Miku fans have been busily denouncing major US network CBS after it had the temerity to call holographic princess Hatsune Miku “the world’s fakest pop star.”
The article in question is a rather late entry into the popular “Hatsune Miku = creepy Japanese hologram” genre:
Hatsune Miku is the rarest kind of pop star. She is enduringly popular in her native country of Japan. She has never been photographed stumbling out of night clubs in the early hours of the morning, and never had issues with drugs or alcohol. She has, in fact, never been seen outside of her concerts at all. This is because Miku is also the fakest kind of pop star. She is a hologram.
More accurately, Hatsune Miku is a digital avatar. Wikipedia describes her as a “singing synthesizer application with a female persona,” created by Crypton Future Media. Using Yamaha’s Vocaloid software, anyone with enough technical know-how can program Miku to perform any song on a computer.
In Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities, Miku has been a huge hit. The holographic star has performed multiple sold-out concerts in her home country and abroad. Projected larger than life on a screen, Miku sings and dances according to the direction of programmers who “choreographed” the concert weeks or months in advance.
The stark unreality of Hatsune Miku doesn’t seem to bother her fans at all.
Although otherwise an inoffensive puff piece, CBS’s description of their virtual goddess as “fake” immediately outraged scores of Miku fans:
‘Congrats to the author for doing absolutely no research into the matter other than reading the summary on Wikipedia.
First of all, is Mozart’s music fake because it didn’t feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.
Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.
Also, “fake” implies that it’s a scam or doesn’t exist. I don’t see anything fake about Vocaloid; it’s simply an instrument. There’s a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it’s not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?
Finally, every other popstar who’s conditioned for their image rather than voice or talent are just as fake if Miku is fake.
Have fun with your content-free articles and questionable reporters, CBS.’
‘The world is filled with fake celebrities, pretending to be something they are not, remade by image consultants, keeping up appearances with a polished veneer.
Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.’
‘I respectfully ask that you retract that HORRIBLE and MISLEADING title. Hatsune Miku is by no mean FAKE. Calling Hatsune Miku fake is the equivalent of calling ALL of the fan, artists, composers, singers, animators, that celebrate this movement FAKE. It’s an insult.’
‘If anything, it’s more insulting that you didn’t do much research than it is that you said “fake.”‘
‘Well, Great job on doing no research! For one thing, you looked at Wikipedia, and everyone knows that they aren’t completely right. Due to the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, it comes up with weird BS.
On top of that, this is just a stupid article! Miku isn’t “fake”! On the contrary, she is most very real, and extremely loved. She was voiced by a REAL woman named Saki Fujita!
I do realize that Vocaloids are just programs, and I would be stupid to not know that. She has a character that the fanbase has given her, but now Crypton has taken it on. Hatsune Miku and every other vocaloid, are amazing creations.
[…]
Miku is more real of an idol, then most of us will ever be.’
‘Whoever wrote the article, I would like to politely ask to change the title into something that WOULD NOT annoy/**** off Miku’s fans.
Well, I got pissed off when I saw the title. FAKE is not the word, okay? It’s like you’re breaking her image >:/
Please change the title and everything will be okay.’
‘Note for journalist:
There are a few hot button words and phrases with Miku fandom. One, as you might have guessed, is the word “fake”, or the related phrase “she’s not real.”
Almost as touchy is the phrase “what anime is she from?” or “she’s an anime character.”
Just a suggestion, maybe replace “fakest” (omg that even sounds awkward) with “most unreal.” Unreal is normally used when something is so awesome, reality is incapable of inventing it alone.’
‘When one uses the word “fakest” when reporting in a news article, it leads me to believe their background research goes only as far as it takes to roll an office chair over to a thesaurus.
To address the use of fake in a general sense, we can establish that the adjective form of fake means something which is counterfeit or a sham.
To my knowledge, there is nothing counterfeit about a digital pop star whose image is derived from a vast fan-base.’
‘Hey BAILEY JOHNSON fyi she is CREATED so she is not FAKE and she is way to better than Gaga and Justin Bieber. Your article really sucks. Why this been released through this site? This article is worthless!’
‘This post is very derogatory and unprofessional. What can we expect from Americans. Please inquire more information about this topic even more. Hatsune Miku is a tool to create music, “She” is like every other item is able to create good music and express the creators feelings and music. Therefore its not considered “fake”.’
‘The numerous problems with this article astound me.
First of all, “fakest” is not a word. Dictionaries are fabulous tools that someone needs to introduce this writer to. Also, using “fake” to describe Miku really gives readers the wrong impression. Is it fake when a person devotes their time and effort into putting their feelings into a song?
[…]
Now I am going to assume that CBS was joking when they hired this…sham of a writer. Using Wikipedia as a source? You do realize that students are not even allowed to use Wikipedia in high school because of the unreliability, correct?
[…]
Well, I could go on and on, but I would just be wasting my time. Goodbye CBS, have fun with your shoddy articles and reporters.’
Children, it’s tv, none of it is real. Because the cartoons are done with photographs or digital images creations doesn’t mean anything, you can’t just climb in and fuck them.
There are no people living in your tv, it’s all fake.
The sooner we all learn this the better we can make better shows.
But people will never except photos are not real and won’t come to live.
i just want to add a few facts
1 Vocaloid was started in the U.S.
2 California hosted the first american show which sold-out
3 the term fat is mainly directed back to the U.S.
so all comments regarding Japanese over-weights, only Asian supporters, and Asian fantasies are void.
Hatsune Miku actually has a rather wild
personal life.
She loves her all-night parties, Jack Daniels, her Bong and her Nigori.
But the rumour that she is pregnant with Justin Bieber’s baby is simply not true.
…
I see justin Beiber as more fake than her….
-_- …
She has more fans than him and that CBS BS!
Miku Miku! ^_^
oh for god sake! she’s not real, but she’s not fake either …. well thats what i think anyway 😀
All of you Miku fans need to wake the fuck up and accept reality. You’re delusional and uneducated.
and you need to learn to write a full complete sentence.
And^ sorry forgot to capitalize
Is it a ‘fake’? Can you call a drum set a ‘fake’? It’s still a round wooden hollow cylinder with a vibrating head attached. As much as I dislike Miku, she is very real.
However, CBS did indeed nail one thing on the head; it is just a hologram; not a living thing. No matter how advanced they become, Vocaloids is just another instrument; similar to a Piano, Guitar and EWI. Nothing more.
The point is that the “Pop Star” Hatsune Miku is a fake. She isn’t a real personality.
Hatsune fans, I love her as well, but she is a piece of programming for Producers to load up in DAW and program so a synth can emulate a voice. She isn’t real persona.
traitor
Lol, it’s funny seeing all of the shameless, stereotypical pedophiles that Japan is famous for are defending this “pop star.” Stop complaining and go back to jizzing all over your pvc dolls, freaks…
You say hatsume Miku is fake? that’s like saying Anime is fake. Sure to a certain extent anime is not real but that doesn’t stop you from buying the DVDs, CDs, merchandise, going to live musicals (if there is one), getting autographs from the voice actors or cosplaying.
Sure we can’t get Miku’s autograph but that doesn’t stop us from supporting and respecting her. Vocaloid is a program that allows anyone to use it’s voice to put their ideas, dreams, and stories to the world. If you have a descent translation of the song “alice” by Furukawa P feat Hatsune Miku you will find there is a deep meaning in the song.
Morons do your research
CBS has been shitty since 1965, so no wonder their writers don`t get the idea of Miku right either.
dont forget life they dont have that either
Wait, so Fox News is still running without question, but Japanese fans have a problem with CBS insulting a fake girl?
said the liberal dumbass
haha, funny to see people get so worked up over a made up character to market software.
