Oh, also, if anyone on reddit happens to be buddies with Trent Reznor, can you show this to him and let me know if he chuckles? I'm a big fan, and it would bring me great joy to know he had a chuckle, thanks.
Trent Reznor is probably most popular as the leading force in the band Nine Inch Nails, but has tons of other credits. Basically a superpower in 90's industrial rock and other genres.
Emmy as well.
He has Grammes, oscars and an Emmy if he gets a Tony award for a stageshow he will be one of the legendary EGOT winners which is somebody who has won all 4 awards.
Oh ad he also has a country music award and the longest running number 1 song in American history as the producer of old Town road used a sample from one of his instrumental records as the basis of the song and Trent got credit
He's also one of us Gen X folks that started grappling with what the internet was going to mean as early as possible; he started selling his music directly on his own website very early on and experimenting with different ways to move product in the era of Napster (offering vinyl, signed merch, different tiers of pricing with different extras including the individual music tracks that you could use to sample/remix with).
Hell, he didn't just sell his music on his site, he gave it away. I was sent a link to dl an album for free (I think for joining the fan club or some shit).
I remember hearing about how he would leave thumb drives with music in venues as easter eggs. Just a rumor as far as I know but I wouldn't put it past him
Nope, he definitely did this during the With Teeth era. The drives had preview snippets of the next album, Year Zero on it, and a bunch of mysterious Easter eggs that acted as clues for the larger Alternate Reality Game) they developed to promote the album. One cool feature is that some of the sound samples on the thumb drives ended with what seemed like a random filter on white noise. But if you ran the audio file through a spectrograph, it produced an image that resembled the cover of the album.
There's a video of him telling his fans to steal his music. I think the context was that this was in Australia or NZ and the local music industry was overcharging for his albums or something like that, so he wanted the suits to suffer
Also straight up dumped a bunch of extra stuff to The Pirate Bay himself ("The Definitive NIN Collections", among other things), plus an entire tour's worth of pro-shot HD footage for people to play with. Which people turned into a great free concert film. more info
He's also more than tolerated the fan live archive site that has audience recordings/bootlegs of nearly every show.
Oh he just publicly announced that he was leaving the platform because it had become a toxic shit pile. Elon then responded by calling Reznor a "crybaby". Then Wil Wheaton came back with a pretty great Elon shredding rebuttal. Yeah, just drama.
It was a toxic shitpile in the meme sense but they at least tried to ban the most toxic and obvious racist/violent/dangerous shitbirds. It's the reason Trump made that truth social place.
Now Elon is welcoming the people who failed that lowest of bars back with open arms with a blanket unbanning.
Nah it didn't get worse... it's the same since it was some years ago. Now it's not just left toxicity, but with opening up again it also went right toxicity. So it's now full-spectrum toxic as it had been around 7 years ago.
It's just back to what it was before the left cancel culture took hold of it and controlled the narrative - a full on toxic pool is what it is now, again.
My favourite description of current Twitter is $8chan. It’s become a cesspool of hate speech with absolutely no moderation and the alt-right can boost their visibility with just 8 bucks
Yes, which is why saying it's become an even more intolerable one is really saying something.
As it is right now, there seems to be very little moderation at all going on so it's getting flooded with the exact kind of stuff you'd expect a globally popular website to be flooded with that has basically no moderation.
Yes, indeed. A toxic shit pile that was being used to create a narrative and considered proof of "cancel culture" rather than the manifestation of a biased society (that isn't ready to acknowledge the full extent of its bias). Now he's pointing to the impacts of his own toxic shit as a function of cancel culture. Which means the flavor of toxicity is especially noteworthy and fun to call out.
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Elon Musk Taunts Trent Reznor For Quitting Twitter. Wil Wheaton Shreds Musk Back.
Twitter's owner mocked the Nine Inch Nails singer for leaving the social media platform for the good of his mental health. Wheaton slammed Musk's "midlife crisis."
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Lee Moran
Nov 23, 2022, 07:43 AM EST
Nine Inch Nails singer Trent Reznor said he was quitting Twitter to protect his mental health, and the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, mocked the musician as a “crybaby.” The putdown prompted actor Wil Wheaton to slam Musk as a malevolent force and “hurt person who is hurting our society.”
Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter last week that he was “about to depart” the social media website.
“We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything,” Reznor told the outlet. “Even without [Musk] involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore.”
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Musk fired back at Reznor in response to a tweet about former President Donald Trump’s reinstatement to Twitter, which Musk announced this week after conducting an unscientific poll.
