how did /mu/ react to this in 2015?
>>127900232By /mu/ you mean the influx of spammers from /pol/? Exactly as you imagine.
https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/54628970/#54628970
>>127900261>>127900232samefag
>>127900290and?
https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/54618156/#54618156
>>127900261only two earnest n-words in that whole thread, compared to now thats incredibletells you how SJWish pushed young men to racism in the last 10 years
>>127900349People always said nigger on all of the other boards but /mu/ since I came here in 2010 was always the board where you couldn't be racist. You would get redirected to stormfront or /b/. I miss pre-chud invasion /mu/.
>>127900232they were all like>is that cassie from skins?
>>127900232why do women think they are the next great author? i notice these pretentious genres are full of art house women that all seem to look the same
>>127900232this article unironically redpilled me back in the day
>>127900232Bitchfork hadn't been "relevant" for 10 years at that point, no one gave a shit outside the SJW culture war still raging since the media exposed themselves with gamergate
this is how someone responded:https://frauenschaft.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/theres-still-something-seriously-wrong-with-sarah-sahim/
>>127900508Pitchfork peaked in cultural cache in like 2010.
>>127900537>cachelmao retardAnd no, it was well before that. By 2010, it was the "list of cool opinions to have" website that only pushed the poppiest indie around and tumblr opinions
>>127900399its because black people used to make good music so this board had some base level of respect
>>127900232There was never a single instance where this topic went over well on this board. Not sure how they thought antagonizing their audience with race baiting bullshit was ever a good idea but leftards were drunk on their kool-aid in 2015
>>127900537the high water mark was Merriweather Post Pavilion getting AOTY, after that it began slipping and by the time Conde Nast bought it in 2015 it was just poptimist trash
>>127900349>tells you how SJWish pushed young men to racism in the last 10 yearsthe CORRECT conclusion to reach would've have been that whites are200-pound children who will throw tantrums the magnitude of which unlike anything you've ever see over fucking NOTHING.
>>127902390idk, the demographic replacement that's gone on isn't nothing
>>127900553Whatever faggot what I mean is that in 2010 pitchfork was popular and people took it somewhat seriously as opposed to the 2000s where it was not as well known and the 2010s where it became an RnB and hip hop website and lost its "prestige"
>>127900349More like /pol/ severely declined in quality since 2016, replacing arguments with insults. Obviously 4chan was always edgy but it's a night and day difference comparing the posting quality before 2016 with now. /pol/ is completely unusable now, almost entirely spam and shills.
It went mostly unnoticed because prior to 2016 /pol stayed in their containment board.It makes me miss the old days when /pol stayed the fuck out of /mu.
>>127906573bollocks no it didn't, it was everywhere, as it should've been, first time I woke up to the fact that the music industry is anti-White
white people bad. black people… good!
>>127906615/mu used to bully racism of any sort.Been on /mu since 2009 and I remember when this board was still usable and didn't interject /pol topics in every thread.
Now imagine an article saying “the unbearable blackness of rap” and calling for more diversity amongst a black dominated genre. the tears would be overflowing
I personally loved Vampire Weekend's little clapback song.
>>127900232>MiddleW O U L D
>>127900232>The Unbearable Blackness of Rap
The Unbearable Stink of Poopy
>>127900399/mu/ and /co/ were the gay boards.
>>127906648>/mu>/polHow is it that after all these years, you fags still fail to even remotely fit in when you pretend to be le oldfags?
Absolutely pathetic article.. This is why no one respects p4k
>>127900232they were rightwhite corporate indie landfill was a cancer, indie rock had to step its game up at that time and it didn’t. It gave us pheobe bridgers. Now nobody gives a shit about indie rock.
>>127900232Bump
>>127900232SARR YOU NEED TO STOP DOING THE INDIE
>>127907762Kek. I shouldnt be saying this to spoonfeed shills but there is not a single oldfag from 2009 who would use /mu. It was never a thing people did or said and if you were uncouth enough to use a bastardization of a boards name (/MU/ for instance) people would act like they have no idea what you were talking about
>>127902500>in 2010 pitchfork was popular and people took it somewhat seriously as opposed to the 2000s where it was not as well knownlmao only proving its irrelevance for real music and serving as a mouthpiece for corporations instead
>>127900232We sent death threats to Lindsay Zolandz. That's what we did whenever P4K did anything shitty. Oh wow, remember when we used to give a shit about P4K? This was before it was revealed that you bought your review or got a good one for playing their shitty fest.
>>127910952>people would act like they have no idea what you were talking about>actWe aren't acting now.
>>127911146>it was revealed that you bought your review or got a good one for playing their shitty fest.what was the proof for that?
>>127912661the proof was in the pudding
>>127900232Writen by a white girl
>>127900232Olly Alexander mentioned https://youtu.be/YGfaYTIYh40
This was right around Gamergate wasn't it? I kind of cringe now looking back on those days because I realized it really just boiled down to everyone not being able to touch grass and being unable to just not take what some SJWs say seriously.
>>127915847nope, indian girl.
>>127900232It's crazy now to remember there was a time when these articles were seen as something novel and meaningful, not the most tired, clichéd criticism in the world
>>127915906>le touch grass>just ignore them and they will go away Holy cringe Never post again
>>127900232Why did they never write an article about unbearable blackness of hip hop?
