/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>41174797
From the get go, the best thing about the Vocaloid fandom has always been the decentralized nature of it, no one person or group can meaningfully control it. In an increasingly centralized internet (pic related), it's a nice bastion of freedom we can come back to. This also means nobody can gatekeep it.

K-Pop with it's corporatized and homogenous nature is the complete opposite of that. Even if we completely ignored all the history leading up to today, calling Hatsune Miku "K-Pop 2" is pretty braindead.

Also, 4chan users calling anyone else autistic is pretty rich. Especially if we compare twitter teens to when 4chan users were generally teens (the mid 2000s desu desu chargin' mah lazah era). Pitchloids will forever be the Vocaloid low point.

>>21764195
It doesn't just feel this way. The WWW has become more centralized.

>>15504502
No. Most of the web's traffic has been consolidated into a few mega sites that have become too big to fail, social media connects everything, virtually everyone is online, and commercial interests have become pervasive.

Imagine the web was a newly found land in the 90s, and the people who went there were settlers who built villages, towns and secluded residences all over the place that were at best loosely networked and possibly not even on the map. Then after the turn of the millennium corporations built a big, shiny, closely controlled and comfortable city and a huge influx of immigrants came to populate it. The immigrants never leave the (inreasingly Orwellian) city and barely even know there is anything outside of it or that something existed before it. Many or most of the settlers move into the city too, and the old lands become depopulated and dilapitated. There are still people there, and some people from the city go there too and build things, but most people are in the city and don't go outside so there are not many visitors and not much activity. The old lands will never be completely abandoned, but they're not going to make a comeback either.

Anyway, this is maybe the most amazing oldschool web site I've seen:

http://www.usagi.org/doi/anime2.html

He's been running it since 1994. Go look at the "seiyuu and idol and anime events" page and be amazed. This isn't something you'll see on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger or Wordpress, and most of the content on those sites is ephemeral and forgotten in hours, days or weeks. Just according to keikaku.