What are some of your "warning sign" bands? - When you hear someone says they like X band then it's time to ask for the check.

[Ignatius von Cistern]

Black metal, as far as I know, actually started as satire.

it started as a music media label for any heavy metal that had songs about the occult. as a result the "1st wave" is as diverse in sound as Merciful Fate, Slayer, Possessed and Bathory.

arguably Bathory's second album is the blueprint for "2nd wave." its harsh sound was in turn an emulation of punk and garage rock aesthetic, recorded in a literall garage and it stuck. i guess the kids liked the idea of being this basic, but still heavy and atmospheric.

the scene is now full of cringe normies who discovered satan, doing what cringe normies normally do. fag the place up.

 

[shrimping]

it started as a music media label for any heavy metal that had songs about the occult. as a result the "1st wave" is as diverse in sound as Merciful Fate, Slayer, Possessed and Bathory.

arguably Bathory's second album is the blueprint for "2nd wave." it's harsh sound was in turn an emulation of punk and garage rock aesthetic, recorded in a literall garage and it stuck. i guess the kids liked the idea of being this basic, but still heavy and atmospheric.

the scene is now full of cringe normies who discovered satan, doing what cringe normies normally do. fag the place up.

Pretty good summary. Overall I'd say fans of the 1st wave are fine, with the 2nd wave it's a 50/50, and anything that comes after that is a giant glowing faggotry warning sign most of the time.

 

[JJLiautaud]

People who whine about how Wagner was an anti-semite, you will walk away from the conversation thinking, that yes, it happened, yes, they deserved it and no, it wasn't enough. On the other hand people who love wagner but only talk about how much they love Ride of the Valkeries make you reevaluate the justness of the Morganthau Plan.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

(Trapt - Headstrong [but you can't stop circling your head])

Fact: the majority of kids that adamantly listened to this band/song back in the day are now driving lifted trucks with blue line punisher skull decals.

 

[Internet Wizard]

Femtanyl. Trying to make self-mutilation, pup-play, and being trans sound cool with scream rap and earrape bass ("Take my E and think about my setbacks," "I get clocked like it's a job to me"). Almost all of his fans are underage just by looking at the comments and animation memes featuring his songs. Didn't screenshot it, but a suicide helpine autopop-up used to show on Youtube when looking up his songs.

Forget warning signs if anyone I meet IRL listens to this shit I'm moving states
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Probably late as hell when it comes to this but unironic nu metal fans (the zoomer generation kind) somehow always piss me off. I say fans as in the people who insist it's real metal and usually fetishize Serj or Chino or JD whatever (like weebs, they don't just listen to it they tend to obsess over bands). The handful who play this up to deliberately piss people off get the Fred Durst exception. Anyone who knows about Snot is fine too ig
Also the people who think they're edgy and different for "liking" black metal, aka watching Lords of Chaos and listening to Mayhem twice. Speaking from experience both of these aren't worth the effort to try and help

 

[Dickinson's Real Deal]

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Forget warning signs if anyone I meet IRL listens to this shit I'm moving states
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Probably late as hell when it comes to this but unironic nu metal fans (the zoomer generation kind) somehow always piss me off. I say fans as in the people who insist it's real metal and usually fetishize Serj or Chino or JD whatever (like weebs, they don't just listen to it they tend to obsess over bands). The handful who play this up to deliberately piss people off get the Fred Durst exception. Anyone who knows about Snot is fine too ig
Also the people who think they're edgy and different for "liking" black metal, aka watching Lords of Chaos and listening to Mayhem twice. Speaking from experience both of these aren't worth the effort to try and help

I've known one person IRL who was into femtanyl. He was a massive cunt (goes without saying). I don't think it's been mentioned much on this thread; a lot of the music that seems to be rather endemic to RateYourMusic. I think most of users of this site have at least a vague idea of what the userbase on that site is like (men way older to know better using neopronouns), but as some examples: Vylet Pony, underscores, Fax Gang (and the whole No Agreements label). Most fans of those are troons with insufferable music snob tendencies. They treat genre tags like music pronouns I stg. I guess while I'm at it, anybody who uses that site who also takes the user based scoring system very seriously.

 

[Dickinson's Real Deal]

I've known one person IRL who was into femtanyl. He was a massive cunt (goes without saying). I don't think it's been mentioned much on this thread; a lot of the music that seems to be rather endemic to RateYourMusic. I think most of users of this site have at least a vague idea of what the userbase on that site is like (men way older to know better using neopronouns), but as some examples: Vylet Pony, underscores, Fax Gang (and the whole No Agreements label). Most fans of those are troons with insufferable music snob tendencies. They treat genre tags like music pronouns I stg. I guess while I'm at it, anybody who uses that site who also takes the user based scoring system very seriously.

