https://youtube.com/watch?v=O8EQtw5MVpA

I'm 22 as of 2025. I was very into creepypasta around the ages you mentioned so i think this was the first vocaloid song i heard.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TS5KmthgZ0

i remember hearing secrets of wysteria on geometry dash when i was quite young
scared me so bad
definitely a core memory

>>3319
Was never a huge fan of Steampianist but this is the song that made me fall in love with Oliver's voice about 10 years ago. Depressing how he fell into obscurity in the past few years, he was THE popular engloid for a couple years.

It was one of…
<Ievan polka
<houkou onchi
<alice human sacrifice
Melt era rocked and the popularity of nicovideo parody PVs rocked. Fewer memes for better quality back then. But I’m a nostalgic old coot.
>>3320
Oliver’s voice is too soft for me musically but he was great as puppycat.

>>3331
He's always been one of my favorites. I remember Bee and Puppycat from back when it was still just a pilot but I never watched the actual series that came out a few years ago, do they still use Oliver?

>>3332
It’s been a while since I watched it but as I remember, yeah oliver voiced puppycat for the whole thing. Feels great to be the friend explaining excitedly how the cute cat voice is a vocaloid

ievan polkka was my first but i discovered vocaloid itself from early 2010's youtubers who would play games where miku would show up like pewdiepie

>>3332
i remember watching bee and puppycat on my 3ds haha

>>3319
How is that game 12 years old already

It was Popipo

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>>3315
i'm 23 years old. since i was very young i had some sort of unsupervised access to the internet (sort of, since my parents would check on the websites i visited though).

when i was just six years old, i discovered the song melt by ryo (supercell). at a very early age i learned what vocaloid was and also what anime was, i learned to read and write at a very early age so I could look up whatever i wanted easily on the internet. in this case i discovered anime by searching more about my favourite show during that time, tokyo mew mew (which was broadcasted and localized as meow meow power). and this included discovering vocaloid, since i would watch videos on youtube while searching for things i liked, ending up in some rabbit holes.

the first vocaloid song i came across was melt. i listened to it, and thought it was very pretty, but nevertheless, i forgot about it until i was about 8 years old, when on a forum i was on they started discussing what vocaloid was and what songs people liked. i noticed that the blue haired girl they were talking about, miku herself, was popular, and i realized it was the same girl from the song melt and ievan polkka, both of which i had heard before when i was just in the first grade.

since then, i got interested on vocaloid, and hey, here i am today!
melt is still one of my favourite vocaloid songs. i'd say it's a masterpiece, for me. i tend to like songs i can relate and vent to, which are mostly melancholic in nature. but melt is one of my few favourite songs that is actually happy and cheerful.

i'll never forget that song.

>>3315
I'm 21, nearly 22, and I discovered Vocaloid through a Bad Apple Miku cover in 2013
I'm pretty sure the first Vocaloid-Origin song I heard was the Rin & Len cover of Electric Angel, Ievan Polkka, or something along those lines. I know I discovered World is Mine, Love is War, Rotten Girl Grotesque Romance, and Kokoro around the same time however.
The first Engloid song I heard was Wildfire. It was quickly followed by FOOLISH. Both these songs had a death grip on me.

Is everyone here in their 20's?

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>>3825
haha no there are absolutely no thirty something year old hags on this website don't worry about it

>>3825
I’m 28

>>3867
Let us know when you turn 31 if you don't outgrow 39chan or 39chan is still around so we can call you a tetohag

>>3825
30s here…

>>3825
I’m 25 whole years old.

>>3825
22 here

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30 here. My first was Circus Monster.
Been in love with Luka ever since.
And yes i know, i am too old for Vocaloid.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2CbxaOyMc

>>3414
SeeU and Aniki are in that very same video

>>5162
>i am too old for Vocaloid.
There's nothing wrong with being 30 and listening to vocaloid. There's no age for music.

>>5162
>30
You're not old and Vocaloid is just music, keep listening and keep loving Luka

>>5162
Anon, I don't think you can be "too old" for a type of music. I remember sharing some with my mom probably 10 years ago, when Crystalline was still up. She enjoyed it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jhl5afLEKdo&list=RDjhl5afLEKdo

...19 here (turning 20!)

I remember watching low-quality tier-list videos on Vocaloid years ago, so it was probably one of those in there. However, the ones that were probably my first introduction was probably World is Mine (probably that exact video too). Although, The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, Electric Angel, or Triple Baka are also top contenders.

