Rock and heavy metal bring such a uniquely intense energy to the table, compared to most musical genres. #HeavyMetal

The marginalization of rock in the 2010s on the radio, was so conspicuous and strange. The moment in time when it seemed that all popular music would follow EDM's lead, was definitely peculiar. #RockMusic #2010s #EDM

Surprise, he experienced a good deal of sadness and adversity himself, for real. They didn't listen to the lyrics because of the band's subcultural association.

The voices who mocked LP as "edgy teenager music" in the aughts, now come across as so tone-deaf after the way Bennington ended up.

I feel sorry for everything that Chester had to go through in his life.

The grittiness feels much more apropos for today, than when developed countries still boasted a high standard of living, and a perception of political stability, in the Bush years.

Linkin Park's music resonates more with me ever since Chester Bennington killed himself. The anguish and sadness in his vocals, not to mention the lyrics, were palpable. #LinkinPark #ChesterBennington #MikeShinoda

Even Payable On Death, in my opinion, transcended the stereotypes of Christian music, and delivered angsty, introspective anthems for the post-9/11 era. #POD #PayableOnDeath

#GamerGate produced this current crop of fascist incels. Bannon hires them out like Epstien.

#2chan #Gamergate #SteveBannon #Election2016 #Election2024 #QAnon #4chan #ChristianNationalism #SomethingAwful #Birtherism #2008crash #DJT #SherrodDeGrippo #EncyclopediaDramatica #X.com #ElonMusk #JavierMilei

Then add Steve Bannon and company's capitalization on events like the 2008 financial collapse, combined with low functional literacy, to further radicalize people to the point where attitudes that were unkosher since Gerald Ford, are now wedded to a terrifyingly powerful state apparatus again.

From there, some of their mental excretions went viral throughout the normal Internet, altering popular discourse in subtle ways at first, but now toxifying the mainstream.

It taught thousands of bored adults and teenagers, especially in the suburban US, to spice up their uneventful lives with a disregard for social norms and mores, stalking others online, and imbibing fascoid lore plus rhetoric.

It really helps that they've been trying to stamp out critical thinking and civic literacy in mainstream education, since at least the eighties.

Some of them get so triggered themselves about pink hair and Pride Month lapels. I thought free speech and the free market allowed for different choices?

Who are the censors now? Fascists invoke free speech when they need a platform to recruit as many followers as possible, but after coming to power, they suppress it with gusto.

Now that Apricot Amin returned to the White House, they want to ban black history and BLM, LGBTQ acceptance, protesting Israel's genocide, etc.

This crowd disingenuously, or naively, claimed that their opposition to wokeness was about oversensitivity and censorship.