How Did 4chan Change Modern Music?

[@D2Synua]

duster having several songs with over 100 million plays on spotify is hilarious

[@StoicDivinity]

y tho

[@battyfied]

@@StoicDivinitymedicine

[@ryankim345]

@@StoicDivinityeven back in 2015 or so- they had probably 10k plays on their most popular song. /mu/ really blew up duster

[@poet_of_the_apocalypse9850]

They just got triaged by Spotify because 1 minute songs are a perfect autoplay sample length, when the song you voluntarily put on ends and Spotify interjects. It’s a joke really, but I’m not doubting that they have actual, dedicated listeners.

[@hellaxhyphy]

@@ryankim345 Duster blew up because of tik tok.

[@Falxifer95]

Saving forgotten bands like Duster and Panchiko, giving birth to Fantano and a horde of hipster ectomorphs. The true duality of man.

[@TiredAndBloody]

Duster sucks and Pachinko is a meme hack band

[@Falxifer95]

@@TiredAndBloody oh look, an ectomorph.

[@destroyedbyfeds]

Duster are OK, Panchiko suck.

[@tilledaman]

@@TiredAndBloody "Duster sucks" name your top 5 bands

[@TiredAndBloody]

@@tilledaman errr im not spoonfeeding a fucking normalfag!

[@ghost_mfg]

Andy from Panchiko used to work as a sound engineer at my parent's venue and taught me the basics of audio engineering at about the age I would frequent /mu. I could of solved the mystery years ago ffs. Really nice guy, his other band weshowuponradar had a song in a carphone warehouse ad i think.

[@JonnyCrackers]

/mu/ is full of high school kids who think they have refined taste in music, but in reality go there because they want to be told what they should and shouldn't like.

[@gekinatracksuit9710]

there is a chance that Swans is mentioned in this video edit: maybe next time

[@WhoamI-rl8ep]

My disappointment is immeasurable

[@An0xymoron127]

Saving it for the swancore video

[@frippster]

glowie trustfund band

[@Kodeb8]

BASKIN ROBERTS

[@ileutur6863]

​@@frippster Brainrotted

[@drhall343]

Lol at "the discussions on the board remain artistic and actually beneficial for music as an art form". I've never seen that on /mu/ in my life. 😂

[@Rhayader_12]

this

[@Иблис96]

i mean there is still a lot of showcasing of newer/underground reléases from recommendation threads. yeah it’s edgy but if you ask for genre recommendations you will get them and most of the time they won’t be the regular rym type.

[@nomihabo9752]

wdym the 3 and a half times that happened don't make up for the vitriol spewed daily in and around there? :(

[@radandpaisley]

You must be young, people were putting small bands that they like over massively

[@j.2512]

just hipsters circlejerking about pretentious crap they never actually listen to because it sucks

[@KoiYokan]

i cant wait to find out how 4chan changed music forever

[@sticklyboi]

boy do i have the video for u

[@erickh6587]

They didn't lmao, content creator is reaching here

[@sticklyboi]

@@erickh6587 its definitely hyperbole for the sake of clickbait never forget that all content creators are just attention whores at heart

[@StillIchor]

​@@erickh6587or just exaggerating

[@caputcultusd7558]

@@erickh6587 they did cause an impact in music discussion in some way or another

[@ileutur6863]

The gospel/black metal band Zeal and Ardor was also formed by 4chan, when some random mu autist challenged the lead singer to blend the two genres. They've been a mainstay at metal festivals since their debut

[@hubblebublumbubwub5215]

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

[@SLY32-pd8wo]

THE FACT THAT

[@now-semen-up]

i ilke that kind of stuff

[@jackdancer709]

Maybe ten years ago..

[@jackdancer709]

In our country it's almost become cheaper to get fast food.

[@hubblebublumbubwub5215]

It's funny to consider that most people think I'm being completely random

[@sloshed-rat]

I'm glad you're more comfortable showing your face, Coolea. If the little stached gobo-man eventually goes away, I'd miss him, but I'd gladly welcome your handsome face here in his stead.

