It’s easy to get discouraged these days, with seemingly every day bringing more news of a keyboard player being kicked out of the band, of someone trading in their Glamour Kills hoodie for a denim vest, or kids jizzing over the reunion of some crappy dadpunk band from 15 years ago.
But then there are glimpses of a brighter future, a future where the 90s are just another decade, the idea of releasing your music on dead formats as an ‘artistic statement’ is laughable, and nobody acts like listening to a given band’s music is an accomplishment… where no butt is in pain!
in b4 IMNs get buttmad about being called buttmad
TRIGGER WARNING: worship of rly crappy bands from the 90s
When I see stuff like this image (via Not So Posi After All, a must follow) and pages like More people like Emmure than they ever will like your shit death metal band who recognize that there is nothing more embarrassing than taking yourself and your opinions too seriously, I feel like there is hope… I believe we may be on the verge of an ANTI-BUTTHURT trend (srs). It took me years to realize that there are more important things than music, and that when you act like a butthurt fggt it doesn’t make people think ‘wow he rly knows what he is talking i want to hang out with him soooo bad,’ it just makes them think you are a butthurt fggt.
I know it seems mean to laugh at someone else’s anal pain, but it’s for their own good, trust me– a little tough love goes a long way
I believe this is because in the same way as the internet exposes kids to zillions of bands, it also shows them countless examples of butthurt fggts– sort of like ‘scared straight,’ only instead of illustrating the horrors of heroin addiction by visiting some AIDS-ridden drifter in the hospital, seeing the horrifyingly embarrassing consequences of butthurt is as simple as clicking through the Absolute Punk forums. Yes, there are still plenty of devastated rectums and there always will be, but it honestly makes me hopeful that at least some kids are making the right choice from day one: BUTTHURT, NOT EVEN ONCE!
Wat u think??? Is there really an anti-butthurt movement, or am I just a hopelessly naive idealist?? Will trolling musicfags be the next planking?? What was the miracle cure for YOUR butthurt?????
SYWH: At the forefront of the anti-butthurt movement. Tr00ly harbingers of a new age.
I’m a little scared that generation of SWYHers will evolve to become like IMNs but on the other end of the spectrum, e.g. ‘you don’t like Emmure? GTFO faggot’, or ‘lol death metal isn’t nearly ignorant enough beta virgin fggt. Maybe my worries are unfounded but it seems like it’s a crime to like the odd beardo metal band around these parts. Or maybe I still don’t get what this site iz rly about
Valid concern, but you have to admit they invited it (via their incessant, annoying snobbery). Regardless, it is not the right path
P sure most people saying “lol u don’t like Emmure fggt?” are messing around and lettuce b cereal, it takes a certain level amount of testosterona to leik Emmure so if you don’t like them, well…I got bad news for you fgt.
Exactly my concerns. Kind of a reverse NFC.
Fun Club!!! <3333
YOU LISTEN TO THE FACELESS GTFO ANTI-FUN FAGGOT LISTEN TO ADTR AND HATEBREED FGGT BCUZ THAT’S WHAT I LIKE!
Yeah man, exactly this. I’m worried that I’ll eventually stop loving my IMN-approved music, which would suck because despite not being an IMN anymore I still think all that shit rocks.
What’s happening right now isn’t that ppl are bashing others who are chill bros who happen to like nerd music, it’s just that there is so much negativity around nerd music that people are embarrassed to admit it. If you go on the SYWH forums, you get people saying stuff like “I’m ashamed to admit it, but I like *nerd band*”, and any reply to it would just be “that’s cool”, or, “So do I, no fux given how gay it is”.
tldr, nobody cares if you like nerd music but people are ashamed to say it. Which is a good thing irl but unnecessary on the internet.
Idk about anyone else but when I say “I’m embarrassed about liking x” I mean it in a tongue-in-cheek kinda way. Like, “yeah, I realize this is kinda gay and my better judgment says I shouldn’t like this but…”
Kinda the same thing when I’m drunk and tell people I’m ashamed of loving “Call Me Maybe” (via it being such a chick song). The only reason I bring it up is because I want an excuse to sing it badly when it comes on, ya know?