It is amazing that so many pro miku fans are always, and always avoiding the obvious challenge. “Miku is fake”, there is no truth you cananswer back from any of you fans out there.
You weak pathetic perverts.
A foolish comment from a foolish person who foolishly didn’t study well on VOCALOID and Miku first before bashing it…
Oh so Riku and the Vocaloids are “instruments” so that means they’re not fake, huh? Explain to me how that means she’s a POP STAR if she’s an “instrument”.
You know, you can get as indignant as you like, but the simple fact is they’re fuckin’ right. She’s not a real person, but they attempt to make her a pop idol. That makes her a fake.
And the REALITY is that they HAD SUCCEED FAR BEYOND EXPECTATIONS. She is now a legitimate Pop Idol. So.. I wonder who’s fake now? And just what is the true essence of word “fake” here huh?
I personally think the best thing of Vocaloids (and not only Miku) is that they are the same for everyone who uses them. The quality of music done with them depends only in talent, experience and effort. Nothing that can really be faked.
This is crazy, pop stars are all fake as fuck they act and pretend a lot to sell an image.
Miku is actually honest, you will never hear about her being involved in some lip sync or photoshop scandal, she never lies in her interviews either, what we get is what she is, she is the most authentic star.
This comment thread is fucking hilarious. Proof that easily angered otaku exist in the West as well. The Sankaku commenters and the Japanese fans alike have literally gotten all bent out of shape over one word. A meaningless fluff piece is suddenly a complete slam against Vocaloid somehow. Holy shit, who gives a FUCK.
u do you put ur 2 cents in
All these comments I didnt even think all these people visited here. Seems like we are getting more famous.
She may be artificial andsynthetic but in no way fake.
It real people and love for music behind creating!
Commercial and mass manufactured pop/crap like Gaga/Beyonce/Madonna is more fake to me than Miku, its just some great shit made to bring in money with little place for creativity and emotionnal feelings behind.
FUCK YOU CBS.
Her greatness was just getting too close to their (and the rest of the 5th Pillar) idol, President Obama. Therefore, CBS had to trash her to the uninformed masses of the country. /s
I think the important question here is why the hell do japs check CBS website???
So why do the hell you Americans also eat Sushi?
It’s from CBS, it’s not like it’s from a real news source.
LOL so many anti-anything bitching. Your one-liners get ass fucked by reality every day.
PLEASE show everyone where EVIL AMURRICA touches you day and night 🙂
the ever expanding pockets
I’m pretty sure the words “fake” and “pop-star” is an oxymoron in this day and age.
so which is worse?
Fox calling Miku a pinhead?
or
CBS calling her fake?
fox endorsed her dumbass stop spreading propaganda
I try to agree some of it but they choose the wrong word.
Fake isn’t really what they should toss like that since it’s a degrading word.
The real problem here is the headline. The use of the word “fakest” was taken out of context. Otherwise the article itself was rather good, at least much better than the one by Wired.
Agreed. Well.. the article is poorly researched and kinda half assed too… He didn’t really explained the true essence of VOCALOID. That’s why so many unknowledgeable people misunderstand and started writing nonsense and shallow comments about Miku here.
the author made a bad pun. So what?
Miku is Shit
your shit but you dont hear me complain
Some have icons of s cross or a satue, or even some book filled with lies. Others have a virtual idol. Who cares.
She is more real than any of the other sh*t MTV is broadcasting
So shut the Hell up or I’ll get my Anime buddies to show you how real PAIN can be!
So… what about “Gorillaz” then?
She’s horrible I listened to the black rock shooter song. It’s fucking monotone and offkey. Just horrible
??? monotone, are you deaf???
Have you listen to ODDS & ENDS?
Question should be: What is a “fake pop star” and does this apply to Miku?
I understand a “fake pop star” as someone who is completely promoted/created by entertainment venture for the purpose of creating revenue, with neither the composing, nor lyrics, nor choreographies, nor costumes nor anything else and thus pretty much any artistic value created by the actual object of the affection of the pop star’s fans. They simply expend money for the company, not the artist. So in that case the star is not a real but a fake artist or more positive: only a performer.
And in that sense I think the title “fakest” pretty much fits Miku very much. With human beings being able to do human things and, in the best case, even being able to overcome the limits of the artificial production industry and become artist in their own way. Miku on the other hand will always be the toy of the companies and producers.
Miku is the embodiment of Millions people having a dream, working hard trying to produce a good Song, but don’t have big sum of money and any artist who are willing sing their song. Miku will gladly sing ANY of your songs… no wonder how good or bad the song is… and just you imagine how happy and proud those people are when their songs, their creations are acknowledged and liked by millions of people all around the globe, even acknowledged by big Companies such as SEGA, TOYOTA, Google, etc. And now even brought Live on Stage and almost always get a SOLD OUT. Are you going to call all of this with a simple word “Fake”??
I guess CBS next article will be about how fake the Gorillaz are…
Mass media is stupid.
she exists as a virtual character and synthesiser program. This does not mean she is fake. Too many media people consider anything happening or existing in a realm other than basic reality to be “fake” and it is used to devalue or smear certain things.
US Talking about what is real or fake… ARE YOU SERIOUS? Like when you all say: “We come in peace… we bring you democracy, just ignore the M1A2 rolling in the backyard”
We need another 11S…
What a bunch of whiners. Yeah, she’s a computer-generated character. And her computer-generated voice sounds horrible. Get over it.
I must say, I fully understand. When people use lines like: “the fakest …”, when it should be: “the most fake …”. I become quite annoyed as well.
I’m sure CBS are a bunch of disgusting die hard justin bieber fans. YUCK!
good job cbs, instead of something nobody anywhere employed at or in cbs know of, they ruin a good thing by bringing it to ignorant people, go do a story on the fucking war or something.
Fakest.
Nuff said.
Everyone Can just have their own World in their own Head.
Get the Picture?
Well, this tragicomedy looks like it’s taken care of itself for the most part…
But she’s never been seen outside of her concerts? Oh lawd… Where hasn’t Miku been seen? Certainly not Lawson’s and other parts of Hokkaido, all over NicoNico and Youtube, in various sketches too, in cameo appearances in a whole bunch of things, and even on American Toyota commercials. I think that was the saddest part of the article because… my god… If you’re tapped into 2D otaku culture, Miku seems omnipresent.
Successful troll is SUCCESSFUL!
I always liked Gumi more anyway.
Gotta love Americans and their culture shock when seeing something they don’t already have, and proceeding to claim ownership over it like how they believed the internet belonged to them…
Perhaps Americans would rather not have a fake hologram that sings in a squeaky Japanese voice. Fantasy shit like that belongs on a cartoon. Take the cartoon Jem for example, which came out in the 1980’s, way before the troubled minds of Japanese men decided to create this abomination.
Obviously you’ve never heard of Alvin and the Chipmunks, the first of the virtual pop stars to actually have their own music albums.
No one other than really sick psychos (which are like, .0001% of the fanbase) are that lusty towards Miku. The only instance of that being shown is this really wacky movie (which is of course pure fiction and done for laughs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RUbOxibj8
No 25 something is trying to ass fuck alvin and the chipmunks through the monitor while idol-worshipping them like deluded fools and claiming they are ‘real’. The author just called out this childish delusional crowd on their retarded attitudes and now they are just screaming denial after denial.
Kasane Teto: “Who’s the Fakest?”
I’ll just keep it short. Most of the raging nerds here need to fuck a real girl. It’s quite apparent trying to satisfy your urges with your right or left hand just isn’t cutting it anymore.
Uh, What does Miku/Vocaloid/Music have to with that?
Ask the spambot.
How can it be fake? I laid her yesterday!
So, God is a fake? I thought so.
