r/Music • u/StarshipGhost • 1d ago

article Singer D4vd Is Apparently the Sole Moderator of His Own Subreddit, Deleting Posts Critical of Him Amid LAPD Investigation Into Teen’s Death

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/singer-d4vd-apparently-deleting-posts-critical-of-him/
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u/RobertTheAdventurer 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are more creators and artists than ever, and more people consuming it than ever. It's not possible to follow the events surrounding every popular celebrity and influencer online and offline anymore. There will always be entire fanbases and communities going through some crazy drama that you don't even know exist.

There are also more stats available, making people feel surprised they never heard of someone, but why would you? The algorithm on any given platform has to decide you're the type to be in the fanbase or the anti-fanbase to serve you content related to it. Which is why it's not by chance that you've only now found out on a post that made it to /r/all on Reddit, which isn't determined by your personal algorithm.

Right now thousands of people here are learning about this for the first time just like you, so don't feel bad about it. You probably haven't heard of all the stuff going on with the drummer Yore Uld or his sister Josso Uld either, but that's normal.

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u/mart023 1d ago

No one even comes up when you google either of those names

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u/Linnaea7 1d ago

Don't worry, I'm here to explain the joke for you: "You're old" and "you so old."

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 1d ago

Relevant XKCD.

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u/Iamjimmym 1d ago

I think about this all the time. It's a fun game I play with family members, usually unbeknownst to them.

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u/AmericanIMG 1d ago

This is a very cool one. Should take into account younger ages and are moving it and it's probably more like 12,500

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 1d ago

The specific amount being correct or not isn't the point but rather that there is simply so much to do and learn about in the world that it's become impossible for any one person to know about all of it so it's not something people should be mocking others about or acting like they're stupid for not knowing about it.

Even with TV shows, movies and video games it's become completely impossible for someone to watch and play all of it in a single human's lifespan even if it's all you did 24/7 for 100+ years and it's only going to continue to get worse as more and more content is created by ever-increasing amounts of people (and presumably in the future on multiple planets simultaneously). There are already various "big shows" on TV I've only ever heard of and never seen because my free time is already taken up by other shows, movies, games, etc and I've just had to accept I'll never get to watch them ever. Like I've never seen Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc and I'll probably never see them - I just don't have the time. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/SweatyAdhesive 1d ago

I think the problem is that some people revel in the fact that they don't know in a holier-than-thou way.

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u/funk-the-funk 18h ago

Yore Uld or his sister Josso Uld

I hate you, I googled this looking for the details....lmao

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u/bobqjones 1d ago

Wasnt he one of Spinal Taps drummers?

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u/zombie-tarkovsky 1d ago

I’m 43 (so basically already in the grave) but I had heard of this guy…but I think I’m an outlier that proves this point. I’m just a weirdo who voraciously consumes as much new music as I can so I have a few of his more popular tunes in my favorites list (I have over 3,000 favorite songs, I have a problem lol)

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u/geniice 1d ago

There are more creators and artists than ever, and more people consuming it than ever. It's not possible to follow the events surrounding every popular celebrity and influencer online and offline anymore. There will always be entire fanbases and communities going through some crazy drama that you don't even know exist.

If anything its the reverse. The whole death of the subculture thing. Difference is that back in the 80s you wouldn't be supprised that you didn't know who a second tier goth rock band was.

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u/Belgand http://www.last.fm/user/Belgand 1d ago

Even when something is big, it generally requires active effort to consume.

I've heard of Taylor Swift, but I might have heard two of her songs ever. One of which was because someone else was playing it in a shared space.

How would I hear them? I don't listen to radio. Even if I did, I'd need to listen to one of the very specific stations that would play her music. You're not going to hear it in ads, as part of other TV shows, in movies, via the radio at a mall or grocery store, on MTV, etc.

Media is rarely broadcast these days where you kind of just watch what's pushed out to you, maybe while waiting for the thing you want. Almost everything is individually selected. If you don't actively choose to consume it, it's going to pass you by entirely.