[@radandpaisley]

"...and limits gatekeeping" Bruh 💀

[@aqualalalala]

4chan doxxed me in 2011

[@SirFooplesTheThird]

Lmao

[@denisn8336]

Epic

[@sourcespaghettimaster1253]

Xd

[@Thischannelisdicontinued]

What location did they say?

[@tippiergnome8471]

Calmest 4chan discussion

[@medvedec]

>internet hate machine

[@medvedec]

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 >not getting the reference

[@loanswashere.]

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 TERRIBLE LIE

[@pettycrimesandmisdemeanors]

>10 kpop threads

[@kerocoremi787]

based

[@BixbiteBungo]

Gotta get that ad revenue

[@扰乱]

this

[@j.2512]

@@BixbiteBungo lol, Hiro makes his money selling poster data to feds

[@quietdoesmusic4029]

That shit is so surreal to me you can go on mu and see people talking about nsbm then see another thread discussing kpop. Wtf lol

[@AwareWolfOnWheels]

I love how I've still never heard of any of these bands and to this day have yet to venture onto 4chan, what a wonderfully safe world I live in.

[@dysgusted_irl]

theyre trash bands anyways kekekek, granted /mu/ has some good albums on the actual lists but the bands here specifically mentioned suck

[@rmc_esau]

ITAOTS is a 10/10 album tho

[@BixbiteBungo]

I miss old /mu/

[@Ultr4l0f]

I miss old /b Ones a goldmine of memes, now 80% porn

[@BixbiteBungo]

@@Ultr4l0f yeah /b/ is the worst fall from grace

[@j.2512]

@@Ultr4l0f its been more than 10 years and 4chan cant come up with anything that isn-t some wojak or chad vs virgin variant . Most threads are just reacting to twitter screenshots. Its over, the site its not relevant anymore

[@ScienceBabble]

@@Ultr4l0f /b was never good

[@BixbiteBungo]

@@j.2512 yeah pretty much, site has gone hollow

[@icecreamget]

They don't have em much anymore, but going through sharethreads as a teenager is basically how I got half of my music taste.

[@jarlath6815]

Chart threads really helped me. I avoided them for a while, since every time I saw a chart outside /mu/ it was just some rearrangement of /mu/core, but you can learn a lot from them.

[@patricklewis9787]

Surprised Scaruffi isn't mentioned here once. Not only did he inspire /mu/core but his entire mentality is essentially /mu/ before it was even a thing. His taste is upside down but at the same time he also brings a lot of really obscure artists into the limelight.

[@SamanthaC641]

Insane editing on this one coolea

[@kkarhiiv95]

/mu/ has introduced me to many bands and genres i had otherwise not listened to. Like the band Silver Jews.

[@southernstargazer2006]

I found Berman’s music through rym, a year after his suicide, and despite that site having an annoying leftist bias, I will forever be grateful for discovering the Silver Jews and Purple Mountains through there. Natural Bridge is still in my top 10 albums of all time.

[@hellajeff5613]

There is a similar band called Dancing Israelis, look them up!

[@Hal9000ize]

/mu/ is a shell of it's former self since 2016.

[@j.2512]

all 4chan is

[@Hempujonsito]

Everything went wrong when most of the tripfriends left tbh

[@bruhmoment3106]

@@Hempujonsitomore like everything went wrong when the creator of 4chan moot left 4chan. I think he works for google now under their images branch

[@TAintheearly2000s]

​@@Hempujonsito what's that?

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

​@@TAintheearly2000s People with usernames basically on 4chan

[@Gurkenpudding]

Umbelievable - an /mu/ video without a pic of Varg/Burzum xD

[@kadencecook9663]

hes made plenty of videos about him lol

[@Gurkenpudding]

@@kadencecook9663 I know, I've seen them. But that was not my point.

[@benwinter2420]

Kept hearing about this Varg & how he makes amazing music & then listened to his stuff , it was frankly awful . . majority have no taste wherever you go on any topic , brains turned to mush by Nutflix & Star snot & other sinister similar Ho wood trash designed to lower IQ

[@ManyaraImpala]

Or Hampus.