Tell that to an Amerikan!
not all americans believe in god asshole.
Miku >>>>>>>> Gaga
Deal with it, americans!
The shit I squeezed out last night >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You
Deal with it
How about dealing with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYj6_au0RQ
CBS News must’ve been desperate for ideas to make a report on.. :/
I can tell them who the fakest of the fake really are: Music “artists” and their producers who use and promote AutoTune and then lipsync the shit out of their lyrics at their concerts.
So much butthurt and denial.
Fucking lol! An established and relatively well-regarded news source using Wikipedia as a source. That is seriously laughable. I’m a librarian, and we aren’t allowed to recommend Wikipedia as a source, only as a portal to credible sources via the reference links at the bottom of articles. This “journalist” is a hack and joke.
CBS: Ok we got nothing for this week. what do we do?
CBS intern: what about rustling some japs?
CBS: it wouldnt work.
CBS intern: …..
CBS: …..
CBS intern: …it may work
CBS: ….yeah… it may…yeah…yeah it can work
CBS intern: yes it will
To be fair, the election season just ended and other than rushing out with incomplete info on a now disgraced former 4-star General, CBS decided to run some “article” that would rustle the jimmies of vocaloid fans worldwide.
well she’s not an actual living,breathing human being so calling her fake isn’t exactly wrong,lol
Were the angry responses from Japanese otaku or weeaboos?
While I can’t so im a huge fan of Hatsune Miku… this post is like typical American newspaper bashing to something they don’t know.
They could have wrote it in such a way to respect the fans, and the holographic princess if you’d like to call it that and not bluntly say “fake”.
Typical American… sorry to any americans feeling offended by it.
Agreed about the typical American bit.
When you look at any big name pop act, Miku is only 1 step removed.
I can touch here when she is on stage at the live concerts, she has a contact manager and someone who sets up her concerts and collects the money, there for, she IS REAL.
Go rape the hologram on stage and see if you feel anything. Afterwards get back to me and then we will discuss what reality is
Ewwww… he is tellig us to fuck a hologram? This guy is seriously delusional… better stay away…
Why would we do that you moron? Looks like this guy’s head needs to be examined…
At least she sings her own songs. More than I can say for Britney Spears.
I’m sure Britney would sing all her songs too, if a fucking computer program did it for her
Next thing they gonna be offended saying dbz naruto or any other anime with voice actors aren’t real…
Uh…no.. I think the Voice actors himslef will get offended (^-^)
Thats horrible! Why I will stop watching CBS FOREVER! Oh wait I already did, haven’t watched any thing on it in years since I got directv. Scredw you cbs. /hugs miku
I would still rather have my 5yo look up to Miku Hatsune than most of the train wreck pop stars here in the US.
I’d rather have my child look at the train wreck of pop stars in the US than worship a virtually created image like yourself. I’d be terrified my kids would grow up to be socially inept and pathetic individuals such as you
HELLO?? I never saw any Miku’s Fans bows into Her Picture, Praying to her, reading mantra, etc. So Which Hell of WORSHIP are you talking about?
Yeah, I would. In fact I’m doing just that to my 1.5 year old Boy
Denial. Too bad it’s an ugly reality. You can tell by the sheer number of butthurt hologram fans here what I said is true. So lemme get this straight. You’d let your kids watch a hologram created from a computer program that sings in a squeaky Japanese voice??? Hrmmmm…
You’re calling him socially inept just for having a 5-year-old kid in the US? Come on.
What rly fake is this news article. Nothing to write about, so started about miku! pff who writed that is the fake. Better start to write about some thing intresting. Miku is made as a hologram you idiot, so what they just did is, fake missed the main point and writed some thing.
The news are just jealouse on Miku. That she as a hologram touched millions of ppl heart whit her singin, but what they could do? noting, then write some booring story and told every one what they think.
Well this shows how much some ppl in the news are dumb that they got jealouse on a holorgram.
Well dont writte some thing stupid about Tupac holorgam concert or reputation will be in danger!(not only reputation) 😀
Yes, because Nicki Minaj is a real popstar -_-….
She’s a lot more real than the sad singer Japan’s most loneliest losers created
Mind explaining this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3c8STXjQ20
Too lazy to read all the comments to see if this has already been said, but I don’t see anything wrong with what CBS wrote. They said she is a “fake pop-star” not that the concept or the music produced by Vocaloid is fake. She is a fake pop-star because…she doesn’t actually exist as a human being and doesn’t sing for herself or produce or write or play her own music. Way to go everyone for simply seeing the word fake and Miku in the same sentence and jumping on it like rabid dogs.
Ha ha ha. That is a good one.
Well what do you expect it’s probably just another slow news day. At least Its not another stupid middle east article. But yes I agree he’s a douche bag journalist and we should all spam his twitter feed.
Is this Bad Apple?
That was the most fail news article on Bad Apple I had ever seen. Jesus.
Of course she is fake. She is like any other star out there. Actor are fake. Singers are so fake.
That actually makes her more of star.
Mah waifu isn’t real too ;_;
You mean unlike all the “real” pop stars with made up names and focus group tested personalities?
Well she’s not *real*, she’s just a hologram. So technically she is a “Fake”. Obviously her music is real, but she didn’t write it, did she?
Rihanna also have her Music written by somebody else, so that means she also FAKE?
Ffs you can touch and have a meaningful conversation with Rihanna. Can you do the same with a fucking hologram? Why keep making yourself look more like a loser?
I think someone who thinks He can kiss and fucking REAL Popstar is more delusional and pathetic…
Have a meaningful conversation with a hologram huh..? I wouldn’t be surprised if they can actually do that in the next 5-10 years..
Yeah, good luck dreaming on fucking Rihanna too you delusional retard.
This guy did in a manner of speaking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpWiTVR0GA&feature=player_detailpage#t=114s
If you choose to yes. Whether or not she would allow it is up to her. Can you do that with this fake ass hologram? Nope. Have fun believing the fake hologram is real. You can paint a picture of this thing on a fucking wall and it’d have the same effect
WOW!! You CAN touch and have a meaningful conversation with Rihanna? FACE to FACE? Touching her skin directly?? I’d love to see that 🙂
Miku is as real as Santa or the tooth fairy. Getting buttmad over Miku being called fake is like being upset that the easter bunny isn’t real.
CBS is right, miku is fake. You losers need to stop getting angry over incredibily pointless things.
The one I can see Pointless is your life and existence bro…
No you got it switched. Your life is the pointless one. Go outside and get a real life
Wow… I never know that TOYOTA and Google’s CEO has a pointless lives…
Bought by people with pointless lives such as you
That “pointless” you are talking is already scored more than Five SOLD OUT concerts, Have her own Game made (Top 5 Bestsellers on top of it), appearing on Famous Brands like: TOYOTA, Google, etc. And recently She even made her debut as Fashion Brand’s Icon with VANQUISH, and soon will have a new concert with Japan’s no.1 Orchestra lead by Isao Tomita, and the tickets already SOLD OUT!!
Justin Bieber got dethroned already?
While 2ch is defending their precious ‘idol’ on sites…
Japan’s economy is going into recession for the shit-teenth’s time since 1990, their GDP has been barely keeping up with dollar inflation, their national debt is reaching over 200% of GDP, and their political cunts are realizing biting the hand of US may not be so smart with china taking full advantage of japan’s ass in the mean time, and Koreans are just salivating at the idea of the day when they get to turn all japanese women into their personal whores from economic competition.
Of course, Miku is more important than any of the above as far as ‘future of japan’ is concerned.
Looks like the guy didn’t even read the whole Wikipedia entry.
Acording to Wikipedia: “Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita.”
