Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: The Saga Of The Tramp Stamps

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Today let's take a deep dive into the internet's most hated band- The Tramp Stamps. From accusations that they're frauds and industry plants, to criticism of their strange and offensive lyrics, the Tramp Stamps have faced drama and controversy throughout the entirety of their short online career. So are they industry plants, secretly placed within the industry to appeal to alty gen z tiktok kids? Or a band under attack from a viral hate mob? Let's find out!
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0:00 Introduction
2:19 So.. Who Are The Tramp Stamps?
4:09 The Tramp Stamps Are Industry Plants?!
14:52 Criticisms And Notes App Apologies
21:05 The Tramp Stamps VS. Tumblr
26:29 The Tramp Stamps Make A Return
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All credit goes to the musicians and composers! This video is not meant to target or harass any person. This video does not condone or encourage anyone to harass or contact any person or persons discussed in this video. This video is purely for entertainment and informational purposes.
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[@sebherolight8058]

Deez

[@ArekusaSan]

@@sebherolight8058 Nutz

[@grroleanderr]

@@ArekusaSan sus

[@justingraves8649]

Been hopping you'd cover the Tramp Stamps💯👍

[@sebherolight8058]

@@ArekusaSan in yo granny mouth

[@cyber-moth]

i love how tiktokers keep saying they're "catering to tumblr kids" but the first thing i knew about them is that they were bullied off tumblr in 5 hours

[@mossfrog9720]

Right? I slept through the whole thing up and was very disappointed (and confused) to wake up and found what I missed

[@1unar_chaos]

genuinely. they were pandering to tiktok, not tumblr. tumblr is more... classically alternative, these days.

[@imgayerthanu4542]

Tumblr users are the fiercest online fighters ever known, we are the french rioter of internet, as a french tumblroid, I'm dangerous

[@EmiStar070]

Same. And my second thought was "I knew KPP was devastating, but 6 hours?" And then I was just proud of the platform

[@sidneythespottedtabby]

@@imgayerthanu4542 French Tumblroid is the best sentence known to man, and I fear you.

[@Kimmaline]

"Not every criticism of a woman is rooted in misogyny." Paging Gabbie Hanna....

[@InvaderBB]

Surprise they haven’t started bitching and moaning by calling people their high school bullies yet

[@spiderdude2099]

Imagine thinking women can never do anything worthy of being called out for…..

[@hilol4049]

This reminds me of when I was playing a game called Animals Online. Some hacker kept targeting me. So, I said that Animals Online was a terribly made game and they shouldn't have spent their money on hacks for it (most if not all of the character models were pre-made, and there were a lot of glitches) but it was their money, they can do what they want with. Hacker's friends and her start bullying me and calling me a misogynist because apparently I'm not allowed to be angry at a woman. They start targeting another guy, and calling him a misogynist for telling them to stop, basically anyone who sided with me would be called a misogynist and be bullied. Bitch, we don't hate you because you're a woman, we hate you because you're ruining the game.

[@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe]

Apparently women do no wrong.

[@InvaderBB]

@@hilol4049 as a woman I apologize for those types… usually we all know when it is appropriate to call someone a misogynist… being called out for ruining a game by hacking it isn’t a valid reason.

[@_Yorkshire_Terrier_]

"We realised we are white girls" This comment has led to helping me realise I am, in fact, a white guy. I never realised this before, and the Tramp Stamps have helped me with this major revelation. For all these years I never knew my race. These women have truly helped me :D

[@HaplessOne]

LMAO

[@OlgaZuccati]

They made me realize we truly live in a society

[@lilypad5897]

“How many people are in the duo?” “I think there’s three.” As much as I hate them, that was gold.

[@fizzy_buzz]

27:37 LMFAO

[@w00rmz]

Its fine guys, they can't be racist, Marissa's italian /s

[@Hatsune-Miku_Fan]

what does the slash es mean

[@Aqua-oz4nb]

@@Hatsune-Miku_Fan satire

[@aquaabouttogetfunky]

@@Hatsune-Miku_Fan tone indicators. /s means sarcastic!

[@Hatsune-Miku_Fan]

@@aquaabouttogetfunky won't people know they're joking?

[@voosgoose]

"guys i cant be racist!! i'm literally 3% italian smh"

[@calebmcintosh1991]

Their idea of being punk and feminist is... pathetic? Like, they seem to think being punk is getting drunk and having a lot of inadvisable sex, and that feminism is hating and mocking men for their bodies or gender presentation.

[@coolklefkisarecool]

And they make feminists look bad :/

[@Rainy.help.me.]

@@coolklefkisarecool reason why I don’t call myself a feminist to the majority of people in my life

[@beetle1516]

@@Rainy.help.me. there's no excuse for that. Feminism is, at its core, the strive for equity between men and women. If your fear of people thinking you're a radical feminist overrides your passion for real feminism, you're not much of a feminist in the first place.

[@equidistanthoneyjoy7600]

@@beetle1516 Feminism/feminist is just a word, man. What you do is more important than what you call it. The average working class person in a Western nation frequently supports surprisingly socialist ideology, but will swear up and down that they hate socialism. If they're just misusing a word, yeah it's annoying to have to change the words you use to achieve things, but a lot of people wish that all they had to do to forward their ideology was change the word they use.

[@justaperson4656]

right? Obviously I'm a feminist, as I think everyone should strive for equality, but I also consider myself punk. I might not be covered in tattoos and piercings, but punk as a genre is more about rebellion and not sitting down and taking what life throws at you. At least in my mind, punk feminist is a die hard activist wearing what they want and protesting how they want, not irresponsible sex and substance ab-se

[@namebrandmason]

My favorite Tramp Stamps bit was when they said "it's the kind of stuff women talk about, but no-one's put in music before." Because apparently Bikini Kill never happened.

[@yaboi2500]

Or the entire Riotgrrrl movement.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

@@yaboi2500 Which they reference all the time but evidently don't understand

[@sixstringedthing]

I wonder what an actual music industry Boss Lady like Dolly Parton thinks about the Tramp Stamps?

[@artsyscrub3226]

@@sixstringedthing See that's what im saying strong independent women have been in the industry forever and tons of them have challenged their male counterparts There's at least 5 i can think of now, they aren't special or unique in that aspect but the tramp stamps gave off so much "no like other girls" vibes it feels disingenuous....

