Here's the backstory for anyone who wants to know about why the Vocaloid (and wider vocal synth) community hates her. I was on Twitter that fateful day. One of my mutuals wrote a huge Google doc correcting her, and after your original video released, I ended up finding an article she plagiarized for the Vocaloid video.

As mentioned before, she made a video about Vocaloid in 2021. It was riddled with basic factual errors, and actually what caused myself and many others to stop liking her and start analyzing her content more critically. She actually had a fit and yelled at a bunch of Vocaloid fans for trying to issue corrections. Here's the list of errors she made that I could spot,  if anyone is interested.

- Stated that Miku is canonically always 16. Miku's age is for marketing purposes and her publisher has stated her age is meant to be fluid and she can be a jaded 87 year old if you want, along with literally everything else. Crypton says Eldritch Horror Miku is canon compliant, everyone!

- Failing to cite song lyrics for the song "Miku" by Anamanaguchi. Literally just reads them out without context.

- Blair forgets how Japanese name order works at several points in the video and uses character's family names as their first names, and people's first names as last names.

- Throughout the video, Blair implies that the Vocaloid software is only used by EDM musicians. This is untrue. Not quite a factual error per se, but still an incredibly dumb error to make because it could be dispelled with even 5 minutes on YouTube. There's a particularly large metal scene in the Vocaloid community, for example.

- Mispronounces the name of "Kenshi Yonezu" as "Kenshi Tansu" for some reason

- Cites a fake news article announcing the creation of a Hatsune Miku anime

- Cites UTAU as being a commercial-ish competitor to Vocaloid when it's really more the Audacity to Vocaloid's Adobe Audition and is community-driven by the creation of free and open-source voice libraries

- Cites LUCIA and LUAN (a pair of Spanish voicebanks for Vocaloid5) as being created shortly after Miku's creation by a new creator named Giuseppe. LUCIA and LUAN were created by an employee of the company that Yamaha partnered with for Vocaloid's development affairs (VoctroLabs). They were also announced about 10-ish years after Miku's release. She cites another Spanish Vocaloid, Clara as being from a competing company when in fact she was a Vocaloid3 release by VoctroLabs. They also were cancelled midway through production and never released.

- Cites that the two first Vocaloids ever created, Leon and Lola, are commonly depicted as white by the fandom despite being voiced by Black singers. While this is TRUE, she leaves out that they were portrayed by white stock photo models on the boxart by Yamaha and Zero-G (their publisher), and Zero-G did not confirm they were voiced by Black singers until over a decade later, failing to acknowledge the hand the two companies had in the whitewashing of these vocalists by the Fandom. As old fans have become the people making commercial vocal synths, it is now considered an industry standard to portray characters as being the same race as their voice providers.

- She cited the story of a Korean producer named SeeU being harassed out of the Japanese Vocaloid community. SeeU was not a producer. SeeU was a voicebank for the Vocaloid3 software, capable of singing in Japanese and Korean, with plans for English support. She never received any updates due to a mix of anti-Korean bigotry in Japan, financial troubles with her publisher, and her voice provider (Kim Dahee of the kpop group GLAM) having legal troubles.

- Misattributes the late Wowaka's record label as "ballroom" when his record label was actually "baloom"

- Uses a Google translated title of one of Wowaka's songs as "Front and Back Lovers" when the official translation is "Two-sided Lovers" or "Two-faced Lovers"

- Cites a FANDOM WIKI BLOG POST asking people to credit Vocaloid producers instead of the Vocaloids themselves as the idea of crediting producers being a new-in-2021 idea, when in reality it has been considered standard crediting practice since the early 2010s that one should cite the producer, as saying a song is by Miku is like saying a song is by Piano or Drum machine.

- Cites VTubers as being an evolution of the Vocaloid software. I should not need to tell you why this is incorrect.

Coming back in 2026, Blair was the AI slop before AI slop.