So yeah, she’s not fake… She’s just a ‘representation’ of the actress. Not much difference from USA singers, who use autotune.
Miku carries the collective wills of 10,000 men on her shoulders. By now, she is more than just a program. She has become a symbol–a rally point for otaku pride.
She’s a symbol all right…
fapfapfapfap
Go outside and breathe in a big dose of reality
Those guys composing songs for Her are REAL you know. And a very talented one I’ve ever seen!!
Yup, we did that already you moron. Study well before bashing your opponent.
Two Thumbs Up
23:08 13/11/2012: Wrongo. Miku’s existing fanbase is already that – the “guys that created the program”. As shown in Google Chrome’s promotional video with Miku. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt25mv4-2Q
In fact the message at the end says it all:
Miku Hatsune: Virtual Singer
Everyone: Creator
So go start a fanbase for the guys that created the program, not the fucking hologram it projects. From your reasoning, you should be giving the real credit and worship to the individuals who made the program, not its avatar. That’s like your friend giving credit to the piece of shit you squeezed out into the toilet as opposed to giving the credit to you directly. Miku is a by product of the program
The news piece was meant for people who would not understand the concept of a vocaloid and have no knowledge of anime, j-pop, etc. Getting mad over this article aimed at the masses and not at us is making us look like the ones who are dumb.
So anyone that doesn’t jerk off to hentai and virtually created singers must be the masses. Hrmmm
As already said, Fake is more like unnexisting or a scam.
Ms. Hatsune, sings, dances, fucks like a goddess, so she exists, she’s not real…. yet, but exists.
Mozart? Not a very valid counter considering there are no computers from his time. If you compare miku to a techno star then she is more just a digitally manufactured product.
WHAT?? She’s not a real person? herpa-derpa d__p
Well, she doesn’t write her songs, and she doesn’t play her instruments. But she is a good singer, and loves music, so is not that fake.
She can’t love. She is, citating herself, “Millions of “1” and “0” signals”.
Now that I’ve actually read the text from the article, I’m pretty certain that every time the writer wrote “enduring”, they meant to write “endearing”.
If so, it says a lot about the writer’s comprehension and linguistic ability.
It is fumy to see that they call her fake pop, well she is not real “organic” then what ???
I did go to concert and find days later that the singer has made the all concert on playback, that is a F****** fake and lots of them do it.
Surprisingly the only reason a concert of Vocaloid can be cancel will be a power cut, human concert will be if they don’t want to sing because of whatever.
Reality suck sometime.
Reality sucks sometimes but you should learn to get some. You can go touch and have a conversation with the singers at those concerts. Can you do that with a fucking hologram?
How about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpWiTVR0GA&feature=player_detailpage#t=114s
Go touch? Do you think he’s some Clive Harris?
And Miku can sing what YOU want, and not what the singers’ parent company does.
Easily, the technology is coming out soon.
Does touching or having conversations with the singers mean anything or fulfill some greater purpose?
It probably does nothing else but trouble the singers at the concerts.
Like in Gintama, Idol otakus insulting anime otakus despite the fact they’re both not going to score with the object of their affections is funny.
Funny… what you just said is exactly what the Idol Otaku said to Anime Otaku in Gintama.. ^^ well that’s what they call “dream”
The difference is those that chase after an idol, as slim as a chance it might be, have the possibility. There is no chance or possibility with a hologram. You can enjoy the music this program belts out. But for fuck sake, don’t sit there and tell me that shit is not fake
being a fan is ok but being the fantard are not ok, now all the fantards are butthurt
Okay CBS, that’s a step too far, any worse and you’re dead to me like Fox News.
CBS used “Fake” because their editor could not spell “Virtual”, and the writer’s spell-check had problems with “Synthetic”.
Simple, really.
Haha I so read that as world’s fastest pop star
i can’t agree with you more.^^
“[b]First of all, is Mozart’s music fake because it didn’t feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
I congratulate you as the most retarded comment
Music is not singing, music is melody, Mozart art is melody. Mozart’s music is not even close of being fake just because nobody sang
“[b]Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
Congratulations, you just said a guitar is more important than the person who uses it. Plus, Hatsune Miku is no vocaloid, is just a part of the virtual program.
“[b]Also, “fake” implies that it’s a scam or doesn’t exist. I don’t see anything fake about Vocaloid; it’s simply an instrument. There’s a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it’s not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
Congratulations, you just described the term “fake” as something that doesn’t exist. Miku Hatsune indeed doesn’t exist, it doesn’t have a physical body nor a real personality, just a prescripted “soul” with no chance of improving on its own. Once again, he never said “vocaloid is fake”. He said “Hatsune Miku is fake”. And again, Hatsune Miku is no Vocaloid, so your argument is not valid
*clap clap clap*
Congratulations, you just said a guitar is more important than the person who uses it. Plus, Hatsune Miku is no vocaloid, is just a part of the virtual program.
She IS VOCALOID you moron. Clap..Clap..Clap..
Nobody in The Vocaloid fanbase is saying that you moron… we respected the song creator as much as we respect Miku. Why would we respect Miku? Because it’s thanks to Her existence, those creators are able to fullfill their dream and have their works acknowledged worldwide. For this guys, Miku is kinda lika a hero who brought their hidden talent to light, giving them a chance to do so. That Hero might be virtual, but still a Hero.
Saying Miku is Vocaloid is like saying a tree is a guitar, just because is the prime matter of a product doesn’t mean the prime matter IS the product, you idiot
Or are you forgetting Kaito, the Kagamine siblings and Luka? no matter, they are nobody, just the damn main “personas” of the damn program you apparently love so much
Go to the computer software store, ask the clerk: “Excuse me, I want to buy VOCALOID software please”. The clerk will answer “Sure thing sir, which one do you want?”. So dumbass…. How will you answer that question?? Hmmmm..?
THEY ARE ALL VOCALOIDS you moron. Try Buying VOCALOID software and see the title of the Package
Since you’re hanging on words here, acting as a drummer yourself – you should realize the precariousness of your melody statement.
Liebig’s minimum works at the instrument-artist importance front. I can see my favorite musicians operate a slipshod, improvised rig in some instructional vid and hate it, even though the person is the same, and the notes played are the same. After all, there are reasons we didn’t stick to just log drums and reed flutes for thousands of years.
And what is that Miku is then… If you say – coffee – you may refer to the plant, to the bean, or to the drink. Sometimes distinctions are necessary, but most of the time the intended subject is quite evident anyway.
If you all take your comments to CBS directly they may post a retraction and fire the retard who wrote the article.
They never listen supercell’s songs…
Yep, I can see that pretty clearly.. (^-^)
Can one honestly say any pop star is “real”? When was the last pop show of any sort not scripted months ahead of time?
“Fake Pop-star” . . . heh. so the singers like justin beiber has ACTUAL singing talent? And that korean “call me maybe” gangnam style is something better than Miku? HAH! If anything, Miku is the most flexible singer there is. WHY? Her songs can be made by fans therefore she sings for their fans. Unlike “pop-stars” they don’t sell you mediocre singing that was just made better with technology. True she’s made out of technology and further innovated but the songs you make out of your purchase is more rewarding than buying an album that has 5-12 songs worth 639Php – you just got duped. People be jelly since she’s actually better since she doesn’t need to be an attention whores unlike yesterday’s pop-star losing popularity
Tried to post a comment on CBS but it wouldn’t post.
I really dont see why everyone is so riled up about this article. This is a nice crash course about Hatsune Miku whos taking the world by storm. Remember, Miku is still only a Japanese sensation. Most of the world still dont know who the fuck she is, or what she is. This article introduces her to the people that dont know who she is.
Seems like no one can learn about anything if the result is just getting blasted in the face.
