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somewhat related because it has to do with intentionally improving people's music tastes: the concept of "patriciancore" charts (and similar charts) was, at least in the way i created them, designed to facilitate people branching out into more experimental music (or just music in languages other than english or just more "obscure music") but on a community-wide scale. so when i made those, i selected albums that were either more challenging than /mu/core without being *too* challenging, or i just selected extremely unchallenging albums i thought could have wider appeal if more people gave them a chance (i was correct when i picked fishmans for this, which skyrocketed in popularity and now looks silly even being included on those charts)all of the images focused on creating a gradient of progressively more experimental music were also obviously intended to push people toward listening to more of it at their own pace. the most successful instance of this was probably my infamous "music iceberg" which imo launched the somewhat cancerous and gay "iceberg meme" and also caused all of the artists i placed at the bottom of the iceberg to get spammed by stupid people (youtube comment pages and rym comment boxes etc). this basically meant i had kamikaze'd my own taste since i was mainly placing my favourite artists towards the bottom. i remember my e-friends getting mad at me for launching this psychological operation because we should be focused on gatekeeping the normies and pushing them away rather than turning good music into meme music.
somewhat related because it has to do with intentionally improving people's music tastes: the concept of "patriciancore" charts (and similar charts) was, at least in the way i created them, designed to facilitate people branching out into more experimental music (or just music in languages other than english or just more "obscure music") but on a community-wide scale. so when i made those, i selected albums that were either more challenging than /mu/core without being *too* challenging, or i just selected extremely unchallenging albums i thought could have wider appeal if more people gave them a chance (i was correct when i picked fishmans for this, which skyrocketed in popularity and now looks silly even being included on those charts)
all of the images focused on creating a gradient of progressively more experimental music were also obviously intended to push people toward listening to more of it at their own pace. the most successful instance of this was probably my infamous "music iceberg" which imo launched the somewhat cancerous and gay "iceberg meme" and also caused all of the artists i placed at the bottom of the iceberg to get spammed by stupid people (youtube comment pages and rym comment boxes etc). this basically meant i had kamikaze'd my own taste since i was mainly placing my favourite artists towards the bottom. i remember my e-friends getting mad at me for launching this psychological operation because we should be focused on gatekeeping the normies and pushing them away rather than turning good music into meme music.
