Yea Forums has no interest in music other than as social capital. They consume enough music that their ability to appreciate the art becomes atrophied and the main goal is to just listen to more obscure stuff.
They are remarkably in love with off-kilter pop music for a board full of people who take pride in their passion for experimental music, and arguments here quickly devolve into interminable baiting between "it's boring" / "no, it's good" / "no, it's shit" because nobody has any basic knowledge of music theory or ability to articulate their opinions beyond "feels."
The few informed listeners of academic music spend their time signaling to the rest of the board and use their taste as leverage to get fifteen minutes of online pseudo-notoriety.
Yea Forums consists of people who aren't as weird as they like to think but use their ample free time and piracy to invest in a hobby that makes them feel special or sophisticated, allowing them to compensate for their lack of social skills and failures in concrete or academic pursuits.
The biggest irony is that the vast majority of Yea Forums is a hivemind ruled by a handful of online tastemakers mostly concerned with maintaining a balance between supporting "alternative" pop that will appeal to misunderstood teenagers and maintaining street cred among bored college students who constantly seek out"experimental" music for their mild amusement, negating the cultivation of individual taste or critical thinking in relation to music.
It's a feedback loop of posturing, masturbatory attitudes, and enough layers of irony to suffocate any hope of meaningful conversation. This last element--irony--is vital to allowing Yea Forums and similar collectives to ignore the reality of their situation and disregard posts as this one with little more than tongue-in-cheek one-word responses.
Deep down you all know you're going nowhere in life and this is all a farce.
>Holy crap, Yea Forums's a dumpster fire. >Yea Forums has no interest in music other than as social capital. They consume enough music that their ability to appreciate the art becomes atrophied and the main goal is to just listen to more obscure stuff. >They are remarkably in love with off-kilter pop music for a board full of people who take pride in their passion for experimental music, and arguments here quickly devolve into interminable baiting between "it's boring" / "no, it's good" / "no, it's shit" because nobody has any basic knowledge of music theory or ability to articulate their opinions beyond "feels." >The few informed listeners of academic music spend their time signaling to the rest of the board and use their taste as leverage to get fifteen minutes of online pseudo-notoriety. >Yea Forums consists of people who aren't as weird as they like to think but use their ample free time and piracy to invest in a hobby that makes them feel special or sophisticated, allowing them to compensate for their lack of social skills and failures in concrete or academic pursuits. >The biggest irony is that the vast majority of Yea Forums is a hivemind ruled by a handful of online tastemakers mostly concerned with maintaining a balance between supporting "alternative" pop that will appeal to misunderstood teenagers and maintaining street cred among bored college students who constantly seek out"experimental" music for their mild amusement, negating the cultivation of individual taste or critical thinking in relation to music. >It's a feedback loop of posturing, masturbatory attitudes, and enough layers of irony to suffocate any hope of meaningful conversation. This last element--irony--is vital to allowing Yea Forums and similar collectives to ignore the reality of their situation and disregard posts as this one with little more than tongue-in-cheek one-word responses. >Deep down you all know you're going nowhere in life and this is all a farce.
>deep down you all know you're going nowhere in life and this is all a farce >posts 300 word essay on mu essentially saying "WOW!!! U GUYS ARE LOSERS!!! MUSIC THEORY IS AWESOME!!! IF YOU USE MU YOU ARE A RETARD IRL!!
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Jacob Russell
We get this thread like once a day. As long as you stick to general threads or the bottom of the catalog there is discussion that isn't Yea Forumscore. I'll be the first to admit that 50% of Yea Forums is flavor of the month shilling and albums that have been discussed to death, but the other half can genuinely have some good albums and conversation.
Matthew Sanchez
>genuinely have some good albums and conversation.
Lol asshurt p4kdrone doesnt like being told the truth
Andrew Williams
>Every single person on Yea Forums thinks and acts in the exact same way
Jaxson Flores
This board doesn't even have a culture anymore. It's become an outlet for redditors to be edgy without risking getting their account banned, and twitter/discord SJWs who bait these redditors for internet feel good points.
James Clark
more or less true. it's a circlejerkiing hive-mind.
Ryder Jenkins
Are you implying they dont?
Dylan Ward
it's for incels to get baited into arguing over whether armpit hair means you have bad hygiene or not in absurd bengalfuel threads with albums that don't exist.
