@oracle > lastfm and statsfm and airbuds and spotify wrapped and other services like letterboxd and anilist have done nothing but make the act of enjoying music - or any other type of fucking art - a competitive fucking sport where you canโt listen to something genuinely without either worrying about how your stats are counted or whether people will judge you for your tastes You know, this is never something that's really happened to me. I'm not sure why. I just set my music players to fire their stuff to last.fm and let them do it. Periodically I check it for recommendations (I wish it's recommendation algo was better tbh). If someone finds my taste in music cringe... That's their problem, tbh. I may not have fully killed the cringe demon in my head, but taming it was one of the better things I've done. And my friends... Have done the same