TheFunkyNewAlbum said:
paisleyparkgirl said:
Kiss was trending 2 years ago.
I haven't noticed 7 trending but Prince has been brought up a lot lately during the diddy trial with those fake ai videos of an alleged Prince recording.
Yeah, I think it might be related to the Diddy trial. But, why this particular song?
Becaaause it's the end of tiiiiimes, mwha ha ha!
The seven will fall, the sky will turn people, and the four horsemen will
make their horses poop on our heads.
Sadly, the TikTok algorithms are built in such a way to stuck one in their own little world,
a whirlwind programmed to drawn you in your own beliefs and likings.
A perpetual Dopamine Rush.
The datacenters serve each user their own version of what's trending:
the internet, let alone the social networks as we knew them, are dead and gone.
When we see global trends happening, like the Barbie Movie,
that's only because the studios gave the platform a gazillion bucks.
It's not spontaneous. Influencer is a job, not a charity.
What you think is "trending", is in fact totally invisible to the other hundreds of millions users on the platform.
The only reason they make you believe something is "trending",
it's because they want you on their platform as often as possible,
hooked on whatever content keeps you engaged.
Heck, if you're the religious type, expect AI to serve you this type of "trends" by the ton very soon.
Be very careful my friend, it's going to get worse before it gets better:
here come the videos where you won't in no way be able to tell right from wrong.
The most fragile could go mad, no doubt. Don't let your children on the internet, before they know how to read.
And the same goes for Youtube, Instagram, etc.
Basically it's divide and conquer on a mind-boggling level. A semblance of community.
Today, you and I can get totally different search results on Google with the same exact query.
Good luck having a revolution (or revelation, since it's the subject at hand) in these conditions.
As for the few dozen lunatics who dare to call Prince a "prophet",
it's the usual bag of delusions induced by the star system.
Last time I checked a prophet lived in the desert or in a whale, and ate crickets dipped in honey.
He wasn't buying a different pair of shoes for every damn day.
Lawd knows Prince was always eager to sell us his narcisisstic mystique bullshit.
But he was a millionnaire from the start, and power always ends corrupting.
Prince was an incredible talent that got trapped for years by his own mirror reflection.
Then again, who could blame him?
A spoiled brat from the very first contract (who starts with a million of 1978's dollars?),
ointed by one of his idols (Maurice White) even before the first record got mixed...
Good luck staying with both feet on the ground with such God's gifts
("Big as a balloon!" he said, when he still had a tad of healthy self-deprecation).
A good work ethic doesn't make you a supernatural being.
Prince gave us a lot of magical moments, and many of them keep shining bright,
but a saint he wasn't, and certainly not a prophet.
This is projection, these are desperate wishes of people stuck in the system, with too little to dream about.
Do yourself a favour: stop expecting from a society with the attention span of a goldfish
the patience, the years it takes for one to explore Prince's fantaisies,
to see the man beyond the arrogance, the panoplies, the poses, heck, the "Estate" itself cannot.
I would rather call someone like Noam Chomsky a "prophet".
He's been warning America for decades, and no one listened,
and they still don't (another feature of a genuine prophet).
Prince was a Dreamer, he was one of the coolest, and it's a good thing,
as they are sorely and increasingly missing and missed, in this pathetic excuse for a world.
Don't encourage people who'd like to turn him into a holy relic, as he would probably hate it.
[Edited 5/30/25 0:37am]
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