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hey there. im not really sure why i am here but i was very much into vk a while back but ive been away for a while. recently, i got an apple music subscription again and i was able to access a lot of the old music i had and of course i rediscovered some old vk favs . my old love for the genre came was revived and here i am. the only vk band that i have listened to consistently since, is plastic tree. they're my favorite vk, and probably top 3 favorite bands of all time (and before you judge me, i will say i really have not bothered to listen to anything they've released after hakusei because i have completely given up on them making good music ever again and am solely surviving and keeping my love for them alive through their older stuff). i am not sure if i still genuinely love vk or if its the nostalgia that has me feeling this way, so im excited to listen to newer stuff and some undiscovered older stuff and hopefully start regularly listening to it again! some of the bands i listen(ed) to are: the gazette, kagrra, alice nine, sug, dir en grey, emmuree, unsraw, malice mizer, versailles, matenrou opera. these days i would like to discover bands with more of an interesting or unique sound (for example today i finally listened to zi:kill and realized ive been missing out). so feel free to dm me and say hi or whatever

That's emotional blackmail, right?

That's emotional blackmail, right?

キズ (Kizu) will hold a one-man called 「　望」(which means "hope") on December 5 at SHIBUYA PLEASURE PLEASURE to decide if they can resume their activities or not due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
 
Translation of their message can be read here: https://crimsonlotus.eu/kizu-a-live-to-decide-on-their-future/
 
 

 
 

I understand millennial humour is dark and about self deprecation, I do it all the time myself - but only to people I'm close with. It's all well good to normalise therapy and mental illness via humour but idk, maybe a dating website/app isn't the place to do it. If I'm looking for a hook up or even a life-long partner, am I more likely to go the person who's a self proclaimed alcoholic or the one who just says they like football and a beer? (realistically both would be my nightmare, but you know what I mean?) These things shouldn't become a personality trait or something you use to sell yourself/brag about. 
 
And what you said about the ott stolen reddit joke, I came across several people whose profile said 'current status: cooked for two, ate for both'' hurr durr  I guess it's hard to stand out among a sea of desperation where your odds are pretty low to begin with.

So now that I'm in the singles club, decided to browse tinder. Not my first experience with it, but there's a weird trend I've been noticing on dating apps (and this goes for even queer dating apps)
 
Why are yall describing yourself as 'borderline alcoholic' and 'crackhead' on your profile? 
 
Or outright saying 'I've got a ton of issues' 'Depressed bitch' 'Looking for someone with mommy issues' 
 
I know we all have problems in this day and age but why are you giving me a list of all your mental/physical illnesses before I even say hi. And describing Ted Mosby as your spirit animal? 
 

I actually have to type this profile out cuz this shit is unbelievable

 
Scott, 26

I like to keep a gun under my pillow so incase of a burglary I'm able to shoot myself to avoid social interaction with another human being

 
 
jfc, either I'm too old for this or the world has gone insane. Impossible to swipe right on anyone, yall suck at selling yourself. It makes me even appreciate the simplicity of that one guy whose profile just said "we go to pub and then we fuck."
 
Anyway after spending one evening on it and losing a trillion brain cells 
 

 
Time to get back to my collection of husbandos and waifus, I am not looking to deal with other people's bullshit 
 
(I'm actually having fun being a full time weeb again and frustrations aside, enjoying my time alone)
 

So now that I'm in the singles club, decided to browse tinder. Not my first experience with it, but there's a weird trend I've been noticing on dating apps (and this goes for even queer dating apps)
 
Why are yall describing yourself as 'borderline alcoholic' and 'crackhead' on your profile? 
 
Or outright saying 'I've got a ton of issues' 'Depressed bitch' 'Looking for someone with mommy issues' 
 
I know we all have problems in this day and age but why are you giving me a list of all your mental/physical illnesses before I even say hi. And describing Ted Mosby as your spirit animal? 
 

I actually have to type this profile out cuz this shit is unbelievable

 
Scott, 26

I like to keep a gun under my pillow so incase of a burglary I'm able to shoot myself to avoid social interaction with another human being

 
 
jfc, either I'm too old for this or the world has gone insane. Impossible to swipe right on anyone, yall suck at selling yourself. It makes me even appreciate the simplicity of that one guy whose profile just said "we go to pub and then we fuck."
 