[@rozu3425]

the real tragedy is finding out “Marissa is literally Italian.” wasnt actually them

[@avianlord2779]

Glad Izzy dressed up as her very own Tramp Stamps oc for this video

[@hxney_bree]

A Trampsona, if you will 💀

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

in the nicest way possible she looks like the weed smorking girlfriends post

[@big_sea]

based 🐜🍑

[@TheBritt2001]

Honestly, when the video started I thought she was dressed down compared to usual xD

[@m1ntphae]

@@iwakeupandboomimarat What, was that? Hmm? Come again. *Blaiz grabs my shoulder* Come on Jory, they aren’t worth it, please. *I jerk my shoulder shaking her hand off* NO! NOOOOO!!! *starts to just pummel you with my big fucking fists. With each blow I let out a furious yell.* The blows come quicker and harder and the yells get louder. I’m yelling so loud and now I’m crying. __BREAKING POINT__ . *The week was hard and I can’t take anymore. I’m opening sobbing at this point while you blood gurgle. All three of my girlfriends struggle to pull me off and they finally succeed and lead me away from the goo pile that is now your body*

[@MrMollusk7]

"The way that we shake our ass-y" sounds like one of those skits about a songwriter that can't come up with closing rhymes.

[@Pokeneop]

There are Whose Line hoedowns that are better written than that line.

[@Aaron-hf5or]

Reminds me of the episode of Always Sunny when Charlie tries to sing a valentines song to Dee.

[@andeleon6838]

It's so amateurish. Could have been an attempt by the big label to make it look like they wrote all the lyrics themselves 🤦‍♀️

[@tundrasome9409]

Have you ever took time out to finish a rhyme, but the right words just weren't there? 🎶 Meat cleaver 🎶

[@wormdoodles]

Reminds me of that John Mulaney bit about how Mick Jagger writes songs lmao.

[@micahguillemette3344]

I love how today in november 2022 they've disbanded without a word. Their twitter and instagram hasnt updated since christmas of last year and their individual instagrams no longer even mention the tramp stamps. They've all gone back to their own asthetics that down even include punk or alternative fashion. Its not even suprising that they went like feral and just stopped without a word.

[@daniellesve5595]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that their entire ad campaigns are centered around them being bratty high schoolers when they're pushing thirty

[@marshalltrogers]

The Garfields and the Long Furby look like the devil/angel on your shoulder with that framing. I like to think they are heated enemies.

[@RatOfTheWoods]

Enemies to lovers arc when?

[@YUNGLOAF921]

The real question is who’s the angel and who’s the devil

[@jemilabubbles9384]

I see it as more of a tribe of Garfields living together and the Long Furby being an ancient village elder that they come to for advice.

[@livinganaveragelife]

The lore is amazing

[@NimhLabs]

Heated enemies? Shoot... I've watched too much Good Omens... my head immediately thought of the Crowley X Aziraphrael(sp?) ship

[@deweycox8409]

"We realize that we are white girls..." Absolutely profound epiphany right there. I laughed so hard when I heard that.

[@SpeedyWeedyYT]

No way!! They’re white?? I had no idea!

[@theoddbox]

HOLY SHIT IM WHITE!!!???

[@raccoon663]

@@theoddbox **rips n word pass out of hand**

[@sara4024]

@@SpeedyWeedyYT fellow forward facing phineas

[@Double400]

They took one look at themselves and went "well this is embarrassing"

[@destrious8133]

Man there's something so funny about three grown women trying to make fun of a grown man by doing the 3 year old "repeating everything he said" and thinking it's a serve

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

There are a ton of artists with rich parents who bankrolled or arranged their fame: Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and so forth. But they project this image of being down to earth, working hard, and being deserving without being honest about their privilege - even lying about it. I wish the playing field were more level, and I wish celebs were more honest about their privilege.

[@HH-kn3fi]

i think if the tramp stamps had tried this stuff in like 2013, tumblr would have LOVED them, but they waited until all the punk kids grew up and did their research

[@WolfmanBrown]

They really feel like they were targeting angsty tweens and missed by a mile.

[@lkcdarzadix6216]

Your comment makes sense

[@LadyoftheDreamless14]

Probably. I think the stright white guy lyrics might have tipped a few people off lol.

[@damgedroses]

They logged off Tumblr way too soon

[@sylph8005]

@@LadyoftheDreamless14 No, if they tried this when a bunch of hormonal, isolated teenagers had *just* discovered social justice, the kids would've fallen for it.

[@callmeblubber5038]

“Paige is not dating her cousin” That’s right, they’re married

[@meganstreiff5157]

Did we actually confirm he's her cousin?!

[@meganstreiff5157]

@cate oooof, it went right over my head

[@NightTimeDay]

This band is embarrassing but they did one punk thing in their lives, they've stood up to endless bullying and protracted cancellation. The reaction to them is nearly as embarrassing as their music, and it's because they reflect just how stupid their target audience is politically. Case in point, the comments and this video point out that criticism of straight white men is actually racist and offensive to gay people. You guys think the same as them, just aren't as blunt about it. Embarrassing.

[@drzalchicha]

@@NightTimeDay Cry about it

[@NightTimeDay]

@@drzalchicha funny cause the only crying I'm seeing is how racist and homophobic insulting straight white men is 😂

[@Marsa11]

It’s kind of appalling how much older Paige looks compared to the others but they’re somehow all trying to all appeal as “relatable” to young listeners

[@hotrodmercury3941]

They also tried this with the metal scene. It died quicker than it started. It was funny as hell.

[@seinenfeld9858]

ah yes paige blue, caroline pink, and marisa purple. how could i forget

[@erikdaniels0n]

More like Paige Gaslight, Caroline Gatekeep and Marissa Girlboss

[@Spacething7474]

Caroline "Pink" Gatekeepcand is my personal favorite. no i didn't accidentally put blue and purple as her name before, that never happened

[@frauleinzuckerguss1906]

Can we pretend that

[@taxfraud6447]

@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 airplanes

[@SummersTimelyCringe]

@@taxfraud6447 in the night sky

[@jinniedoesstuff367]

The tramp stamps being bullied off tumblr is probably one of the funniest things ever to me

[@erikdaniels0n]

🐜🍑

[@mae.glitter]

🐜🍑

[@tape-6]

🐜🍑

[@thisisaprettylongnameifyou8195]

🐜🍑

[@beatrice8821]

🐜 🍑

[@mikecarter8880]

As an old punk who grew up in the 80s LA punk scene. I cry. If you ever saw that classic commercial of a Native American Indian overlooking pollution and a tear streams down his face... That is me looking a this band.

[@malegria9641]

Iron eyes Cody, the Italian American who faked being Cherokee, only after he died to be revealed to be Italian…but got defended by the Cherokee anyways because of everything he did for them

[@debasishraychawdhuri]

"Girl power and Girl boss and no rights for men and we love dating assholes" - makes perfectly logical stand.

