These are great articles about how and why the internet is getting worse and why it keeps happening. Hopefully tumblr can avoid this fate (for the second time). Also I didn't know that apparently the Russian Government was involved in the "enshittification" of LiveJournal so directly.
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learning that self deprecation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.
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Why the Metal scene sucks: SFU - a case study
Once upon a time, Chris Barnes created Six Feet Under with Allen West (Then in Obituary). And it sounded like Chris Barnes was singing on an Obituary album. Fastforward a couple years, and you find out that there are no solid band members in SFU apart from Chris Barnes.
In any other case, we'd say that SFU wasn't a band, but rather a bunch of bands of that Chris Barnes did the vocals for. But no. Barnes treats SFU as a BRAND, not a band. There is no real thread in SFU apart from the songs to be simple in structure.
Then we have Jack Owen, who decided to leave Cannibal Corpse because "his heart wasn't in it anymore" (his own words). And that's fine. Owens then tried to make a splash with his rock band and it lead nowhere. (A shame IMO, the music was solid, but it's not commercially viable).
So Owens went to SFU. To play the most boring riffs you can do as a guitarist - because if you're doing tours with SFU, you have to play those old two-chord-per-riff-songs.
So what happened? Did Owens leave the biggest death metal band Cannibal Corpse because his heart wasn't in it - only to play Allen West riffs? Is this his passion? Writing lame-simple-half-ass-songs where Barnes can repeat a simple sentence over and over?
Of course not, it's money.
And Owens attempted to write a bunch of ear friendly songs for SFU, and together with Barnes he managed to create one of the most wellknown trainwreck of a death metal album ever.
And who's fault is all this?
It's your fkking fault.
It's because wankers see the logo SFU and think, cool, it's Barnes, this ought to be good and off they go, supporting that shit over and over, in the same way you have a bunch of idiots who go to Metallica concerts because they want to hear the early material, a sort of temporary reliving of their youth, and then they go home and live like wankers the rest of their lives.
Because SFU isn't a band. It's a brand.
Stop giving a damn about brands and dig into the real scene instead and we won't have McDonalds Metal.
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everytime a female character has a hint of muscle or is vaguely gnc, all yall talk abt is pegging and violence and being thrown around like did you ever think masc/muscular women want to be treated kindly also. just a thought
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if i got possessed demonically i wouldn’t even notice it. with everything else i’ve got going on
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Dream is a total wanker, and I don't even want to mention him on my blog really, but I honestly could never fucking forget the "WHY has GRIAN, who in my opinion is not great at PvP, killed me at least 8 times in PVP games, yet I have NEVER finished ahead of him in buildmart". Still the funniest fucking shit ever
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