Interview with Hatsune Miku

Very special guest on the show today, Hatsune Miku!

**Interview with Hatsune Miku** is the sixth episode for *LOVEWEB*.

## Plot

Manon interviews with a popular figure they found while surfing through the web.

### ARG

At the end of the episode, a Pastebin link can be seen flashing, which leads to a note that also contains a link to the Smutty Horse link written differently with a note.

meh, not feeling like making a puzzle this timehere's the gameu [dot] smutty [dot] horse [slash] mjayvtiflav.rarsoftmare\_0320
When the player opens the .zip file however, they are presented with an image of Fluttershy from *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* named under the file "owned.gif" and a text file named "bitch you thought wrong.txt".

there is a puzzle to solvebitch you thought wrong
Opening "owned.gif" in an editor software will reveal another invisible frame containing a watermark link to the Tumblr account Soft and Short Reviews, which is an account that posts reviews for *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*. To solve the puzzle, one must put the missing letters that aren't seen from the account's favorite quote section for each episode since they are misspelled, starting from below to up. The letters "soiom" are then needed in the Tinyurl link, which is a Pastebin link that leads to a link of the Discord server, SOFTMARE\_0320.

* Manon
* Cybermare
* Hatsune Miku

## Transcript

*(Intro plays as normal, with Manon and Hatsune Miku surfing past future events of the current episode before landing in Manon's room)*
**Cybermare:** What? Why is Miku here?
**Manon:** Miss Miku is here for an interview! I saw her when I was surfing on the web and I was so hype! So I asked if she wanted to do an interview on *LOVEWEB* and she accepted.
**Hatsune Miku:** Hello! I'm Hatsune Miku!
**Cybermare:** I know who she is... But I didn't know we did interviews on the show.
**Manon:** Oh Miss Miku, it's an honor to have you on my show! I really thought you'd be too busy to come!
**Cybermare:** Wait... Is this "Miku" just the voice program or a sentient AI?
**Manon:** Yay! Let's do the interview now!
**Manon and Hatsune Miku:** Yaaaaay!
**Cybaremare:** Jesus Christ, this is gonna be insufferable....
**Manon:** Okay okay, you need no introduction, but why don't you present yourself to the public anyway Ms. Miku?
**Hatsune Miku:** I'm Hatsune Miku-*[incomphrensible speech]*
*(Cybermare interrupts Miku)*
**Cybermare:** Wait, shut up. That was completely incomprehensible.
**Manon:** What do you mean? I understood her just fine.
**Cybermare:** Well if you're gonna be talking, can we like, put subtitles at the bottom of the screen of something?
**Hatsune Miku** Sure, I can do that! *(subtitles appear)*
**Cybermare:** Okay, good.
**Hatsune Miku:** So, I'm a Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media in 2007.
**Manon:** That's right! A Vocaloid is a voice bank accompanied by an illustration. Though... oo be an official Vocaloid, you gotta be licensed by the YAMAHA Corporation. It's a huge musical instrument manufacturer that started the development on the Vocaloid engine. Vocaloid is also the name of the singing synthesizer software developed by the same corporation. So basically, you put Vocaloids in the Vocaloid program to make them sing!
**Cybermare:** Wait... So YAMAHA made the Vocaloid engine... And what did Crypton Future Media make?
**Manon:** Crypton Future Media is the developer and distributor of Vocaloids. They're the ones who came up with the idea of using mascots as a commercial strategy. Nowadays however, Miss Miku and other voice banks are no longer called Vocaloids. It was announced in 2019 that they'd be transferred to Crypton Future Media's own synthesizer, Piapro Studio. We'll keep referring to her as a vocaloid to not make things confusing.
**Cybermare:** Uh uh... Hey, why are we interviewing anime over here if you seem to already know everything about her?
**Manon:** Because, she's Hatsune Miku! She's so awesome!
**Cybermare:** That doesn't answer my question.
*(the sound of silence fills in as Miku looks at Cybermare)*
**Manon:** Oh, you may have noticed... My voice is AI generated by the 15.AI website. It was created based on Sweetie Belle's voice from *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, performed by Claire Corlett. Is your voice based on any real human Miss Miku?
**Hatsune Miku:** Oh yes, of course! My voice comes from the famous voice actress Saki Fujita.
**Manon:** Oh! And your appearance was created by the artist KEI? And your colors were based on the YAMAHA synthesizer's colors. Is this correct?
**Hatsune Miku:** Yes! Yes!
**Manon:** Cool! You sang thousands of songs and a lot of them are very popular. It's hard to keep track of all of them, but I want to know... Which one do you think was the most influential on your career?
**Hatsune Miku:** Oh, that'd be... "Melt" by Supercell.
**Manon:** Right, that song! "Melt" might not sound like anything special now, but in late 2007, it was the first of its kind. Even right now, it's still one of the most viewed Vocaloid video on Nicovideo,
which is a popular japanese video platform. It really sold the idea to a lot of creators that Vocaloids have a lot of potential. And they are not just a passing trend. Another big hit was "Ievan Polkka"! A cover by Otomania of a traditional Finnish song. This cover elevated Hatsune Miku to be a worldwide phenomenon. It also created the derivative mascot Hachune Miku, and popularized the leek as her special item!
