I want to slice that hair and eat it like a cake.

Every optimism movement gets the same treatment. Next time you feel inspired by something, keep an eye out for the school of cynical fish slowly bleeding it to death.

And so the reputation of the genre is slowly killed by a thousand scoffs.

It happens without anyone knowing they’re a part of it.

They hear music about acceptance and love and they hate that. But then they also hear music speaking about struggles, and about OVERCOMING struggles and they *really* hate that.

None of them have decision-making power, but they are each tastemakers in their cynical, detached, pessimistic-cool way.

They want happy music that can be controlled.

And when I say ‘they’ I don’t mean some cabal of record producers — I mean regular conservative men and women, who either become a part of the scene without knowing it’s cultural significance, or observe it from the outside.

There’s a lot of talk about how guys like RBF and other third wave Californian bands oversaturated and sold out the scene, and maybe that’s partly true, but every genre has sellouts. Every genre has oversaturation as trends come and go.

Only genres about positive inclusivity get nuked from orbit.

I remember reading this and being like “wtf is this garbage” 😂

Second-most disappointed I ever was after reading a comic book.

The later Archie stuff by Tracey Yardley, Evan Stanley, and Tyson Hesse were all really good in their own ways.

They all work on the IDW series now, and are great artists.

But there was also… some cut corners over the years…

There’s some legitimately great work. The art of Patrick Spaziante and Harvey Mercadoocasio was coming out in the nineties and adapted those early Genesis games, which was wild when you were an eight year old boy.

That series got me into comics when I was a kid. I have probably half of them. Sometimes I still have dreams about walking into a comic store and finding the ones I didn’t collect in highschool. 😂

They don’t even mention in the article how approx 90% of the document is redacted, like wtf are you guys doing?