babylon sherm

4y

It doesn’t sit well with me that most “virtual people” (not just music acts but also the fake influencers, public relations ARGs, etc) I see come off as queer-bait that homogenates modern gay/trans internet culture into marketable aesthetic and seems to take the place of an actual living individual who could do whatever these firms are attempting to do more authentically. I don’t search for these things explicitly to be clear but from what I get out of cultural osmosis I haven’t really seen an exception to the rule. Maybe SOPHIE? But they stopped the “I’m a digital idea, not a person!” shtick, I would guess for the same reason I was talking about above

Tomo

4y

I see what you mean but how is that artist queer bait? It’s just weeb bait sure but that’s been happening for a while lol
I just like the song honestly

babylon sherm

4y

If theres one thing I don’t have its a concise argument to back up my point lol I could probably cohere these ideas effectively if I were to talk about it with the trans artists in my friend circle but its mostly hazy, like- I see what my friends are doing and who they like/support, and then I see stuff like the song in OP, and there’s very little difference in the vision- I’ve spoken a lil about it before with folks I know and I think there’s fertile ground to the idea that hyperpop/internetgaze/queer-vent garde imagery/aesthetic springs forth from modern gender dysphoria (“do I identify as a man/woman/other? Am I human? Do I exist in the real world?” Etc) but my thoughts on it are uncollected right now

Thanks for coming to my mumble TED Talk

babylon sherm

4y

If theres one thing I don’t have its a concise argument to back up my point lol I could probably cohere these ideas effectively if I were to talk about it with the trans artists in my friend circle but its mostly hazy, like- I see what my friends are doing and who they like/support, and then I see stuff like the song in OP, and there’s very little difference in the vision- I’ve spoken a lil about it before with folks I know and I think there’s fertile ground to the idea that hyperpop/internetgaze/queer-vent garde imagery/aesthetic springs forth from modern gender dysphoria (“do I identify as a man/woman/other? Am I human? Do I exist in the real world?” Etc) but my thoughts on it are uncollected right now

Thanks for coming to my mumble TED Talk

Replica

4y

cringe

Replica

4y

cringe