A true Vocaloid fan had a crashout after realizing that the new generation of fans (new gen) don’t recognize their classics like IA and GUMI.
i had a near death experience and ive left with the realization that we are losing the ancient texts in real time
okay hi sorry for the big fat wall of text i just have nobody to talk about this with </////3 mind boggling experience i had the other day i need to get this out somewhere and my friends couldnt give less of a gaf about vocaloid so. hi guys here i am. yelling into the reddit void like it's 2018 tumblr hashtags all over again
the other day i was talking to someone irl right. approached them because they had meiko and rin pins on their bag and i was #intrigued because those two happen to be my favorite cryptons. right. started having conversation with them & it was apparent they were a newer fan from the way they spoke about the fandom/their knowledge on it/their pins were in pjsk art style. which is. not a problem at all to me like i know lots of oldgen/midgen fans highkey hate newgens and like theyre justified... i suppose... but i personally have no issue. like yeah okay they know like none of my favorite songs and producers but it's honestly whatever like there is more to talk about. i guess. then freaking. eight of their friends show up out of literally nowhere and it's like yey! wahoo! more people to meet yippee. and theyre all also into vocaloid like i was feeling like those people on the hgtv show my lottery dream home. flowkirkenuinely the jackpot. so the first question one of them asks me is "oh who's your fav vsynth" i of course have to bust out the all time GOAT HIYAMA KIYOTERU. I AM HIS NUMBER ONE FAN EVER GUYS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH WE ARE TWELVE YEARS STRONG THAT IS LITERALLY WIFE. then i go on to list the rest of my (equally as important but unfortunately not nearly as loved sorry) favorite vsynths. and theyre all pretty basic honestly like sorry dont stone me to death im an oldgen fan with basic favs. he who has never sinned throw the first stone or whatever idk ive never been any leg of christian in my life. i list ia, oliver, yuki, una, gumi, aoki lapis, chis-a, meiko, rin, etc etc like i have a fat list of basics ok sorry my roster is full but it is hella basic. lock me up. and when im done i look at them and they're all jsut staring at me. theyre nice people so one of them smiled and went "oh yeah i know meiko and rin!" and i was like "yaaa theyre great" but i rly didnt wanna look like i was doing a niche-off with them because i recognize that even the most basic vsynths to an old fan could be unheard of to a newer one. right. (they were by no means THAT new as i came to learn. they also told me later on that they were hardcore in-deep fans. ...ok.) so i ask "but youve probably also heard of gumi and ia right! theyre pretty popular (in the most POLITE AND LIKE KIND TONE I COULD MUSTER. I REAAAALLLLYYYY DIDNT WANT TO SEEM LIKE I WAS TRYING TO OUTDO THEM BY ANY MEANS AUAUAUAU) haha. um but yeah what are ur guys' fav vsynths" and some other girl went "i like po-teto chip hehe" bro. the CRINGE I CRUNGED. WE ARE AT A PRETTY GIGANTIC AGE NOW YOU GUYS. WE CANNOT BE SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS. HOLY SHIT AND the others were giggling they were like "yahhhhh kween teetoh hehehehe did you know she was an april fools joek alalallalalalaaaaa mikuteto YURIIIIIIII" i was actually on the brink of tears brah. not even for liking teto ok she was one of the first vsynths i ever witnessed (the other one being ia. saw teto and ia's duet in 2014 from recordings of 2014 niconico and it altered my neuronic structure forever good lord). it was like purely for the way they spoke. you guys are the reason everyone hates us. well ok not entirely but youre a pretty huge chunk of it. ok ofc we were all like that at some point maybe not to the tee or with the exact same specs but that was in 2015 like it was ok then. now??? in the big 26 we're acting like this?? now this isnt even "be cringe and free" this is straight up a fucking assault. on who ON ME BRO ASSAULT ON ME. HAD TO SIT THROUGH THAT BULLSHIT FOR LIKE 30 MINS I WAS DEBATING DEATH. anyways and what they were doing is not even the worst part THAT IS NOT EVEN THE PUNCHLINE DUDE. one of them turns to me and said "oh yeah also who is the ee yah and gumi you mentioned idk those" and the other eight people EIGHT! nodded in agreement. so now i had to like lock in i had to put forth my kindness to all customer service waitress persona (persona mention). i said "hey i really dont want to sound pretentious (i really truly didnt) this is a genuine question um how long have ygs been fans" they all said since 2021. TWENTY TWENTY ONE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE YEARS POST DEATH OF CHRIST BRO YOUVE HAD. FIVE YEARS. YOU DONT KNOW IA GUMI. IA I CAN UNDERSTAND (I REALLY CANT) BUT GUMI????? MEGPOID???????? AND THEY TOLD ME THEY WERENT EVEN CASUAL FANS EITHER + THEY WERE TALKING AND ACTING LIKE THEY WERE MILES DEEP IN THE FANDOM SO I WAS?????? APPALLED?????????? IS GUMI NOT STILL RELEVANT DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW HER????????????????? AND LIKE THEY KNEW ZERO CLASSICS. NONE. YOU'RE ALLEGEDLY WELL VERSED IN THE FANDOM ALLEGEDLY BUT YOU KNOW NOTHING BRO I WAS JUST STARING OPEN MOUTHED. LITERALLY ABOUT TO CRY DUDE I WAS HAVING PALPITATIONS.
I THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE LYING ABOUT HOW BAD NEW FANS COULD BE. NO NO THEY REALLY WERENT. EVERYTHING IS ABOUT SYNTHV TETO AND TRYING TO RACK UP AS MANY NICHE VSYNTHS AS POSSIBLE (THESE NINE CLEARLY DIDNT GET THE MEMO) AND POSING AS THOUGH YOURE SOME ANCIENT FAN THAT PREDATES THE YAMAHA COMPANY AS A WHOLE. GUYS WE NEED WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO MAKE SOME SORT OF LIKE. CRASH COURSE. FOR NEW FANS. AND IM SURE IT'S OUT THERE THEY JUST DONT GAF. I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH NEW FANS IT'S JUST THAT EVERY INTERACTION WITH ONE KINDA MAKES ME WANT TO KMS. LITERALLY ONE OF THE MOST HARROWING EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE IT'S UP THERE WITH THAT TIME I ALMOST GOT RUN OVER BY THE METRO BECAUSE I WAS IN THE TRACKS OK LIKE IT WAS PRETTY BAD.
everything is being watered down to actual horse shit i cant even recognize the fandom i grew up in anymore this is like the house of alexandria getting burned down except there's no fire theyre just taking each book one at a time and covering it in tar.
um anyways yeah sorry if this made no sense or if it is just a fat jumble of words. wish i could say english isnt my first language but it is so. i speak spanish and japanese and cantonese #polyglotqueen so perhaps that counts for something... idk. ok. ya. thanks. needed to just. let this out. bye ok