I get info sent to me regarding classic rock or older metal and I saw a followup on an article about a black teenage girl who had a Metallica shirt on in one of her videos and all the "mean messages" she got. Of course the mean messages were simply people asking what she knew about Metallica or to name a song. The article I saw was a followup saying that she "clapped back" (hate that term) at the trolls by playing a classic Metallica song on her guitar. I no longer follow that site by the way.
I swear within woke/sjw media there are some tried and true scripts. This one reminds me of the ones who get angry because they are huge fans of an IP but get angry when someone asks them about their favorite comic book, character, book, etc.
I guarantee you a white teenage male would probably get asked what he knows about Metallica if he wore their shirt. She could've simply talked about how much she liked the band and moved on. Anyone with any online presence will get hate messages more mean spirited one. I remember Jeremy from Geeks & Gamers talked about the death threats or racist messages they get, but they move on and nobody is going to write some sobbing article about them.
I love classic country and my favorite country artist is Hank Williams Sr. I have gotten some odd looks years back when I would buy the cds but people would ask me how I got into him and I told them. Is that so hard? I made some friends that way as well. Just like a lady asked me how I knew about Zeppelin when I wore my Zeppelin shirt. in middle school my older brother told me that the rap music I listened to was all sampled from older stuff, and that made me go out and listen to old school funk/R&B and I had plenty of adults ask me what I knew about those groups.
As a nerd I love it when people ask me why Superman or Spiderman are my favorite characters, why I can't shut up about the greatness of Skyrim, why you should read the Expanded Universe books and ignore Disney Star Wars, and the list goes on. I swear some people are fueled by their need to feel like a victim.
That actually happened to me in my late teens while walking around in town. I was wearing a Ride the Lightning t-shirt and some random guy walking a few steps behind me, another metal-head, comes and puts his arm around me and asks me if I know Metallica's members on that album, not at the time(2000 iirc). I tell him the names and he just walks away after shaking my hand... I still kinda regret not asking if he was able to read or not (band member names were on the back) but that could've ended badly since he wasn't alone.
It's nice when you get asked stuff like that out of genuine interest and maybe even make few buddies along the way, like you did. On the other hand, maybe a little gate keeping isn't that bad seeing as how some hobbies have been infiltrated by these destructive ass-hats.
Agreed. Random quizzes come with the territory. But yea, not gatekeeping is what got us in this mess. Imagine if Anita Sarkessian had been told to pound sand or was told to make her own gaming company with all the females she wants
Posers act offended when questioned about the hobbies they pretend to be into because it exposes their fakery.
The lesson they need to learn is no one is being intentionally adversarial.
What you are getting is called conversation. People also like thing and will ask you about thing to see if you have similar tastes so you can recommend stuff, and they can recommend stuff. Using the example, a group like Metallica has been producing music for about 40 years now. iirc, they formed in '81.
Not every album is going to have the same feeling. The black album is a very different listen to their master of puppets album, and those were not that far apart considering how long the band has been around. Master of puppets was 86 and Black was 1991.
My point being, there is going to come a time where they'll have to realize that conversation exists. People sometimes talk to one another that may not know each other. And it's not always just some trolling. if you treat every interaction like you are the victim of something, I have no time for you. You've already proven to not be worth interacting with. You'll just use it against me.
They only want to start one conversation sadly.
and by conversation they mean sermon
Most religions see things that way.
Well said. As for Metallica I have all of their stuff but Master of Puppets is my favorite
Things used to be so good we could get albums like Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood in the same year and now we haven't had a new rock band since Imagine Dragons debuted.
YoungRippa has gone on at length about how the metal scene is fake and gay and the media run by SJWs. Same thing with games journalism.
I’ve heard him talk about that anc that surprised me but I’ve seen it. I assumed metal and classic rock fans wouldn’t be so sjw. You like his band? I think they are pretty good
Exactly. These articles never show something like that. Like I said it’s a variation on the women who complain because a guy “asked her deep lore questions” when in reality he saw her with an avengers shirt and asked what comics she liked
Oppression olympics WORKS. It's all a competition to be the most oppressed, the most persecuted. Because people with raging justice boners will flock to your side, even if the persecution was completely staged.
Look at how popular professional wrestling is. People love the drama and they know that's fake.
Now check out Lovely Day.
Exactly! Now it seems not being in the core demographic is reason to whine. You see it with the whole girls in gaming push. I bought Bill Withers greatest hits when I was 14 and got some surprised looks and some older people saying “what do you know about real music like that”. There was a Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix and this professor said that A Change is Gonna Come is just as relevant today since no race progress has been made. Of course they didn’t give her any pushback and I turned it off. That is a beautiful song and he was inspired to write it after hearing Blowin in the Wind by Dylan