maximus is honestly the best creator on the qsmp and I wish more people gave him praise
he is genius when it comes to roleplay/improv, his interactions with everyone on the server are golden, and he is all around an extremely creative and funny guy
even if you don't understand spanish, I seriously suggest watching his qsmp streams because he is doing great stuff
in honour of me convincing enough people to listen to my favourite zer0h song ever to the point it finally reached 1.000 views. i'm politely asking you all on my main to listen to it
youtube
also listen to zer0h in general they're so underrated it makes me cry (warning for flashing i think)
i think probably the most surreal thing about hatsune miku specifically becoming kind of mainstream is that her fame is detached from her roots. i.e. a lot of people who are only hearing about miku via cultural osmosis don't actually know WHAT she is. i see people make a lot of comments about what miku is without ever actually being correct. "she's a robot" "she's a persona" "she's a hologram" for fucks sake she is a synthesizer. she is an app, a program. she is not AI. the voice samples used to make her voice were given with consent and you actually have to plug in the words and melody manually instead of just typing in a prompt and generating something. and one of the side effects of this particular semi-mainstream status is that miku kind of eats up all the popularity that could be going to other vocalsynths. like unless you've been in the vocaloid/vocalsynth community for a while, the likelihood that you're familiar with literally any other vocalsynth aside from MAYBE gumi is like astronomically low. and even if a vocaloid song with other vocalsynths manages to get popular in this landscape, it most likely gets covered by utaites/youtaites and other adjacent singers like vtubers over and over until the original version of the song gets completely buried. and it's just a tiny bit exhausting.