority of the following milk is beyond expired and there are no screenshots for some, but there are many recountings of everything I mention here in old lolcow.farm posts, so that'll have to do. In current day social media however, it is a mess to say the least. Literal hundreds of thousands of Vocaloid songs and song covers were uploaded monthly on NND, and the more successful songs made it over to YouTube with millions of views currently, either by the help of prominent translators and fan-subbers, or the music producers themselves in recent years. This continued for a long, long time, even today, with the fandom thriving on constant new songs. You would see genderbends of popular Vocaloids, complete with derivative voicebanks and "official box art" designs.
You would see users of the now-defunct VocaloidOtaku forums (more on that in a bit) arguing over whether the mirror Vocaloids Len and Rin were siblings or lovers. Well, back then in simpler times, all of this was harmless fun. Now, you may be wondering why this fandom of singing robots needs a thread. With young children and even adults just then getting into the music for the pretty anime girls, some wanted their very own Mikus! And so every young teenager made their own equivalent of Miku, either by modifying the voicebanks to make new ones - "derivatives", or to put it in Kiwifarms terms, do nut steel recolors of official voicebanks - or used their very own voices to create a voicebank for poorman's VOCALOID software, UTAU. deco*27, MitchieM and aka are the music producers of the most viewed Vocaloid songs ever made, and for good reason. In comes the early 2010s, 4chan is still a good place, and most fandoms are kicking off due to widespread of the internet.
But then Miku came along and became the catalyst for launching the dinky little synth software into stardom in the music scene - and a fandom into lolcowdom. Up until that point, few people knew about the software and you're lucky to even find something from that era still up on YouTube or NicoNicoDouga.
Simply put, anime girl avatar = retardation.Ī bit of a history lesson for everyone, Vocaloid was initially released in 2004. Now, you may be wondering why this software is deserving of a thread. Miku NT, the latest reiteration of Miku after her parent company decided to split off from VOCALOID as a software.