[@towelie1313]

I wanna meet the record executive who thought that advertising to "tumblr girls" is a good idea. Their idea of naive, fandom-centered tumblr is frozen somewhere around 2013. Since then, the users became much more jaded, are extremely proud of running the website to the ground and hate being advertised to. Tramp Stamps' targeted demographic did not exist for literal years. Whoever came up with this marketing strategy unknowingly threw these women down a pit to be eaten alive by a pack of rabid hyenas.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Correction, as someone who semi grew up on tumblr… Us the users, did not run it into the ground. The company did, because they completely misjudged said user base and didn't listen to us. We are proud of, unlike other websites, not breaking under corporate pressure, but the corporation breaking against our sheer decision to just… not. Also The Great Tumblr exodus has further dwindled down the numbers to the truly jaded, very observant, and yes very rabid users. They were not just throw down a pit, they were tossed down into a very very deep cavern filled with not only rabid hyenas but spikes.

[@a.m.3000]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Immaculate spike pit meme reference right there, my friend

[@cosmo2590]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 i mean the staff absolutely run it into the ground but also the community keeps proudly stating how unprofitable and unmarketable of a user base they are

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@cosmo2590 Yea, it's almost like we _dont want to be profitable for a company or something_ almost as if _we don't like being reduced to the idea of monetary gain_ I can't wait to see how the exclusive posts fare

[@StraightestDakregor]

That's all I thought about during the video Since I only use Tumblr, i was reading posts from there alone, and i loved it. Even without the fake accounts, to think an industry plant attempted to sell things to Tumblr is hilarious. They are literally like hunting hounds when it comes to recognize corporate bs, they were bullied during and after the band got popular

[@cupofjoehatescoffee8851]

"Marisa is literally Italian" is still my favorite post from them

[@aidoll3692]

This has similar energy to the "if you're from Africa why are you white" line from mean girls and idk why

[@NameName-yj7lp]

@@aidoll3692 Karen! You can’t ask people why their white!

[@chiefpurrfect8389]

It's fake tho. Hilarious nonetheless, but fake.

[@cupofjoehatescoffee8851]

Aw. Anyway stream Destroy Boys

[@ddjsoyenby]

italians are the best agenda ;D

[@glitchxmars7415]

weirdly enough I just got funky emo scene vibes from Izzy's outfit. like the tramp stamps have this weird e-girl vibe going on thats "perfectly put together" but Izzy's outfit is just so chaotic that it seems fun instead of awkward

[@thefourthwall6839]

As a musician who has lived and Nashville and experienced the local music industry/mafia, I can guarantee you that their identity and success is entirely manufactured. Their description reads almost identically to numerous mediocre up and coming songwriters that i've seen playing and promoting themselves in this city. And they probably meet in office buildings to discuss their marketability and image.

[@zoepardee9545]

Punk is full of playfulness and biting lyrics, but if you go into it without real heart, context, or true intention it can backfire. Sex shaming men is not revolutionary. It's very sad.

[@MechanicalMooCow]

Not really. Shaming white men for clout is sexist racism. Punk is punk, ska is ska. The fact that everyones criticism is based on how "real" or "punk" they are and not their literal racism and sexism says more about the people levelling criticism than the band itself.

[@slommie1649]

@@ASTEIR Hey dingaling, where'd you get your dingaling degree?

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

@@ASTEIR Are we seriously abiding by the "power plus privilege" definition of racism....

[@slommie1649]

@@ASTEIR That's the postmodern neomarxist academic's definition of racism, not the colloquial and historical definition that most people understand. Power + privilege only works with other collectivists, because anyone with a brain recognizes that individuals do not and cannot represent the group. At the very least make a new word so it looks like you aren't trying to subvert language.

[@coolklefkisarecool]

I agree, if it was, for example, a black woman writing about the racism and sexism she faces, it's good. In this case, it's a white woman who never faced racism or sexism saying "white man bad" Also, straight white men can be trans, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrants, etc. So just saying straight white man is kinda stupid. Just say privileged white men. Also, they were cis straight white women, but apparently, being a woman negates all privilege they have /s Also, they said they get men to do things they want by using alcohol. Isn't that r@p3?

[@pollyflores418]

My theory is they ARE industry plants but not to appeal to the Tumblr TikTok Teen demographic but to make it look bad, like a sort of musical Oppa Homeless Style

[@hxney_bree]

YES! Like some "this is what the SJW snowflakes wanna do with our holy country" type shit 💀

[@kylarmdrake9963]

I swear I heard they were proven to be country artists before all of this went down

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I somehow have a doubt the industry is smart like that. Like, it's a cool theory, I'd love it to be true, but idk really

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 The industry is dumb enough to sincerely believe anyone who hates that demographic, though.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@Joseph Douek Ask Todd Goldman. He's the guy who made a profit from "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." And from stealing other people's work.

[@TheCamSays]

So as an update to this story a year later, the band would release three more songs after their “Made An EP” release in “Dick Drunk”, a Halloween/horror themed track “The Story Of Jennifer” based off of “Jennifer’s Body” and a Christmas track called “A Not So Silent Night”. They’ve virtually been dormant as they haven’t posted anything since January 2022 and have basically gone their separate ways if not have the project on hiatus. Caroline and Marissa have recently come out with solo tracks and Marissa has even had an interview with Anthony Fantano back in January.

[@elizabethperry2622]

Ooh that “Jennifer’s Body” move is a very bad one. That film’s title comes from a Hole song from either the self titled or “Live through this.” Old school Hole, which love it or hate it alt female musicians as old as they are should KNOW about. The reference has already been made. Jennifer’s Body is not the one to do the “movie… based on the musical… based on the movie” thing with. The last things these women need is to alert a wild Courtney Love to their presence.

[@jasminlovesbagels5166]

1) every time I hear ‘rather die’ I think of the Barns Courtney song and my head goes I THINK ID RATHER DIE 2) their songs are the musical version of boiled unseasoned chicken

[@emilyslicer2843]

I was literally just thinking about how I was gonna have barns Courtney in my head all day

[@dudereallythough]

my whole thing is that even if they are 29, it legit doesn't matter. Dani miller of surfbort is 27 and embodies true punk spirit. its about intention.

[@Possumbreath]

Yeah like... Punk's been a thing for decades, it's wild to say only young people can be punk and also is frankly insulting to the people who pioneered the subculture

[@samm4158]

i think it’s less their actual age and more that they seem to be trying to pass themselves off as 18-20. very “hello, fellow TikTok babies!” energy when they could’ve just… not leaned into the “uwu we’re so hip and young” vibes. dress and do your hair like you want, be punk, no age limit; but please, don’t pretend you’re “hip youngsters”.

