Mu/

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A typical poster on /mu/.

/mu/ is a shitty board on 4chan (/m/ on 420chan) dedicated to music, although really it's just about being as indie as possible and listening to obscure hipster garbage to impress everybody. It is one of the few boards on 4chan where being a tripfag is deemed acceptable, and it is extremely poorly moderated. Keep in mind when entering the board that your favourite band sucks and you have fucking terrible taste. The board was first added to 4chan in 2004.

How to be a /mu/tant

The pretentious dickcheeses that dwell on /mu/ call themselves /mu/tants and are world renowned for listening to extremely bad music. Everybody on the board seems to have a humongous hard-on for Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, and any band you've never heard of. To be a successful tripfag on /mu/, all you have to do either be extremely obnoxious; or hate absolutely every band/song/album that ever gets posted, and spam Last.fm threads with your over 9000 scrobbles of shitty J-pop bands and Post-Avant Jazzcore that you found on Pitchfork.

/mu/core

A /mu/tant is born.

/mu/core or /mu/ essentials are albums that are discussed frequently and generally liked by most of /mu/. A common misconception made by newfags or purposely made by trolls is that /mu/core is selected on a basis of quality, which is obviously untrue because most /mu/core is terrible. Essentials lists are more specific and usually relate to /mu/'s favourite albums from a particular genre.

Some notable /mu/core musicians include:

• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Radiohead
• King Crimson
• My Bloody Valentine
• Captain Beefheart
• Kanye West
• Animal Collective
• Swans
• Burzum
• Lil B
• Grimes
• Death Grips
• Sonic Youth
• Joy Division

Typical /mu/ content

Typical day on /mu/

Mods

/mu/ has almost no moderation from actual mods. The mods on /mu/ are notoriously lazy, much like /mu/'s occasional partner, v, and are despised by most /mu/tants. Nobody ever seems to get banned on the board, except when you make fun of the mods for listening to shitty J-pop music. The major difference between /mu/ and /v/ is that /mu/ is actually capable of and is very good at self moderation, meaning off topic threads (with the exception of feel threads) usually get the everliving shit saged out of them, the result being that most of /mu/'s content at a given time actually relates to music.

Banned from posting in /mu/ [[1]] HIPSTER LIBERAL BUTTHURT

/mu/tants

A /mu/tant in his twilight years.

Guide for preparing for your first /mu/ post

/mu/, being a smaller board, is much less prone to newfags then its bigger counterparts. Faggotry involving excessive use of memes is usually met by greentexting and sages, along with calls for the offender to return to b, a board which is pretty much universally hated by /mu/tants. As a result of this more serious atmosphere, /mu/ produces very little in terms of lulz and memes.

This has changed since 2011, as /mu/ is now basically all forced epic memes, 16 year olds, and Tumblr SJW shit. The majority of threads now involve Death Grips, Smash Mouth, Yung Lean, Iggy Azelea, or any other ironically bad artist. /mu/ and tumblr are basically the same website at this point.

Tripfags

/mu/ is rampant with tripfags trying to be the next board celebrity by way of being as snotty and obnoxious as possible. Tripfags are generally tolerated within /mu/, although occasionally they will be called out on their faggotry. The usual excuse for this behaviour is that anons are more likely to trust their recommendations if the tripfag has helped them before, this would be true if tripfags on /mu/ actually made any decent music recommendations instead of just posting in tripfag circlejerk threads like they always do.

Common threads

• Last.fm or Paste my taste threads
• Tripfag circlejerks
• Stickies posted by mods announcing recent musicians' deaths. These threads usually stay stickied for a few days and end up containing dangerous amounts of butthurt and fail.
• Sharethreads, supposedly where /mu/tants share Mediafire links to their favourite albums; but really just a pissing contest to see who can post the most obscure albums.
• HAS <insert album> LEAKED YET???
• JENNY DEATH WHEN
• St. Vincent/Grimes/Bjork/Chvrches Waifu faggots
• "Things that piss you off in music" threads.
• Facebook and/or Omegle rage threads where fat neckbeards sneer at anyone else's musical taste.
• YouTube rage threads.
• >Blur_-_Woo_Hoo.exe
• Viral marketing
• I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
• /mu/ humor threads
• Rate my taste or last seven days.
• Pitchfork ratings
• Guitarfag or bass threads.
• Reccomendation threads.
• Post your picture and guess music taste (/soc/ shit)
• Feels (usually normalfag teenagers posting about how their crush listens to pleb shit like Alt-J)
• Vaporwave
• "IS GARAGE ROCK DEAD?"
• "<insert band> is the greatest artist of the past decade. prove me wrong."
• KPOP GENERAL
• Soundcloud threads

Well-known faggots

Certain individuals have reached a certain level of worship from entry-level /mu/tants and other such plebians. Some of these people include:

• Piero Scaruffi - An amateur music critic who operates a web-1.0 style website (most likely written in notepad).
• CLT - A pretentious tripfag who believes taking a high school music theory class places him above all other posters.
• TheNeedleDrop - Self explanatory.
• Hampus/Biotroll - Autistic Swede famous for being a prententious patrician asshole and posting his dick.

How to troll /mu/

The typical greeting awaiting a newcomer to the board.

• Post Neutral Milk Hotel in a sharethread.
• Ask which album to start with for a certain artist, this will create a shitstorm of asspies spamming your thread with "WITH THEIR FIRST ALBUM LIKE YOU WOULD WITH ANY OTHER ARTIST!!!!1!!1!"
• Start a Metal thread.
• Say Thom Yorke or Jeff Mangum are bad singers.
• Say an album should or shouldn't be /mu/core.
• Say music was better in the 60s and 70s and complain about how everyone your age listens to Justin Bieber.
  • Alternatively, ask what reason anyone would have for hating Justin Bieber (or any related pop-music entity) other than because it's the "cool" thing to do.
• Criticize and disagree with Pitchfork Media and their reviews.
• Mention Muse. Some /mu/tants like Muse and some hate them. A shitstorm is guaranteed if you mention them in a thread.

A /mu/ trollban [[2]]

See also

• Hipsters
• /v/
• Elitist musical bastards
• Anthony Fantano - king of /mu/

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