![]() has said before that he considers SYWH to be a pioneer in making fun of uptight Internet metal-nerd-comments-section basement dwellers. ![]() But the website was in a rare position - influential in a certain corner of the community, but not at the Lester Bangs level of mass-media audience - that allowed the writers to say things you couldn’t read about anywhere else. Revered because it was incisive, funny, and honest, and reviled because in the span of a single post it could turn your band from artist to meme. I imagine Stuff You Will Hate was equally revered and reviled by metal publicists. Not all, but some, enough so that the general pantheon of music journalism always tends to hover around a certain kind of status quo way of talking about bands (which is why when you get a certain kind of think-piece, like the ones often published on this website, people lose their shit - because they’re not used to it!) Consequently, lots of critics and bloggers tend to be hesitant in their writings on bands for fear of damaging those relationships. This content doesn’t just happen by accident - it comes out of working relationships with bands, publicists, and labels. ![]() The thing about Internet scene media (and in particular young websites/blogs) is that much of its lifesblood comes from producing original content related to the music, like interviews, song premieres, videos, news scoops, etc. In an era filled with copy-catting, Internet humor mired beneath dozens of layers of self-referential irony, and the usual media circus that shoves crap bands down our throats, Stuff You Will Hate specialized in something rare: honesty. So this is a post-mortem on a group of gonzo writers who brought to our attention the most psychotic, hilarious, and head-shaking trends in metal and punk culture: special snowflake syndrome, crabcore, neon, entombedcore, easycore, tr00 pop punk, hipsters at ’80s NYHC reunion shows, ’90s fetishism, ‘sup bro, vegan death metal, white knighting, beta basement dwellers, the comments section of metalcore videos on YouTube. Sarge’s posts for MS have veered away from making fun of weird scene bands and refocused on straight up memes and articles about the metal business, while a host of new websites ( The Hard Times, Noisey’s occasional zany joke posts like this and this, etc.) have begun to carry the torch for making fun of underground culture. ![]() But for many of us, the writing’s been on the wall for months. decided to pull the plug on his website, Stuff You Will Hate. It may have seemed sudden yesterday when Sergeant D. ![]()
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