>>3825
29. I have been into Vocaloid for a decade now though. I love KagomeP.

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the first vocaloid song i ever heard was rainbow girl when i was a wee lad, but i didnt really get into vocaloid untill i was in my mid teens

22. First song i heard i think was called Wash my blood

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xQvx5hdsgm0

>>3315
I'm 28 as of 2026. The first song i heard was Send My Love To Mars a couple years back when i was obsessed with Jake Kaufman's music. I loved Luka's voice here.

>>3825
If this thread is anything to go by it seems most people are between the 20-30 range with a few exceptions like >>8916

Also that anon who was 30 is probably turning 31 this year. Happy birthday Teto anon, whenever it actually is your birthday.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xY7CT2r2_pg

Either this or Last Night, Good Night. Some time in early '08 when I had just signed up for Nicodou (account says I created it in March '08 just at the end of RC2).

>>16932
>Last Night, Good Night
Every time i hear this song mentioned i remember that there's a Pharrell Williams remix of it for whatever reason. I guess i should not be surprised when the guy also made It Girl, but it's funny that it exists.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=025RgOGsxJ4

>>16933
Most of the reason those both exist is because of Murakami, who is about as close as you can get to an otaku art mogul. Superflat probably more than any overriding concern is about gloming to celebrity to pawn a capitalist critique of the otaku.

Entirely aside, but probably the best thing Murakami has been attached to is the LV animation directed by Hosada (Summer Wars).

>>16934
And the Graduation album art but I'm getting off topic here

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HOz-9FzIDf0

>>3315
It's probably Ievan Polka. But the first songs that I listened to a lot and that got me into Vocaloid were Matryoshka and Triple Baka. I think it was 2018 and I was 19 years old.

>>3315
Nyan Cat was technically the first back in 2011, but I didn't know it was vocaloid / UTAU at the time.
Then my brother showed me Black Rock Shooter and Fireworks (PinnochioP), which I thought was cool but I didn't get hooked into it.
Then finally, I came across Luka Luka Night Fever which finally got me and now I'm here.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AlX2dCrZAU

It was either Fukkireta or Triple Baka. I was getting into old weeaboo imageboard culture at the time, and I still mentally associate them both with stuff like Caramelldansen and Leekspin.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HhN4wdpbPrg [Embed]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J_DV9b0x7v4 [Embed]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=faQSs6UBDok [Embed]

>>17054
The annotations version was a classic

I'm surprised we have so many people in their late 20's / early 30's in this thread

>>17131
Late millennial / early gen Z was the last group to experience the internet before algorithmically curated short form video destroyed everyone's attention spans. Imageboards are a relic of an older internet, so I'm not surprised it's mostly us posting here.

>>17150
After hanging around at anime conventions and looking at a lot of the stuff that goes on in Vocaloid internet circles these days i assumed that the majority of Vocaloid fans at this point were either late Gen Z or Gen Alpha who joined the community post-Sekai. But yeah i guess that makes sense.

>>3825
turning 29 this year, been a fan since 2008

>>17152
also forgot to answer OP's question, pretty sure it was double lariat

>>3825
I'm 23 but have been into Vocaloid since i was about 9.

>>17153
>>17152
holy shit can't type or do anything today, meant to say 2009

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>>17155
Careful anon, you're already turning into an ojisan

Currently 28
Mine was Meltdown

Sometimes i see all these new, younger fans and feel like i'm too old for Miku but i still dig the music what can i say

>>26015
Music is timeless and appeals to anyone from any generation
I've seen 15 year olds obsessing over the Beatles

>>26018
I've seen a couple white or bald heads at MikuExpos. Could be parents but I wouldn't doubt if there's ojisans out there who listen to Miku unironically.

>>26022
I mean... some of the older millennials who grew up with Miku and all that stuff are parents themselves now...

>>26015
ojisan in his 30's here. i still like miku. you're never too old to like miku.

>>26031
Now i'm curious if we have anyone 40 or older on this site. Seems like 20-something year olds make up the majority of people here.

>>3823
good post, i feel the same way. i love melt. its one of those songs that can bring me to tears. i know it's not a sad song but it's powerful and perfectly represents miku to me. it is *the* miku song for me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Nv2Ada-1ko

It was this exact cover because I was obsessed with Rozen Maiden, it was also my first anime. Kinda crazy to think about

>>26025
I tried using TikTok for the first time yesterday and I saw a parent giving their baby a Miku-themed bed lol

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>>26064

>>26064
Do you hate yourself or are you just masochistic

I wish I could tell you but that was around like 2008

>>26064
I don't know why I find this funny.