Anyway after spending one evening on it and losing a trillion brain cells 
 

 
Time to get back to my collection of husbandos and waifus, I am not looking to deal with other people's bullshit 
 
(I'm actually having fun being a full time weeb again and frustrations aside, enjoying my time alone)
 

It's supposed to be lol ecksdee funny to make fun of a taboo topic (specifically mental health as it's been painfully taboo in western society for a long time now. Even saying the word "therapist" makes boomers instantly recoil in terror as they fear that you are a deranged psychopath or something. However, many mental illness are somewhat common and need treatment such as clinical depression) but tbh a lot of these millennials fail to stick the landing with these jokes. In fact, a lot of them just make this shit up for the meme (usually a garden variety basic white bitch who thinks that she has PTSD from the Starbucks barista writing her name wrong). Ngl Scott nailed that joke though.
 
That being said, I've always found it strange how being yourself is never present on any E-dating sites, other than Christian Mingle and sometimes OK Cupid. It's always some silly, over-the-top joke they stole from Reddit. If anything, these attempts at being "unique" and "quirky" just make them as monotonous as everybody else. 

💫 GRIMOIRE disbands
💫 ZOMBIE disbands by summer time
💫 Yoshiki will post 1 (one) tweet about the X-Japan album💥
💫 Yoshiki might do a world tour again just so that he can keep up the hope of the fans funding his Hollywood lifestyle
💫Yoshiki will eat a burger at the white house
💫 We will see Chizuru (pentagon) back in a new project 
💫 Minpha will be in a new project too and he will speak
💫 Minpha x Meto [OUR VOICE] project?
💫Kisaki will lowkey try to return to the scene like nothing happened💥
💫 Really unremarkable year for アルルカン
💫A couple of singles by sukekiyo, people are gonna whine that they can't get into sukekiyo after INFINITUM
💫 Miyavi x Yoshiki collab
💫 8P-SB takes the world by storm
💫 DADAROMA goes around Europe and/or USA (Oop....I guess not)
💫 No releases from DAMLAM for the rest of 2020

we need a 'where is gackt' thread

So now that I'm in the singles club, decided to browse tinder. Not my first experience with it, but there's a weird trend I've been noticing on dating apps (and this goes for even queer dating apps)
 
Why are yall describing yourself as 'borderline alcoholic' and 'crackhead' on your profile? 
 
Or outright saying 'I've got a ton of issues' 'Depressed bitch' 'Looking for someone with mommy issues' 
 
I know we all have problems in this day and age but why are you giving me a list of all your mental/physical illnesses before I even say hi. And describing Ted Mosby as your spirit animal? 
 

I actually have to type this profile out cuz this shit is unbelievable

 
Scott, 26

I like to keep a gun under my pillow so incase of a burglary I'm able to shoot myself to avoid social interaction with another human being

 
 
jfc, either I'm too old for this or the world has gone insane. Impossible to swipe right on anyone, yall suck at selling yourself. It makes me even appreciate the simplicity of that one guy whose profile just said "we go to pub and then we fuck."
 
Anyway after spending one evening on it and losing a trillion brain cells 
 

 
Time to get back to my collection of husbandos and waifus, I am not looking to deal with other people's bullshit 
 
(I'm actually having fun being a full time weeb again and frustrations aside, enjoying my time alone)
 

we need a 'where is gackt' thread

People in the thread don't hate dimlim, we want them to succeed because they showed some of the strongest potential we'd seen around in a stale scene. 
 
People are salty because dimlim are shooting themselves in the foot and fucking up what could've been fantastic for fans, the band and vk. 

So now that I'm in the singles club, decided to browse tinder. Not my first experience with it, but there's a weird trend I've been noticing on dating apps (and this goes for even queer dating apps)
 
Why are yall describing yourself as 'borderline alcoholic' and 'crackhead' on your profile? 
 
Or outright saying 'I've got a ton of issues' 'Depressed bitch' 'Looking for someone with mommy issues' 
 
I know we all have problems in this day and age but why are you giving me a list of all your mental/physical illnesses before I even say hi. And describing Ted Mosby as your spirit animal? 
 

I actually have to type this profile out cuz this shit is unbelievable

 
Scott, 26

I like to keep a gun under my pillow so incase of a burglary I'm able to shoot myself to avoid social interaction with another human being

 
 
jfc, either I'm too old for this or the world has gone insane. Impossible to swipe right on anyone, yall suck at selling yourself. It makes me even appreciate the simplicity of that one guy whose profile just said "we go to pub and then we fuck."
 
Anyway after spending one evening on it and losing a trillion brain cells 
 

 
Time to get back to my collection of husbandos and waifus, I am not looking to deal with other people's bullshit 
 
(I'm actually having fun being a full time weeb again and frustrations aside, enjoying my time alone)
 

I don't exactly respect my brain for only having a single reaction for Gackts current beauty regimen, but they do share 100 % identical energy:
 

People in the thread don't hate dimlim, we want them to succeed because they showed some of the strongest potential we'd seen around in a stale scene. 
 
