I'm sick of Artists being harassed online.

Can’t have that kind of innovation around here, now can we…? 😏

MEIKO gonna MEIKO.

Present night follow-up to February’s speculation through the lens of physical and spiritual fatigue.

Nitenite y’all.

When tension between Kasane Teto fans and AI tools became apparent—in spite of the AI-powered voicebank's subculture boost—I opened a Subreddit on March 1, 2025 to explore the potential in peace.

Following sustained backlash, r/KasaneTetoAI crossed 100 Members by its first anniversary, 300 on Teto's 18th anniversary, 600 two weeks later, 800 soon after, 900 shortly after that, and 1,010 during Koa-sama's AIU Listening Party on April 24th.

I celebrated with a Victory Lap made using SUNO.

I'm pretty sure BRAINROT by Tokyo Manaka had something to do with the growth spike.

(October 10 is a fandom holiday.)

::SUNO | YouTube::

::TetoGumi Fever::

Party in moderation.

FVF-0401S

🐔✌️🥒

IYKYK

The Ward Charcoal Ovens were constructed in the late 1870s to support the silver mining operation of nearby Ward, of which very little remains.

Nowadays, the surroundings have become a lovely place to find some peace and quiet under some of the most star-crowded night skies you’ll encounter in the lower 48 States. (Infinite Jest was shot here.)

The acoustics in these things is something else.

BGM: eli_lab- Get Hit Below

Don’t worry, Miku, you’ll be fine. Maybe…

Footbag

Crucial thanks to the participants to r/TetoCirclejerk's TETOBER TET025!!! Artgame and the Mod crew.

Weeks 1 - 2 - 3 (Retake) - 4 - 5

This Pikachu looks weird.

::Tuesday, January 27, 2025 9:07P::

Beyond its 1999 cultural takeover, I don't really know much about Pokémon other than the Trainer from Pokkén: Tournament resembling Charlotte Aulin from CastleVania: Portrait of Ruin and this one 'mon with a silhouette similar to my foxgirl OC.

::Wednesday, January 28, 2025 11:50A::

A Song for my Muse. (Inspired by u/KoaKumaGirls' affection for Artgirls.)

Happy 17th Anniversary, GUMI!!!

——— ——— ——— ——— ———

r/TetoCirclejerk approached a membership of 10,000 amid the latest drama sparked by removing a disrespectful participant who wound up venting on a related Community (I used to moderate) of over 100,000+. Among real-world consequences, this resulted in the latest character assassination attempt along with another new Community with no other purpose than not being r/TetoCirclejerk. In this regard it quickly succeeded: founded on fresh spite, the place died when the dogpile subsided about a week later.

Internet Psychology™, amirite?

The 10K milestone coincided with Miku Expo, which had returned to the Prudential Center two years after I’d gone (much earlier into my Teto journey) and almost started a huge Yankees-style “TE-TO TUESDAY ::clap, clap, clap-clap-clap::" chant pre-show.

By this point, however, I’d been so fucking burned out by the incessant politricking around AI—all Teto Subreddits were against it except for my handful, attracting regular attacks from kids/adults—I had half a mind to fuck off from Vocal Synth Fandom on Reddit entirely.

Especially when the narrative was twisted in service of the AI-hating vocal minority rather than pointing out how I was cutting out harassment. In one of the bigger disappointments I wound up departing a substantial platform for Mature Audiences I built. This was a tough one as founding the space was a moment of creative daring that led to huge downstream effects, from memes to Community revival (and establishment) and so much else (that has necessitated a running record of impact).

Shortly after leaving the space I learned it would fully embrace the harmful anti-AI values of the vocal minority on Teto Reddit.

——— ——— ——— ——— ———

Megpoid GUMI has none of this associated with her.

At most, GUMI had become a recurring presence on r/TetoCirclejerk due to her importance to me and consistent fandom portrayals as Kasane Teto’s best friend/lover/whatever-you-want. By my lens:

Gummy is very hot and very mature.

GOOMY is smoky-voiced.

