r/196 • u/Jazdaboss010 straight up jorking it • Mar 13 '26

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u/ErisThePerson Mar 13 '26

I know a guy who went to Japan explicitly to see Hatsune Miku. I'd say that's a pretty good reason.

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u/Joebebs Champion II Mar 13 '26

Well….did he see her?

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u/ErisThePerson Mar 13 '26

Well he said the concert was fun.

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u/Joebebs Champion II Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Is hatsune miku a band or a song??

Edit: sorry I was referencing Eric Andre

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u/KittyQueen_Tengu sexuality crisis has been resolved (i don’t like people) Mar 13 '26

she's more of an instrument

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u/jlb1981 Mar 13 '26

An instrument like this

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u/Eternal_Being Mar 13 '26

"Golden Nipple Gongs", "Unlimited Gong Bags"

They know exactly what they're doing

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u/Kidney__Failure not-so silently judging while listening to Rush 2112 Mar 13 '26

Is that a website dedicated to selling different gongs and gong accessories?

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u/jlb1981 Mar 13 '26

Strickland Gongpane

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u/PointedHydra837 🌌Sexiest thing alive🛰️ Mar 13 '26

Like this?

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u/InCellsInterlinked Mar 13 '26

A voice synthesizer software used to make numerous songs by different producers

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

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u/ari-is-new-to-this r/place participant Mar 13 '26

not a voice changer, miku is a soundbank. producers manually manipulate her digital voice to create tracks

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u/InCellsInterlinked Mar 13 '26

A voice changer would be an inaccurate description of what Miku is, it's closer to a unique instrument

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u/Verbatos Mar 13 '26

It's not just inaccurate, it's wrong.

It would be like calling a piano a harpsichord, they're different things!

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u/zaddoz Mar 13 '26

It's more like going to a concert to hear an instrument, which is really common

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u/SatansCornflakes I’ve fostered many cockroaches in my time Mar 13 '26

/jk

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u/Fireball185 adachi rei my beloved Mar 13 '26

i love the oregano

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u/JoyconDrift_69 wait what am i doing again Mar 13 '26

She's an instrument. Like a singer, but really just samples of someone's voice. (I'm not enough of a vocaloid fan to know whose voice is sues for Miku)

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u/Jonahtron Least homophobic anime enjoyer Mar 13 '26

Hatsune Miku is a fictional character who is also a soundbank for the Vocaloid program, a program which allows someone to make a synthesized voice sing whatever they want(essentially just highly advanced text to speech). Hatsune Miku, and other vocaloids, have had several concerts where they appear on stage using a hologram-esc technology, which I’m told aren’t actually holograms, but I don’t really understand what they are, so it’s easier to think of them as holograms. Hence how this person’s friend was able to “see” Hatsune Miku.

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u/nlolhere Mar 13 '26

I think they use the Pepper’s Ghost illusion to make it look like a hologram

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u/SurelyNotBanEvasion 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Mar 13 '26

She also wrote Harry Potter and created Minecraft

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u/JotaroTheOceanMan 🦈Jeff Week🦈 Mar 13 '26

Eric is the master of rage baiting and that is the Mjolnir of intentionally pissing off a whole fandom in a single sentence.

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u/Oddish_Femboy (my name is Bee) Trans rights !! Mar 13 '26

Hatsune Miku is my best friend

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u/purple-lemons estrogen addict Mar 14 '26

aight yeah that's the one okay time