People are salty because dimlim are shooting themselves in the foot and fucking up what could've been fantastic for fans, the band and vk. 

I just came here to say: come on dimlim get a fucking bassist for christ's sake

Ok good for you. Let's stop there then.

Well said and every post you've made here has been absolutely spot on. I agree we need to disagree and drop this now but after all this I find it completely bewildering we have one member who literally doesn't seem to be understanding anything anyone is saying and tbh their obsession with DIMLIM from what they've said here is a bit scary. So there's no point anyone saying anything if you don't think everything DIMLIM have done revolving the release of MISC and post has been anything short of incredible. Haha. 
 
As many have said, the change of musical style and look wasn't the problem for me either. Just a shame to see this band who were doing so well for themselves basically destroy themselves. I mean with the lack of activity and engagements of any kind they have no one to blame but themselves for people losing interest in them. And the comparisons to Dir en Grey changing styles are completely dumbfounded as yes, they changed styles, but they were also WAYYYYYY more popular after releasing their first album than DIMLIM have been in their entire career. Unless DIMLIM secretly did a sold out show on the release of VARIOUS or CHEDDAR no one has ever told me about?? Lol.
 
Funny it was mentioned that NAZARE show reports recently have claimed they weren't well attended.... I saw some clips Issei posted of drumcams during shows and was actually surprised how well attended they were considering the situation and the impending disbandment.... :/ But ya know what, maybe NAZARE disbanding is DIMLIMs guardian angel, maybe Issei should come back and set Retsu and the lads straight and make them great again. Why not bring uta along for the ride as well? Haha.

It doesn't matter if they wanna leave vk, tons of previous vk acts have moved on outside the scene and been successful. Look at Miyavi, sure his music is questionable now but his roots were in vk and there's something special about that.  Most people here would've followed dimlim to hell and back, regardless if they carried on in vk or not.
 
The issue is that under RETSU's leadership, dimlim's reputation and image has been turned into a joke. They could've left vk and been signed under any number of other labels that would've managed their look/marketing/social media but, Mr Lets wants to be as true to his craft as possible by managing everything himself, including relations with fans (the very fans who keep this project going, who put food and clothes on their table). I don't think he has any previous experience with this and it shows. Seriously just look at what Issei did with NAZARE in less than a year, dimlim devolved violently when they had every reason to have surpassed NAZARE in popularity/numbers/whatever.
 
If you can't see what's wrong with those interview videos they released on youtube or with the lack of direction/communication that's going on currently, then I'm sorry but I can't spell it out for you more than it's already been done. I don't even know what you are arguing against/for anymore.

It doesn't matter if they wanna leave vk, tons of previous vk acts have moved on outside the scene and been successful. Look at Miyavi, sure his music is questionable now but his roots were in vk and there's something special about that.  Most people here would've followed dimlim to hell and back, regardless if they carried on in vk or not.
 
The issue is that under RETSU's leadership, dimlim's reputation and image has been turned into a joke. They could've left vk and been signed under any number of other labels that would've managed their look/marketing/social media but, Mr Lets wants to be as true to his craft as possible by managing everything himself, including relations with fans (the very fans who keep this project going, who put food and clothes on their table). I don't think he has any previous experience with this and it shows. Seriously just look at what Issei did with NAZARE in less than a year, dimlim devolved violently when they had every reason to have surpassed NAZARE in popularity/numbers/whatever.
 
If you can't see what's wrong with those interview videos they released on youtube or with the lack of direction/communication that's going on currently, then I'm sorry but I can't spell it out for you more than it's already been done. I don't even know what you are arguing against/for anymore.

Ditching the make up wasn't even that big a deal, the musical shift was.
 
Anyway, I enjoyed MISC but it needs some serious work.
 
And re: everything else, LETS agree to disagree.

People in the thread don't hate dimlim, we want them to succeed because they showed some of the strongest potential we'd seen around in a stale scene. 
 
People are salty because dimlim are shooting themselves in the foot and fucking up what could've been fantastic for fans, the band and vk. 

DIMLIM is what you get when you order DIR EN GREY on wish.com.

My thoughts exactly. I watched their videos on youtube because I wanted to know why people called him Lets, and omg, I thought all the whole thing was a joke. I followed them since Chedora, but I don't know what to think anymore. They had a huge potential, but the lack of management and everything I learned while lurking this thread, well, it's too bad. And I agree, I don't see on what we're supposed to argue now, I think everything has been said.