Originally published at: Fictosexual man who married a hologram can no longer speak with wife, due to software glitch | Boing Boing
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The guy knew his story about marrying his idea (form?) of Miku was getting a lot of press in the west (again) so he released a statement in english
Why I said ‘form’ and ‘idea’ is because of the “Multiple Miku Theory” in the vocaloid fanbase/community. It roughly described how a person would see a vocaloid is their own unique version of said vocaloid (like a rorschach test of sorts). That helps explains why vocaloid content makers cover a variety of lyrical topics and art/fashion styles overall which had also made it a playground for LGBTQIA creators. It also creates issues when describing what vocaloid and it’s community is (especially to western media outlets) because they are more or less picking up on how individuals see vocaloids instead of the overall environment where the content is being generated.
That’s why these articles about this particular guy have somewhat bristled vocaloid fans over the years. The media trying to paint how this guy see HIS Miku as how vocaloid fans see THEIR vocaloids.
Also, he invited 39 people to the wedding and not 40 so he could use the popular Miku number meme of “Mi” sounding like 3 in japanese and “Ku” sounding like 9 in japanese (which is commonly used in official and unofficial content/products/events).
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he can no longer enjoy conversations with the character, as the company that developed the service terminated it in March 2020, saying the limited production model had run its course
Another sad personal story made worse by late-stage capitalism.
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Yes and no. Gibson himself pointed out a few differences mainly about Miku’s somewhat crowdsourced nature (modified creative commons license under Crypton Future Media) as a plural versus singular nature and how users leaned against the anime aesthetic to get around the uncanny valley effect (CFM tried robots before and it didn’t go well).
The comparison to Sharon Apple is more apt though.
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I’m going to buy me a dog,
Because I need a friend now.
I’m going to buy me a dog,
My girl, don’t love me no how, how.
– The Monkees (“I’m Going to Buy Me a Dog”)
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If this guy’s MikuWife takes over the Macross and tries to hypnotise an entire city worth of people I’m done.
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If he’s happy, I’m happy for him.
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The not so cute is the fact that Hatsune Miku character is a 16-year old girl.
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Well he couldn’t very well marry a REAL 16-year-old girl—if he had she’d be a gross old woman of 20 now.
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And he thought he had created an “unrealistic” marriage.
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Came for this. Left satisfied.
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I was slightly amazed I was the first person to post it
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She’s an app with a humanoid form and persona. So not really the same as being a literal 16 year old girl.
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Every relationship has its rough spots.
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The not so cute is the fact that Hatsune Miku character is an imaginary 16-year old girl.
But its rare for a relationship to actually have software bugs.
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And once again she’s always been software. Not a person. Maybe she has a persona of a 16-year-old, but by that logic you could say that every Republican man baby is also a literal child.
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As someone who suffers from depression dating two or more people with anxiety / depression issues of their own, I strongly disagree with this. (We support each other, of course, but that does mean we don’t have bugs in our software!)
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