Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-60.241.60.158-20121216013750/@comment-917693-20150719201614

68.48.162.186 wrote: This guide isn't really true. I've been at it for almost two years now, and my uploads always go unnoticed.

I don't think anyone has claimed these suggestions to be a "path to success". Being noticed is also heavily dependent on other factors. (E.g. if you have tons of utaite friends, who promote you on Twitter, etc.)

Also I'd like to repeat fitting the requirements on the wiki is NOT at all requirement to be an utaite. "How do you become an utaite? Well, you sing an utattemita cover, and post it on NND." is very true, because the very being of being an utaite is just to sing, and post it online (and not necessarily to get noticed.) The question Shamuon answered was not "How do I become popular" or "How do I get noticed", but "How do I become an utaite". Utaite is a variation from kashu, which literally just means singer. So utaite = singer, nothing more.

If your goal is just to become popular and get likes and subs, then it's understandable to be upset and frustrated. And singing just for your own sake might not be enough to please you. But you shouldn't be solely focused on getting popular if it's making you enjoy that hobby of singing less and less. You're partly also singing for yourself!

Also being unpopular in no way necessarily means, that someone is bad. It is indeed VERY hard to get noticed, because there are just too many people, and the odds of being discovered accidently, are pretty low. If you want to at least get noticed, you need to think of some way for people to get to know you! (Without being too annoying with self-promoting, which is a hard thing.)