psa based on recent events: vocaloids are not characters where anything is canon. they are literally just suggested artistic designs and a voicebank. that is it. ages given to vocaloids are arbitrary. "aging up" a vocaloid is not the same as aging up an anime character and -

you might look at the vocaloid wiki, see that miku is 16, and assume she is canonly a child and that "aging her up" for risque content is somehow pedophilia, and i do not blame you for that assumption, but please know that vocaloids are vessels for creativity and -

not like any other idol fiction like love live for instance. since miku started existing she has been used in a wide variety of media in different subjects and works. changing the age crypton gave her is just u as the artist deciding she is older (or younger!) in that work and -

that's completely normal. yes, aging her up or down to make nasty pedo content or whatnot is awful. on the flipside, aging her up or down for the purpose of artistic expression is fine. on the same note, making art of miku as -

a different race, religion, gender, sexuality, etc, or making her disabled, etc, is perfectly fine and good and i have drawn disabled vocaloids as a form of self expression myself! all i ask is you consider what vocaloid is and what the characters mean before you -

start calling out people for being pedos or something because they drew a sexualized miku who isn't 16. because she wasn't even 16 in the first place, it's literally just an arbitrary number. she's a design and a vessel for artwork.

thanks for coming to my ted talk, sincerely a vocaloid fan who has been in the fandom since 2011 and connects with vocaloid deeply in all aspects of my life

oh yeah also i'm a csa victim and all pedophiles can die and burn in hell, i have been targeted by them before. that shit is nasty. so please take into consideration the nuance of the situation and don't just see the term "aged up" in this thread and shut out the rest thanks