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...yet which almost everyone else is seemingly utterly obsessed with, it would probably be "Kendrick vs Drake."

All I know about this topic is that two rappers apparently have "beef," and that's as far as I care to know.

For example. (It's a link to yet another Castle Super Beast podcast clip, but one which I don't even feel like bothering to embed this time.) I started watching that, not knowing anything about it, but at the first mention of "Drake," less than a minute in, my ears did whatever is the ear-equivalent of "eyes glazing over," and I just checked out entirely maybe a minute later, if even that long. This is not, of course, the first time they've touched this topic (neither of which I've even started to watch, because in those, at least, they had the courtesy to put "Kendrick vs Drake" in the titles).

And, obviously, Castle Super Beast isn't even remotely the first or only place where I've heard this topic come up, unbidden. It's starting to approach "twilight bashing" levels of annoyance with me (but still probably has a long way to go before it actually gets there).

(EDIT) The only other "beef" I've ever heard anything about was the old "Eminem vs Insane Clown Posse" thing from a while back, and that was only because I was kind of big into ICP (Eminem is okay, too) for a year or two, about a decade ago, and that one was just as dumb, if not nearly as ubiquitous. (/EDIT)
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I'm currently rereading through Homestuck for the third time. I'm up to the part where Dirk is telling Jake about how things went between the "present" for Jake (around 2009 at that point in the story) and the future for Jake, which is Dirk's "present," because Dirk lives around 400 years in Jake's future.[1]

Here are just a few partial excerpts. ("TT" and "GT" are the online chat handles of Dirk and Jake, respectively.)



Putting this behind a cut )



Really, just replace "Guy Fieri" and "Jay and Dope" with "Donald Trump," and replace "shitty rap duo" with "shitty reality TV 'star,'" and replace "the juggalo party" with "MAGA." However, "clown president" is still rather apropos as an accurate description of Trump, though, if you merely remove the plural.

Sure, some specifics (which I left out of the above) are different, obviously, such as the fact that Trump hasn't directly caused the deaths of five billion humans (yet) and also doesn't have the backing of a trans-dimensional troll/fish alien empress[1] (that we know of, anyway), but aside from that... these particular, cherry-picked excerpts of Dirk Strider's description of the rise to power of Guy Fieri and the Insane Clown Posse in the early 2010s and 2020s in the fiction of Homestuck (this section of HS was written in the real world year of 2012) are eerily similar to that of Donald J. Trump, circa 2015-present.

¬_¬

[1] - And I'm sorry if none of that made sense, but my goal in this post isn't to explain Homestuck, in general, for the uninitiated. My goal in this post is, very simply, to dunk on Donald Trump yet again.
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They don't talk about the thing in the video title and thumbnail until the last three minutes or so of the video. The first 27 minutes consists of a whole lot of richly deserved shitting upon the utter asininity of the modern video game industry.

(Man, never thought I'd have a reason to bust out that "insane clown posse" tag again. It doesn't take much, though.)
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...and has been for a few days now, at the very least.

Youtube embeds behind cut )
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Embedded tweets behind cut )



The only "community" or fandom that I've had first hand experience with seeing the stupid bullshit they do is the Souls fandom, in the comments under any given SBFP Souls game LP.

Anyway, here is the Smooth McGroove acapella mix in question, which is of my personal favorite track from the game.


Comments under it are either about how good the mix is, or how bad and "toxic" the Undertale fandom supposedly is.

Just another example of why "Hate Dumb" is an actual thing that exists, and isn't just a page on TVTropes. Far, far too many people confuse the concept of "this is a thing that simply doesn't interest me" with "this is a thing that everyone should despise and it makes no sense why anyone would like it and those who do like it should be mocked incessantly." (The latter, of course, should be reserved only for actually important things that actually matter, like the very real possibility of Donald Trump becoming the next POTUS. ¬_¬)

(And yeah, in all cases, I guess I deserve what I get for making the mistake of looking at Youtube comments in the first place. You'd think I'd learn some fucking day. *shrug*)
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Undertale just got released on GOG.com.



Embedded tweets behind cut )


Whether a given thing (e.g. Undertale, My Little Pony, Insane Clown Posse, Twilight, PewDiePie[1], etc.) is or is not terrible, it's often the fan reaction (and, more accurately, the anti-fan reaction) that ends up greatly eclipsing the thing itself in sheer annoying, disgusting terribleness. Yes, fans can get pretty stupid when somebody shows up and shits all over the thing they like, but then some people that hate a thing get just as stupid when people try to defend the thing they are shitting on.

[1] - To be fair, I've said in the past that I think PewDiePie's fans are just as terrible as PewDiePie himself is, if not more so, but that is based solely on hearsay third hand bullshit. I, myself, have never personally had any interactions with fans of PewDiePie, positive or negative or neutral, outside of seeing a bunch of tiresome "*brofist*" comments or whatever all over the Internet.[2] That said, I still think PewDiePie himself is aural diarrhea of the worst sort, but I haven't had any problems with his fanbase, yet, anyway.

[2] - On a related topic, even I got sick of all the "/) *brohoof* (\" comments that bronies would similarly leave all over the place, so in that sense at least, I can see why some people might think that bronies are terrible.
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There are a lot of people who don't like the Insane Clown Posse. There are a lot of people who outright loathe ICP (and a portion of those people might have even actually listened to a sample of ICP's music beforehand). I am not one of those people. While I recognize that they have indeed produced what many would consider to be some of the vilest, most ridiculously over-the-top rap songs in the history of rap (or music in general), they still amuse and entertain me, for the most part. They generally don't take themselves seriously at all, unlike some of the other, more mainstream contemporary rappers. ICP is essentially the musical equivalent of slasher movies like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street. I listen to ICP with the same sort of mindset that I have while playing beat-em-up video games in which you restore your health by eating pot-roast found in a garbage can. You either like them, or you don't. I like them well enough, but a large number of people apparently really, really don't.

As such, a lot of these people got incredibly, amusingly butthurt when it was announced that ICP would be working in collaboration with Jack White and Third Man Records to perform a cover of a Mozart song called "Leck mich im Arsch" (which translates to "Lick me in the Arse"). Even ICP themselves were a bit cautious about it at first. In the end, the song is pretty much exactly what one would expect from an ICP song based on a Mozart canon named "Lick me in the Ass." Whether that's a good or bad thing is left up to the listener.

The teaser announcement:


The full song (NSFW, obviously):

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