you know what touche

and no I wasn't trying to come off like our community is different or that outcasting is NOT a real thing (cause yes it is).

I just remember the anime ass niggas I grew up with in high school and like....a good 75% of em are type maga today

(also I too was a floater so while I wouldn't identify as "cool" I never really had issues with no particular group demographic growing up)

Issa therapy session

would bet 200 aura points that syd also 10000% knew about tyler too

Didnt see this post but true s*** on the last part

At the end of the day tyler was the leader, and the blackface thing is the worst thing tyler has ever done hands down. I hated it even in real time its disgusting that he did that but I really do believe that was his turning point

Shoutout Matt & Syd they are good people and Im glad tyler kept them in his life after that

Their continued success & Andre continuing to experiment doesn't mean it wasn't still an issue for them, cmon homie

dre made multiple references to it all over the album because it obviously affected him, you heard Return Of The G, that nigga was angry about how people were disrespecting him for being different

C'mon fam

imo, it being an issue meant that it affected careers

Oh yeah absolutely. they was saying he was on d**** when he was mostly d***ged out on their first album lol.

But after that was Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/Love Below which skyrocketed them niggas lmao.

This was also dumb as hell

She later admitted that she felt like she was being used as their scapegoat whenever they (namely Tyler) would get challenged for their language.

Fr because deep down they know that if one of their own fans who wears glasses wasn't wearing them or one of their fans saw them from behind, they might be scared of them until they realised who it was

It's messed up tbh

I remember being so confused when this came out like whats even the message here

Am I slow or is that the Celtic Cross?

call me a conspiracist but I can see this being tyler fake "coming out" but do it in an edgy way

I believe that too, Syd honestly came off really immature (not a diss) in her first interviews

Im sure she feels completely different then because in 2011 at the height of their homophobic allegations she was legit the only open member even Frank was still closeted

But one thing I will say is even though race / coon s*** was legit a big issue amongst OF fandom, OF fans were not homophobic man i dont think OF really was tryna push homophobia they actually have a lot to do with a lot of people being open to listening to gay artist

It is

God damn he was trolling hard

Yea true there was a lot of speculating at the time, but like the mix of white supremacy and the gay flag.. i dont get it lmao

Think it’s a little different for him. The optics for Tyler have always been that his fanbase skewed more white, even before he was filling up arenas

do it in an edgy way

I'm moreso saying that it must be annoying being the LGBTQ person who has to come to their defence over it, Ya feel me?

Like in a world where Tarantino doesn't have some internalised racism but Samuel L Jackson constantly gets asked about why Nigga is all over Tarantino's work but he has to keep answering for it for him
Nah'mean?

I do recall her perhaps mentioning this particular thing around a time when she further separated from OF/leaned more into the Internet

I think he thought making the white power symbol rainbow colored was some kind of f*** you but like there’s still gay white people that are racist

Those 2 things don’t cancel each other out lol

Basically to sum it up

On one hand I think Tyler needs to take more accountability if he wants people to respect his change. He’s done a lot of wack s*** and a couple things hes done are straight up horrible like the blackface

But I do think its disingenuous to act like he ignores it completely and hasn’t addressed it whatsoever and also I think people on twitter do a lot when they act like hes an awful person. He honestly doesn’t come off like a terrible guy just way too stubborn til this day and misguided at points

surprised the thread itself is pretty constructive

perhaps too constructive

Modern 4chan tshirt ngl

Tyler wanted to hook up with white skater boys so bad that he made them edgy jokes about black people

MIKE is basically earl w a clean digital footprint i love MIKE tho real ass nigga

That's because he has 2 different fanbases, there's the OF era base and Post Flowerboy vinyl base