It’s a fun way to intrdouce your topic. But now that I think about it, some people may actually be srs about not wanting to share it, in which case, praying 4 them
I think there is certainly an anti-butthurt movement brewing.
Kids are realising you should just like whatever it is that you like and stop wasting time caring about anything else.
‘caring about anything is gay’
♥ U Seth. http://i.qkme.me/3qaznw.jpg
He died for r sins
i creid after reading that.. bravo to whoever started that emmure page *slowclap.jpg*.. i will use this wisdom that i’ve learned and reach out to my elitist metal nerd friends
Stronglol at paraphrasing Alfred’s quote in TDKR.
Brb, imagining Christian Bale with a full Deathspell Omega backpatch.
I have no idea what this comment is referencing (srs). Pls explain?
There a bit in The Dark Knight Rises where Alfred starts getting pissy at Bruce Wayne for still wanting to be Batman. That screen cap of the Emmure fanpage hilariously paraphrases it.
Do not want to spoil for my eurobros as movie has not come out yet over there but it’s basically a paraphrase of a speech Alfred gives Bruce about how he has a fantasy about seeing him happy and with a bish (and kids) in Italy or somewhere.
thx brahs– embarrassed that i was not able to participate in the hilarious pop-culture joke :(
You weren’t missing much.
(speaking of butthurt, the maelstrom of rump-ravaged fanboy nerdrage I’ve seen cinemafggt forums against anyone who gave the new Batman less than glowing praise has been astronomically sad/hilarious)
Maelstrom
A + one of my all time fav comments on here
You weren’t missing much.
(speaking of butthurt, the maelstrom of rump-ravaged fanboy nerdrage I’ve seen on cinemafggt forums against anyone who gave the new Batman less than glowing praise has been astronomically sad/hilarious)
I was just mad because Bane sounded like fuckin’ Skeletor.
MYAAAH!
Inb4 Skeletor & Beast-Man grow beards, get jobs at a thrift-store, hold hands publicly & start a Free-Folk band.
See the new baman movie, and all will become clear.
“This city needs me [to defend it from all these poser bands touring Gotham with their autotune and their breakdowns]“
lol’ed hard +1
Proud to be butthurt free
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Ooops…copy/paste errors make me buttmad! :(
http://s14.postimage.org/vdq9gxrq9/da_Rainbow.jpg
pretty sure deathspell omega doesn’t do merch but that’s hilarious still.
they do. and i’m enough of an lame to go searching for it. promise i’m not a butthurt guise
It’s funny cuz IMNs get buttmad about being called buttmad all the time on my page
neways, im glad to be a purveyor of this anti-butthurt crusade. the less butts that hurt, the better this world is :3
REMAIN STEADFAST
ONLY FUN IS REAL
^^^this^^^
inb4 being butthurt turns retro in a few years
DEFENF TR00 BUTTHURT
lolled ultra hard
mind = lost
As butthurt is contagious, so is anti-butthurt. I feel its our duty to spread that message of love and not caring throughout the internet, which is part of the reason I post on absolutepunk all the time, also boredom.
The other day I commented that half ofthe Rise Records roster is ‘pop grunge punk bands in flannel with 50′s dad haircuts and 90′s fetish’. Instead of butthurt, people laughed with me even tho they love those bands. So proud. #progress
srs beautiful story. a great example of how one can like gay stuff (i.e. pop grunge bands in flannel with 50′s dad haircuts and 90′s fetish) and not be a butthurt wiener about it. plenty of stuff i like is really gay and lame (spent most of the day listening to the cure yesterday, lol) and i bet most of the cool bros here do too, but the difference is we’re willing to make fun of the stuff we like and don’t take it so seriously that we get offended about it.
<3 u all <3
fux yes… now singalong to MANA wiff me bros….
“Cómo quisiera poder vivir sin aire
Cómo quisiera vivir sin agua”
lets sway along n hold hands across merica’ yall….
would argue that ‘Love Song’ is one of the best songs ever written on some lame internet forum no questions asked.