[@Possumbreath]

@@samm4158 oh yeah no I meant in general, I've seen a lot of "omg you're 28? Get back in the kitchen and make lunch for your kids, ancient hag" like anyone past 20 can't have interests outside of the most stereotypical concept of adulthood. Obviously the tramp stamps in specific fucking suck

[@towelie1313]

I am 30. My friend who introduced me to the... musical genius of Tramp Stamps played me the sing without showing me the video. I was legitimately convinced those are 14 yos attempting to write a 2000s-esque pop punk song despite being unable to remember the 2000s. I was shocked that these women (or at least one) are my peers. Somehow those songs are not only bad even for "generic bad pop punk" standards, but are both childlish AND disturbingly graphic at the same time...

[@saltkaiser]

the dropkick murphys are all in their 50s or older and theyre very punk

[@beepgepp]

I remember my friend's custom status on discord was 'Asslight, Gaykeep, Girlballs or whatever' And now that's all I'm thinking about LMAOOOO

[@sawyer6264]

That in of itself should be an album name 😂

[@beepgepp]

@@sawyer6264 lmaooo true

[@pokefantrent2065]

I’m now changing my status to that

[@redpanda146]

Lemme copy that real quick

[@redpanda146]

Looool

[@b.w.22]

As a person who was an unabashed hardcore kid as a young man, let us never forget that “punk” has been commodified and sold since day one. The Sex Pistols, for example, were a band put together by Malcolm McLaren, dressed by Vivienne Westwood, and named in part after their clothes shop. Punk rebellion has been packaged and sold this entire time.

[@lizburton3840]

That's a common misconception actually! The band was already together by the time Steve Jones asked McLaren (his good friend) to manage them and the only 'putting together' McLaren did was encouraging Johnny Rotten, someone who often hung around in the proto-punk scene that Jones and McLaren were part of themselves, to be the singer. Meanwhile, Westwood wasn't famous yet when she was running her store SEX and made most of her clothes by hand with the help of her children and friends. Their 'rival' band the Clash was equally as 'put together' in the sense that their manager Bernie Rhodes also found them a singer who he thought would mesh well with the band and encouraged them to the dress in clothes he helped make. Rhodes was actually the one who told The Clash to make political songs, meanwhile McLaren was ignored and laughed at when he tried to tell the Sex Pistols what to write songs about... If you want sources, please check out the books England's Dreaming by Jon Savage and Passion is a Fashion by Pat Gilbert, both are very informative about both bands I talked about. Or just look at the Sex Pistols' Wikipedia page, it's much quicker and will still help clear up misinformation

[@b.w.22]

@@lizburton3840 - This was such a charming, thoughtful, and informative comment. Thank you! I’ll need to rewatch the video to recall exactly what I was driving at, but of course you’re right that McLaren didn’t put together the Pistols in some Phil Spector-like fashion or like a boy-band from the 2000’s. And the Clash were definitely a deliberate and managed enterprise and a product of that scene. Honestly, I think it could be argued that the Sex Pistols were more authentic than the Clash, love them as I do. So your points are well taken. I do think McLaren brought something important to the effort, if only direction and a vision he gained while experiencing what was going on around Rex’s and CBGB in New York. He and Westwood seemed to recognize the importance of looks to “punk” and their take on those looks clearly resonated. I guess my point was that while the energy behind what became punk in the UK arose organically and spontaneously from the people and times they were in, from very early on it was guided and deliberately influenced. Nor is that a bad thing - Steve Jones definitely made a good choice asking McLaren to manage his band!

[@lizburton3840]

​@@b.w.22 Thank you for such a kind response, I wasn't expecting something so nice because usually people get angry with me when I try to clear up misconceptions about the Sex Pistols. I don't know why that is, I just want everyone to be on the same page together McLaren was definitely important to the group's success, as any good manager is! He's kind of like the britpunk version of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles who helped them become successful with his business savvy and media know-how, as well as helping organize their ideas into a more cohesive structure. I think people were always somewhat aware that punk would benefit greatly from 'a look' (the Ramones were certainly aware!), McLaren and Westwood (as well as Rhodes, he was a fashion designer too after all) were the perfect team to create that look with the inspiration they had from both the NYC scene and what they were seeing back home in London. Richard Hell was a major fascination/idol for McLaren and Westwood, as well as for Johnny Rotten who was a big fan But, to continue my very silly Beatles analogy, we wouldn't credit Epstein with the true meaning behind the Beatles or discredit the hard work of the band members because they had some help from him so why is it okay to do that to the Pistols? I hate to see the skill and hard work of working class boys who went through so many hardships in life be devalued or ignored... Anyway, I actually strongly agree with you that there's always been an edge of commodification and exploitation in the 70s British scene that only got stronger and stronger as the years went by. There's something to be said about how so many movers and shakers of the scene were store owners/clothes sellers (McLaren, Westwood, Rhodes, and Don Letts). It's a interesting topic. I just wanted to clear up a few things so that we can all be on the same page! Thank you again for your nice response!

[@CNYKnifeNut]

I hope you two are married, now.

[@selectivelysocial7117]

I cannot express how happy reading this has made me

[@oozetin]

I don’t know why but when I watched the strange aeons video about the tramp stamps my brain glided over any mention of dates and I thought this shit took place in 2014 or something so I was unprepared to know this band is so recent

[@bracoeth]

everything about the saga screams 2014

[@klltsun_2576]

oh my god same. Watching aeons video I thought it all happened quite a long while ago, was very surprised when I watched this one

[@Grim_Sister]

How dare the kids these days be smarter then a multi million company that is supposed to tell them what they want and what they like?! Seriously though, super proud of today’s teens who learned to find the signs for commercialized bands. Good job!

[@PersephoneDarling28]

Nothing wrong with being commercial

[@Grim_Sister]

@@PersephoneDarling28 there is when you’re pretending to embrace ideals you don’t support and believe and are doing so just to gain a few brownie points

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@PersephoneDarling28 Nothing wrong with giving your money to people who are genuine and who you support. That’s supply and demand, babey.

[@AshDemonYoung]

Yeah, like how they definitely didn’t fall for the Disney plant Olivia Rodrigo. Lol. This was a hate mob against an easy target, nothing more nothing less.

[@isa-nw3tw]

@@AshDemonYoung i think the difference is that olivia rodrigo never tried to hide anything ? her music is decent and she hasn’t stopped being on disney so it’s like a pretty common thing to know about her

[@gregmark1688]

Leave my three girlfriends alone! I'm so angry, we have to go smork a weed bunt right now.

[@CyberiaTheme]

This made me laugh so hard that I started choking.

[@giovanniherrera6037]

💀💀💀

[@kaitlin9288]

Do they smoke weed?

[@cheerfulsatanist]

the girl defined abby shapiro tram stamp post is the single greatest thing i have ever or will ever see. thank you for bringing such beauty into the universe.