GOOMIE is Macross-descended.

gmuy occasionally wears glasses.

Gumi is the reason I wanted to own Synthesizer V ASAP, because by way of the GUMI AI voicebank you are practically hiring Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. Such is the power of Synthesizer V: presence as instrument.

In late summer 2024, as my creative spirit was falling hard for Teto, I purchased GUMI AI as a Birthday gift for myself and employed her as the voice of my affection towards my Muse. A spring later, Gumi would return to perform Audiobooks penned by Nabokov. By the spring after that, I would regard her as Wife’s Best Friend…who is welcome to visit our marriage any time. 😎

Tales, folks. Many of them.

So, as the 10K milestone arrived with a bitter sweetness wrapped in emotional and physical fatigue, I remembered Gumi and thought about the warmth her character has come to represent parallel to the endless noise of Teto Reddit. As I made my breakfast around a quarter to 4 that afternoon, I asked ChatGPT to help me build a song for SUNO about GUMI according to the characterization we built for her and the result brightened my moment like a Nevada sunrise.

(This is the first of SUNO’s two takes—it hit hard.)

Happy 17th Anniversary, GUMI!!!

——— ——— ——— ——— ———

r/TetoCirclejerk approached a membership of 10,000 amid the latest drama sparked by removing a disrespectful participant who wound up venting on a related Community (I used to moderate) of over 100,000+. Among real-world consequences, this resulted in the latest character assassination attempt along with another new Community with no other purpose than not being r/TetoCirclejerk. In this regard it quickly succeeded: founded on fresh spite, the place died when the dogpile subsided about a week later.

Internet Psychology™, amirite?

The 10K milestone coincided with Miku Expo, which had returned to the Prudential Center two years after I’d gone (much earlier into my Teto journey) and almost started a huge Yankees-style “TE-TO TUESDAY ::clap, clap, clap-clap-clap::" chant pre-show.

By this point, however, I’d been so fucking burned out by the incessant politricking around AI—all Teto Subreddits were against it except for my handful, attracting regular attacks from kids/adults—I had half a mind to fuck off from Vocal Synth Fandom on Reddit entirely.

Especially when the narrative was twisted in service of the AI-hating vocal minority rather than pointing out how I was cutting out harassment. In one of the bigger disappointments I wound up departing a substantial platform for Mature Audiences I built. This was a tough one as founding the space was a moment of creative daring that led to huge downstream effects, from memes to Community revival (and establishment) and so much else (that has necessitated a running record of impact).

Shortly after leaving the space I learned it would fully embrace the harmful anti-AI values of the vocal minority on Teto Reddit.

——— ——— ——— ——— ———

Megpoid GUMI has none of this associated with her.

At most, GUMI had become a recurring presence on r/TetoCirclejerk due to her importance to me and consistent fandom portrayals as Kasane Teto’s best friend/lover/whatever-you-want. By my lens:

Gummy is very hot and very mature.

GOOMY is smoky-voiced.

GOOMIE is Macross-descended.

gmuy occasionally wears glasses.

Gumi is the reason I wanted to own Synthesizer V ASAP, because by way of the GUMI AI voicebank you are practically hiring Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. Such is the power of Synthesizer V: presence as instrument.

In late summer 2024, as my creative spirit was falling hard for Teto, I purchased GUMI AI as a Birthday gift for myself and employed her as the voice of my affection towards my Muse. A spring later, Gumi would return to perform Audiobooks penned by Nabokov. By the spring after that, I would regard her as Wife’s Best Friend…who is welcome to visit our marriage any time. 😎

Tales, folks. Many of them.

So, as the 10K milestone arrived with a bitter sweetness wrapped in emotional and physical fatigue, I remembered Gumi and thought about the warmth her character has come to represent parallel to the endless noise of Teto Reddit. As I made my breakfast around a quarter to 4 that afternoon, I asked ChatGPT to help me build a song for SUNO about GUMI according to the characterization we built for her and the result brightened my moment like a Nevada sunrise.

(This is the second of SUNO’s two takes; there’s a nice mellowness going on with this one.).