110% with you there, brah. “Disintegration” really is THAT good. But srs, that band has so many amazingly good songs it’s kinda scary.
this is a good illustration of how ‘caring about anything is gay’ should be taken. the point shouldn’t be that you should stop caring (in any sense) about what you like, it’s just that you should be selective about what you care about (e.g. don’t focus on what other people like and you don’t) and make sure not to care about anything to the point where you can’t make fun of it/see the humour in it.
i can see how some would resist the SYWH weltanshauung just because they think it’s all about apathy and so is just another case of “stop liking that thing you like!”, but, as i see it, it’s really more about taking a light-hearted approach towards everything in life.
exactly. you said it way better than i could :)
Boom. Nailed it. Also bonus points for using the word “Weltanschauung” in a discussion like this.
It’s completely correct that it’s not about complete apathy. In the end it’s all about love and tolerance <3
…and how I have no right to call anyone a pretentious fggt since my fave band of all time is Deathspell Omega.
Weltanschauung; had minor orgasm
unrelated story: a while ago i was buying some clothes (MOON APPAREL) from The Bay and the lady at the register kept insisting that i must not be from around here and that i must be a euro. all i could think of is how much this site rags on euros and “what have i done to deserve this?”
ironic how butthurt that emmure dickrider seems
oh hai, u must be one of the haters on the page. u seem pretty confused as to what “butthurt” means.
lolololol boom
“haters”
lol this one’s deep in the throes of anal pain
just a reminder: dickriding bad music doesn’t make you exempt from being butthurt
ur exactly the type of person this article is referring to
p.s. ive never been butthurt once on my page, rather been laughing my ass off at all the silly, hateful replies i get. ppl like u actually exist and its one of those things that is so sad its hilarious
…yeah, there’s clearly no reasoning with this fuck. welp hope frankie palmeri doesn’t get ur gonorrhea, he actually seems like a pretty cool bro and he doesn’t deserve that. =)
MIRIN HOW U LRN 2 PICK UR BATTLES ON THE INTERNET
“lalalalalalala ur stupid + dum an im not listening” -u
You spelled “exasperated” wrong.
lol at not getting the reference at all
PRAYING FOR U
I do think that there is a sort of anti-butthurt movement forming, and I think it is a natural backlash to years and years of stangry internet activity. Plus, now that screen capping and image sharing are so easy, people are probably becoming more inclined to ‘think b4 they click’, lest they end of a recent laughingstock on Tumblr or whatever. imo I’m not sure if people are REALLY ready for (or really want to see) the end of all butthurt, however, because that would also mean that trolling as we know it would be utterly moot and subsequently cease to exist. Anti-trolling would at this point be the only relevant means of trolling, which I would welcome because then I could be considered a pioneering early participant in that movement, and others could make memes about how I originally hand-drew all of my memes or something and people would give them between 20-90 notes on Tumblr.
The “Hardcore History” series will be reissued in 2056, as a ltd. ed. box set of carved stone tablets, mark my words..
BLAM, was thinking the same thing. Internet Butthurt Syndrom (IBS) has gotten tragically comical over the years, and I think as people get older than 15 they quickly see what a stangry aspie they look like when they say things such as, “OMFG this band is gay and gave all their fans AIDZ!!!” instead of, “I do not find this band appealing, but art and entertainment being purely subjective, I respect that some people would.”
There will always be butthurt, though. It is a symptom of a condition known as Getting Old as Fuck or Whatsamatter with Kids These Days?, wherein everything that used to be and is no more is 1000x more appealing than anything now, due to some not-fully-understood warping of reality and perception caused as time elapses.
Don’t sell yourself short bro– several of your posts have gotten like 115 notes
I can definitely see this gaining traction little by little at various other forums I frequent, so yeah… There is definitely a movement, and not a moment too soon.
