Todd In The Shadows

Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

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The Jackal said:
Because it's a popular format and YouTubers need views. It's that simple. Use your brain.
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Don't try to reason with a literal retard newfag. He doesn't even know what he's even talking about, let alone how an algorithm works. Plus, his understanding about it is like trying to explain to a juggalo how magnets work :story:
 
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New Trainwreckords!

ETA: This video had a really odd tone. There were parts that felt decidedly un-Todd-like, like the editing/font and some of the phrasing. I'd hazard a guess that it was written by/for Natalie Weiner, a country music journo who has been a mutual of Todd for quite a while and was recently a guest on Song vs Song. This is how he woos lol.
 
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Ninon42 said:
New Trainwreckords!

ETA: This video had a really odd tone. There were parts that felt decidedly un-Todd-like, like the editing/font and some of the phrasing. I'd hazard a guess that it was written by/for Natalie Weiner, a country music journo who has been a mutual of Todd for quite a while and was recently a guest on Song vs Song. This is how he woos lol.
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Good whenever he isn't blabbing about "women in country music". Isn't this music supposed to be about Faith Hill, not sexism? Ugh.
 
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Raging Capybara said:
Yeah, another very American-centric episode because I've never heard about this bitch in my life.

It's always boring when Todd makes any video about country or rap because I'm always who?
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He's made it clear he only cares about artists who made it at some point in the states and that's it. That's why he'll frequently cover artists who did well in Europe but not so much in America on One Hit Wonderland.

I was also confused, but there was one or two songs he played parts of in that opening that I remember hearing as a kid. I just assumed she was another pop artist, not a country star. And it's surprising to me to hear how big country was in the 90s because while I do know many country acts who made it to the charts, to me that's the decade of Ska, Boy Bands and fun pop that predated 9/11.

Speaking of which, it's weird to realize that yeah, Todd would have to explain what an impact 9/11 was to kids today since it'll be 23 years ago this year. It's like my parents having to explain to me that despite the 80s seeming like such a materialistic, vapid decade there was an underlying worry that the nukes were about to go off. Pop songs like 99 Red Balloons and Dancing With Tears In My Eyes reflected a genuine fear people had. In hindsight, the panic after 9/11 does seem silly but if you weren't there, you cannot judge people for how they reacted because even the most reasonable person I knew was glued to the TV, praying that they weren't going to hear of someone else they knew dying in an attack.
 
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Ninon42 said:
New Trainwreckords!

ETA: This video had a really odd tone. There were parts that felt decidedly un-Todd-like, like the editing/font and some of the phrasing. I'd hazard a guess that it was written by/for Natalie Weiner, a country music journo who has been a mutual of Todd for quite a while and was recently a guest on Song vs Song. This is how he woos lol.
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Todd looking like he’s doing something with his content to get somebody’s attention? Considering how much we talk about him orbiting Lindsay and BreadTube, another point for lolcowdom I guess.

Edit: Turns out this episode is thanks to a book from 2022.



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Also, I looked into this Natalie chick, turns out she’s a freelance journalist with a Substack talking about country music.



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Arthur Morgan said:
He's made it clear he only cares about artists who made it at some point in the states and that's it. That's why he'll frequently cover artists who did well in Europe but not so much in America on One Hit Wonderland.
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I also remember him saying that British music critics helped to forge his views on music. He’s basically said that he won’t cover Blur’s “Song 2” for One Hit Wonderland, because British acts tend to have a habit of not just being more popular in their home country compared to the US, but being BONAFIDE SUPERSTARS back home to the point where he can’t justify calling them a one hit wonder.
 
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i remember me and my dad watched some one hit wonderlands because i figured it was safe internet content and i dont like todd enough to be offended if dad didnt like him, but while he didnt hate it he found it interesting we as scots heavily crossed into the "he didnt get it" camp with the proclaimers. i dont think he wants a repeat of that ep

tho he also didnt get it with the darkness. theres some songs he called out as jokes that were using irony to make a serious point. one way ticket for example
 
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BetterFuckChuck said:
i remember me and my dad watched some one hit wonderlands because i figured it was safe internet content and i dont like todd enough to be offended if dad didnt like him, but while he didnt hate it he found it interesting we as scots heavily crossed into the "he didnt get it" camp with the proclaimers. i dont think he wants a repeat of that ep

tho he also didnt get it with the darkness. theres some songs he called out as jokes that were using irony to make a serious point. one way ticket for example
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There's an awful lot Todd doesn't get. Why white-knighting doesn't get you laid for example, or why inserting digs against his political enemies into his music nerd rantings just makes him look like a little bitch.
 