>>127915922Ignoring them kinda worked though because now nobody takes these pretentious race bait takes seriously anymore. I feel like the backlash only added fuel to the fire, these retards would've ended up jobless by 2019 if we just learned to ignore them instead.
>>127915941Ignoring them doesn't work when they are bank rolled by Blackrock and the democrats
>>127906680Unbearably White is objectively a Top 5 Vampire Weekend song of all-time.https://youtu.be/bkBjoY7eyvU
>>127915949Yes it does, you can't turn a profit if nobody is buying or voting. Unless your argument is that people just don't have any real agency.
>>127915949>bank rolled by BlackrockBlackrock is an asset management company, the may bankroll some shady enterprises but their goal is still to turn a profit through ROIs. They're not personally writing checks to SJWs to write anti-white racist articles. If people stop giving these retards time and attention then their going to have their investments dropped because that's how for-profit companies work
>>127915931because us White people are not the victims of years of systematic racism, let the black folks have one (1) genre for themselves
>>127917982Thanks for capitalizing White, rabbi
It's okay to be White
>>127918037AgreedAlso okay to be black,latino , homosexual, trans or non binary
>>127912661not directly "bought" a review. but a band or label would hire the right publicist or PR team that had a good relationship with Pitchfork, sometimes with the writers themselves. most of these people all lived in Brooklyn at this time in the early/mid 2010s. those PR agencies had access to bigger artists, which gave Pitchfork the availability to have exclusive material on their website if they gave favorable looks to other bands the PR company is representing, which in turn made their corporate advertisers happy. these smaller bands would play their fests at earlier time slots for cheaper fees while the majority of the overhead went to booking the big headliner acts. if you did not have this kind of relationship with Pitchfork, you could get a review. but if it was at all favorable, you would cap out at around 7.6, no BNMs, no features.the "whiteness" from pitchfork then was basically to signal that they would be keeping in the cultural moment while also paying service to their corporate investors. no longer reviewing or posting content on any white male bands while clearing room for pop and rap content (mostly non-white and/or non-male, non-heterosexual). their credibility took a huge hit as this practice would shoot them in the foot when they gave undying support and praise to a band like PWR BTTM but relentlessly chastised (via a staff writer) a band they previously favored like Viet Cong.
>>127921098there were also ad buy deals that were contingent on the album release getting a good review. it would be a little awkward to have a sidebar ad next to a sub 8 p4k review.
>>127921098>if you did not have this kind of relationship with Pitchfork, you could get a review. but if it was at all favorable, you would cap out at around 7.6What is more or less the exact point in time where Pitchfork reviews ceased being meritocratic (if they ever were)? What caused that shift, buy-out?
in retrospect it seems like a movie to alienate thier old audience and try to move more into poptimism.Of course they did this around the same time fantano was rising in popularity. So the move did nothing but make their user traffic decline.
>>127915941Were you in a coma from 2014 to 2024?
>>127900232Just googled "Sarah Sahlm" and literally nothing came up?? Who actually wrote this article?
>>127922739nothing he said warrants your responsehe's talking about 2025 and how we could have gotten here sooner
>>127922804There was no getting here sooner, it infested everything and ran its course
>>127922790you spelled her name wrong. Its Sarah Sahim. she wrote a handful of articles for any site looking to accept her pitches around 2015-17 when that clickbait sjw stuff was popular. >The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, VICE, VICE UK, Vox, Observer, Complex, Pitchfork, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, The A.V. Club, Brit + Co, Consequence, PAPER Magazine, The FADERthen stopped writing music content altogether after 2017. not much of a social media profile. does some podcast appearances or collabs for things pertaining to asian/indian identity or whatever.
>>127923024>There was no getting here soonerI don't believe that.
>>127917982>because us White people are not the victims of years of systematic racismnice try. asshole.
>>127900232>The Unbearable Blackness of Blues
>>127906615Go back to >>>/pol/ you retarded nigger
>>127906615>anti-WhiteYou don't have to say anti-white, there's already a word for that, and that word is "racist"
>>127900349more like pre-2015 4chan and post-2015 4chan are made up of entirely different people creative boards in particular
>>127900232the article is absolutely true and anyone who got triggered by it are dumb hipsters who take liking "indie" stuff as part of their personality (cringe and pathetic!)
>>127926696>another crakkka trying to use Irish people as proof of oppression of white people A. The oppressors were white tooB. Ireland wasn't even considered "white" during this period
>>127927077they were considered white, just not "Anglo-Saxon" as in the superior whites
I don't think I reacted to it
>>127900811They never did, self hating whites just pretended they did
This board was as unusable in 2015 as it was now, don't let the retards in this thread make you think otherwise. All that changed is that the board went from obnoxious leftists to obnoxious right wingers and leftists tard fighting. Genuine music discussion is never on the table either way unless it's one of the meme albums that gets posted over and over. It's better to use any other site for music discussion if you genuinely want to do that.
>>127906573>lefty race baiting article>it was /pol/!!!
>>127927077>The oppressors were white tooWhat is: The Ottoman Empire
>>127928873Turks are considered white these days