[@coolklefkisarecool]

Someone (in this video or another one about them) said with their neon candy hair colors, they look more like a cute pop band than an edgy punk band. So I made cute 2000’s/2010’s themed girl characters with cute fashions. They also wear pink, purple, and blue with their own fashion and personality. Maybe they are good for something after all.

[@hellray66]

The weirdest thing to me about the Tramp Stamps is that they don't feel like real friends, they feel like coworkers. Like they wouldn't be friends if they didn't work in the same office.

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

The way you say it suggest they’d be the sorts you basically make a habit of avoiding if you see them outside of work

[@Senjamin]

literally like every alt girl friend group I've been around they're constantly falling on each other and laughing and playing, making fun etc etc but these women all just have the vibes of 3 coworkers you have that don't even eat lunch together

[@wweltz]

I never thought "zoomers explaining shit I've never heard of" would become my favorite youtube genre but here I am

[@iLikeCok]

😂

[@sylph8005]

She's a zoomer?

[@howdyho6775]

@@sylph8005 yea

[@howdyho6775]

@@sylph8005 Zoomers are people born from like 1998 to 2014 (idk the limit thing lol)

[@XwX1001]

It still boggles my mind that she, Veridis Joe, and Wendigoon are all in the same age-range as me. Edit: Oh! And Thafnine. Thafnine too.

[@jfduug4994]

I’ve never heard of this group or these girls and at first I was like “aww it can’t be THAT bad! People online tend to be way meaner and exaggerate things a lot” but then everything you talked about just kept getting worse and worse lmao

[@eggsndlegsbby8304]

They look like a ‘punk’ band in a Disney movie omg

[@LittleHwangO]

What’s wrong with men choosing to wear underwear designed for women? I know lots of women who regularly wear men’s boxers. They’re so AlT AnD nOn CoNfOrMiNg until they see something they’re not used to? K then.

[@LadyAstarionAncunin]

Men's underwear are comfortable. Plus, I live in a country where women aren't as curvy in the back as me, so getting men's underwear gives me some comfort.

[@joy-wire]

Ikr? I bought some men's underwear to wear and see how it is, and they're SO comfortable. Now I wear almost exclusively trunks and boyshorts, and somehow I do manage to match them with my bras lol.

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

I was about to say aren't these the same people who claim to be against gender norms and are supposedly all about people doing their own thing. They are so fake.

[@LucyDucy1]

I LOVE WOMENS UNDERWEAR

[@LittleHwangO]

@@LucyDucy1 no shame in that!

[@Ahmgcats]

Another thing I noticed on the note of their roots being the same length: their hair is all evidently professionally bleached and dyed by how even the colouring is. One punk in an indie band who didn't dye their hair at home? Believable. Three? Absolutely not.

[@wormdoodles]

when u wanna be alt but don't wanna destroy ur hair in the process

[@skaweirromeda6787]

I mean, you can evenly dye your hair at home… but you have to do it at least three times before getting kinda good at it. All this girls are first timers in brightly colored hair. Doesn’t check out

[@camcat26]

Yeah, with practice home dye can look pretty good. Some of my friends started dying their hair pretty young and are amazing at it now

[@Ahmgcats]

i know you can have evenly dyed hair at home, i dyed my hair for 7 years. even then from time to time i'd get a patchy spot. my point still stands.

[@edgaralanfrog]

Ooh damn, I dye my hair purple at home and I get down to the roots (because I’m dumb and not a professional and I don’t know how not to) caught me off guard and made me go, “Oooooh wow.”

[@maddymooo]

Their response to Anthony Fantano's review is so pathetic. You can feel them holding back anger and tears. How petty.

[@CaitlinKoi]

Shout out to Izzy's phone making a cameo 👍 (I've listened to this video so many times I've started noticing a few times during the recordings you can hear a phone buzzing)

[@malsummers6515]

"It's not true, Paige Blue is not dating her cousin" is so funny out of context

[@DalekTheSupreme]

Same energy as Tommy Wiseau in the room. "I did not hit her. Is not true. I did not hit her. I did not. Oh hai Mark."

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@DalekTheSupreme you forgot "It's bullshit!"

[@andeleon6838]

@@ashikjaman1940 Ikr. So uncultured 🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@andeleon6838]

Lmao could also mean "It's not true that Paige Blue is not dating her cousin" 👀👀👀

[@ddjsoyenby]

it's goregous.

[@Pironesia]

15:30 That unironically and genuineley just, sounds like rape. Like imagine if it was reversed. Girl is drunk, can't consent/ doesn't want to engage, guy is pissed because she is performing badly. That's assault.

[@XwX1001]

That right there is what TV Tropes has oh so appropriately called "Double Standard Rape: Female On Male".

[@theunnamedboog3197]

Issues - Mindless Self Indulgence

[@scream19961]

Yeah uh… MSI is weird

[@BLANKONTOP]

Msi is gross LMAO

[@crazyasalways9272]

the way it is in the song is rape there is no difference a person who is intoxicated in any way cant concent

[@geographconcept7523]

i am on a full-fledged izzzyzzz rabbit hole and really enjoying myself

[@inthegrass11]

friendly reminder that the most punk thing you can be is unapologetically yourself.

[@thesolidestsnake]

Tramp Stamps: Okay. Let's lean into the Tumblr stereotypes from 2016 to make sure we get popular with the Tumblr kids Tumblr: *Bug Ass*

[@officiallyvii]

🐜🍑

[@user-oq9bh8os6f]

🐜 🍑

[@stardust3176]

They failed to realize that most of those tumblr kids left to Twitter LMAO

[@huntereurich1100]

🐜🍑

[@GrandpaShagger69]

🐜🍑

[@glanni]

I laughed when she said "First of all we hear you, and we don't want to anyone to think we don't" because that's literally corporate language.

[@stuffmcstuff399]

And very anti punk. If they were punk they would have given the finger and continued on. One of the whole points of Punk -to go against the grain and not to give a F.

[@xX_Knives_Xx]

​@@stuffmcstuff399 its very anti punk to apologize for writing a sex shamey dubcon song and racism i guess...

[@adambomb1553]

​@@xX_Knives_Xxto be fair, racism is very anti-punk in itself. So, they were already off to a bad start.

[@xX_Knives_Xx]

@@adambomb1553 yeah very tru

[@HelloHelloe]

@@stuffmcstuff399 Punk is the most Pozz and Woke genre now. Counterculture becomes Mainstream over time and thats just whats happening to Punk, hip-hop etc.

[@jn1211]

as a non binary person, i do not find the idea of replacing the patriarchy with a matriarchy as desirable at all.

