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.
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.