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nanjokei · 1 year

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the world would have turned out different if visual kei music was way more accessible to everyone especially in the 2010s. i understand why the fans gatekeep so hard, like i was on livejournal i witnessed the jpop idol group and vkei group private communities so i know WHY but also i think "well buy this out of print cd or youre shit out of luck" attitude that a lot of vkei fans have is so inexcusable in this day and age

like, yeah, japanese record companies are draconian and a lot of the most iconic music of the region will not be on streaming for years even if just IN JAPAN, let alone overseas. i understand that vkei fans especially the older ones have fully bought into the culture— theyre in the official fanclubs of their favorites, they buy from the clothing lines, support solo projects, buy cds, and ofc jp record companies are always breathing down everyones necks and are incredibly litigious as they were in the blogging and livejournal days so. such traumas stuck. i don't know, i support gatekeeping in a lot of things myself, so it could be that i'm simply jilted that i am in the "out" group.

but still, i saw how they act on twitter on the modern day. it is too old fashioned. at the same time, can i blame them if they would have to contend with things like tiktok defiling and watering down the subculture theyve been consuming for a large chunk of their lives if it goes too far? the appropriation? the price gouging? (cuz yknow, in the modern day theres an emphasis on Owning and Buying anything you happen to like for a few days. you see it in doll communities so much)

they should bring back applications. im sure groups are still up on lj but, i have a feeling they have been less and less willing to burn their cds and share them around even a closed circle (not that i have any basis for this aside from how much a lot of vkei fans DEFEND japanese record companies on sns. which is unforgivable to me)

like... there's a reason why kpop is so popular. i never once saw a kpop fan gatekeep anything on livejournal. i had friends who always showed me stuff. a relative who tried to get me into 2ne1 more than a decade ago. it's 2023 and japanese music fandoms and subculture has not caught up, unless they have strong doujin ties like for example vocaloid. there's too much of an honor system, too much bootlicking. we've gone from "we're hiding it so the record companies don't burn it all down" to "hurr durr we have to heed them because if we're bad they won't care about overseas fans" (btw, they never gave a fuck. if they did it'd be on streaming already. you are worshipping a brick wall that is suppressing both you and its artists)

if anyone has any opinions or thoughts!!! tbh i have not seeked out vkei in a few years. bc i feel that its probably even harder to find things than before and the gatekeeping as gotten stronger somehow (not without reason). im sure stuff like malize mizer has download links on random brazilian blogspot blogs but i'm talking very broadly here

#rambles #long post #maybe

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butterscotch-brigade · 6 years

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im just gonna ramble about the different types of villains in my vocaloid au for a bit under the cut just bc i can

gakupo is less of a villain and more of an asshole who doesnt realize hes being an asshole. he ends up getting a redemption arc bc hes ultimately the least “bad” out of all of the villains (aside from fukase but we’ll get to him later). hes just.....kind of a dick in his teenage years but when he matures into an adult he feels incredibly ashamed of his past behavior and tries desperately to make up for it. most of the stuff hes done are pretty harmless (mostly just making snide comments and such) but he still feels bad about it

galaco is a villain solely for funsies. she does awful things and loves it. thats legitimately her only reason for doing what she does. shes a super famous idol who uses her fame, fortune and influence to get away with what she does, and ofc nobody would DREAM of suspecting a cute innocent idol girl of committing crime!!! that would be ridiculous!!! and she loves the power that comes with being famous and considers it a fun challenge to maintain her popular image and get away with all the things she does at the same time. shes really good at covering things up with the help of fukase, who we’ll get to rn!!!

fukase is the villain who doesnt REALIZE that what hes doing is wrong. lets just say he fucked up really bad in the past and ran away from his old home because he was a child when it happened and couldnt bear the huge weight of what he did. along the way he met galaco, who offered to take him in only to manipulate him into assisting her with her less-than-moral deeds. hes still stuck in a childish mindset bc he never really moved on properly from the event that scarred him so much (both literally and metaphorically) so he trusts galaco blindly and believes she knows what shes doing and that shes helping him

and finally we have yuki, whos......more of a comedic villain than anything else. despite the fact that she WANTS to be evil, nobody takes her seriously bc shes a nine year old girl. shes not nearly as big of a threat as she thinks she is, partly bc shes a demon brought to earth in one of the most humiliating forms possible. her schemes always end up getting thwarted bc its past her bedtime or some shit

#vanilla talks #vocaloid #abuse mention///#thank you for coming to my ted talk where i discuss obscure vocaloid headcanons that Nobody Cares About

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