[@danplaysguitar6706]

I found out the guy I go to to get my guitars set up recently filled in on bass at a Panchiko gig. pretty sure those guys are basically all from around my city in the UK, Nottingham

[@martinfischermann6194]

Everytime Coolea says "autistic" I loose braincells

[@Chillwave6]

yeah, clearly the 4chan slang is getting to him after this deep dive

[@nr8813]

I used to lurk mu in like 2016 and 90% of the posts were whether or not Grimes was hot or ugly lmao

[@windisblue]

fav channel on youtube rn.

[@ghost_to_a_ghost]

I wasn't really much a fan of Neutral Milk until I saw them play this whole record live with my ex wife. she was obsessed with that band. i can say I really enjoyed their show! very talented group. just not my thing. i never listen to them at home or in my car but I would go see them live again in a heartbeat, oddly enough. same thing with fellow hipster BS Father John Misty. boring at home but good live.

[@cmikhail7289]

4chan /mu/ definitely bumped several Japanese Album up the KZbin algorithm thanks to those sharethreads generals. Where some guy is sharing mp3\flac rips uploaded to rapidshare/mediafire/megaupload links of his favorite Japanese Disco Funk album and a relevant KZbin upload linked in the same post. Then by 2012, these Japanese Disco Pop became recommended to unsuspecting KZbin users and become renamed as City Pop. I still don't understand the obsession with Field Recordings genre or Masona though. Today /mu/ is just filled with Kpop generals

[@j.2512]

i tried shilling Hiroyuki Namba and they wouldn't listen. Btw, go hear Hiroyuiki Namba

[@rosyrose2112]

@@j.2512i fucking love hiroyuki namba

[@endymcgufin4570]

Remember lads. The key to mass spread success lies in appealing to children or autistic people

[@j.2512]

Disney, Nintendo, Death Grips, you are absolutely right

[@Microtonal_Cats]

1:20 I was sure this video would contain the phrase "terminally online", and there it is.

[@jlmenard7688]

Coolea make an Indie video or face the consequences

[@brycev.5170]

@13:45-13:55 is exactly why I keep watching your vids. That humor is exactly what I enjoy

[@chemicalramen]

i've been waiting for this video

[@withnobodyelse]

Please don't call me out like this.

[@losfogo7149]

I like Death Grips, don't get me wrong, but their fanbase is literally larping as an underground community while DG has million, maybe billions of streams.

[@Rukiman_no16]

/mu/ is the embodiment of a person who has listened to so much music that has become numb to it and would only listen to some of the worst tracks created while telling everyone that it's really great music.

[@j.2512]

>/mu/ >actually listening to music

[@Blayze]

Every year /v/ puts out an album. It's actually pretty damn good.

[@soaari]

Artists popular on /mu/ become revered on sites like RYM and AOTY. It's not just the labels that run the music scene, it's the lonely 4chan dwellers too.

[@RanterInShades]

I once had someone on 4chan try to incite a raid against me because I made a video where I said that rap was real music.

[@theactualTVB]

I’m glad Animal Collective got a shoutout here

[@dertegh]

where?

[@theactualTVB]

@@dertegh1:01

[@hamupinhere]

Shocked to see no mention of Fishmans tho

[@justinwescott8125]

Your pfp looks like a grey unicorn drinking coke

[@theactualTVB]

@@justinwescott8125thank you

[@gv02208]

For me, it's Time Machine Modulus.

[@discardedsounds]

1:17 only in '06? I was earlier than I thought. I want to point out that while there was a lot of genuine discussion and enthusiasm around "/mu/core" albums, the compiling into an "essentials" list was always a little tongue-in-cheek.

[@the_word_bearer]

Ah the power of hivemind autism

[@ocaradometal]

pause at 6:08

[@jackdancer709]

😂😂 Full Nelson in a napalm death shirt.. choice as bruhhhh

[@LonkinPork]

RE: the potato, tambourine, drumhead album, it's none of those things. It's a hole cut into a piece of cardboard, like those photo-op boards at hokey events like Renaissance Fairs that you stick your face through.

[@ledonutqc9250]

Talk about 80s french punk bro, great vid as always

[@dudeluis14]

im blaming you for bringing normies to my board. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 🐸

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

Although it weasn't specifically on /mu/, the loonies at /b/ helped me discover Boards of Canada when, lurking around some odd 10 years ago, i came across an album thread that called Geogaddi as "music for total psychopaths" and, along with the unsettling album cover, piqued my interest enough to give it a listen

[@RadekLoquendo]

Rules 1 and 2

[@angelg8877]

What about Zeal & Ardor?