He really sniped down a bunch of awful creators just before genAI became widely accessible. He knew……

0:53 …do you think she calls it “the good doctor foundation” because the main character of the tv show “the good doctor” is autistic and she got the names confused

You're not going to believe this, but I'm teaching first year college writing, and this video is being used by our department to instruct our students on how to not make lazy video essays and avoid plagiarism as part of our rhetorical media instruction. It was literally in my suggested schedule outline when I went to design my class for this semester.

the ex-jehovah's witness community also hate her for uploading a video about jws that got even basic terminology and doctrine wrong, promising in a pinned comment to make a new video fixing the mistakes, getting hundreds of replies with very detailed information she could have USED for that video, and then NEVER MAKING IT OR FOLLOWING UP ON THE TOPIC AT ALL

I remember watching her video about puppy farms since she bought her dog from one. At one point she talked about how much research she put into getting the right puppy and I was sat there thinking “so how did you get blind sided by a puppy farm? That’s like point number one to learn when acquiring a puppy nowadays! How did you manage to do everything wrong when sourcing a puppy?!” Now I know

She would have loved Chat GPT

Not the most important thing that she got wrong in the Fyre documentary, but how she botched the quote about the National Regatta really changes how that event is portrayed.

Guy in documentary: "It was the same weekend as the National Regatta, which is like their Super Bowl"

Blair: "It was the same weekend as the National Regatta, which is bigger than the Super Bowl"

The island of Exuma has about 8,000 permanent residents, and an additional 8,000 come in for the regatta. Which is a lot of people for that island and is a big event to be sure. But about 90,000 people attend the Super Bowl and an additional 200,000 people come in for the week of festivities leading up to it. The Bahamian National Regatta is NOT bigger than the Super Bowl, lol.

seeing you call her out was very validating as someone who made fanart for her, only to have it featured in one of her videos a year later crediting the wrong username.

After watching your breakdown of what Iilluminaughtii was doing, I went to check the news on my local paper's website and noticed some of the tricks you mentioned in one journalist's article. Several hours of a wormhole later I can confidently say he has never written an original thing in his life and I genuinely don't know what to do with this information.

Thanks for the new critical reading tools, and the bottomless feeling of disappointment.

I remember Illuminaughti's group channel, "Sad Milk" used one of my covers as an intro song without crediting me. When I contacted them about it, they added credit to that video, but continued to use the song as an intro in future videos without crediting me lmao

this makes me cringe so much because this is kinda how i wrote my final university essay. i didnt understand the topic, and i just quoted a bunch of authors (with full credit), and i recieved the funniest comment i'd ever academically recieved which was along the lines of "there is no attempt at plagarism here, but i also cant read any of your thoughts."

"Does she record these in one take?" Yes. She flubs her lines throughout entire videos. For a time I considered editing together a compilation of every time she flubbed, in a playful way. I'm glad I didn't. She probably would've been out for my blood.

15:08
The guy in the documentary: "They booked the festival during the busiest weekend of the year: It's called the National Regatta. It's LIKE the Superbowl THERE "
Iilluminaughtii: "McFarland had booked the Fyre festival the same weekend that the National Regatta takes place in Bermuda. This boating event is massive, bigger than the Super Bowl."

I'm not an expert on boating sport events, but I'm fairly certain that the guy just used some analogy to emphasize the relative size and importance of this event *there*.
But she used that line, to then morph it into some alternative reality where this boating event is bigger than the 6th most watched annual sporting event in the world.

And just to be sure, I quickly looked it up and yes, the Superbowl has ~110 million viewers, while the National Regatta has at best some ~6 million.

there's a lot here obviously but the bit that grinds my gears the most is when she says "someone else had an entire box of pillows, and it became barbaric." Blair has rephrased the documentary in such a way that she's saying that the box of pillows became barbaric

Everyone's an Illuminaughtii fan until she makes a video about something you actually know about.

Iiluminaughtii seeing the original essay is mainly about James Somerton : "Phew I got off easy"
HBomberguy obscur forgotten second gaming channel : "Wait a minute"

the "Zimbardo speriment" was such a quiet and casual murder hahaha

The way Blair reads her scripts has always driven me INSANE. She makes it so obvious that she's reading it for the first time and calling it good enough. AND, the way she trips over certain words proves thar she didn't write it, bc if she did, she wouldn't write in words she then needs to sound out on the spot.