The awkward tween years are never fun, but they are a phase of life that we all must pass through. Like when your little brother is late for dinner and your mom yells up the stairs at him “Stevie, it’s time to for dinner! Come eat with your family!” and he comes stomping down the staircase, glares at the family and is like “GOSH MOM I told you not to call me Stevie anymore I’m STEVEN now uggggggh I hate this family” before slamming the door to his room and sulking for the rest of the night.
The dark blazers, troubled looks on their faces, and brick wall in the background say ‘we are a no-nonsense independent band with something to say,’ but the neon green logo, swoop-cut on blondie and purple skinny tie say ‘for more information check us out on Buzznet.’ They are caught between eras, that Britney Spears song ‘Not a girl, not yet a women.’
Bands often go through similar periods in their development, and it appears that Sumerian standouts I SEE STARS are right in the middle their own ‘awkward tween phase.’ Basically they are like ‘omg we are SO not scene will you guys seriasly please stop calling us scene we haven’t been scene for like 2 years!!!’ and also ‘we feel like it is our responsibility as young adults to talk about some really effed up stuff that is happening in society right now.’ Specifically, that the government is trying to take away your most basic of human rights: social networking.
In this video, they dress up in Anonymous masks and infiltrate the bad guys’ headquarters, eventually locating the computers that the government uses to secretly control the internet. You can tell they are in the right place because there is a sign on the wall with the Google, Youtube and Yahoo logos on it– since I don’t see its logo present I guess they don’t censor Pinterest, the govt is probably like ‘lol that site is just Tumblr for chubby old indie girls i am pretty sure Hipstamatic pics of their antique mason jar collection are not a threat to national security.’ Then they plant a virus on the computer and watch as it spreads across the world, their logo flashing across the screen as a symbol that is like ‘u seriasly don’t know who ur messing with!!! this movement is like soooooo much more powerful than u can even imagine and we are not going to just stand back and let u take away our right to the internet!!’
I love how unnecessary and obviously out-of-your-way that jab at Pinterest was. Sniggering hard.
You are wrong, it was completely necessary.
What did Pinterest do to anger the Sarge?
That’s the real story here.
Must have deleted his account or something.
I have a copy of that Anne Rice book in that picture.
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Dude, I have seen T:Salvation like 6x and I’m over 30 :((
song itself goes p hard, but cringing at the use of the Guy Fawkes masks. That whole “herp derp we’re Anonymous we’re legion l0lz0rdz” is so old and gay and I don’t think Anonymous even DOES anything anymore aside from standing around at various protests holding signs with some reference to lame internet culture on them: https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/a/a1/Occupy-newfag-street7.jpg
lol’d a little at that last pic, “fuk u mom this is not a phase. this is who i rly am”
“song itself goes p hard, but cringing at the use of the Guy Fawkes masks.”
Agreed on both points. Why do people still use Guy Fawkes masks?!
But V for Vendetta is a timeless, instant classic!
See: “just having your main character tell the theme instead of creating a good plot”
imo directors could save themselves a lot of money by replacing the tedious expository parts with bullet points that just tell u the basic idea and then just skip to the fight/sex scenes.
didn’t you stick around for credits?? ash wants to be like his father
brb posting that the starship troopers movie was better than the book.
I wish downvotes could be traded in for dollars…
Lol @ hacking with a mac.
“do you even Linux?”
OS X is actually not that shitty for security workings. Their implemention of the terminal is pretty decent, imho. Def. using a mac, whilst still being a computer dork/10.
filts liars scambags unite
fuck the flying daylight out of americano whore,,,
I started the video and then middle clicked the comments button, and while I was reading the comments I had to go back to the last tab to see if the singer was a guy or a girl. I haven’t had to do that since morbid curiosity made me listen to an Alesana song.
Clean vocals in I See Stars brought to you by: A VAGINA
For some reason feminine male vocals are a requirement in the posthardcore genre these days.
More liek filth of gays unite amirite?
boom
i bet one of the lamest members has been on 4chan all summer, totally thought this would b a sweet video to get them some serious buzz and respect in music scenesss
comments are brain melting:
First off, I love Anonymous, second of all, I love I See Stars. Put those two together and oh my fuck, I love ISS even more. :D
Lipsyncer30001 1 day ago
This video is currently unavaible
that troll me so hard…
mikeyxsuicideeee 20 hours ago in playlist Liked videos
THIS IS THE DEEPEST SONG EVER…FUCK HTE GOV..TRYING TO TAKE AWAY MY MEDIAFIREAND MEGAUPLOAD…
Darkchriz 43 minutes ago
notsureiftrolling.psd
I WANT THIS BAND TO CONTINUE NOT PROFITING FROM MY LISTENING TO THEIR MUSIC.
