• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    As someone who was just caping for Tool here, I need to point out that Tool fans are fucking insufferable a good portion of the time. They are too fixated on pseudo-profound bullshit and numerological codes and peyote trips, and it’s not like that wasn’t facilitated by the band itself (Maynard especially).

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      I remember some Tool fan online telling me that the random high frequency noise in their latest album was them trying to send a message or something. Instead of the much more likely explanation that their hearing has suffered after years of performing, and they just didn’t hear the high frequency stuff during production.

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        Most bands do not have an equivalent to Lateralus fans, though a handful do. Being too fixated on peyote trips (or the like) is definitely common, but talking about how the timestamps of drum fills relates to alchemy or some other deliberately esoteric subject as a nebulous metaphor for . . . self-improvement? is definitely not something you’d find among whatever losers listen to Imagine Dragons.

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            imagine dragons fans are passive. they just listen to the music and care about how it makes em feel

            tool fans are far from passive. they need to tell you why tool is good and maynard is a genius. how danny is the best drummer playing the most complex beats ever. this makes them annoying.

            i should know, i am a tool fan

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              Not my experience. I had a gamer zoomer cousin who was obsessed with imagine dragons and would take over the car radio and play exclusively leagueoflegends-core and get really annoyed at anything else and call it boomer music if it had guitars

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      I’m curious to know how many people here who hate tool fans are into metal or jazz and into those scenes? Tool is a lot of people’s only dip into the metal scene so maybe it seems like they are really uniquely mean or pretentious, but trust me you will find people exactly like that at every metal show