[@bobsbigboy_]

very wack

[@merulaeaspectu2349]

Ayo what happend at 6:08?

[@kronx813]

i love you❤ thank you my king

[@Torquedbattlespec]

Holy shit 24 seconds, earliest ive ever clicked a video

[@Urmomlovesanarchy]

14 minutes, holy fuckin shit

[@Pexil_Effex]

The dubstep furry is where I reside upon 4chan.

[@MrKoiking1]

4chan changed music forever when I met the other half of my sludge/crust duo on there and we created the best band of all time Bullhead

[@SLY32-pd8wo]

if you like Fishmans, /mu/ helped them to be discovered overseas. RIP the board, would never be the same.

[@greenapple0811]

6:08 what in tarnation?11!

[@AntroOMEGA]

You're a great channel that educates music history. But if I'm to give you constructive criticism, try to use edits a little more "sparsely". You do it in such a way that isn't anoying and is entertaining. However, sometimes it can be too much to digest alongside the very intellient narrative! Find the balance. :)

[@ManyaraImpala]

I haven't used /mu/ since 2012, but you missed the most important album that /mu/ brought to mainstream attention: Ken Snyder's masterpiece By Request Only.

[@sharperrobin6000]

you should cover ween

[@pepperbytez8128]

God, I haven't listened to Nmh in so long.

[@kadencecook9663]

I love your channel

[@simonereckhaus6469]

Rateyourmusic for the win

[@GotGearMate]

If only I could be 4chan big...

[@hansdado]

my real hometown

[@BOT-MERC]

Thank you

[@taxevasion4870]

"4chan music" either means this alternative experimental hispster stuff or Negative XP complaining over a basic punk beat (I prefer the latter)

[@quakeknight9680]

Is there 16chan? Or 32chan? Or 64chan? Or 128chan and etc?

[@linkwhy]

coolea do you like unwound

[@AstronautLoveTriangle]

Doesn't disc rot just make the disc unreadable, not affect sound quality? Sounds like a rotational velocidensity issue.

[@Profoundemonium]

/watch?v=6u2j1Q8uCgQ&t=334s /watch?v=FauosB1ZjmA&list=PL7fy-p5faatso5bkcPwAzsC_ovdxyATzF

[@RokuhachiSira]

Bocchi the Rock vid when? Also, 6:07

[@mac081793]

Sensing some 4chan larpers in these comments.

[@StrawberryRhubarbBand]

Never seen good musical takes on mu. Anything underground that gets posted there immediately becomes mainstream and commercialized.

[@itryen7632]

Iii looove youuu jesuuuus churiiiiiiiiiiiiist

[@Jimmy-n6j]

Im obviously late to the party with 4chan but I got on it just before and searched for Death Metal {australian} and then all ....nada!? Thought you said that 4 chan had it all for music fans. Oh well. Guess i'll just have to explore that genre on youtube. Love your videos mate. Funny and imformative .

[@AllofJudea]

It doesn't work like that

[@gelatobenne4342]

This video is going to cause a normie invasion. Good job, Coolea.

[@oscargarcia8204]

is funny how classic albums like In The Court Of The Crimson King or Ok Computer, even tho they are objectively amazing albums, had become a redflag

[@pawTheVillain]

green flag to me

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

I don't know why king crimson is a red flag. I honestly think they have one of the more easy-going fanbases in prog.

[@j.2512]

you saying they are objectively amazing is a red flag

[@soyuzinstrumentales7605]

not sure if king crimson is read flag, but yeah keep shitting on radiohead they deserve it

[@oscargarcia8204]

@@j.2512 ok red flag is a bad expresion, more like the fandom has a very bad reputation(?)

[@jmagowan12]

Pretty glad I didn't get into these forums honestly.

[@cliffordcalhoun2364]

Shouts out slash mew

[@bobsbigboy_]

this mf don't miss!

[@withnobodyelse]

Inside is yellow

[@HalfLifeOfHumanity]

9:15 is this you?