I myself am in the process of recovering from chronic IMN butthurt, and I can safely say that SYWH has been a huge part in the healing process. A lot of articles, especially the original IMN-”series” on Metalsucks were an uncomfortable truth to face. The mirror held up there, did not show a pretty picture, but fortunately this sent me on the right path to becoming a chill bro, little by little.
The mirror held up there, did not show a pretty picture
It was actually not a mirror, but a self-portrait that I drew from memory. Feelsbadman.
Only those who have traversed Butthurt labyrinth know the way out.
Strong metaphor expansion, brah!
But yeah, it just goes to show that since IMN-ism shows the same symptoms and patterns repeat in all those afflicted, it CAN be beaten! A cure CAN be found!
know that feeling, bro. Glad to have exorcised the butthurt.
Yeah dude, SYWH saved me from becoming a full blown IMN fggt! <3 U guise
This depicts SxE people as a little cooler then they are, except for the frown they look like just normal hxc guys. I guess it’s hard to draw fggt though
btw, did u ever get that EZ Drummer serial you were looking for?
Never did
Sketching how you knew i was looking for one forever ago though…
WE’RE ALWAYS WATCHING.
(akshually just saw it in the comments of a torrent)
Small world, looks like everyone has a shitty time pirating software
read these comments and you’ll realize we have a long, long way to go :\
http://www.metalsucks.net/2012/07/30/summer-slaughter-show-in-tampa-florida-delayed-after-shooting-threat/
fuck I was just about to read that :/
feelsbadman
Half way through, this mp3 (yeah, am crusty) shuffled on….seemed fitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXXdrUXxME
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXXdrUXxME?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360
For me getting out of butthurt amounted to getting out of a shitty relationship, reading this here blog and admitting I was wrong about a band I had excessively strong (and unfounded) opinions about: ADTR. I think getting butthurt shows that someone does ‘t have a whole lot else going on in their life. Not doing anything that makes me want to get up in the morning? Guess I’ll try and ruin some scenekids’ day!!!
BAM. this dude gets it
to be fair though, the singer of ADTR does seem like a huge weiner. So you weren’t completely wrong.
After that whole HUNDREHT BUTTHURTIN INCIDENT 2012 debacle I can’t help but smile when someone says “weiner”.
That incident? The word was ‘weenie’. Close enough.
Exactly. After seeing some variation of “nobody cares what you think about music/TV/vidya gaem and neither should you” a few hundred times (mostly on this very blog), I finally got it through my head.
Holy shit that feel when not so posi after all quoted one of my hilariously retarded cmhwak posts in a clever way and now I am internet famous
WELCOME TO THE CLUB BRO U ARE BASICALLY A MEME AUTHOR NOW
he credited me as “some guy on cmhwak” dose that still count or
if you want i can give you ~full credit~ your name on cmhwak was thisguyisalright iirc?
do wat u think is right <3
Back in leik 2007, I used to be all liek “OMG BRING ME THE HORIZON AND THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER ARE NOT TR00 HXC AND THEY ARE NOT TR00 METAL EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN 2 HAVE HEART AND DARKTHRONE INSTEAD”. And then one day I realized that it was pointless and douchey to bitch about music you dun leik and try and make ppl listen 2 wat u r into…and that “For Stevie Wonders’ Eyes Only” by BMTH is actually a prty kick-ass song tbqh.
I’m butt hurt about people butt hurting. Paradox.
it’s all very post-modern, i admit. but if we put our heads together we can make sense of it ♥
For a while now I have been thinking that there is gonna be some seriously chill shit coming up in the next few years. After we digest and shit out the tr00ness sometime around 2014-15 there is gonna be a big boom in fun.
I JUST FEELS IT IN MAH BONES. And it excites me.
3rd Summer of LOVe? Or is that too gay?
2015? I can’t wait that long, I hope I’m dead by then!
I believe this movement has substantial parallels to the Nu-Metal revival movement that Sarge has prophecised. This shall be evidenced by the debut album of the stalwart harbingers of Djent/Nu-Metal 3.0: Hacktivist. The album will recieve positive reviews from legit music officials around the web and in print (Decibel 8, Rollling stones 5 stars, Pitchfrk best new music) ,the likes of which will cause a cataclysmic event horizon singularity of butthurt that will after a burst of cosmic rage fade into the nothingness from whence it came and all that shall remain is the sound of humanity Jumping Da Fuck Up.
