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Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay (www.them.us)

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 50 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure I'd know already if I was gay.

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I dunno, you ever sucked a dick?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it was attached to a woman so I’m still gay

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Nope. Never saw the appeal.

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[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Well, I was placed in Mexico, but I do enjoy a good ol dick in the ass, what does that make me?

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you get it every time you want it, that makes you a happy person.

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[-] Purple_drink@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I was placed in Berkeley. I'm not gay but maybe my taste in music is.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It gave me Burlington. #1 listened artist last year: The Beastie Boys. I sometimes think its less artificial intelligence and more a random number picker.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

My top genre was "indie québécois" and it placed me in Québec, so it's at least smart enough to figure that out.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not "Spotify Wrapped" so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but "Place" next to it just would not compute.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Basically it's a year in review of your Spotify listening

[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven't already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal "excuses" anyway.

I don't and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I'm under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I'm very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren't for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.

Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.

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[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

10 a month to rip unlimited 320 mp3s of anything they have on the service. Seems like a pretty good "excuse" to use it for me.

Torrenting music is bullshit, soulseek is much better but still has massive gaps. Unless you are a part of a good private tracker then the Spotify price is a fucking bargain for all the files you could have......

Also you bitch about them not giving over revenue or whatever but then torrent your music and don't buy any....

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[-] spez_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nerd

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[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have zero issues with piracy and have a gigantic media server full of pirated content but I don't see how you square "company being hostile to artists and revenue sharing" with "I better pirate this music instead"

I subscribe to Spotify because it's convenient as fuck and has 99.9% of the music I want to listen to (and podcasts). Pirating music is a huge pain in the ass these days even with stuff like lidarr and private trackers.

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[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’m paying artists more through Spotify premium than you are through torrenting their music 🤷‍♂️

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

I'm gay, and I got Portland

[-] agnostictofu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Also Portland!

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

cool, do you know that other guy?

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, you're that kind of gay... 😒

[-] quotheraven404@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I got Portland too!! I'm bi but I mostly listen to Spotify at work where almost everyone else is gay haha

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Helsinki, Finland.

[-] tuxtey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Brother!

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[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I got Burlington! I'm not gay as far as I'm aware but whenever someone asks me what kind of music I like in the future, the answer will be "gay music".

[-] I_Comment_On_EVERYTHING@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

Fort Collins, Colorado for me

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[-] skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I was placed in Salt Lake City, Utah. I guess I'm Mormon?

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You guess? Statistically, you are so Mormon, Spotify knows what kind of underwear you have on.

[-] dumples@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

My wife and I share an account. We got Cambridge. Good thing she came out as bi or else we would be having a strange conversation soon

[-] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Did you feel foolish for subscribing to...fucking anything?? points to the Jolly Roger

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[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 1 year ago

Technically bi (though my tastes lean gay), I was put in Glasgow for listening to a lot of Steps and CHVRCHES... Given that Glasgow was on the running to host the Gay Olympics this year I guess it could be a close equivalent?

[-] Raz@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Seeing "Gay Olympics" made me go "wut?", so of course I clicked the link, and it immediately made sense.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm gay and I was somewhere in Germany. Mainly due to the black metal and one American band that is insanely popular in Germany for some reason.

So much so that they recorded their live 20 year anniversary somewhere there

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[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Provo, USA?

[-] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

This guy listens to only imagine dragons and neon trees

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well let's go find out if I'm gay.

Edit: Nope, not gay unfortunately.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It never gave me a city. It worked for my partner. I'm kinda pissed I wasted my time on this.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, I got Burlington with The Mountain Goats, Fleet Foxes, and Julia Jacklin.

I'm a straight, cis guy but my friends often tell me I listen to 'sad boi' music so 🤷🏽.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Pittsburgh

[-] pedestrian@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I was assigned Burlington by this year's wrapped. Guess I'm moving to the lesbian commune out in Vermont.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine put me in Pittsburg. I've never even been there! But I can take a guess as to why... I like CKY 🤣

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I see the gay agenda is proceeding as planned

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

San Francisco. Apparently progressive trance is popular there? Idk

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Vancouver.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have an account that was used for very limited streaming to a couple of artists. Spotify placed it at Estonia for some reason. None of the artists I listened to are even close to the general area.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's not based on the artist's locations, but where the listeners for the artists are.

One of the top artists you're listening to prob has a lot of listeners in Estonia

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