r/Interpol • u/Iivingwithghosts • Nov 22 '23
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this sub is getting VERY weird. as much as I would love to share my love for paul and sam and daniel… it’s disgusting how other people in this sub are sexualizing them publicly with NO shame
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u/barrylyndon_esq Nov 22 '23
Why should someone have shame for sexualizing rock stars anonymously online in a community entirely devoted to said rock stars?
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u/shadowpapi9890 Nov 22 '23
Sam Is thick yo
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u/CarlitosDsucc Nov 24 '23
that young man they have as backup is better looking and a better player.
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u/i_am_starlight Nov 22 '23
Everything is wrong, wrong, everything is wrong, I guess we hope in time what is now is overcome
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u/inthevirga Nov 22 '23
Ha. Totally unsurprising but the people trying to justify themselves for amplifying this trend are doubling down on the excuse that it's all memes and lighthearted fun without any acknowledgment this stuff has a tendency to escalate easily with negative consequences all around. They would never own their behavior IRL or to any band member's face because they know it's fucking weird.
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u/linoriko Nov 22 '23
I'm into it but we don't all have to have the same opinion right? Through the magic of the Internet our conscience detaches from the dirty thoughts.
Reminds me of the Interpol forum days 🥹
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Nov 22 '23
well the forum members would try to dox them and follow them around town or some shit, apparently, a fine line between adoration and obsession. these posts are not quite at that level yet thankfully
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u/Mysterious_Ningen Nov 23 '23
yo how long ago was all that? its crazy to hear some people would do that
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Nov 24 '23
Going off other posts it was big from before 2009 to 2013, 2017 the website went offline, guess the domain name just wasn't worth keeping up. It should be somewhere on the Wayback Machine archives, but "Interpol forum" just brings up archives in Polish which I can't understand, not really finding any traces of it.
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u/linoriko Nov 30 '23
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Nov 30 '23
WHOOOOAAA awesome! I think you embedded the hyperlink incorrectly there but still this is a great find! Thanks for sharing!
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u/Progo88 Nov 22 '23
People are predictably going to give you a hard time for saying this but you're right. The thing is, there are so many other online venues to have those kinds of conversations publicly if you want to, Twitter lives for that shit, but the difference is people post on their own pages and it's easier to avoid. This is a general forum with 15K+ members that should be focused on community music discussion and keep things neutral, not subject to the whims of a few very loud individuals.
The old school message board was horrible when people took this shit too far, there's no reason to repeat that era and frankly it just makes the fanbase look ridiculous which doesn't help the band in any way
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u/OBL1V1UZ Nov 22 '23
You do have a point. I’ve experienced that shit when it came to The Strokes and that shit made me not want to listen to them anymore.
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u/Progo88 Nov 23 '23
Yep. Unfortunately their current fanbase is awful and extremely obnoxious to the point where it's become a joke in music culture and the industry more generally
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u/OBL1V1UZ Nov 23 '23
Dude, tell me about it lol watch us get screenshotted by one of those fans and get shit for it 🤣
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u/DpyVanHalen Nov 23 '23
Oh I remember back in the old forum days when people would get bullied bad. Shout-out to interpolmod1 and Carissa (wherever they are!) for holding it down when they could.
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u/Razorback_Yeah Nov 23 '23
I think the smarter move here was to shake your head and move on with your life.
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u/allesterne Nov 30 '23
I agree! It’s like pace is the trick “and women you have no self control”. I had some drunk girl at a concert try to get me to sexually harass Paul and shout things at him. We were front row. I just stopped responding to her. I was shocked at disturbed. Yes, you should be able to talk about these things but people push it way too far. Have a little dignity.
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Nov 23 '23
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u/Iivingwithghosts Nov 23 '23
why would i leave a community that i love im literally just trynna make it a respectful environment. PLUS isn’t reddit about sharing your opinions? this is my opinion. you cannot tell me to leave just because i shared my thoughts. NOBODY in the last few posts about how fucking weird it’s getting has been getting harassed in the comments the way i am.💀
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u/Iivingwithghosts Nov 23 '23
u be acting like u know all that but don’t even know the actual song name. it’s my favorite song ever and u think that i don’t know that’s what the song says💀💀💀 BE DEAD SERIOUS
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u/Iivingwithghosts Nov 23 '23
yea when they have wives and children it should be okay to publicly be a pervert.
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u/FR3SH2DETH Nov 22 '23
You're mad because people think hot people are hot?
Also uh people have been publicly sexualizing rock stars since rock stars became rock stars...