[@hardcoreforever77]

no one in their right mind finds the idea of any kind of -archy desirable tbh

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

​@@hardcoreforever77 DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY

[@atoastyghost290]

i had no idea who they were until 6 minutes in when i heard the "GONE AWAY IS MY STEPDAD" and i was like "ohhh, those ones"

[@DownWithEarthStudios]

I've often wondered what their plan for this project is long term. Like...how long can 30 year old republican women pretend to be liberal teenyboppers?

[@destinyswish5583]

Republican?

[@callmeblubber5038]

@@destinyswish5583 Paige was confirmed to be but I don’t know about the other two

[@jcav9410]

@@destinyswish5583 You might be onto something! Why haven’t conservative personalities like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Blaire White or Tomi Lahren (To name a few) already talked about them on their platforms? Why hasn’t Tucker Carlson ranted against them on national television? Probably cause they know the Tramp Stamps are a joke intended to poke fun at Gen Z.

[@LadyAstarionAncunin]

Until the money from the grift stops coming in. So, maybe soon? Already? I don't follow them to know.

[@lemmythetrash-goblin8291]

It still baffles me that they did this all in attempt to get popular with punk crowd. In my experience, punk is some of the easiest music to get into. It isn't about perfect production, or having sweet looking music videos or even looking that good while doing it. It's music defined by the pure message and attitude. You make punk 'cause you have something to say, and that's all that really matters. The sound can be rough, it can be simple, hell, it can sound like total crap. But that's part of it all. The rough style is part of making something that doesn't pretend to be something it isn't.

[@Dial.a.archivist]

I agree! You worded this really well, I was gonna add something bytt you said it perfectly

[@Xx1Lexxi1xX]

For real! I'm really into riot girl punk or as i often call it "women with grating voices further conforming I'm unbelievably gay". The music quality is rarely on point, the singers aren't perfect or often even good, and the equipment is usually cheap, but when they are singing about your mutual lived experiences and it hits your chest like you just did a bellyflop, that's what connects.

[@TheWonkster]

@loveutill theendoftimes only if you are actually a poser.

[@nopushbutton]

i mean if anything sweet looking music videos and looking good right off the bat is a mark against you

[@ArtemisKitty]

That's part of the problem though... as an industry created entity, rather than a passion-driven band... there IS no message. They have nothing genuine to say, so it's all production, with no real content or feeling.

[@micahfoley9572]

Actual born and bred punk rock musician here: Doesn't matter who they have backing them up. The pont is that punk rock music isn't a sound or a style, it's an approach to music. A willingness to take chances and the will to leave the world better than when you found it. Anyone who doesn't understand this shouldn't be pretending they do. It doesn't matter if they have a label, it doesn't matter if their image or sound is contrived. Everyone's is to some extent. But these people are fakes. They're dishonest. Their approach is not authentic. They're basically safe, easy, teeny bopper pop music. Which is totally fine and valid until you start pretending you're something you're not. Honesty is the first step, and they skipped it.

[@donaldhanning1359]

I REALLY thought you were going to say "Paige has had success... Dating her cousin" at the end there 🤣😂

[@Ziaberry]

I think one of the biggest giveaways for me is the fact that they have NO chemistry together. They seem so awkward and uncomfortable around each other like they only recently met. They don't seem like a tight-knit group of gal pals who bonded over bad dating experiences

[@teethcoat4274]

Idk I think that it may just be that they find it hard to act natural with each other while playing their personas. As pathetic as their parody of the unscripted Anthony Fantano video was it did give me the idea that they were actually friends.

[@parkertheemoskaterdude5522]

Completely agree. When they were talking, it seemed (to me at least) like they werent actually interacting with each other but were just waiting for their turn to deliver a line mediocrely and then wait for their next line.

[@ajromero3692]

Whoever did the edit of Girl Defined and Classically Abby as The Tramp Stamps is a comedic genius.

[@Phished123]

I had to pause i was laughing so hard at that.

[@alicequeenofmadness9995]

TRUE!

[@fuzzytadpole]

What a legend

[@ambereyedbabygirl]

666th like! I feel so honoured! I've been waiting for this moment on KZbin for such a long time.

[@imontosomething2609]

Right🤣😭🤣

[@KacieRiley]

As a punk born n raised in nashville I can 10000% confirm they are random plants and have never been apart of the punk/goth/alt scene here

[@billvolk4236]

When that one tweet said they fetishized mlm, I thought they meant multi-level marketing and I was not even a little bit surprised.

[@lenwalker6254]

You can't convince me they aren't the three weed smoking girlfriends

[@REDACTEDbox]

HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE LIKES TF

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

but do they smoke weed?

[@stevenunyabidness]

BUNT

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Jory come get yo gurls

[@saphosapien]

@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks Yes, actually.

[@jacobcarter6332]

As a guy one thing i've always found is that there are two kinds of "girl power" music, The kind that says "lol ur like 2 inches, haha get fucked" and really appeals to a bad kind of person and has a toxic fanbase and just is creates drama. And then there is the kind that pulls up the woman herself without tearing down someone. The kind that shows that she is worthy of attention, time and is valuable all on her own.

[@jacobcarter6332]

I got a like from the mighty Z, bow before me mear mortals. Also just want to clear up, yeah I think the first kind of "girl power" music isn't real or anything like that. I don't hate it, I think it's misguided. You can't build up by tearing down. Care for yourself first.

[@GeoNeilUK]

I was a young adult of the 1990s. Back then it seemed as if bands that got big really did come up from the bottom as they tended to hate being famous, Kurt Cobain being the most obvious example. And then you've got artists like Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp) Skunk Anansie, the Manic Street Prechers. I'm a Britpop kid at heart and there are some very well written, intelligent and political songs in that genre.

[@jacobcarter6332]

@@aetherialbeing4223 not just you i'm with you fully on that, and most of the stuff they claim about guys is stuff out of the guys control (dick size, how hot they are, etc) But they are all about body positivity. Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should be able to work on their body and themselves to get themselves to a point where they love they love themselves and their body. Even straight white cis neurotypical young men. Got a small dick? You are worthy of love Got small breasts ? you are worthy of love Got a large head that makes it hard to wear most hats? I am- I mean you are worthy of love. And yes, they do seem to be fixed on sex, though I think that's more our culture then anything. Every song, "man bed in bed" Every tweet "am good in bed, sleep with me" Like if most of your songs are about sex, then what the fuck bro? touch grass.