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The Jackal said:
why inserting digs against his political enemies into his music nerd rantings just makes him look like a little bitch.
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I've kind of wondered why he hasn't taken shit for this the way Quentin Reviews did. Probably just being bolstered by having the "right" friends and associations, I guess.

I just recently caught his OHW for Tubular Bells. Something felt weird about the way he covered it until I realized that he barely touched the subject of Oldfield himself. You have some guy saying that Oldfield isn't making good music anymore because he went to rebirthing and couldn't feel the pain that allowed him to make good music anymore, and that's the only thing you're going to note about that?

You're not even going to challenge the validity of thr statement? Hell, many an artist has gone to shit because they started getting comfortable or satisfied. It actually kind of tracks with the output the way Todd frames it and he full-on dismisses it.

I mean, dude full-on says he has shit tastes and he's pretty much aging out of the brand he created for himself, so I guess he can be satisfied with his ahit takes as long as he owns the fact that he's shit, right?
 
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Listening to the Metokur Easter stream and damned if Rama Rama doesn't stop on the word stop. It's probably not a popular enough song to go on Todd's supercut but still.
 
Ninon42 said:
New Trainwreckords!

ETA: This video had a really odd tone. There were parts that felt decidedly un-Todd-like, like the editing/font and some of the phrasing. I'd hazard a guess that it was written by/for Natalie Weiner, a country music journo who has been a mutual of Todd for quite a while and was recently a guest on Song vs Song. This is how he woos lol.
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Beating the decomposed dead horse that is Michael Bay for his terrible Pearl Harbor made me rage quit the video immediately. It's 20-fucking-24, why can't you leave things well enough alone, Todd?? And calling that movie the second worst thing to happen to American history? The bullshit just never ends with this miserable sack of shit. I'll never watch anything else from him ever again. I'm done. Man's gonna be 40 years old and he still cannot stop acting like a mentally unstable, misanthropic, unserious nutcase. 40 year olds in this day and age just cannot be bothered to act their age, can they?

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Don't try to reason with a literal retard newfag. He doesn't even know what he's even talking about, let alone how an algorithm works. Plus, his understanding about it is like trying to explain to a juggalo how magnets work :story:
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If Death Note existed, I'd be writing all y'all names in them.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
I never understood why he likes that kind of thing.
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Remember when he made videos of the running javelina with different songs for literal weeks before later getting temporarily banned from Twitter for copyright violations? Or the top 10 nutshots in movies? Or the top 10 buses video? Honestly, I think it's funny when he breaks free of the algorithm to do something weird. It's a pity he wasn't able to cultivate an audience more like Wendigoon has (well, had pre-Mandela Catalog and FNAF, when the troons started encroaching) where he can just talk about whatever the fuck he wants, be it music, movies, books, sports or whatever odd shit inspired him. OTOH, he's said he doesn't want to necessarily monetize his other interests to keep his hobbies from being a job and that makes sense too. Let the review monkey breathe every once in a while.
 
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Ninon42 said:
Remember when he made videos of the running javelina with different songs for literal weeks before later getting temporarily banned from Twitter for copyright violations? Or the top 10 nutshots in movies? Or the top 10 buses video? Honestly, I think it's funny when he breaks free of the algorithm to do something weird. It's a pity he wasn't able to cultivate an audience more like Wendigoon has (well, had pre-Mandela Catalog and FNAF, when the troons started encroaching) where he can just talk about whatever the fuck he wants, be it music, movies, books, sports or whatever odd shit inspired him. OTOH, he's said he doesn't want to necessarily monetize his other interests to keep his hobbies from being a job and that makes sense too. Let the review monkey breathe every once in a while.
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I get that. But he called the “stop” thing his favorite cliche in music, but he’s never explained his reasoning.
 
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