suji

I think Azealia Banks has a soap for that

ain't putting her hexed soaps near my kundalini orifices x

western vkeier (ew) posts a video about visual kei dying, #resurrectVK starts trending, yadda yadda, but it's not really dying, it's just a dumb movement started by dumb weebs who think they can save something that doesn't even belong to them with a dumb hashtag x

western vkeier (ew) posts a video about visual kei dying, #resurrectVK starts trending, yadda yadda, but it's not really dying, it's just a dumb movement started by dumb weebs who think they can save something that doesn't even belong to them with a dumb hashtag x

why did u remind me

To stick, or not to stick, that is the question:
 
Whether it is nobler for the ass to suffer.

*and* calls himself kid buu
 
i hate anime weebs

daddy is not allowed

badbitches69fuckussdaddy [2]

same, it's hard being goth in a conservative town in a southern state ;w;

same, it's hard being goth in a conservative town in a southern state ;w;

this

This is the thread for memes 
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/30937-the-extremely-official-mh-j-meme-thread/

C A N C E L E D
 
I can't wait until a certain someone here twists this story to try and picture him as the victim

i'm on it guys

the official apps

find & buy some yourself, they're available at lots of stores
 
besides I don't know what makes them different from regular releases, except they're rare???

find & buy some yourself, they're available at lots of stores
 
besides I don't know what makes them different from regular releases, except they're rare???

them & golden bomber need 2 go x 

Honestly, I still occasionally listen to Trinity because I unironically liked that song lol. 
 

fuck, i remember those days *_* "dreamscape" really takes me back to when yt forced songs into vids that had copyrighted audio.
 
dumbest thing ever

It's a lot more complicated than that. Someone could just re-post a bunch of old material, and if they had to be new, unique releases not already on the forum the overlap would be ridiculous. This discussion has happened year after year, and the same conclusion is reached. Those uploading on the DL forum need to understand their stuff WILL SPREAD. You can append as many warnings as you want, they're useless. 
 
The club function on the forum is underused. If anyone wants to share privately amongst individuals w/ the same taste, perhaps that is an option for you?
 
 

What about this: All those who want access to the download section have to provide X releases themselves before they can download other's material? Would that be possible to implement?

@Tokage I can think of a few reasons:
 
Buying music is expensive in this scene. People spend a lot of money to import CDs of their favorites and a lot of the time, that's the only way this music ends up in international waters. It is important to know that when this began, people were not just taking links but taking credit for them too, and then sticking monetization pages like Ad.Fly on top of it so that they could basically make money off of piracy. People like validation for spending money to bring joy to others. Whether that's a good thing is another discussion entirely. When people take links and put it on their blogs and don't redirect others back to the source, it fragments the scene. There are a lot of people in these visual kei groups that don't even know Monochrome Heaven exists, but if we were to go down tomorrow they'd suddenly have no place to get 40%+ of the music in the visual kei scene, because JPopSuki doesn't have everything to the degree that we do. Now whether putting our name out there like that or not is a good thing is, once again, a completely different discussion. On the other note of the same coin as #2, people putting links out there while crediting Monochrome Heaven amplifies the target on our back, and the backs of the uploaders. A small subset of releases that get leaked here weren't ever supposed to be leaked here, and those with connections to band members who gave them the music in confidence could get into hot water. I've been the target of this myself for uploading rare live distributed releases in the past, so I know this isn't just bullshit. Taking the link itself doesn't add any layers of redundancy. Once the link disappears/gets taken down/is otherwise unavailable, there isn't another place to go get that link because all 343 blog spots that track visual kei uploads from Monochrome Heaven were too fucking lazy to upload it to their own account, so in a flash all of the links for a release get taken down and there's no way to find it again. The value in blogs is that the links are preserved in multiple places. People who go through the effort to add redundancy to the scene are doing us all a service. People who just lift links and put it on their blog to stroke their ego suck dick and do nothing valuable with their free time. As an extension to 4, when a link for a very popular release goes online and that link spreads like wildfire, it endangers the account of the original uploader, who may have other valuable musics and personal things on that account. If that account gets terminated, it's not just one link that goes offline: it's multiple. This is how music gets lost to time. People who steal links are often lurkers who contribute little to Monochrome Heaven but owe a lot to our existence, which is why there is so little we can do about them. Hell, there's a chinese service which basically steals all of our links, hosts it themselves, and then puts ads on the site to make money. $cumbag central.  
This complaining can be annoying from time to time, but there are very real considerations underneath the hood that shouldn't be brushed off. On one hand, yes, people will always take music and you shouldn't share anything publicly that you would want to see publicly. On the other hand, there are right and wrong ways to share music, right and wrong reasons to share music, and the right and wrong places to do it too. When you lump all of these considerations into "this person just wants his dick sucked for promoting piracy", you lose a lot of the other aspects to the situation too. It's very complex, and the moderation team has tried (and failed) many different approaches to ameliorating the situation, but it is what it is.

If you post it on the DL forum it's going somewhere, end of story. If you don't want it on a blog, just don't post anything...or post the whole thing to YouTube. That way you can hear people complain on here about "shitty YouTube rips". 
 
I used to be completely anal about it... "Credit me!" "Don't repost for 10 days!", etc. etc. It doesn't matter. At this point you just gotta...