A thread 🧵 about the way NFTs seem to be seen in Japan, and why, when making your case against them, you probably should NOT be using all the usual arguments that work here, and what would probably get you more success instead. There is a HUGE cultural gap in the way NFTs are viewed in Japan vs. in the West, and it's way bigger than you guys even think. This is leading to obvious problems when someone says they're interested in them and you all have a sudden, massive cow without explaining yourselves.

swmrさん（@sawamuradacun）からNFTについて海外の見方で相談を受けました。
swmrさんは困るところを説明するページを書きましたので、読んでいただければ感謝です。
特に、日本人の見方を踏まえ、難しい内容でもわかりやすい形になったと思います。
note.com/sawamuradacun/… 最近いろいろ話していますが、アンチなのか？と、アンチというかただ問題点をちゃんと説明する人が少ないのがそもそも問題点だと思います。
例えば怪しいやつが説明せず「僕と契約して魔法少女になれ！」と言えば、水面下でやばい事実がわかる人が「待て待て待て！！」と叫ぶのが当たり前と思います…

All right, here's a long incoming thread from your girl here about what "Miku no longer being a Vocaloid" means for the benefit of those not as deeply in the circuit, and why that's actually not as terrifying or world-ending as it sounds (bear with me) So as much as "Hatsune Miku" has been considered synonymous with "Vocaloid" for a long time now, that wasn't actually the case from a technical standpoint. Miku and co. are licensed VBs from Crypton that worked off the Vocaloid engine from Yamaha.

This will probably be another long thread, but since CC2 is finally done and I probably have a new Vocaloid release on the horizon, I kind of want to talk about the difference between how I approach ARM work vs. how I approach Vocaloid work I think there's really no denying it that any work I make for ARM, musically, is probably significantly higher in complexity, and possibly overall better quality than anything I make with Vocaloid at an equivalent point in time

This is going to be another long thread (I'm sorry), but in light of some recent projects and conversations with friends, I kind of want to muse a little bit about the background behind my perspective as a Vocaloid producer in the West and what it's like making amateur music... For a sense of background, right now I identify, to the end, as a "hobbyist" musician; I have no intention of going into this professionally as a career, or to even remotely pursue it, and despite the difficulty of finding free time, still prefer to do it for personal enjoyment