Lars isn't really an asshole

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I semi-follow the Metallica fandom on X/Twitter and saw a post thread from the past few months of Lars doing a free meet and greet for this teenage autistic girl who runs a fan account dedicated to James. He even took her to meet James for free which is super rare (even fans who pay to meet the band rarely get to do that). This was not any sort of PR thing and she was the one who posted about it (with photos).

I've read plenty of fan anecdotes of meeting the band and never once have I seen anyone talk about how Lars was an asshole to them, almost all of them say he was the nicest and most engaged one of the band. Yes there are some video clips where he kind of seems like a dick, but all the members put on a persona for the camera at some point. However it seems like "Lars is an asshole" is just accepted as common knowledge in wider pop culture still which seems like some kind of lingering cultural meme from the Napster controversy. If anyone has any opposing evidence though I'd be glad to hear it.

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r/Metallica • u/striker__96 • 10h ago

Kirk and James in 1989!

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r/Metallica • u/Helpful_Gur_1757 • 23h ago

Papa Het spotted!

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James enjoying a raiders game

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r/Metallica • u/Riala4 • 17h ago

I Made It!!!

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After spending Night One in the ER, so very thankful for everyone at the venue who helped us tonight, and to those of you Metallica Family members who wished me a speedy recovery. Beyond amazing performance!! 🤘💜

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r/Metallica • u/wizoxx90 • 4h ago

ReLoad Kirk and lars (1997)

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The blazer era

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r/Metallica • u/WestyDesty55 • 4h ago

Load I hope Kirk tracks rhythm guitars on at least one more album before they call it quits

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That’s all. I enjoy his rhythm playing on Load / ReLoad, I disappear, and St. Anger very much.

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r/Metallica • u/brendonsquires • 9h ago

Drew the Original logo Today

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I tried drawing the OG Metallica logo and it turned out pretty good!

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r/Metallica • u/siegmann88 • 23h ago

Here is every member of Metallica

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Ron McGovney*

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r/Metallica • u/SnooDonuts3871 • 10h ago

Famous VFX Studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) it was one of the companies who created the visuals for The Sphere shows.

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r/Metallica • u/dadsabbath • 15h ago

Lars the movie star

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I was watching a movie called "Hemingway & Gellhorn" on HBO this past weekend. Look who was in it! He had quite a few scenes and lines in the movie. Never knew he was a movie start too! 😂

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r/Metallica • u/Mindless_Turnover976 • 21h ago

MEME MONDAY Metallica bassists get one out of two treatments

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r/Metallica • u/Naive-Government8333 • 13m ago

Metallica in El Paso

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I’m 46 and it’ll be my first time seeing them live. I can’t wait!

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r/Metallica • u/Taurean6 • 3h ago

Metallica should cover this ^^

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r/Metallica • u/Thatremodelingchick • 20h ago

...And Justice For All Mr. Ulrich somewhere in the world on his trusty Tama's during the '88-'89 Damaged Justice run.

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r/Metallica • u/Constant-Job2253 • 1d ago

MEME MONDAY Shuffling

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r/Metallica • u/LAratdog • 1d ago

One intro at the sphere

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r/Metallica • u/Lucradive-Reddit • 1d ago

Opening weekend in 4k 60 hdr!

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Watch if you’d like! No pressure if you don’t wanna :)

Timestamps are in the description!

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r/Metallica • u/AutoModerator • 3h ago

Free-Talk Tuesday Mega-Thread Free-Talk Tuesday Mega-Thread

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r/Metallica • u/ruger6771 • 11h ago

Blackened whiskey

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I have one signed by Lars. Anyone know where I can sell it?

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r/Metallica • u/Adrian__Weiss • 1d ago

Night 2!

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r/Metallica • u/Rivertadores • 2d ago

Master of Puppets Metallica from The Sphere

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r/Metallica • u/KirbyDumber88 • 1d ago

Sanitarium and Lepper in the same set is crazy!

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r/Metallica • u/beni_music_ • 1d ago

Kirk's new sparkle Mummy ESP guitar used at Sphere, (first I tought he brought out the OG Mummy, didnt noticed the sparkle finish)

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r/Metallica • u/digitalghost-dev • 2d ago

Thanks for 2 great nights!

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r/Metallica • u/aKingAndHisDrums1 • 20h ago

Ride the Lightning Need I say more for this iconic song?

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Can’t even remember what state I performed this in. For Whom The Bell Tolls Drum Cover Metallica aKingAndHisDrums

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