sorry to always talk about vocadiscourse here but everywhere else is annoying so. here i am again ^_^
i think fundamentally the difference between utilizing vocaloid synthesizers to bring music to life and creating fanworks around vocaloid itself is what trips people up most of the time. when i talk about canonical ages in regards to shipping and whatnot, 99% of the time i’m directly talking about people who have fandom based around vocaloid itself. there are sooooo many stories that use faceclaims and the voices of vocaloid designs that aren’t actually those characters themselves and i think that’s a very fine-line difference that causes sm discourse around vocaloid,, not to mention the fact that crypton itself decides to keep a lot of information vague for creativity purposes- which, don’t get me wrong, is a great thing for them and producers alike, but when it comes to fandom spaces it just causes sm more arguments and discourse
like obv common sense can tell that canonically there are things abt vocaloids that not every producer utilizes or includes bc it would interfere or be unimportant to storytelling with their music. which is perfectly fine ! but then at the same time it just breeds loopholes for people to get away with being weirdos and freaks in the fandom,, even if they don’t realize or think they actively are being/doing such
idk. i still enjoy a lot of vocaloid music but it’s such a grey area topic that i constantly think abt when listening to certain songs that i can’t help but feel frustrated by it :\ it makes me rlly dislike the vocaloid fandom as a whole even tho it’s such a prominent part of who i am and how i grew up
