Happy New Year!! As celebration of reaching my arbitrary and harsh deadline, I'm giving y'all what you came for. An old UTAU!
Forgotten Friday #159 - コトダマ / Kotodama
Who ‘members Kotodama?! (I ‘member!)
No, seriously, I remember him being one of the big name UTAUs, but he has like… five videos on YouTube, and most of them are from Hai?
Who is Kotodama?
Kotodama was a really big name in the early fandom, but it kind of seems like no one actually used him. Like, in talks between friends and in headcanons he came up… but like, what? How did I know him as one of the faces of the early fandom?
Oh, wait, Nicovideo. He didn’t have a ton of videos on Nicovideo, but he wasn’t as completely unknown on there.
His gender and race are unknown, likely because he is some kind of demon. He carries about a crystal ball and his clothes have a design that references a lyre. His actual official design is nothing like I remember him looking. It is so giant and bulky, and I remember him being way slimmer.
Overseas UTAU History Time!
So, there were two main groups in the beginning. UTAU PSS and Us-loids. Those two groups were just friends making UTAUs together. UTAU PSS was only MX and that other one. USloids was some kids from Utah and their friend from Chicago. MX didn’t let anyone in her club, but personally taught me how to record UTAUs. USloids technically didn’t let anyone join them, but they harvested voices to make new UTAUs under their banner. PSS was Ishimaru Michiyo, USloids was Kurane Zanda.
So, the main driving force for recruitment into cliques was Chii of USloids. Outside of cliques, there was Hai. He was a Vietnamese guy who ran a YouTube channel that reposted UTAU content from Nicovideo.
It does feel like a necessary evil back in 2009. Japanese users rarely posted to YouTube, and you needed an account on Nicovideo to watch videos.
Hai introduced almost everyone to each other in the YIM days. When he fell ill, I took over his job of introducing people to each other and just throwing fun parties in group chats.
As the years pass by, the memories of back then grow fainter and fainter. But then they’ll randomly come back. Last night, I was like, okay, dude, you can do this. You can go to sleep without YouTube. But then something just hit me like.
Okay, so I love lost love songs. Which isn’t the actual term, or a love song that is lost. Just songs about how I can’t be with you or how I’m thinking of you.
But, like, none of the songs ever really apply to me. Can someone tell me a song that’s like, wow, it’s a good thing that I’m never going to live a lie again, but dang it, I wanted to be the mother of your child, and now it’s just farewell. (But, that one doesn’t apply to me because like, it’s implied the entire thing wasn’t a dumpster fire!)
And I think about how if I had just kept going on dates with the lawyer, I could be in such a different place right now. I mean, I probably had like five options that I could have went with. And I just chose the literally worst one.
If you are a kid and your parents tell you to get off the computer and go live a real life, tell them that naw. Naw. This one lady on the internet said that going out into the world and having a “real life” outside of school and work is tiring and pointless.
idk why but i'd die for them???
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