[@SolvingOurKreation]

How are you all doing anons?

[@p99chan99]

Can't wait for this video to be posted on /mu/ and have other anons add to it.

[@mercurialhypersprite9556]

Wow. Haven't seen your face before. You're pretty handsome.

[@GooGuGajoob]

I like how being passionate bout something is degraded to being an autist. Genuinely unsure how well this will age though as a legit autist myself, very much a derogatory take of the term. Still a good video but it does come off a over-used cheap insult at the expense of who

[@j.2512]

hipsters in /mu/ are not passionate, they just use music as a prop. Also, cope.

[@AmericanCryptid1]

Welcome to the internet, where people use rude insults.

[@CYBERPSYCHOPATH]

mutants, assemble

[@shvfting3383]

slash mew

[@hurryupdash]

Shoutout /mu/ for being the reason i never listen to radioheaad

[@mindaugassolys1963]

From what I remember, /mu/ is one of worst boards, just like /v/. It's full of hipsters and underages who believe they have most refined taste in music, while in reality most are just barking what Pitchfork, Vice, or whatever e-celeb says so. There were gems from time to time, but most of the time it was mumble rap, at least 5 fucking kpop threads, some metal threads where people reposted same bunch of albums and always bashed new material, and whole lots of ragebait from either Twitter or some major mainstream site.

[@lilychavez6023]

mangum

[@0421072]

Hey sweaty, I'm gonna 360 my way out of here.

[@StonyBlazestation]

"Welcome to /mu/. Now get out." is truly the perfect motto for the board. I spend an unhealthy amount of time on 4chan, and the anons there are by far the most insufferable and inhospitable out of all the boards. I couldn't be more proud of them. Gatekeeping is very important to any community's health and longevity.

[@rezxxk3164]

4chan made music nerds even more insufferable

[@hysteria781]

Oh my godddddhello handsome

[@masterseal0418]

4Chan is the slums of the internet imo; there can be some good things about the corners of a metropolis like the surface web, but also inhumane, obscene, and shocking acts from others, even hosting criminals at times(the latter has the /b/ board for example, which is a run-the-gauntlet scenario of gore and cheese pizza, no pun intended of the shock site). The platform can be helpful such as the lost media community, but full of toxicity thanks to some communities' users, which is usually common. I don't use 4Chan for many reasons I can't list here. But this video details the pros and cons of the platform's /mu/ board; the supposed lost Panchiko album 'Deathmetal' is one hell of a rabbithole, and many thanks should go to these sleuths not only finding it, but resulting with Panchiko ascending to be recognized by many alternative music fans alike. Also, Anthony Fantano's community comprise of terminally online idiots interconnected in an echo chamber, completely circle-jerking other /mu/ groups with their interests such as Death Grips and Weezer. Sure, the man is biased sometimes, but I still enjoy his videos. Though another music reviewer like Todd In The Shadows, Diamond Axe Studios, and on the reaction side of things Brad Taste In Music are my favorites too, since their channels have their own identity and charm unique to them each. This channel serves it's purpose as well, and sheds light on many niches of music regardless.

[@j.2512]

nowadays 4reddit is just bots and feds , nothing interesting lies there

[@l.shepard45]

This video is misleading. I'm 32 and I've been reading /mu/, and other boards on 4chan since 2007, well i started reading /b/ in 2007, and later on in 2008 /fa/ was created, along with /fit/ and r9k, and thats when i dipped my toes into /tv/, and /mu/....when moot got mad about stormfront trolling /news/ and created /pol/ in 2013 was when shit hit the fan. My taste in music was never formed by the internet. I mostly learned about bands, and music the old fashion way, and that's going and spending time at record stores and just reading magazines, or going to shows, and just meeting like minded people irl, ect. now I've been reading /mu/ since 2008 and my music taste has been brought up, and that's total happenstance. I guess I just grew up in a time where everybody wasn't terminally online and you have make an effort to learn stuff irl...idk. WHY DON'T YOU KIDS LIKE TOOL??????

[@smvg7035]

6:08

[@zscarecrows]

board was dead by 2011

[@s0uped941]

holy falsenvke...