>>26072
Mostly just bored, it's dumb but ok in small doses

https://youtube.com/watch?v=89vOwK6yPaA

The song I learned about Vocaloid from was a cover of "Don't Say Lazy" that used Luka. I thought it was gone forever, but after a little digging, apparently it still exists...albeit with the sound quality of a toilet.

Looking back on what I heard first, though, it might have actually been Alice of Human Sacrifice. Half a year earlier, I was really obsessed with Kirby and would absorb everything I could find (especially if Meta Knight was in it). The PVs, like >>3311 mentioned, could certainly be...interesting.

>>3315
I found out about Vocaloid when I was around 10 years old on scratch mit edu. I found this project that was just an audio reupload of World is Mine with a static image of the thumbnail.
I think it was the first time in my life that I found a piece of music pleasant and enjoyable in a way that I wanted to seek out again.

>>26031
Don't call yourself an ojisan if you're only in your 30s, anon... I'd bet there's a bunch of Japanese Voca producers who are around that age range at this point too. I think I'd only find it genuinely strange for someone to be into Vocaloid if they're old enough to be our parents.

>>26122
I'm not in my 40s-50s but what's wrong with enjoying Vocaloid at that age?

>>26122
There's 50-something year olds who still like Gorillaz so what's wrong with enjoying Vocaloid at dad age??. It's just music with characters attached to it at the end of the day.

I don't remember exactly the first vocaloid song that I heard. The first memory I can think back to where I recognized "that's Hatsune Miku!" was from playing Stepmania (6key cause I'm a nerd/masochist) and one of my song packs had embed related. (It also had Piano x Forte x Scandal, but I didn't know it was vocaloid because it had a human vocalist, and the chart was cursed.) I would have been thirteen-ish, around 2010. So, I think I must have found some other songs on youtube before that, but I can't recall what. I still have a folder of some ancient mp3s from back then, including Rolling Girl, Nebula, and Mozaik Role, which were my favorites. I think it's likely that the first song I heard was Rolling Girl. Thing is, I was really only passively interested in Vocaloid until a few years ago. I started listening to a lot Rachie, Oktavia, and Ado covers, and found innabakumori and r906 and bunch of other artists that I like.

https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7025047 [Embed]

(can you even embed niconico?)

>>3825
I'm 29.

>>26430
this is unrelated but i noticed a lot of people in this thread seem to be late 20's

>>26431
It makes sense, in the early 2010s we were all teenagers, probably bored with unrestricted internet access for the first time lol.

>>26430
Speaking of which, now that I think about it, I browsed TV tropes a lot back then too, and I remember seeing the vocaloid page and clicking on the Black Rock Shooter link and thinking 'meh.' Maybe that was the reason I found Rolling Girl, through like a youtube suggestion or something...

I'm 28 now but I think I discovered Vocaloid around 2011 with Lon's cover of Fukkireta which at the time I thought was Teto's actual voice. Feel like I'm not the only one who thought that though.

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>>26430
omg I'm 29 too!

>>28231
i miss the version of that video with a ton of annotations

i heard levan polka when i was a kid from a youtube recommendation and i remember thinking mikus design in the project diva pv was really cool

>>3315
I'm 27 and have heard Vocaloid stuff all my life. It was a bit inescapable in the early days of the internet. But what got me into Vocaloid was the Noise Channel theme a.k.a Send my love to mars by Jake Kaufman. I was always a big fan of his work on games like Mighty Switch Force and Shantae so I decided to check out his older songs and that one stuck out to me.

>>16870
I'm the poster above and holy shit nice. I thought i was alone here. It's such a great song. We're almost the same age too.

I'm a bit on the younger side here. 23 as of the making of this post.
My first Vocaloid song was Black Rock Shooter by supercell, because i was really into BRS at the time but wasn't familiar with Vocaloid.

>>3315
I remember watching this on the school computer in like 2011, I had no idea who she even was

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6qmUTclZhUo [Embed]

>>28646
blaack roock shooootaah

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>>26122
I accidentally found this list while looking for something else, so here you go - the real producer age spread

https://w.atwiki.jp/celebritytalent/pages/12.html

>>29242
I'm a bit surprised by how young Neru is. I expected him to be late 30's to early 40's.

>>29242
Heh. Pino, Oster, DECO and Yairi are Miku years old.