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Ah, Beekay, always with the even-handed tone that one looks for and needs in a good mod. Look, I get that people on forums occasionally do stupid, ill-advised things, but must she always sound like she's being cornholed by a razor-toed wolverine every time she thwaps someone? Maybe my perception has been colored by earlier interactions, when she was sticking her fingers into her ears and screaming, "LALALA, not my problem" whenever posters complained about Onyx_Wolf running around the forum with her asshat on, but damn, does she come across as snide and condescending.
Dear Rammstein,
I love you, and I will buy your music until I am dead or until you retire, whichever comes first, but shut the fuck up. I'm beyond tired of listening to you piss and moan about how haaaaaaard it would be to arrange a U.S. tour, and why should you bother if you won't get ten thousand fans? If you don't want to get out of bed for fewer than ten thousand fans, that's your business. I think it's douchetastic, but I understand that there are financial and legal considerations. If it won't be profitable to come here, then why go to the expense?
But for God's sake, it's not the U.S. fanbase's fault that your market here is limited, and it isn't limited solely because American fans are language snobs and linguistic peons who can't speak another language but expect the world to speak English. It's limited because YOU DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT IT AND TREAT IT LIKE A NUISANCE RATHER THAN A WELCOME PART OF YOUR LARGER FAN COLLECTIVE. You haven't so much as farted in our direction since 2001, yet you bitch that you wouldn't be able to draw the numbers you do in Europe. It's called quid pro quo. You stopped caring or even pretending to care, so all but the diehards left for more appreciative pastures. You know, like Metallica, who have cultivated and maintained their gargantuan fanbase for thirty years by making them feel like they matter. I would buy a Metallica collection of beer hall covers because Metallica has never, ever, ever made me feel like a pain in the ass. Oh, and isn't it funny, but Metallica hasn't toured Australia or Latin America or Asia in some years, and yet they've sold out New Zealand. You know why? Because they made the long-suffering fans feel important by modifying their monstrous tour so they could play for them, and they didn't make them feel like assholes for the inconvenience.
Stop shitting in our mouths and calling it more than we deserve, and maybe we'll line up for the tickets, you spoiled assholes.
I'm done now.
Dear Rammstein,
I love you, and I will buy your music until I am dead or until you retire, whichever comes first, but shut the fuck up. I'm beyond tired of listening to you piss and moan about how haaaaaaard it would be to arrange a U.S. tour, and why should you bother if you won't get ten thousand fans? If you don't want to get out of bed for fewer than ten thousand fans, that's your business. I think it's douchetastic, but I understand that there are financial and legal considerations. If it won't be profitable to come here, then why go to the expense?
But for God's sake, it's not the U.S. fanbase's fault that your market here is limited, and it isn't limited solely because American fans are language snobs and linguistic peons who can't speak another language but expect the world to speak English. It's limited because YOU DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT IT AND TREAT IT LIKE A NUISANCE RATHER THAN A WELCOME PART OF YOUR LARGER FAN COLLECTIVE. You haven't so much as farted in our direction since 2001, yet you bitch that you wouldn't be able to draw the numbers you do in Europe. It's called quid pro quo. You stopped caring or even pretending to care, so all but the diehards left for more appreciative pastures. You know, like Metallica, who have cultivated and maintained their gargantuan fanbase for thirty years by making them feel like they matter. I would buy a Metallica collection of beer hall covers because Metallica has never, ever, ever made me feel like a pain in the ass. Oh, and isn't it funny, but Metallica hasn't toured Australia or Latin America or Asia in some years, and yet they've sold out New Zealand. You know why? Because they made the long-suffering fans feel important by modifying their monstrous tour so they could play for them, and they didn't make them feel like assholes for the inconvenience.
Stop shitting in our mouths and calling it more than we deserve, and maybe we'll line up for the tickets, you spoiled assholes.
I'm done now.
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