[@rhaeven]

@@aetherialbeing4223 "by saying they’re bad in bed, have small penises etc etc while also complain about men wanting sex and shit and how men make comments like that about women" it's just attacking people for the thing that you think will hurt them the most, and yeah it's pretty incongruent with body positivity. “we aren’t objects for sex but let’s brag about sex and how much we love it” this isn't hypocritical, though. the concept of women being sex objects is about their value to men, like their purpose is to please men. women can reject that and demand to be seen as people with agency and value, who don't exist just to be attractive and pleasing to men, and still be horny as fuck

[@the-inatorinator]

If anyone is looking for the second kind, I highly recommend Tonight Alive. Jenna McDougall (the lead) is super into empowerment for all genders really, but the band also tackles some more traditionally feminine issues in their music here and there. Like "Lonely Girl" is about letting toxic friends go and finding yourself as a human being, but from a perspective that most men don't really go through in their lives. (Also it's a total JAM of a song) But yeah overall she's just really into self-care and gender equality and all that, and the band as a whole supports a lot of female artists and such as well

[@Whatsvrmn]

They remind of that one girl superhero in The Boys where she’s supposed to be girl power while she kills a family

[@midnightartist43]

Oh god I remember when they got bullied off of tumblr 🤣 It only took the place about 4 hours to absolutely obliterate them, and it was glorious. I also like how tik tok did pretty much the same thing, even if it took longer lol

[@ashbelero7726]

Technically one of my favorite bands ever is an "industry plant". Babymetal is a j-pop/death metal band that was comprised of three members of a massive idol company. None of them had ever even heard a death metal song before they were placed in that group by the company, with the idea behind the band supposedly driven by the guitarist from Dragonforce, Herman Li, who writes a lot of their music. However, they did grow to be quite passionate about their work, even writing a few of their best songs themselves, and they're highly respected by many major artists in the metal industry even overseas. Seeing Rob Zombie hanging out with them at a concert and even defending them to his fans was wild. Even more interesting, most Japanese idols kind of get phased out at age 18. The members of Babymetal are in their 20s now, which is fairly unheard of. They surpassed the idol industry basically. In conclusion, not all "industry plants" are bad, but the industry itself can be pretty shit.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

TBF, I've heard a lot of bands (whether it's it's rock or pop) from Japan or South Korea are industry plants, and usually the audience knows that already. Jordan Theresa has a good video about this subject.

[@ashbelero7726]

@@kittykittybangbang9367 Oh yeah no, the idol industry is built on industry plants. I find Babymetal to be a particularly wholesome example though, because of how much the community accepted them and helped them reach beyond just being disposable idols.

[@Thiefnuker]

That may work for most genres, but Punk music in its very essence is against that. I also had to pause when she mentioned AutoTune. AutoTune in punk? What? Isn't punk supposed to be written and sang in exactly such a crass yet melodic way that everyone can just bawl with it because there's neither a right nor a wrong way to hit the notes? That's the punk I listen to at least, very authentic in this sense.

[@ashbelero7726]

@@Thiefnuker I agree but isn't metal also totally against this kind of thing? A lot of the backlash for them was because of that. Anyway I've got no loyalty to Avril Lavigne x 3 so eh.

[@PilotSolaris]

This is unrelated to the comment chain from a few days ago, but I want to point out that my first real run-in with Babymetal was when they released a Collab song with Joakim Brodén of Sabaton, a history-themed powermetal band from Sweden, and it was really very good.

[@samwatson-tayler2805]

The biggest tell for me was that they started doing this about five years after Tumblr misandry largely died. After all, there's almost nothing more on-brand for corporate internet trend-chasing than arriving a half-decade too late.

[@ds4251]

We're still trapped in the ramifications of it

[@emily1280]

You are so right about this omg

[@cinnastag]

And do you know where misandry caught on instead? Tiktok, of course...so the fact that the heard Tiktok and Tumblr communities are the same and ran with it is telling as to how much thought was put into it

[@ideljenny]

@@cinnastag Its not in the least bit the same flavour.

[@cinnastag]

@@ideljenny Yeah, I know

[@hkazu63]

Honestly I think one of the bigger reasons that the Tramp Stamps feel like an industry plant is just the name. “The Tramp Stamps” feels like moving in the same way as The B-Sharps on The Simpsons. A name that feels clever at first, but seems less funny the more you hear it. But by the same logic, The Beatles would be industry plants. Lol

[@a.kitcat.b]

💙I was intrigued because I had no idea any of this was happening. I learned a lot today that I didn't need to know but now I do. I don't regret it because its an Izzzyzzz video!💜

[@agkawaii9267]

they did a tiktok that was like “how many emo/punk songs do you know” or smth like that and when mcr came on ONLY ONE OF THEM KNEW IT. thats how you know they are faking it. mcr is iconic in that kind of music like

[@alison_uncouth]

HOW. They're close to my age. MCR was HUGE when I was in high school. Makes it even worse lmao

[@bumbabees]

@@alison_uncouth that's hilarious. My sisters just turned thirty and had zero interest in anything punk as teenagers and even they knew who MCR was.

[@chocobear4078]

I'm not even into MCR and even I know who they are what the hell

[@cyber-moth]

my mum is 46 and doesn't listen to any emo bands, even she knew about mcr before i liked it

[@xxfake_outxx]

my mom who didn’t like mcr, but did like some bands like linkin park, evanescence, Ect. Knew who mcr was before I became obsessed with them

[@Romanticoutlaw]

"we see you we hear you" is THE most industry thing they could say

[@scottbuck1572]

These lyrics, regardless if they actually wrote them, sounds like they were written by a board room without a single person under 35

[@highabovemexo1]

I've just had a stalk of their instagrams today (September 2023) and Marisa doesn't follow/isn't followed by either of the other two lmao. (The other two follow each other) Wonder what happened there?

[@dylanmiller9162]

The actively hating on straight white men thing sounds like an angle/lyric pushed by an out of touch straight white dude who thinks that’s like…actually a thing in this scene.

[@Sparx632]

A lot of their aesthetic feels like it’s based off 4chan’s view of feminists. Coloured hair, hate all white men etc

[@sarahgray430]

@@Sparx632 I think that's intentional.

[@generalmukmuk]

whats worse is it sounds more like its written by a straight white dude with a humilation fetish

[@simonwinn8757]

This is straight up toxic online feminist culture of the mid 2010's.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Well, punk actually has roots in criticising the elite/corporate culture, and we can't have _that_ because it makes the higher-ups uncomfortable! So their strategy was "just pretend to be empowered women and call men trash instead" 💀💀💀

[@tanhart]

I abolsutely LOVE how they're trying to appear as teens but then one of the members has been married for 7 years which makes them around 25 years old at minimum. gold

[@vitaminwater9662]

Who gives a shit really though? Its literally not your body

[@kurtherrmann9185]

Great video, also amazing Garfield collect, honestly in awe

[@Kasia3127]

I've never seen a video of yours but your Spotify being all Sims music is so niche, I am so glad someone else is absolutely vibing to those songs still too lmfao

[@fnord3125]

okay "how many people are in the duo?" was kind of funny, but the rest of that bit you showed was... sad. just made them look *extremely* defensive in a really embarrassing way.