Honestly people… cool it with the passion. Its really turning you people into giant dicks.
It might help if the author didn’t come across as a bigoted asshole.
Getting angry about what you like being trashed is a natural reaction. If people weren’t passionate about anything to begin with, there would be problems.
She is fake. Get over it.
Your whole existence is FAKE. Accept reality already.
Then Daft Punk is soooooooo totally fake too you guys! Fucking media…
the user who spelled that article is a complete idiot and retarded
well CBS lives up to their name, See B.S.
“Finally, every other popstar who’s conditioned for their image rather than voice or talent are just as fake if Miku is fake.”
Well fucking duh *mongol face*
miku is as fake as american pop stars.
Show us where BIG BAD MURRRICA touched you
And Gorillaz aren’t?
Gorillaz is a Failure. They already buried 500 feet under the ground..
MAKES ME PROUD MURICA
MURICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What do you expect from a network which after making up a story based on obviously fake and forged documents claimed that the story was ‘fake but accurate’? CBS is a joke.
Your life is a joke
The writer needs to learn words from English Dictionary before writing an article… FAKE..? Maybe his Bachelor Degree is the Fake one…
Miku is real in my imagination and heart, that’s all that matters to me. Screw CBS.
But what about your unkempt hair, your adipose body and your lack of contact with a real girl?? Are those also real in your heart and imagination???
Hello? Sorry to dissapoint you. I am Miku’s fan, but I have a wife and one boy! So much for your theory..
They are flesh and blood.. you punk. A very beautiful wife and a very cute son. Please don’t put them on the same level as your “wife” in your storeroom…. Punk!
They are flesh and blood punk. A very beautiful wife and a very cute son. Please don’t put them on the same level as your “wife” in your storeroom…. Punk!
The blow up sex doll you call a wife and the fake plastic baby you call a child. Is it fun pretending to be married? How’s that going for you??
I totally agree with you there
way to cause a massive shitstorm with a few words..
Only a shitstorm for the losers that worship this computer program
Nobody worship them FYI
Coming from a journalistic point of view, he’ll feed off of that hate, and see it as a badge of honour. Rather than hating on his usage of the word “fake” in an otherwise foreign, and journalistic point of view on the virtual phenomenon, we should congratulate him on riling a while community from a lack of “research”.
While he could speak more of the cultural impact, and speak in open ended terms of her existing metaphorically within “her” listeners, he is using shock words to grab you while giving sheer facts of your typical American short-time writer.
Still though, it’s sure interesting to see such an article exist on the topic of our beloved Miku.
I’m pretty sure most people know the writer deliberately chose to write this in a uneducated manner using the journalism techniques anyone learns in a high school English level. But the fact remains that this piece of shit news article will foster more xenophobia in Americans of the Japanese people.
That reason alone is enough for me to want to murder this author so less bigoted dribble reaches the masses.
FFS, getting all butthurt over an imaginary figure. It’s like getting pissed when someone says Santa or Jesus Christ is fake. Get the F**K over it.
looks like someone had a very bad childhood.
Looks like someone lives with their parents still
looks like someone’s in denial.
i wouldn´t be bothered by this if not for the fact that Gorilaz has been doing the same thing for years and nobody had a problem with it. It was just amuzing then, but with Miku, its creepy. Im not a Miku fan per se, but it seems unfair.
Yeah, but Gorillaz was backed by a musician who was already semi-famous prior to their creation though.
Gorillaz already Extinct.. Miku is Eternal!!
“World’s Fakest Pop Star”?? NAY!
That title belong to THE King Of Pop! SHAMONA HEE HEE!!!
Miku is a fake demonic entity that has been digitized. She makes you waste your energy to see her for Satan.
your another reason why I hate religous people especially christians. they bash on everything that’s getting too popular or are just too stubborn to understand.
hey now i like miku and am religious not all of us are bad just left side extreamests
Sorry Bro.. I’m Christian… I’m a fan of Miku. And I don’t think this is a comment from a Christian, more from Satanist I presume.
Just for the record, both of you are right. There is a huge gap between established religion and true belief, and it’s too late to close it.
@ anon 05:49 and I respect that, but I come from a very religious community and they’re the reason I said those things. they don’t understand anything more like they don’t want too, they hate anything that doesn’t go with the bible (which is alot by the way), and most of them are pretty racist (I’m not racist in any way).
also how can you call someone a satanist just from a comment? that makes you sound ignorant even though I myself was pretty ignorant on my previous comment. sorry for not clarifying things what I meant was religious people (mainly christian since they think everything has something to do with satan, don’t believe me go look up pokemon is evil on youtube and tell me I’m wrong) and stubborn people.
Satan bows to Miku
Who’s CBS anyway? Some troll?
Just a FAKE Newsmaker wannabe
Meh I think CBS is just jealous that Miku makes millions and they make jack shit. XD
So… that website say Miku is fake…
Well… they agreed than Justin is a Poop Star.
Nice try CBS, Japan hater.
Another scumbag website with racist over japan, always pussys remember pearl harbor.
Justin is flesh and blood
Is Miku flesh and blood?
Besides, i’m pretty sure Justin has been fucked by more men than Miku, so people might testify (s)he is real
Breaking news: you don’t say?!
“Wikipedia describes…”
I stop reading there.
made my mornin’, sire
“she is way to better than Gaga and Justin Bieber.”
this man deserves a medal
Being better than crap is not neccesary good. A maggot is better than a little shit, but that doesn’t mean is good either
The only thing here can be categorized as shit is your knowledge on VOCALOID. Please at least study it well and listen to the popular works first before start bashing.
What isn’t good is your ability to type out a coherent sentence
Otaku bait xD well played CBS.
Sad but true
well.. that escalated quickly
If you go on to read the rest of the article, it goes on to talk about Miku in a rather flattering light.
“In fact, Miku’s entire persona has been created by fans. The character originally started as little more than a corporate mascot in 2007. Crypton Future Media, like many corporations, wanted a face to go with their product — in this case, their newly designed virtual voice program. Japanese graphic designer Kei drew a 16-year-old girl with flowing blue hair named Hatsune Miku — Japanese for “first sound” and “future,” respectively.
With little else to go on, fans of the Vocaloid software made Miku their own, and the digital avatar quickly took off. Crypton Future Media chief executive officer Hiroyuki Itoh estimates that there are 3,000 Hatsune Miku songs on Japanese iTunes and Amazon. This is in addition to the thousands upon thousands of YouTube videos featuring the azure-haired hologram.”
Cutting the article off where it did makes it come across as more negative than if you finish reading the full thing.
We did say it was “otherwise an inoffensive puff piece.”
Anonymous The Fakest human
Justin Bieber is more fucking Fake then this
Hypocrites, hypocrites EVERYWHERE.
Hatsune Miku is fake? I agree completely. Now, let’s make an article about our lord Jesus. Heads will explote.
Just you comparing Jesus and this tasteless computer program tells me you need to get a life
I don’t appreciate good music, hence this must be a tasteless computer program, and I must now proceed to insult you on whether you are alive or not.
Maybe it’s miku fans who doesn’t appreciate music and just watch the videos because of the moe-ness of miku?
I could agree there are tons of creative music from vocaloid, however, that creative music comes from the fans, their creativity and their soul.
Vocaloid is just a blank painting, it’s the fans who paint over it and give it shape, maybe that’s the essence of the fakeness of Miku Hatsune and half of the pop starts, they’re just a product, and the art comes from a different source
The main difference is Miku doesn’t have a heart on her own, nor even a body on her own
Whose to say a “fake” cannot surpass the original 😀
Altought there is no original
By Emiya Shirou..
Oh please CBS chief give the Otakus a favor and resign like what the BBC chief did. If you have still dignity left.