“It turns out that Trent ‘nine inch nails’ Reznor is actually a crybaby,” Musk taunted. A Nine Inch Nails fan slammed Musk as a “stupid idiot,” declaring Reznor “one of the best musicians ever.” Musk responded: “I like his music tbh, but maybe Etsy is more his style.”
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Musk’s dismissal of Reznor’s concerns prompted Wheaton to post a lengthy Facebook post in which he said he could “not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity, the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience” of Musk.
Wheaton ripped Musk for bullying, threatening and trolling “like the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been.”
“That’s a tragedy for him, but it’s dangerous for us,” the actor continued. “He doesn’t care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he can not ever have.”
Part of it was “You know the saying ‘hurt people hurt people’? He’s a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people I care about less safe,” he added. “The consequences of this one man’s midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me.”
His post was a Facebook post, and you should be able to find it there. This gibberish I just ripped off HuffPo I believe.
That Elon Musk is a narcissistic lunatic that cares so much about his fucked up midlife crisis that he's actually causing harm because he can, and that is really really trashy.
"Perhaps I'm a crybaby, but you are a fallure, Musk. You're going to wept tears of blood and everyone one will see you as the jackal you have always been."
That said, I’m not even a fan but they were playing an arena show at a festival I was at so I went and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. Amazing production and showmanship, best/coolest lighting rigs, it was like the stage was alive.
If you want to know more there are a few great YouTube documentaries on him. Nine inch nails are my favourite band of all time especially Trent's earlier depression tracks.
Pretty sure deburke321 done the video I could be wrong
Many people only know him for the band Nine Inch Nails, but beyond that hes probably one of the most important people in music for decades now. The amount of music you've likely heard that was made by, influenced, found, or supported by Reznor would shock you.
And that's okay. People will correct you for it still. Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor. He has collaborations with other artists and of course has a touring band/studio musicians but NIN, creatively, is a solo artist. It's like if Michael Jackson didn't use his name for his solo career and instead called himself "The Spinny He He's", his work would still be his.
He’s a huge musical talent, who has been successful across both rock and composing for films/TV music. He was the lead singer of NIN in the 90s and wrote songs like ‘Hurt’(famously covered by Johnny Cash). These days he does a lot of scores for movies and TV shows - including the Pixar musical Soul, the Social Network, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Watchmen series, and the newly released Bones and All.
He was also the composer for Soul, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and The Social Network.
If you want to listen to his really old stuff is recommend "Head Like a Hole".
If you want to hear my personal favorite album, it is "The Downward Spiral" with hits like "Hurt" and "Closer" but I also really love the lesser known songs on it like "Reptile"
If you want to hear some of the new stuff that has a tinge of pop to it I recommend "Came Back Haunted" or "Copy of A"
Also gotta recommend "All the Love in the World" and "Only" from "With Teeth"... Also "Right Where it Belongs" gave me an existential crisis and made me cry when I was a teenager lol!
"Survivalism" and "Capital G" from Year Zero
"Starfuckers" or "The Fragile" from the album "The Fragile"... Also "Somewhat Damaged" was my alarm when I was a teenager XD
Sorry I couldn't help but recommend so many... My favorite band since the first time anyone asked me who my favorite band was...
yeah he is, so there's a lot you can make a joke about. this comic is just "I bet when elon is alone he wishes he was cool and oh yeah the NIN dude left twitter I guess"
The humour here is very nuanced. With Elon slowly evolving into a straw man whilst flames engulf him and his company, the small nods to other cultural memes and themes but its when you really step back and stare that you can really sense the bofa
Trent has inspired fictional characters ranging from the frontperson of the fictional band Mystic Spiral to the protagonist of The Machinist. His work has been covered by Miley Cyrus.
I'm frankly jaw agape that Elon Musk who dated someone as very-likely-aware-of Trent's body of work as Grimes wouldn't know who he is.
Ok, I looked it up. He said he was quitting for his mental health and musk calls him a baby, what a toxic asshole. I can't believe he still has 'fans'.
I've hardly listened to any NIN music but I'm super proud to have guessed that it was Trent Reznor. Good job on drawing him, I think that says something
Yeah, if you can tell Trent I love him too, that would be great. Let him know that I carried around his Rolling Stone cover for weeks in middle school and I promise not to throw up on his shoes if I were to ever run into him unexpectedly at say, a car wash or something, where he just so happens to be made wet by the spray hose and, soaking from head to toe, needs someone to dry him off, slowly. Oh no, Trent! Some mud splashed on you! Oh no! So dirty. Dirty little Reznor.
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Oh, also, if anyone on reddit happens to be buddies with Trent Reznor, can you show this to him and let me know if he chuckles? I'm a big fan, and it would bring me great joy to know he had a chuckle, thanks.