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>>577
>What was it like to be a Vocaloid fan before Miku
nonexistent unless you're ShuT-P
>around the time Miku was relatively unpopular in the west (mid 2007-ish)?
wasn't around for that time (discovered miku in 2010) but theres pages from notable old vocaloid fansites that date back to around that time that can give you a feeling for what the early days were like
https://mikufan.com/ (might need archive.org for this because it's down currently lol)
https://vocaloidism.com/

>>582
>vocaloidism
god you have no idea how much i miss blogs like that. social media really was the final nail in the coffin for those types of sites wasn't it? i'll admit that following a news account on twitter, instagram and all those sites is more convenient considering it's on sites people visit often but old blogs had some charm to them.

>>582
I get the feeling that Mikufan is gone for good. They stopped updating it around 2022 and now it's been down for a month. Shame considering it was one of the few remaining Vocaloid news sources that didn't succumb entirely to social media but at the same time it's not like they were going to update it again.

If i had the patience i would make my own Vocaloid news blog with an RSS feed but these days AHS, Internet Co and all those companies post updates via Twitter and it's hard to keep up with most of it. I also doubt anyone would care about a news blog in 2024.

I typed "vocalsynth blog 2024" into google and this was the first result. It's honestly better than nothing.
https://vocalsynthretailers.wordpress.com/

>>582
>mikufan
Goodnight, sweet prince

>>628
It's time for this site to step up and make the next MikuFan!

>>629
most vocalsynth news come from japanese twitter brand accounts and its hard to keep up with all of them

also this site comes close >>596

i actually wonder what it must've been like to see vocaloid go from a neat little tool to help producers generate vocals for their songs to a whole cultural phenomenon people still talk about to this day. from tonio, prima, sweet ann, etc to miku, gakupo, gumi, teto, etc.

>>729
I remember when I first saw those Miku and Toyota commercials I promptly lost my mind, it was insane. bacon wrapped hot dog indeed, miku.

>>629
That's decades worth of content anon

>>591
Jinxed it

>>749
Holy shit you just unlocked a memory i forgot i even had

I remember coming across it years ago and thinking it was the funniest thing ever… and well, it still is

HATSOONE MEEKOO - HATSOONE MEEKOO - WOO WOO

>>629
I've considered it, but we'd need many contributors

>>1903
This ad is so fucking funny to me because it's meant to be a Toyota Corolla commercial but at no point in the video do you see a car (without counting the ones in the background)
I have no idea what the fuck they were thinking with this ad but god bless whoever came up with the idea for it

>>582
Does shu-tP's work predate Miku's existence? I always had the idea that he started around the time Miku became popular

>>6474
No, shut-p's first song came out like two months after miku

>>6488
That's when he started posting on niconico. He started making Vocaloid songs in 2005 and won a contest to name Kaito

>>6495
The true vocaloid oldfag

>>591
Man, this anon saw it coming

So what happened to Vocaloidism? It's been sitting there in the same state since 2017

>>6936
Most of the people involved have moved on from the scene. Others I know are adjacent in things like Vtubers and anikura.

>>591
>I also doubt anyone would care about a news blog in 2024.
Probably the only way to support a mid-tier blog in the current media landscape is through crowdfunding. Advertising and affiliate revenue would have been a path to success even 5-10 years ago, but it's just not there anymore, and AI summaries have blown up the common wisdom about SEO to drive clicks through.

Honestly I think there's potential for subscription-supported vocal synth coverage, and you see success in this model in other niche categories, but beat reporting has always been really hard to make money off of. Everything in crowdfunding ends up converging on podcasting because the overhead is so low and the demand seems to have no ceiling still. I don't know that longform or even midform content really appeals to vocal synth fans (Sakuga Blog is an aspirational example in this respect) but I think if someone can get the format right, there's a pretty ripe mix of coverage possible. Maybe the place to start is matome-style link roundups to see if the appetite is even there.

(I've thought about pursuing this more seriously so it's always fresh on my mind, but as you can tell, no one's really in this space because launching anything in media is a losing bet and everyone is glued to Twitter/X et al.)

>>6993
You'd be surprised, there actually is a semi-active blog dedicated to vocal synthesizers on Wordpress. But as you can tell from the first entry you see when you visit the person who runs it seems to be sick and hasn't had time to update it recently.
https://vocalsynthretailers.wordpress.com/
>everyone is glued to Twitter/X
I'm guilty of this but I'm still using RSS feeds to this day. I have it on for 39chan itself in fact.

>>6994
It's really admirable what they're doing by themselves, though the scope is pretty limited to synth releases. Mid-tier in my mind is something supported by at least a pocket of dedicated staff that can juggle the different verticals (song events, doujin events, merch, synth releases, editorial) because to do the sort of regular coverage we're talking about needs that redundancy and specificity. In years past there were more successful paths to supporting a staff that could make that model work, but, well, the well is drier than dry now. I've run song roundups on my blog semi-irregularly with some minor editorial, and that itself is a difficult flood to tread water in unless you allow yourself to linkdump, but it does make me think there is some succesful pooling of volunteer staff that could make a go of it again.

I'm a big believer in RSS as well (I even follow Nico and YouTube uploads through a reader) but it's just not the way audiences interact with regular content anymore. Even the sites that still support it don't expose it, and the new media outfits that I have seen pop up don't bother.

I run a decently popular vocal-synth news account, though it only covers new voicebank/engine releases and have though of running a blog but I'd need more editors and I'm not sure if people would still consume news through that format when social media exists. Also no I'm not PositiveVSynth.

>>628
What the hell was this guy's problem

>>18531
LMAO

Honestly, who knows. I can only assume the guy lost interest and overtime other things in his life just came first.

Something similar has actually been happening with LearnMMD for a fair bit now. Not that he wouldn’t respond but the owner stopped emailing the writer’s a long time ago. The only recent word anyone got was a few months ago when his email got hacked. No word since then.

It’s kinda sad seeing the older sites fansites Vocaloid and MMD wise fade out…

>>18948
Oh shit. LearnMMD is pretty much essential for beginner MMD creators. Not only do you download the software from there but a lot of their tutorials are extremely useful too (though some are a bit dated). We can't just let it die like that.

I'm an oldgen but I feel like i missed out on the PJD series. Obviously nothing is stopping me from just buying the games but i will never know what its like to be hyped for a new Project Diva.

>>18948
>Something similar has actually been happening with LearnMMD
LearnMMD going down would be like the burning of the library of Alexandria for MMD users

>>19687
I was there for the release of PS3 Diva