I don’t really listen to Miku, but to me she is the only true popstar out there…
You sir need to get a life
Can you kiss Rihanna for Real? YOU Go get a life already!!
Two thumbs up!
You sir, can keep your bigoted negative thoughts to yourself.
Wow? Did I just read that this guy said he can slap and fucking Rihanna? And he believes that as REAL LIFE?
WOWW!! You can do that to Rihanna? Why don’t you try then? Post it on You Tube, and I might believe in your words.. LOL
But can YOU keep the errant flesh from your corpulent body from striking any object in front of you as you trudge around like the boar you are??? Rihanna was an example. You could ask to shake her hand, slap her in the face if you’d like. The point is flesh and blood you desperate numbnuts. Your precious hologram is just that. A fucking hologram. When you try and argue that a projection of light created by a program is real, it’s like you’re trying to argue Pikachu or fucking Mario is real too. Time to get a real life me thinks
IF she were real
“Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities”
Is there supposed to be a problem with this? Fictional characters are no different from a face that was only selected to lip-synch. In fact, I’d say they’re better: instead of feeding societal leeches such as Justin Bieber just by so much as glancing at anything they endorse, I’d much rather prefer to support the creative minds behind a 2D girl like Miku and the songs she sings (well, I guess a lot of money goes towards publishers, who seem to get an extortionate amount of the cut if I understand right, but it’s still preferable). If only most of society could think the same way and NOT get into such a fit every time one of these real “fakest” pop stars whom they stupidly tossed their money at eventually uses said money to fall into drug addiction or some other bullshit scandal.
Hello Kitty can’t cook you a meal, go get a job, rub your back, cuddle with you before bed, etc. you get my drift.
Can Britney do that for you?
Now who’s needed to be waken up from delusions huh?
You have the chance on Britney?? Why don’t you TRY Then?
22:50 13/11/2012 if you’re willing to risk getting the police to come after you and arrest you for assault, yeah.
If I beat her into submission, entertaining the fact I could or would even want to marry Britney, yes there is a possibility. Sorry but no such possibility lies with the fake hologram you all seem to defend so staunchly
Are your odds a real pop star doing those things for you that good anyway? Besides, even if you did marry/live with one, it’s not as if she’ll do any of the things you’ve mentioned. As is often reported here on Sankaku, a lot of Japanese women seem to be content with marrying a rich guy and then lazing around the house (sexless courtships also aren’t unusual, apparently). Now, I don’t mean to generalize women… but I would be willing to generalize pop stars, and needless to say, I would not put such scummy behavior beneath most of them.
You nerds get so mad over the stupidest shit lol.
You study like HELL for Three straight days to go to reputable University, then suddenly your friend came and said that all your Effort is STUPID, SHIT, and FAKE. How would you feel?
well compared to milli vanilli Miku is way more real.
and there is a lot of fakeness too in a lot of flesh and
bones artists out there.
The difference is flesh and bone you fat lifeless turd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3c8STXjQ20
I wouldn’t even call Miku something as lowly as a popstar. She is WAY more than that.
This article makes as much sense as calling electronic music “fake” because it isn’t made by “real” instruments.
Oh right it’s an imaginary hologram created by a computer program. Better?
Wrong Jackass! Study Vocaloid first before you start bashing it
Miku will never have a sex tape. She’ll never get addicted to drugs, she’ll never say anything racist or stupid. By US standards, she’s not even a star!
Well its not like there are japanese stars that haven’t done any of that. Stars from all parts of the world have made those mistakes too, so its not like anyone is really perfect.
Then Why did Her concert always SOLD OUT if She’s not a Star you Dumbass?!
Because Japanese people need their daily fix of reality. Reality to the Japanese is chasing unicorns and leprechauns all day
for starters California hosted one of said sold-out shows
Because of the same reason Justin Bieber’s concerts sold out
I admited both are crap and both are followed by retarded people
FYI Justin Bieber is considered star in America… you JUST admit that Miku IS a Star 😉
Are you sure? There’s an awful lot of porn feature her on the internet…
Which are all fanart by pervs (i.e. non-official), and the IP owners (Crypton et al) heavily discourage it.
Awww… not even one sex tape…. you break my heart…
Next up on CBS
Jesus: the world’s fakest bro
Lolz. Jeebus.
Don’t bring religion please… you want a piece o’ me punk?
mokyu mokyu
Chizuru wants money just like CBS. Reeling in the audience with biased journalism.
they’re quoting wikipedia?
So true.
CBS is just jealous of Miku’s Popularity and wants a bit of that popularity.
Virtual Idol is a product of Japanese Science & Technology, and evolves a lot.
Other people can easily make something like that – but no one’s stupid enough to waste money chasing fake ass hologram and pretending it’s something real.
Of course we’re not so smart – we’re not that stupid 🙂
I prefer Miku Hatsune rather than some 3DPD singer who ends up doing thing a 3DPD whore would typically do.
Yeah, like Nikki Min** and Lady Ga**! An old hag and a fugly pathetically convincing themselves they’re a beauty! Freedom of Speech and Equal Rights of Humanity Traits didn’t grant an escape from reality; remember that.
Better to have someone who’s actually putting “work” into their job as an entertainer than some “thing” telling you it “really cares” about how happy you are or whatever nonsense you otaku believe.
Yeah but is it actually the hologram that writes any of the music or actually sits it a recording studio to practice the songs? No. It’s all created by desperate Japanese men and women like you who are embarrassed to show their fugly horse faces on a real stage so they’d rather have a hologram stand in their place. All they do is just feed the information into the computer program. Kind of like how you sit there and feed Hot Pockets down your fat throat.
Right, because Vocaloid music is magicked up out of thin air, its not like there are actual producers that have to work very hard on it, play ‘actual’ instruments, compose actual melodies or anything like that. No work whatsoever!
And its not like any of the artists were discovered through vocaloid and have gone on to make best-selling musical albums both with and without vocaloid voices.
OH WAIT
Search for “Is Miku an more authentic star than Lana Del Rei” on YT. Guy in that video explains anything.
I agree she is fake, BUT still tons more interesting and better than most “non-fake” pop stars.
Miku FTW, and it’s not like i’m butthurt, i know we all got our own opinions.
I don’t like pop in general but it doesn’t make it bad. It is bad just in my taste.
Fanboys should always remember this. I love Miku but i don’t mind if someone hates her.
I stopped reading at “I agree she is fake”. Your argument afterwards is already useless. Just making yourself look desperate
There’s really nothing more interesting going on in America right now than an almost 6 year old virtual Japanese idol?
How can you even call music fake? I can hear it whenever I listen to her songs, And how can you call her fake? Shes right there.
It’s annoying how some singers will edited there voices, apply so much makeup even there own mother wouldn’t recognize them and act compleatly different to how they would act before [see Lady Gaga] purely to be picked up by media as “something/someone different” is regared as real where Miku was instantly dismissed as “fake”.
The irony is, to make Miku sound good, she needs to be edited in programs other than Vocaloid editor not less than other pop stars. I’ve tried to use Vocaloid, and unedited it sounds like crap.
Nope, you simply didn’t take the time to learn to use Vocaloid properly. The best producers can conjure miracles with Vocaloid alone (eg Ryo, whose most famous work, “Odds and Ends”, is a masterpiece).
You didn’t learn to use Vocaloid properly. The best Vocaloid producers can make miracles out of it without 3rd party applications (Ryo is one of them. His best work, “Odds and Ends”, is such an example).
Have you noticed how REAL performer’s voice sound sooo different between her CD Album and Live Performance? It’s the same dumbass
I call it tangible reality. I believe most of the masses like to put their stamp of reality on something they’re able to touch. The feel of flesh and warmth. You know like when you jerk yourself off while watching your fat boar of a mom trudge up and down the stairs
cbs is shit “news” anyway
someone hack there website!
