>>127339575 (OP)
At the peak of /mu/'s relevance it was a proud elitist board where people obsessively called each others plebs/patricians. It was factionalized between indie hipsters, "avant-teens", metalheads, techno fans,etc. and lost its relevance because poptimism became the hegemonic music culture. Once poptimism conquered /mu/, it had no way to assert relevance since it became the same as any other music community, but with more of an incelish flavor.
In the distant past, /mu/ was a typical Rock-focused music board with a less developed "board culture" but a focus on the obscure much like any place in the 2000s. Then Poptimists infiltrated every music site, board and forum on the internet. In the early 2010s, everything associated with Rock and Metal was reformed to accommodate of Indie, Pop and Hip Hop. Cancer like Leddit and social media displaced music forums, resulting in a death of individual taste cultivation. Tripfaggotry and /mu/core marked this site's death knell with the board subjugated to anonymous tastemakers along with critics such as Scaruffi, Christgau and Fantano. /mu/core is hardly unique to /mu/ as it is a collection of albums praised across multiple sites and critics.
When zoomers grew old enough to post, previous ironies and jokes /mu/ were pushed into the mainstream like pleb/patrician and ironic Rap was taken seriously as a real genre. Satire no longer exists on /mu/. The new generation of /mu/tants can't distinguish between good music and satire, and thus we have the board we have now, where /mu/tants pretend to listen to obscure music they found on RYM, while also simultaneously listening to ironic Rap and Hip Hop. Newfags listen to the same albums the rest of the board does, like mindless NPCs.
I'm glad /mu/ has gone into the gutter because the mask of sophistication has completely slipped. /mu/tants are scum
