Conrad is clearly deeply impressionable (as many troons would have to be), who all too easily looks up to other content creators who have ploughed a lonely furrow artistically, not just Filthy Frank/Joji, who I have mentioned before, but also Kanye West (Digibro's videos on him: "Defending Jesus Is King Kanye West & Purpose", 1 January 2020 - note the recent date -
https://archive.org/details/defending-jesus-is-king-kanye-west-purpose & "Drunken Rant About How Shit Kanye's "The Life of Pablo" Is", 15 February 2016,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CmegLbl6Ss), himself an extremely successful artist of "outsider art-tier" work, definitely The Dick Show, which is the only channel in the "Channels" section of Ygg Studio's Youtube page, with Dick Masterson still being a loyal ally of his, and maybe even Maddox (at least at one point in time, before the Lolsuit), who was a pioneer of pre-social media Web 1.0 creative work crossing into the mainstream, with his New York Times best-selling book and moving from Bumfuck, Utah to become a writer in LA.
He may have been all too aware at one point (particularly in that 'Let's Play' with May) how quickly a content creator can destroy themselves with mad ideas of abandoning their creative comfort zone and forging a new career from nothing, only to alienate the loyal audience from their former work in the process, but then again, he, like a moth to flame, couldn't himself resist the allure of such grand ideas eventually. As I mentioned earlier, even his anime analysis videos, which didn't have amazing production value (they were largely audio only, with anime playing as the backdrop, with occasional cues to what he is referring to), were polished and edited by Davoo. His pre-troon rap videos, particularly "Fat And Dangerous" with 10,000s of views and a very healthy like to dislike ratio, were engaging to watch and listen to thanks to Victor's excellent work as a producer.
Searching this via Twitter, I see only Riley promoting this gig at all. Even he admits many of these performers are complete unknowns without any Twitter handles (or he just wasn't bothered to find them):
https://twitter.com/ASEPresents/status/1379994078247591937/photo/4 (archive:
https://archive.ph/yTRIt and
https://archive.md/fNsYx; screenshots attached to this post)
Still, a few of the reported artists (including Zelda and Breed Tha Loc // Nosenss Records) have replied positively to Riley's tweet to state they are looking forward to performing at the gig.
I was also thinking this; the US is second to only the UK and Israel with rolling out the vaccine and states like Florida have been opening up their local economy for a while now, albeit to a limited capacity in places such as sports venues. So even if this venue is going to be open and this gig is 100% legit, they likely aren't going to make much money at the gate ($15 per head), unless they plan to make the bulk of the money from pre-sales ($10). Then again, I have no idea how Nevada is handling opening up to local businesses, particularly night clubs & bars.
The main thing I can take from that is: who the hell would travel across the entirety of the United States to do night club/bar gigs during a global pandemic??