They are just making her even more famous.. morons lol..
CBSNews: The world’s fakest news broadcast
Sankakucomplex: Worlds largest gathering of fat, reality challenged nerds!!!!!!!
Means that includes you since you are here..
they so jelly…
Music is composed, words written, lyrics sung, Miku is that instrument, and a beautiful one at that.
My penis is also an instrument because if insert it into the right hole, a girl sings for me
Yeah… just put it on the Golf Hole…a girl will sings for you for sure
I want to point out also that CBS is not just pointing out that Hastune Miku, the persona is fake, but they are heavily implying that the music performances itself and its entertainment quality is fake. It’s the way the article was worded. It’s very poorly written. Fans clearly understand that Hatsune Miku is not a living breathing person nor is she real. She’s an instrument a device of music that performs a realistic form of entertainment. This fans don’t have much of a problem of referring to the Hastune Miku, the icon, the persona as not real and not alive. But when someone refers to the performances, music and entertainment quality and all the meaning and emotion behind that form of entertainment as unreal and fake. Then you’re literally calling what Hastune Miku stands for as fraud. You’re calling the music a fraud. This is how the article comes across. And this is the mindset of fans. This has nothing to do with delusions. Sure people believe that Miku represents what an idol should be but unlike anime fans who believe their anime characters like Azunyan to be living breathing entities, vocaloid fans are more in-tune that Miku and vocaloid is an instrument to bring a form of music that equals the energy and realness of a live performance.
That’s just it. Apparently most of the fat losers on this board and living in the reality poverished nation of Japan believe it is as real as touching the grass on your yard or petting your dog
actually most of the music industry is fake
because most artist/musicians don’t even decide there on image,character, music or songs , they just have to do what there music company tells/decides them to do. And because its brought by a human, a lot of people think the artist/musician to be the real deal
if you take this in to consideration and look at hatsune miku. where everyone knows she is virtual and thus knows that everything is decided behind the scenes.
You could even call hatsune miku less fake then most artist
I’m sorry. I like my comments from someone who’s gotten out of their computer chair today
Eat this then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3c8STXjQ20
It is more a way of people to express their souls than a living being and I accept that. Whatever whey will write about it there are people out there who make beautiful music.
so there is dick girl porn, furries, and other strange shit from japan BUT THE ONLY THING THEY THINK IS NEWS WORTHY IS A FICTIONAL POP STARS?
congrats CBS you suck even more.
America has all of that stuff too.
indeed, it’s quite unreal how artists suck nowadays.. to be beaten by a holo.. also how some ppl would actually prefer a holo than a shitty celebrity.. oh noes
Oh right because everyone here knows about Hatsune Miku…please “it” is only popular in Japan and some of the tiny islands around it. Good luck trying to fuck a hologram
Why do trolls resort to the “fucking a popstar” rant (which is itself a sign of not having a life)? Creativity is the biggest strength Miku fans have, as demonstrated in Google Chrome’s promotional video with Miku:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt25mv4-2Q
Only popular “in Japan”?? Go study more you dumbass..
The essence of Hatsune Miku is not the hologram you moron. That’s why I said: STUDY MORE. Dumbass..
Wasting my time to study the fan base for a hologram = your wasted existence thus far
It’s CBS. It’s to be expected. They are the far left media. They aren’t a moderate liberal station. They are far leftists. And they are known to be arrogant, rude and very condescending. Most of the news is opinionated and not really based on pure fact.
And why complain on channels. If people are going to complain, send a mail to CBS directly and complain. Maybe get Crypton involved too on defamation of their mascot, Miku. Seriously I hate CBS news. I’ve already sent a letter regarding on how unprofessional this article was.
Did you also send a picture of you fapping off to this hologram? Maybe they will be compelled to give you your own show. The pathetic reality of King Fisher
This just in America, Santa Clause does not exist.
Murrica, in your countriez, raping your womenz.
“never had issues with drugs or alcohol.”… Well, we have the mikudayo case to compensate for this. But we still love her 🙂
Maybe they would have been happier if she’d been referred to as “artificial”, rather than “fake”. The story is not false. She is “fake” in that she is not a real human being.
u went from the solution back into the problem…
Haha. CBS. American news network. Instant credibility fail. They often struggle to get basic facts straight.
Thank you. We don’t often get messages from planet Moron.
Is that why you felt the need to post one?
Like they would pay attention on getting the “facts” straight for a hologram created by a program. Hrmmm have we had our medication today???
So you’re saying there’s no point getting facts straight if it’s something that you deem unimportant? I guess this explains why everyone’s so fucking lazy they lie about everything 24/7.
You answered my question. No you did not have your medication. Please go take some and then come back and try to make sense
Go listen to japanese news for ‘credibility’ lol
True. All news lacks credibility.
Another Godzilla attack today in Tokyo harbor. Also Doraemon decides to run for office today
What bothers me is that this guy seems to think regular celebrities are “real” because they have an actual person portraying them.
You make it sound like these kinds of media are ever supposed to be sincere.
Jealousy makes one ugly.
Well then what’s the explanation for your face?
yukkuri voice is the best .
softalk ftw !
Do they know what’s the meaning of “virtual”?
Make a bad phrasing in an otherwise ordinary boring article, get massive viewership.
These guys shouldn’t be responding to it.
They got the attention they wanted.
You do have to wonder whether these “Mainstream” news outlets these days are so short of worthy news to report that they make up such drivel just to direct more traffic, and thus more ad-revenue generating hits by trolling the fans who are sure to respond in the comments.
The fans may just feign naivete and give them the benefit of doubt, don’t you think? After all, the outlets know dragging the level too far down might turn out not to be worth the effort.
Was that written by a Korean? I have seen the influence of the spiteful Korean race into the ignorant obesity-supporters Americans.
Does CBS stand for Crappiest Bull Shit?
Does NTV stand for Never Try Vagina??
“Projected larger than life on a screen, Miku sings and dances according to the direction of programmers who choreographed the concert weeks or months in advance.”
If you take out the quotes around “choreographed” this sounds like the difficult and impressive feat that it really is.
“Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.”
I can also call pixels and cartoons people fap to ‘sum total of the hopes and dreams’. LOL I can’t believe this kind of disgusting childish comeback rolled out of someone’s mouth. Jap fantasy land sure feeds on its own shit too much.
Hatsune Miku IS the FAKEST, more delusional precisely because she is assigned such idiotic adoration of childish people who cannot face reality or real living people with flaws. They must manufacture their PERFECT little reality that cannot really make them uncomfortable or talks back. These insecure little fools are only chasing after the most cowardly and infantile fantasies and has the delusion to call it ‘sincere’.
Adoration, respect, admiration are all accompanied by disappointment, moments of ugliness, and other unpleasant things. Those who would run to virtual fantasies and pour their energy into worshipping them as replacements for reality without going through the trouble of facing the other side of the coin are not ‘genuine’ or ‘dedicated’. They are emotional and physical cowards who would rather play make believe games then derive true enjoyment from reality.
The level of self-deluding virtual fans in japan is truly astounding and childish. It’s like talking to a five year old with an imaginary friend.
No talking back really necessary here, because, if used reflexively, your post contains what you should make of it. The imperfect all-encompassing reality is that there are people who favor Miku over other matters – you can call it disappointment, a moment of ugliness, or other unpleasant things, but you still should derive true enjoyment from what includes the fact. Do you?
Hatsumi Miku is about as real as Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and Spongebob Squarepants. Difference between you and me? I stopped embracing those things when I was 6. Welcome to real life my friend
I will never see Nikki Minaj or Lady Gaga IRL. So they are as fake to me as the cyan one.
