Feb 20, 2015 · Hatsune Miku holding a leek comes from a parody video of the Leekspin meme. The Leekspin meme is a video of Orihime from Bleach spinning a leek in one of the episodes with the Finnish folk song Ievan Polkka playing in the background.

Jan 27, 2025 · The tradition of assigning Vocaloids items began with the song "levan Polkka", AKA Leekspin. In the video, a chibi version of Hatsune Miku, "Hachune Miku", was depicted waving a spring onion. The tradition was set in stone once the male Vocaloid KAITO was rediscovered and associated with ice cream.

Did you know that this happened before Hatsune Miku? In this article, we will talk about Leekspin, the true origin of the leek that Miku is swinging. Leekspin is also known as Loituma Girl, which consists of a small flash or gif animation of a female anime character spinning an onion.

MikuLeek is the cargo ship between Hatsune Miku and a leek from the Vocaloid fandom. A popular meme within the anime community in the early 2000s, commonly cited as originating from Japanese video sharing site Niconico Douga, was a short loop of Orihime from the anime Bleach waving a Japanese...

Nov 5, 2010 · As far as I can tell, somebody did a version of leekspin with Miku, and it stuck. According to Crypton, a popular video with "Hachune Miku", a super deformed Miku, holding a leek and singing "Ievan Polkka", presented the varied potential of applying the software in multimedia content creation.

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is an application developed by Crypton Future Media. Released in August 2007, using Yamaha's Vocaloid 2 technology and voice samples of Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita, the program allows the user to synthesize and optimize the singer's voice to …

Feb 23, 2023 · It’s a welsh onion (negi), but in western circles, “leek” has become the preferred term because it sounds funnier and it’s easier to meme (meek). The origin of the leek comes from an original meme gif featuring orihime from bleach twirling a leek to the tune of Ievan Polka (called the “ leekspin ”).

May 25, 2022 · Well, if it's art of Miku it's always gonna be a spring onion. In real life, you'll generally not find spring onions this big unless you're in Asia or shopping Asian markets. Leeks tend to be thicker and more leathery with the green part growing in alternation where spring onions have the green parts branching off.

Hatsune Miku loves leeks because of the viral 'Leekspin' meme from an old Flash animation featuring her twirling a leek, inspired by the Finnish folk song 'Ievan Polkka.'

Hatsune Miku's connection with the green onion (or leek) actually started from a viral video where she was depicted holding one while singing the Finnish folk song 'Ievan Polkka.' It's just a fun, quirky thing that stuck with the fandom!