So, odd news for today, but my faith in humanity has been restored by... Twitter.
It started like this. You may have heard of former Stone Rose Ian Brown’s infamous all-caps no-mask-no-vacc-no-trace-no-lockdown bollocks by now. After days of doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on his original tweet, Brown released a demo today :))))
While I had dismissed Brown’s Twitter comments section as a godforsaken echo chamber, turns out, most of Twitter was not having any of it.
This guy, parodying a tweet that actually has good copypasta potential, hmm...
Then there was this,
and this cracking one,
There was some feedback,
and some music magazine-worthy criticism
It wasn’t all doom and gloom for Brown (of course it wasn’t; he doesn’t even have to read the comments!). But his track did generate some requests,
Requests to form a potential rock super(spreader)group. They could call themselves the Non Believers or some shit.
It also spawned copycats!
But in all fairness, there were some highlights here. Someone, afterall, got to the very heart of the biggest problem I see here:
And all in all, my faith in humanity has been restored, on twitter of all places?!
In conclusion, this really isn’t a post about Ian Brown. It’s just my general thesis on how people can be fucking decent sometimes? Thanks for coming to my virtual TED talk