Two thumbs up on this comment!
Oh god, the Yank’s are so fucking delusional…
K-POP, now that’s the epitome of fake.
All Yank’s should be kill themselves
8 out of 10 Americans believe in angels.
10 out of 10 people here think you need a life
7 out of 10 /a/nons call you a faget
Miku isn’t even a popstar. She is an avatar of a vocal synth software. Therefore this whole thing about her being a “fake” popstar is irrelevant. So your point about Miku being a product of people who “can’t face imperfection or flaws in reality” makes no sense, because you are talking about her as if she was a real life person.
Much of her fans do EXACTLY that, which is the main problem.
If they are happy and content living like that, what is your problem with them?
“Adoration, respect, admiration are all accompanied by disappointment, moments of ugliness, and other unpleasant things. Those who would run to virtual fantasies and pour their energy into worshipping them as replacements for reality without going through the trouble of facing the other side of the coin are not ‘genuine’ or ‘dedicated’. They are emotional and physical cowards who would rather play make believe games then derive true enjoyment from reality. ”
You’re awesome. You’ve just explained religion right ! GJ !
without fantasy you wouldnt be typing on a damn computer on the internet dumbass
Butthurt moralfags. Just what did you guys can enjoy? Elvis Presley?
At least Hatsune Miku has a unique name, unlike you. That ought to be the very first step away from fakeness.
Ooooo you sir are truly a higher being. Well you continue to fantasize about Hatsune Miku’s virtual pussy. I guess since I’m not up to your level, I’ll just have to settle for the pussy I am touching right now. You win sir
Lose in cyberspace then making reference to fantasized reality? Sore loser alert running high!
And you spent much time on crying about it… you are really retarded.
>Call exposition of reality ‘crying’ and pretend it’s desperate so you can feel good.
I think you might be a little….hurt.^^
Calling crying ‘exposition of reality’ sounds a lot more hurt to me.
CBS is just another one of those far left leaning, Obama supporting American networks. They dont know anything about Miku.
Thought it said “The world’s flattest pop star”
See, because here in America, we don’t need fictional characters to be our role-models — we have Luke Skywalker.
oooooooooooooor bataman, superman, and spi…….. ok, not emo dancing spiderman.
he fucked his sister 🙂
I never saw that part, are you sure you are not in drugs?
I usually read Book-to-movies book, not Movies-to-book
Read novels, pal.
If so, they should make an anime. Incest is Japan’s gateway drug.
Didn’t she go with that smuggler dude?
I thought she had a thing for R2-D2, tinkering with ‘le circuits in Episode IV and all.
Plus, I’m not saying this to back anything, Namely Hatsume Miku, since she’s just a program. I’m saying this base on honesty & perspective.
Sigh, and this why I don’t watch the news on television these days. They always have to use some kind of bias rhetoric on other countries just to make the ignorant masses agrees with it. Namely, old people, people who who are computer/internet illiterate, & idiots who believe anything the news tells them. Curse this unbalanced madame world we live in.
Relax cbs will get what’s coming to them some day. and as for the remaining old people who cares they don’t have long to live anyway so there opinions don’t matter.
And Japan will get what’s coming to them. Another bomb on a major city to help them come back to reality??
may just drop the bomb on ur house for suggesting that
too far.
CBS, you’ve just put your penis into a hornet’s nest, as Steven Colbert would say.
do tell us if the pains fake
Fuck CBC…
CBS…not CBC. Canadians know who Miku is, dont you worry about that.
Really get the cobwebs out of your hair, put on your triple xlarge shirt and go outside. Ask random people walking down the street if they know this program that sings and dances. Yes you’re the only one who knows loser
@ tasche I wish I could be as absent minded as you.
Way to avoid the topic. Did you go out and do what I said? You wrote Canadians know about this shit hologram. No they don’t. And I never insulted Canadians did I? I only insulted your corpulent, diseased self. You go do what I said and let reality hit you right in your triple chinned face. You originally wrote “Canadians know who Miku is”. Your sentence there already priced to be your downfall as you’re basically saying a majority if not all Canadians know what this singing program is. The truth is, only you and the small group of friends on your Pokemon TCG club know what Miku is.
Im assuming your American and standing up for the stupidity of your citizens and CBS when your calling me out on this.
Atleast Canadians are educated about the world and live in harmony with other ethnicities. Meanwhile, typical American rednecks and republicans of the south denounce African Americans and other foreign minorities and threaten to kill whomever disagrees with them.
(Many examples of this, and not all americans are bad, i know.)
I bet you a greater percentage of the population of Canada knows more about miku than the States.
CBS… Leave the stupid Canadians out of this.
Sorry, I’m ashamed as a Canadian…T_T
CBC…Sorry I’ve doubted you.
If the guy/girl/dolphen that wrote this one, wished to simply point out how Miku, for a idol that got major fan-base, isn’t a real person, there was a ton of different phrases rather than “fakest”.
No surprises at reaction of fans.
I’m also laughing at example of her never attending night-clubs or doing drugs.
Must be American way for stars to be corrupted when not on scene.
Ugh, you just took the words out of my mouth.
American culture stereotypes are disgusting, even more so is the fact that it normally describes their popstars spot on.
apparently you don’t know sarcasm.
Ever heard about the relation between sarcasm on the Internet, and one in real life?
Doubtfully.
Either Bailey Johnson doesn’t know the definition of the word “fake”, or is a troll…
American retards at their best.
I actually like the first comments about vocaloid being an instrument and all. The CBS person doesn’t even see the difference between “a hologram”, “a voice program” or “a fake”. Which makes him a moron.
Well… It’s a shame they even make Vocaloid concerts in USA… How about Europe ffs…
I like the part where you said American retards.
It clearly sums up the situation of their election and their national deficits, along with their average education level.
Have you ever talked to a girl before? Seriously get up out of your crusty computer chair and go do something with your life, instead of worshipping a made up cyber singer. Americans aren’t the ignorant ones, it’s the Japs. Please embrace reality, not sink deeper and deeper into some fantasy world. Japanese people have no souls
NO as an american i can say Americas the problem, to many librals trying to force their ideas and censorship
You, sir, just proven to be a gigantic retard who didn’t even read a word of what I wrote. and I DO have a girfriend in real life, unlike you.
I don’t generalize here, but you just prove how stupid you are for spouting such nonsense. I’m not even worshiping anyone, you freak.
calm down virgin.
That’s because your whole existence is a lie
…uh yeah i have 7 girlfriends one for each day of the week. See i can post lies as well
Ok. Calm down cherry boy. It’s just an article. The CBS guy has a basic gist of Vocaloid. I don’t see what is wrong with the article since it’s a general description of something the author knows nothing about. Before bitching about an article, take some ESL classes to have better reading comprehension, grow some pubes, and take that dildo out of your ass.
You find nothing wrong with articles that denote anything you like in a negative light for no comprehensible reason?
when they use the word fake
Negative light? When does everybody have to be biased about somebody else’s interest. Everybody has their opinion. Bitching about it only proves your immaturity.
I like Vocaloid, too. But I still don’t see what’s wrong with the article. Just because I don’t fap to Miku doesn’t mean I should nitpick at every single thing an article says. I choose not to deny the truth and not be biased.
Since when was pointing out the fact that Miku isn’t a real person, and hence not a real pop star, considered a “negative light?”
It’s just the truth bro. The fact that you’re bawling over it just shows how fragile your sense of reality is.
Miku is a program. She will never be real, have emotions, or be your waifu. Get the fuck over it.
Well then, go venerate a flute then. Better yet have your car wrapped with an image of a fat trombone. Since you’re going the way of the “