**Hatsune Miku:** Actually... it's a spring onion.
**Manon:** Oh yeah, I always forget... Something else I almost forgot! This song is also a reference to the 2006 internet meme "Leek Spin"!
Since we're talking about old memes... let's not forget "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!", by daniwellP. It was first a Hatsune Miku song, then it got covered by MomomomoP with Momone's voice. Momone is not a Vocaloid but is a voice for UTAU, another singing synthesizer software. Now this should sound extremely familiar, because this is the Nyan Cat song, the best meme ever! So, you really made Vocaloid popular all on your own, and of course your success was going to create more Vocaloid voices down the line!
**Hatsune Miku:** Actually, I'm the seventh Vocaloid. The firsts were Leon, and Lola. I was just the first with a character illustration.
**Manon:** Ooh, interesting! So, you're a great singer. But I saw you're also a great dancer. You have a whole animation software dedicated to you.
**Hatsune Miku:** That's right!
**Manon:** It's called MikuMikuDance! It was released on February 24th 2008 by the Japanese programmer Yu Higuchi. It used to be private because Crypton Future Media's copyright didn't allow Miss Miku to be used in other people's software. But that copyright changed in the same month to allow the public release of MikuMikuDance. This software is not limited to just making Miss Miku dance, its users would also create skits and memes with it. It's not limited to just Vocaloids, as characters from *Touhou* and other franchises are usable in this program too. Even some anime are made in MikuMikuDance.
Miss Miku's influence is felt everywhere!
**Hatsune Miku:** My influence is also felt in real life.
**Manon:** Oh, that's right! In IRL, there are concerts our viewers can go to in person. And you show up among them as in hologram.
**Hatsune Miku:** Yeah!
**Manon:** You've had your first live concert called me MIKUNOPOLIS in Los Angeles in 2011. It's like you were IRL with the humans!
*(the camera zooms in to a surprised Cybermare)*
**Hatsune Miku:** It was so much fun! I loved it a lot!
**Cybermare:** Woah... damn.
**Manon:** Even Cybermare thinks its so cool! Anyway, I'd like to know more about one of your collaboration. What was up with this Domino's Pizza app back in 2013?
**Hatsune Miku:** Oh... uh... well... The CEO of Domino's Pizza Japan wanted to do a collab with Crypton Future Media to make pizza boxes themed after me.
**Manon:** Those can even be turned into an AR Stage for Miku to perform on!
**Hatsune Miku:** It's pretty epic even if it's just pizza. But the ad was... strange.
**Manon:** The viewers pointed the uncanny mix of a real person in Miss Miku. The unnatural performance of the CEO, the editing choices, the fact that the ad is in English, but the collab was exclusive to Japan. At least it was a huge success there. Oh, I have a question about a rumor I've been hearing about a lot. So, are you the one who created *Minecraft*?
**Hatsune Miku:** Yes! I did!
**Manon:** Oh really? Did she for realsies?
**Cybermare:** Well actually... *(Cybermare searches up about the topic in her phone)* Hm. Actually never mind. Yeah she did.
**Manon:** Woah! That's so epically awesome! What inspired you to make *Minecraft* then?
**Hatsune Miku:** Well, you know... My software inspired a lot of people to make music to express themselves with my voice. To create! And I really like that! But music requires a lot of work...that's why I thought about creating a video game about creating. That would be accessible to as many people as possible.
**Manon:** Miss Miku, you're the best! Um, I have one last tiny small question... Can we sing "PoPiPo" together?
**Hatsune Miku:** Of course!
*(cuts to a scene of the supposed "PoPiPo" music video featuring Hatsune Miku and Manon but halfway throughout the song Miku collapses, revealing it to be a AI that was roleplayed by Manon)*
**Manon:** Cybermare, no! What have you done? I can't use her anymore.
**Cybermare:** So you admit you were just using a voice software and roleplaying as the real Miku?
**Manon:** Hmm... maybe. But it was so much fun! We still have lots of songs to go through.
**Cybermare:** Uh... let's just stop it here. I don't think people want to see the "lol cat" dance to cringy songs for another minute.
**Manon:** What!? Comment down below if you want to see more! Let's prove Cybermare wrong!
*(Cybermare grabs Manon with her magic)*
**Cybermare:** Sure pussy, let's rest now. Watching you dance tired me up.
**Manon:** It's annoying you keep interrupting my show... but okay.
Bye bye web surfers! See you on the internet!
*(Credits roll)*
**Manon:** Thank you so much for watching! Don't forget you can support the show on Patreon to get sneak peeks and bonuses. You can also support by buying *LOVEWEB* merch on sharkrobot.com. All the links are in the description!

## Music

* Roavello - We're riding on the internet (LOVEWEB Remix)
* yuuneey - LOVEWEB Theme 1 [Welcome To The Show]
* Supercell - Melt
* Loitmuta - Ievan Polkka
* Humataro - Ievan Polkka 8-Bit Chiptune
* daniwellP - Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!
* sigma - ミククラフト
* LamazeP - PoPiPo
* Friday Night Funkin' (Kawai Sprite) - Game Over
* Yume 2kki (Mosenite) - The Ceiling [Reversed]

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## Trivia

* This is the first episode where the topic is done through an interview, and also where it uses a different intro including the theme song as well as the intro immediately aligning with the start of the episode.
* This is the second episode to have its thumbnail not to feature Manon.
* This episode, along with "Rules of the Internet Explained" and Homestuck: The Most Internet Story EVER was worked at the same time.
	+ The topic was initially crossed out as a secret when first teased.
* The scene where Manon talks about Hatsune Miku creating *Minecraft* would later be uploaded as its own video on Manon's account, both on YouTube and Twitter

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### Development

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