pandemia: Hii! I've been lurking on UTAU-related forums for years but haven't had the habit of registering accounts until lately. Nice to meet you!
Jan 14, 2024 3:33:30 GMT
To my knowledge, there's at least 2-3 UTAU forums. Also, the reason why that is because users wanted to make their own UTAU forum apart from the others. Any one can go make their own forum if they wanted to. I'm sure there's in more in the Japanese community.
The overseas community started out over YIM and MSN. The big starter was USloids - Kurane Zanda, that blonde one, and Tomero Chii. They were likely the first overseas UTAUs. A close second was UTAUPSS. They were an island. Master Chichan was holding up the Filipino front. I bet those pinoys have their own forums too but I'm too lazy to check. Mae teamed up with TheSilentOne and Yesi before defecting to Chii and Kimmi after Chii kinda shuffled away from USloids before starting up Vocatone with the USloid memebers (while leaving Mae and Kimmi out in the dust. but that was a long way down the line.) Of course there were the lone wolves. SRS and YoyoPines kinda seemed to keep to themselves but what do I know I don't have an UTAU.
There was Maki Watase and her group UTAU-Dreams. Really picked up a lot of lone wolves. Couldn't get SRS doe.
So anyway, people kept coming in and joining in on the MSN chats (you know it was a long time ago when people were still using MSN). So Mae had the great idea . . . Talk one of the users from Guam into starting a forum because she was too lazy to be a mod. And the UTAUforum was started. But guess what? there was drama.
Ever heard about kumoro tesuto? There was drama. Mae Blythe? oh man the drama.
But then as time passed it just became a battle of platforms. Some people like skype. Some people like twitter. Tumblr's a big one. Some people get banned from forums, too. (for stupid reasons)
Tesuto's voicer and Mae got like -100 karma on the original UTAU forum before being banned. Drama.
Also utau users can be mean. you wanna run away from that stuff.
As for Japanese users . . . I actually feel like the majority of them don't even really interact with each other, except on twitter. There is an UTAU SNS for Japanese users . . . but I think there may be more inactive overseas users who wanted to hob knob with the Japanese there than active Japanese people.