Stay tuned for my upcoming 5/5 wiggers rapping glowing review (srs).
A+ fucking dying.
This guy has the comments today.
Yea, people are thier own worst enemy, it’s like how the whole “social justice” phenomenon on tumblr, due to how silly those people are, it has done more to set back any of those causes than the actual people opposing them could ever hope to.
BOOM!
Sadly, I live in the Southeastern US, where trends come and go at a much slower pace. Butthurt is literally the norm amongst people in the scene where I’m from, and being chill is looked upon as if it were lepresey. “Wait, you mean to tell me that you DON’T have a strong opinion about band X’s latest 7″?! This conversation never happened, I don’t know you.”
DEFEND FUN
So, basically, you’re saying that everyone should shut the fuck up about other people’s music (isn’t this the true point of the entire blog)? I can get on that boat.
I don’t understand why people who say “BMTH pwns ur stoopid black metal band” or people who say “Suicide Silence is not metal at all, listen to some DEATH” don’t get the fact that people aren’t going to just change their musical opinions because some group of people say you have to.
Pretty much, people care way too much about what other people listen to and what they think of the bands they choose to listen to. Via reading sywh and the like over the past couple of years I’ve started to move beyond being analpained about what music is “good” or “bad” and judging people based on that. Instead I’ve grown to like Sarge’s whole ‘music should be fun’ ethos instead of super srs bsns.
Brb too busy with life to get butthurt about anything.
Then again I just like fun music and have the musical tastes of a 16 year old girl.
This seems to e picking up a little bit with metal/hXc, mostly because your articles on metal sucks seemed to have changed that blog forever. Butthurt is still in full force with other areas of nerddom though, mostly because of the seppuku-inducing nerd pride thing that is cool right now.
I don’t really have much hope for the people who are seriously butthurt about shit that doesn’t matter. Whenever you try to reason with them about just being okay with shit and not being butthurt when you don’t have to be is fucking impossible. They refuse to be just chill about things because they “don’t want to conform” and think they’re some revolutionary rebel going against society when they complain about pop music or something. idk if this is true for all of them, but that’s my experience with the special snowflakes I know in RL… The way that I see it is just “butthurts gonna butthurt”
Yes, the anti conformity theme is repeatedly seen in the butthurt group. Oddly enough, the same people often have very rigid, seemingly arbitrary rules regarding what is acceptable to like, and attempt to ostracize those who fail to conform to these outrageous standards on something that is by its nature completely subjective.
If butthurt were to completely stop existing, would you consider it a victory? Are buttmad internet nerds essential for entertainment / ego boost value? Would this blog take a new direction?
Butthurt could never be eradicated, even small amounts of butthurt would become noticeable and made fun of to the point that the definition of butthurt would change.
Miracle cure for butthurt? Booze and lots of it.
Some drugs as well.
Some guys I know rant endlessly about how “fucked society and our generation” is when they get drunk lol. Nobody ever wants to drink with them.
Avoid those guys like the plague. I sing songs from Police Academy 2 when I get drunk.
Thanks to sarge whenever i get drunk, i loudly and annoyingly pronounce the definition of the word ANGER and piss off the bar by inserting my dollar at the digital jukebox and either try to find the most longest Doors song or the most musically inappropriate song to bump to annoy other patrons (like chunti music or black/death metal) teehee =D
SYWH was my butthurt cure.
Thank You Sarge
The “Mor ppl like emmure…” page kind of seems to be missing the point. I’m all for making fun of metal (making fun of anything really), but he comes off not so much as fun mocking, but butthurt rage/hate. You shouldn’t try to cure hate with even more hate. One love, one heart. <3
I agree. I dig it and his work is hilarious, but I get that there’s some care involved where it shouldn’t be. And as stated earlier, “caring about anything is gay.”