To add, the music itself sounds like terminally online zoomers LARPing as major label recording artists, but it's usually too self-indulgent to pass as such.

 

[Turkey Beef]

This may be an unfair generalisation, but in my experience, any man who loves They Might Be Giants is a massive faggot

I like TMBG, but I'm also more than aware that the two of them endorse trannies and child trannies, and unsurprisingly their current fanbase is mainly made up of both. Gross, but that's Clown World for you.

Waymu and Nick Bates

I've talked to more than a few people who straight up said they can't listen to TMBG anymore because of Gaymu Waymu. On one hand, it reeks of YouChew-style derangement, but on the other hand, Waymu is easily one of the most venomous creatures on the modern internet, so it's a double-edged sword.

 

[Hitman One]

I have never, ever known anyone who likes Coldplay to be anything other than completely subhuman niggercattle.

 

[Gypsy Man]

I've talked to more than a few people who straight up said they can't listen to TMBG anymore because of Gaymu Waymu. On one hand, it reeks of YouChew-style derangement, but on the other hand, Waymu is easily one of the most venomous creatures on the modern internet, so it's a double-edged sword.

I was a subscriber of his between late 2019 and 2020, in every video post 2013 he sounds like an insufferable faggot (example of a self-hating fag). I see him on the LMW Discord server which he doesn't sperg about politics or agendas like he did 3-4 years ago on that server, maybe on a role only channel. Honestly, I didn't followed him when he was in debates with different internet atheists.

 

[Turkey Beef]

I was a subscriber of his between late 2019 and 2020, in every video post 2013 he sounds like an insufferable faggot (example of a self-hating fag). I see him on the LMW Discord server which he doesn't sperg about politics or agendas like he did 3-4 years ago on that server, maybe on a role only channel. Honestly, I didn't followed him when he was in debates with different internet atheists.

Knowing how much of a cancer the Lost Media Wiki Discord is (that server has little to do with LMW proper, and is more of a YouChew knockoff with the high number of schizos and tranny kids running buckwild there), I don't doubt they have an exclusive channel for coddling the likes of Waymu. I'm sort of amazed he hasn't gained his own KF thread; while I never specifically cared much for Waymu, it's still amazing to see how devoid of joy the dude has always been, and how he goes out of his way to alienate pretty much everyone with his sociopathic hipster smugness.

For the sake of contributing to the thread: Billie Eilish. Self-explanatory.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Linkin Park
Oasis

 

[Chick in Jockey]

Vocaloid fans - Either the biggest coomer imaginable or a 13 year old Tumblrite that:
* Hates men
* Only came on board for the unfunny "Miku says trans rights" ebook meme accounts on Twitter and that either cancel pixiv fanartists (that have been around since the community's inception) into DFE'ing or artists for writing songs about dark subject matter.
* Cancels people over pirating a $250+ piece of software.

Usually their tastes in Vocaloids aren't good, or they've made a terrible sounding cover of a pop song using the liquid ass English voice banks. Chances are, if they aren't a 13 year old socially retarded girl, or a 30 year old coomer, they're probably a trooning out Guilty Gear Strive Bridget-main that is still coping about people saying that the game's community sucks and Daisuke is a hack. The community should have ended itself after the last MikuExpo (funded by Crunchyroll) had the absolute Fyre Festival-coded idea to use a flatscreen LCD panel instead of holograms. As if Ashnikko adding Hatsune Miku to one of their songs wasn't already enough of a death sentence that the community should've gatekept harder.

Dream Theater fans - They either circlejerk about Mike Portnoy and/or their favorite video game is either equally pretentious shit like The Witness or The Talos Principle. Probably a schizophrenic.

Skrillex (nu-Dubstep) and EDM fans - They will genuinely look at some random schmuck's YouTube dubstep remix of something like Toxicity by System of a Down or Sweet Caroline, and then dare to call it kino when it completely goes against the tone of the original and sounds like it's from someone who should be legally barred from accessing FL Studio.

Bad Omens fans - Not a terrible band all things considered, but their fans either tend to be really fucking creepy stalkers with ADHD Tiktok brainrot (if a women), or a dude that either listens to anything or simply want to get laid. Their band members quit social media because of these freaks. Probably as autistic as Geowizard. I see people comparing Bad Omens fans to Deftone fans for obvious reasons, they probably could beat Steve Lacey fans in a fight of who remembers the least song lyrics.

Bring Me The Horizon fans - There's more people who get into debates about which different sounding album is the best, and there's probably more camps like that then there are genders. Likewise, their female fans at least can be put in a similar camp to Bad Omens fans. If they're someone like Melonie Mac who listened to them circa That's the Spirit, they have zero media literacy (not even in the Tumblr way, they simply never listened to any of their stuff before and then gets mad over social media posts that are less controversial than their old deathcore albums). If you're a dude, then you either had drug problems or are in the same mental health camp as Nine Inch Nails fans.

