Forgotten Friday #0 - Introduction
There are a lot of UTAUs. When ruto dot yu stopped keeping track in 2013, there were over five thousand UTAUs in existence. Of those, the modern user only knows a fraction. Users often say that they want to find new banks, so this feels natural. Showing the fandom banks that feel brand new despite being nearly a decade old seems like something that would help benefit UTAU as a whole.
What are the rules?
The first requirement for being in Forgotten Friday is that all links must be easily accessible and live. If the links were difficult to find or get to, the bank would qualify as a "found" bank and not as a forgotten bank.
The second requirement is the time since the last video. My rules are a bit flexible. I have every right to break them in the future if it feels right to, but I'll try to stick to them. For banks that are meh, the time requirement is five years of non-use. This is because regardless of how unlikely it is the bank will be used because of the article, being unused for nearly half of UTAU's existence is quite an achievement. For banks that are either really good or have a really awesome design, the time requirement is three years. For banks that I love and I want to scream loudly about, the time limit is just one year.
I will write a lot of these articles at once and then schedule them to come out over a period of time so that anyone who follows this blog doesn't get twenty articles thrown at them at once. That means that there is a chance that right before my article on a forgotten UTAU goes live someone will post a video with that forgotten UTAU. I won't pull down the article in light of that, but part of me doubts that will happen often.
The third requirement is just that there are no novelty banks. 巣派娘無墨命値根子出不子輪意音ス hasn't been used in about eight years because I literally went out of my way to make it impossible to use her. When I say novelty banks, I don't mean UTAUs where the designs are jokes. I mean banks that are impossible to use for normal songs. These also include banks that are only meant to make animal noises. My litmus for if a bank belongs on Forgotten Friday or not is if you can understand it when it reads the hiragana chart. (note, you can make beautiful music with Donka Fjord. But you can't make him sing Romeo and Cinderella.)
The rule that will get the most complaints is how I determine the time between the last usage of an UTAU. This blog is aimed at Westerners specifically. Where have Western UTAU users always posted their finished products? YouTube. At some point, I may write about an UTAU that is still being used to this day on Nico Video. That feels irrelevant to the people this blog is intended for, though. This means I'm ignoring SoundCloud, Twitter, and whatever else people are using these days. I'm only using YouTube because, well, that's what feels right with my history in the fandom.
Where are these banks coming from?
I'm using this. And once that is done, I'll move to '10, then '11 . . . and I have five thousand banks to check doing that alone!
If your UTAU hasn't been used by yourself or anyone else for five years, you can write to me in the comments or @ me on Twitter. If all of your download links are valid, I will actually write about your UTAU. Having nothing posted for your UTAU for five years is pretty impressive considering that's almost 50% of UTAU's lifespan. Again, Nico, SoundCloud, Twitter, DeviantART, and whatever else posts don't count towards the usage. Only YouTube videos count.
When do these articles come out?
Hopefully, every Friday! I'm looking forward to showing everyone cool UTAUs they probably don't remember.
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