Caring about anything is gay should be the official slogan of the world. Caring that some people prefer noodley tech death instead of breakdowns is just as gay as nerds getting buttmad over kids listening to BMTH instead of Obituary.
Should say that the Emmure page really doesn’t sound buttmad, but sometimes the message of “let people like what they want” gets lost in the midst of “STOP LISTENING TO THAT GAY METAL SHIT YOU FAG!!!!”
But it just goes in all fields man…like nerd culture, video games, literature, film and television, etc. it’s perfect for everything under the sun…I just feel that somehow it would explode into a form of YOLO and become its antithesis. im all thinkin bout my thoughts over here, breh
Should point out that the whole “STOP LISTENIN TO THAT GAY METAL SHIT YOU FAG!!!” shtick is satirical and meant to make fun of IMNs (” oh u like this band? fuck that, listen to THIS band!”) I dont rly give a fuck what people listen to. #yolo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Wi2H1F7sY
Every IMN should watch this episode of Skins, so inspirational!
fuck yea this shits funny as fuck….
lol bollocks =P
I just wanted to say Not So Posi After All is my new favorite tumblr and the amount of angry and confused comments he gets continues to entertain and confuse me.
You and me both dude, some of the stuff I get sent is fucking hilarious. Frankly by this point I consider a day without a death threat from a fifteen year old to be a day that wasn’t worth living~
How exactly does successfully baiting people validate your point of view? And does taking the time to go out of your way to bait people online for an extended period make you any less of a sadsack than the ones writing the angry responses? Do you realize it’s probably much easier to make people angry online than it is in person? The internet is where people go to vent and disregard social cues and be tactless, being opinionated is right in line with that. I guess if I was 14 or something this would all be more relevant to me.
Check those jimmies, brother
Thing is, you shouldn’t be baited by them at all. If somebody thinks that Emmure is better than your favorite death metal band, then let him think that. It’s not harming you in any way. Caring about anything is gay.
I don’t care. My point wasn’t THIS vs THAT, it was about devoting an excessive amount of time and effort to getting a rise out of strangers online then pretending it’s serving some higher purpose.
Yeah, it’s stupid. But it’s funny, and this is a comedy blog, so #yolo.
That, and also that if it is used as an example of how embarrassing and pointless it is to have super-strong opinions, then it is actually a pretty valid form of commentary.
Is it ever okay to have a strong opinion about anything, ever?
Only about the importance of not having strong opinions.
(not sheriff srs about that, but I think I might be)
The way I see it, you can have whatever opinion you want, and it doesn’t have to make you any more or less of an asshole. The part about it that makes you an asshole is if you HAVE to be overly vocal and negative about anything relating to it, and you’re a complete asshole to anyone who disagrees to you.
Extremely general example: there’s a difference between not liking Justin Bieber, and going on one of his videos on youtube writing douchey comments about how he has no talent and being an asshole to everyone else there who’s there to enjoy listening to it, even if they’re an asshole to you just because you don’t like him.
Hope this helps.
The ironing of writing a whole paragraph about how making people mad on the internet is dumb.
DEFEND TROO THOUGHT-TERMINATING MEMES
This whole butthurt/IMN/ thing is getting as played out and groupthink-ish as the alpha/beta thing of a few months back.
“caring about anything is gay”
butthurt IMN beta detected
Anti-butthurt is no surprise. So savaged are the anii, they look more like the scene in The Shining where the tidal wave of blood rushes down the hallway than a turd cutter.
literal lol @ shining reference
Butthurt about the anti-butthurt movement. It’s like ya can never win online. Got better odds of besting the Casino than doing this shit mayne.
Srs, would mourn the loss of Butthurt.
Butthurt leads to so much joy.
Man, through high school (finished in ’09), all i wanted to listen to and jam on ma guitar was motley crue, poison, cinderella, and pretty much anything fun and partying, but everyone used to bag me as being gay and fake, and not a real musician, because I didn’t like real music like tool and ska (still don’t know what that is).
I wish this public service announcement had been around 3 years ago.
Crying.pmg