Imagine Dragons fans - The less said about this the better, but they're likely safe-edgy Redditors that think they're badass while being Moistcritikal subscribers and worshiping a Mormon band.

Lostprophets fans - You send a love letter to a literal infant annihilator, a washed up baby rapist with a cocaine addiction if you will, or are someone who doesn't listen to them anymore for obvious reasons.

Mr. Girl fans - Refer to Lostprophets fans, but with the addition of CSAM addiction being used as a "joke". If you listen to his songs outside of the Dream meme edits (where it's being done in spite of him), you probably should stay away from schools.

Ninja Sex Party fans - You either wish The Lonely Islands were back, or you're a retarded tumblrfag who's underage who really loves Game Grumps for some reason, which in of itself should be the biggest red flag.

redditor and/or a tf2 brony

Or someone who spent a little too much time playing Toontown Online or that thinks Conker's Bad Fur Day's soundtrack is absolute kino with a smiley ball rating.

Maroon 5. Their shit is "popular" and Adam Levine has his face plastered everywhere, but I don't think there are 10 people in the entire US, including Adam Levine himself, who could name all the other members of the band, or pick them out of a lineup.

I vividly remember my elementary school teacher (Who looked like a wine mom) being big into that kind of stuff back when Pandora was a thing, and she'd play fucking Maroon 5 during quiet reading time. That shit was so fucking annoying and I couldn't focus on reading because I just found the music corny and obnoxious.

So I guess I associate Maroon 5 fans with vapid wine moms now.

 

[Darth Insanius]

Maroon 5 is one of the biggest enigmas in the music world. Nearly every single person in the United States has heard at least one of their songs at a grocery store or on the radio yet finding a die-hard Maroon 5 fan in the wild or even on the internet is like trying to find a unicorn. Even uber-vanilla pop artists like Taylor Swift have legions of unhinged fans that can list off every song from memory yet M5 just exists. They aren't even brought up to be made fun of like other bland pop-rock bands like Nickelback and Imagine Dragons are, they're just that unremarkable.

Spoiler: Fun Fact

Apparently, they were ridiculously popular in Chile of all places but then the faggot who fronts the band gave a half-assed performance at the biggest music festival in the country and now Chile hates them.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Femtanyl. Trying to make self-mutilation, pup-play, and being trans sound cool with scream rap and earrape bass ("Take my E and think about my setbacks," "I get clocked like it's a job to me"). Almost all of his fans are underage just by looking at the comments and animation memes featuring his songs. Didn't screenshot it, but a suicide helpine autopop-up used to show on Youtube when looking up his songs.

I've only heard about them once and, of course, it was from a fucking tranny.

Thread Tax: Anyone who says they'll listen to "anything". No specific genre. Just "anything". It's basically the quickest way to tell me you're the most boring fucking person in the world whose first question to someone you just met is "so, what do you do for work". But since you're up for listening to "anything", I guess you won't mind me playing some Anaal Nathrakh.

 

[Bonesjones]

I've only heard about them once and, of course, it was from a fucking tranny.

Thread Tax: Anyone who says they'll listen to "anything". No specific genre. Just "anything". It's basically the quickest way to tell me you're the most boring fucking person in the world whose first question to someone you just met is "so, what do you do for work". But since you're up for listening to "anything", I guess you won't mind me playing some Anaal Nathrakh.

Just start playing Ram Ranch and see how many it takes them to quit.

 

[The Purple Ghost]

I like TMBG, but I'm also more than aware that the two of them endorse trannies and child trannies, and unsurprisingly their current fanbase is mainly made up of both. Gross, but that's Clown World for you.

I have to agree, TMBG are fantastic but their first show was at a Sandinista Rally, they have always been pretty hardcore leftist.
And despite their trump derangement album they manage to keep it almost entirely out of their music.
(Even the song titled, "The communists have the music" is about someone who only holds political opinions for surface reasons)

Never look at the twitter of your favourite artists - pray they do not have one to begin with

 

[FatMebius]

Girls who like Amanda Palmer is a big red flag. All that bitch sings about is getting raped by her piano teacher. Any girls that think her off-kilter noise sounds good is pretty much guaranteed to be some flavor of busted, BPD whore.

 

[PFM]

Linkin Park
Oasis

I would guess people who say this weren't around when the bands just broke out. Same with Limp Bizkit. I mean yeah if now in 2024 you're a huge Limp Bizkit fan unironically, especially if you weren't old enough to remember when they first hit it big, I could see you being a massive faggot.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I would guess people who say this weren't around when the bands just broke out.

you're stanning for 3 bands gayer than 2 dicks touching yet you wanna throw around calling other people faggots?
righto cunt jog the fuck on