GIVE IT UP FOR HATSUNE MIKU!!!!

miss Hatsune is so very dear to me... she is my good friend.
i found miku through a tv show called Daily Planet that aired on Discovery Channel Canada. i was sitting in my grandparents' living room at age 9, watching it with my grandpa as i often did. they were doing an "asian tech week"... and then there she was. a blue haired anime girl on a real life stage. i thought it was so cool that we could do that, take an animated character and make them look as if they were really there, on a stage, singing.
i looked her up immediately on youtube. guess what the first song i found was. Bacterial Contamination, the 3dpv specifically, immediately followed by Dark Woods Circus. scared the fuck outta me, but it didn't matter. a solid mass of my neurons had formed into a miku shape and she was there forever. the next song i remember finding after looking her up later was vgperson's translation of When Crooks Laugh by Nashimoto-P? don't know how i found such a comparably deep cut... i couldn't find it for years after that lmao
well, regardless, miku has always brought me joy indescribable. and while people getting things wrong about her online makes me upset, i'm overwhelmingly happy that more people know her than when i was young. i think the best way to describe this feeling is with the miku google chrome commercial. even though it's a little embarrassing, i am brought to genuine tears every time i watch it.
miku helps connect us, and i think that's beautiful. you don't have to be an amazing musician, or the greatest artist, or even own a miku voicebank. by loving miku or just liking miku, or even just liking a song that uses miku, you're connected to so many people. you're connected to miku herself, in a way. anyone who's ever created anything with or about her has helped shape miku in some way, as well. miku is a communal character by nature. everyone's a creator, after all!

here are some of my favourite mikus :3 (currently not displaying properly but i'm working on it >_>)

here is my spotify playlist of my 100 favourite songs (that they have on there...)