[@whatthefridge1o1]

Ikr

[@MR-cx1mg]

Calling Kamala Harris a 'GRRRLBOSS' is probably the least punk thing I've ever heard. Wow.

[@BlackTestament]

nothing says “punk” like “praising the status quo” :D

[@lavendeer6290]

she did put lots of men in jail though #jailallpatriarchs

[@istvanbrooks5319]

@@lavendeer6290 thats not something to be proud of

[@lavendeer6290]

@@istvanbrooks5319 just say you hate black and Asian women #intersectionality #nottodayBernie Nah jk yeah she's fucking trash lmao

[@elemperadordemexico]

​@@lavendeer6290 is your dad is in prison?

[@BackPalSA]

Oh my gosh, that is an absolutely 10/10 makeup job this vid. It's not always for me (and it's never done just for me ofc) but I love this look! You pull it way off.

[@your.local.froggy7452]

the "how do you do fellow kids" hit me so hard 😖 lmao

[@brunogrill3774]

Ah yes the pioneers of the greatest lyric of all time "I rather die die than to sleep with another straight white guy", truly visionary

[@superjoeyman1]

I mean mood tho lmao

[@brunogrill3774]

Bruh

[@3asianassassin]

Sounds like something an insecure racist white guy would type pretending to be a white girl to strengthen his persecution complex

[@meyes5671]

@@superjoeyman1 is it tho? is it really?

[@guilhermeshiba3135]

@@superjoeyman1 do you mean mood tho??? do you????

[@Plantster15]

You know, it always warms my heart whenever the internet takes down its barriers and, regardless of political, racial, or economic divide, comes together in the spirit of hatred on one particular thing for a bit.

[@primo4915]

j

[@caramel9154]

I second what Primo said, j

[@bobjames994]

I third what sherbet tea said, j

[@kittskeeps]

@@bobjames994 I fourth what Bob James said, j

[@goodluckgorsky3413]

@@kittskeeps I disagree, h

[@darianvelazquez6996]

so i actually followed Caro(carobae) as she goes by now, before she got in the band, so i already kind of knew what her style was supposed to be, pop, so having her switch her entire aesthetic that from what i thought wasn’t really her was off putting a bit, having caroline go back to her normal aesthetic and finally put out music that is good and interesting instead of it being manufactured makes my heart happy, because i know she wanted so badly to go back to being a pop artist, and now that she’s switched back it kinda makes me feel like this whole TRAMP STAMPS thing was fake and manufactured when it didn’t match any of the artists styles or aesthetics, i’m glad this era seems to be over, i see a lot of people asking them to come back and idk if they’re trolls or not but i don’t want this back, i want genuine artists. not made up pop punk bands, i have no idea what the other two are up to now as i don’t follow them, but as a Caro fan, i’m glad this era seems to be over and she’s back to being her authentic self

[@garycoates4987]

They're clearly 30 something and trying to play teens,, it seems like they are completely manufactured by what someone with no idea what "punk" is about deciding they know what punk is about out of the blue.

[@ConnorNolanTech]

It's so funny to hear that three people who had successful music careers separately came together to make a project less successful than any single one of them on their own. It's a reverse Voltron.

[@sylph8005]

Same thing happens when working cars get together

[@picklerick9106]

When i saw ‘no rights for men’ i instantly knew that evidence of them being bad people would not be needed

[@hazardhatch7284]

LMAOO THE FACT YOU PUT FLAMINGO UNDER “people I will murder”

[@0nullnil]

Facts

[@picklerick9106]

@@hazardhatch7284 that’s something old lol, i loved him like 2 years ago and named my channel Tiffany mayumi and put that and forgot to remove it

[@twotruckslyrics]

@@picklerick9106HELPP THATS AMAZING

[@hatenation4064]

Your phone buzzing being caught on the mic kept me looking around my room as I folded clothes lol

[@lamibonxd]

same

[@durandus676]

Sometimes I want to comment mean things about the subjects of the videos, but you do such a good job about laying these things out in an objective manner I just don’t have it in me.

[@Michijoy]

Izzyzzz is the KZbinr that makes me go, "oh yeah that _did_ happen..."

[@stuntfumbler]

TRUE

[@sugarcube5826]

Literally 😭

[@j_fitz6913]

I recently found this channel, and that has literally been my entire experience with it. 'Oh wow, yeah I do kinda remember that thing' then there is a 15-30 minute dive into the history, and fallout of said nearly forgotten thing.

[@TooMuchSascha]

Sucy pfp, QUEEN

[@thedemon4780]

Nice pfp Quick question: Is "dude" a gender neutral term?

[@graysonsprojects]

i absolutely woke one of my dogs up to tell him you had mentioned me because i literally love you and watch ur vids all the time

[@mmymmy315]

OMG it's you

[@amber8289]

hi grayson i love u

[@Ivymanhattan]

I love when my worlds collide

[@themanwiththegoldengooch9811]

you just know. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5fEeIGmbt2phLM

[@Izzzyzzz]

OMG GRAYSON your channel is awesome thank u for being amazing!!!! :D I'm honored you watch omg omg!

[@shadowfluffylion8291]

THE "MARISA IS LITERALLY ITALIAN" IS SO FUNNY HELP

[@Bigtunaproductions09]

Izzy making fun of the Tramp Stamp style as "I'm not like other girls aesthetic" and then realizing she looks like that every video was so hilarious

[@keeganmcleod3327]

Izzy: giving a very detailed analysis Her nose ring: ☀️☀️☀️

[@Arkey707]

I need new glasses and for a second I thought she had a mountain of cocaine off camera

[@MrThemovie321]

The Sun SUMMONER

[@conspiracypanda1200]

Startin' a whole new universe on her lower lip. And the nose ring said, "Let there be light."

[@GraffitiOnTheWall]

@@conspiracypanda1200 💀💀

[@Ourxz]

@@MrThemovie321 shadow and bone?!

[@GraveyardShift-tl6ri]

i just wanna say the fact that they claimed that they were punk actually disgusted me. they sound the farthest thing ive ever heard from real punk.

[@Jenna-in4br]

Thier fashion style and video style is meant to be punk, I don't think thier managers want to make punk music. It's alot safer to make pop

[@lucine7101]

@@Jenna-in4br i mean, if you're talking about punk style they don't really dress punk either. more like "egirl just found out about blink182" edit: also i agree that their fashion style and mv is TRYING to be punk, but that literally goes against punk and is the definition of poser to only dress punk without the music or culture

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@lucine7101 "egirl just found out about Blink-182" that's a perfect way to describe the tramp stamps

[@guts1859]

Oh the irony of this comment

[@dexdenex5465]

I'm sorry but the camera cutting to your playlist full of The Sims OST had me dying XD