/g/ - General Discussion

seeing momocashew butt naked dancing in a forest was not on my 2024 bingo card

I mostly just lurk around on discord in most of the servers I joined.

>especially public servers where you'll be reading 120 messages per milisecond on a channel with 60 different rules and power tripping mods.

I mostly agree.
I'm member of a small private server that first served (and still a bit serves) as bunker of a "big" public server.
I think the most thing thats fun about it, is that the idiots that join the public server do not know about it.

I honestly think Discord as a whole sucks ass and I wish my friends weren't stubborn enough to move to another service like Element or Escargot but it is what it is

>>83
Honestly the Japanese portion of the nu-vocaloid fanbase isn't bad but the English speaking community is pretty terrible, especially those who joined via Project Sekai. Still, I'd much rather take the vocaloid fanbase we have now over communities like the new Azumanga Daioh fanbase which is so irony poisoned and instagram brainned that I honestly hate it, especially when looking back at the /azu/ glory days. Whoever thought mixing the azumanga daioh fanbase and soundcloud rappers honestly is my mortal enemy for life. Vocaloid doesn't really have this problem because Vocaloid fans are primarily there for Vocaloid music and not hypebeast shit off RYM or Fantano with anime coating. It's hard making friends these days, online and offline because of how much the internet has premeated the daily culture and in my opinion, made things worse for people with niche interests. Small imageboards are nice still at least because they adhere to imageboard culture and aren't throwing that to the wayside to appease brain rotted zoomers.

>>86
>Honestly the Japanese portion of the nu-vocaloid fanbase isn't bad but the English speaking community is pretty terrible
This is true for all fandoms/communities these days honestly, not just Vocaloid. I hate sounding like that "Thing, Japan" meme but English communities these days are filled with puritan underage zoomers who will bitch about the most insignificant things. You've seen it happen with DECO's Rabbit Hole a couple months ago, and you'll see it happen with anything that isn't clean and family friendly. Which is odd because in Japan zoomers are usually the ones carrying the fandoms (a lot of highly regarded modern VOCALOID producers like Inabakumori, Pepoyo and Iyowa for example were born in the late 90's or early 2000's). Either way I never cared for Project Sekai because I hate mobile gaming in general and I also don't really interact with the EN side of the Vocaloid community outside of 39ch.
>Still, I'd much rather take the vocaloid fanbase we have now over communities like the new Azumanga Daioh fanbas
That too. I've loved Azudai since I watched it years ago, but the new fans leave a sour taste in my mouth. It feels like most of the people who watch it these days only watch it for le funny autism girl from the memes because they're quite literally unable to name any other character that isn't Osaka.

>>87
Maybe it's the fact that I was one a decade ago and therefore I was oblivious to all the bs around me but I feel like kids online have become more aggressive than they were back then. Them invading adult spaces is nothing new. I myself was playing M rated games and faking my age on sites like 4chan and Deviantart when I was 12. If I came across anything I deemed weird I would just block or ignore. The difference is that these days they don't do any of this. They actively seek it, interact with it and expect you to conform to their weird prude standards, even if the content they consume is clearly made with adult audiences in mind (e.g. Danganronpa, Vocaloid Sex Songs, etc). If they don't interact with it they'll gossip about it publicly on Xitter or ShitTok with their circle of friends who have the same mentality.

On top of that infuencers have brainwashed an entire generation into believing that Len Kagamine singing about his cock being "illegal" is within the realm of possibility. There's a reason why when you go on Youtube to an old Vocaloid song like Plus Boy and read the comments all the recent ones are negative while the ones from 2012 are more positive and even find it comedic, but I digress I'm going on a schizo rant here. I just miss old fandom culture and I miss being able to share a niche with people who truly care about it. It's still possible, sure, but now whiny faggots are in the majority and it's near impossible to meet cool people.