HOLY SHIT THIS RULES
Loving how Sergeant D is still in his awkward teen phase staring at the ground and hiding his face from people.
SARGENT D IS MORE THAN A MAN IN A MASK, HE’S AN IDEA, A REVOLUTION! THAT NO BUTT SHOULD BE HURT NO MORE!!!
faggot.
Our butts will rage at him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.
He’s the hero MetalSucks needs, not the hero MetalSucks deserves.
moar liek my ‘not wanting to put my irl career at risk’ phase
Responsibility, how does that work?
NOTICE HOW THEY TAKE THEIR MASKs OFF AT ABOUT 3:36 RUN OUT OF THE ROOM. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN AT ABOUT 3:54 THEIR MASK IS BACK ON AND THEY TAKE IT OFF AGAIN HAHA
this video is RIDDLED continuity errors– heads are going to roll once the suits hear about this, mark my words!
So not scene guys.
*dubstep introduction*
Well that lasted a while. Surprisingly I didn’t hate this song though, I get the same feel I get when I listen to We Came As Romans, which is that I’m about 4 years younger xD
This video is about 5 months too late, the kids don’t care about SOPA or PIPA anymore. That trend has died d00dz. They might as well have made a video where they broke into an African compound and freed all of Konys child warriors.
#Kony2012 – It’s a real thing. Send moniez.
Nah, brah. The fight’s over. We got enough likes on Facebook that Joseph Kony died of acute awareness shorty after the one millionth share.
Can’t wait for the next video where they all dress up as candidates for the election and show how they are all liars :O
Anyone else notice that all these “the revolution is now” videos like this on youtube always have that channel surfing montage with the whitenoise bursts? I am p sure TVs stopped doing that like 40 years ago.
see also still putting a scanline effect on ‘TV news footage’ in movies, even though it’s playing on an HDTV
You spelled out every other word but couldn’t take the time to type “pretty”? This trend is so stupid.
great article. there’s few things that rustle my jimjams more than anonymous getting assdevastated over nothing. actually just a bunch of beta 40 year old poop fetish freaks or 14 yr old “rebels” as outlined here
The threat to our internet freedom isn’t “nothing”. Don’t write the whole thing off just because a bunch of kids try to be a part of it. Not everyone flying under the banner of Anonymous is incompetent.
Love how they tried to be edgy and put in a fake “This video is currently unavailable” effect, right after YouTube changed what it looks like (static in the background).
are they trying to say that the unless we stand up to the government, they will switch youtube over to some kind of analog broadcasting infrastructure and we will need an antenna to tune into the internet?
not following yr line of thought :/
i am not sure how else there would be static on the internet
Might have something to due with the fact that the internet actually consists of a series of tubes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
i wish they made this super accurate and was just a bunch of them being fat and posting on reddit about all the stuff they won’t be able to do on teh internet.
Now the government know who is behind Anonymous and all their crimes, their asses are gonna be arrested!
Mirin’ dem After Effects cool explosions and sparks.
Also pree sure Sumerian are responsible for making their bands become superstitious assholes. Did anyone watch that lulzy Born of Osiris video where they’re in space? Do not want.
Even their fucking lyric video for “Science” is in space.
myfacewhen I found out the album is literally called [digital_renegade]
they should have gone maximum overtroll and made it a concept album about Richard Stallman
reblog dis if u remember when rosie o donel was in attack attack
fuck yeah 1990′s
“(s)he has purple dreadlooooocks….”
Pussy Riot > every american punk band ever. The music is irrelevant.
http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/yekaterina-samutsevich-closing-statement/
Was surprisingly kinda into this song. Can not stand super aggressive in your face dubstep any more than I can stand ‘beating a dead horse’ style 2012 metalcore, YET the two together was p sweet and enjoyable. Dat singer’s vagina doe.
Using “p” for “pretty” is fucking stupid. You typed out everything else, why the random shorthand?
Getting butthurt to the point of calling out every instance of that on a comedy blog is fucking stupid. You seem ok with everything else, why the random faggotry?
Every instance being 2 instances. Oh man, I spent so much time on that. I did it because it’s p f stupid.
i was moshing and then coheed and cambria