>The music board, Any Forums, is dedicated to the discussion of music artists, albums, genres, instruments.[100] Described as "Any Forums's best kept secret" and a "surprisingly artistic, if not esoteric side of Any Forums", Any Forums is used by users to "share their music interests with similar minds", but also to discover "great music they would never have found otherwise" with many moments of "insightful candor that can affirm or challenge their own musical tastes."[101][102] The board is notorious for featuring lots of discussion of music considered alternative, obscure, and non-mainstream.[103] Users discuss both the trending music and niche genres or albums with cult following,[104] while helping inspire and promote underground artists.[105] Some common genres discussed on Any Forums include shoegaze,[106] experimental hip hop,[102] IDM,[107] midwest emo,[108] vaporwave,[109] and many others from various eras.
>A big part of board culture is posting charts, i.e. collages featuring cover art of albums that users have been listening to. The most discussed and essential albums on the board are referred to as "Any Forumscore", with common arguments being on what constitutes that list.[110] Users sometimes recreate popular albums or create new ones collaboratively.[111] An individual's taste in music is usually classified as being either "plebeian" or "patrician".[112] The board has inspired many online music meme pages and Facebook groups that emulate Any Forums's posting style.[113] The board is also known as a place for sharing download links to rare recordings and unreleasead materials of music artists, a practice described by NPR as resembling "a secret club of preservationists obsessed with the articulation of a near-dead language".[114] There is a significant overlap between user bases of Any Forums and music site RateYourMusic.[115][116] (1/2)
>The board has popularized numerous music artists, helping "launch them into public conscioussness",[117] most notably Death Grips,[118] Neutral Milk Hotel,[119][120] Car Seat Headrest,[121] Have a Nice Life,[122] and others. Music publications such as Pitchfork have also acknowledged Any Forums's role in popularization of music artists.[123] Anthony Fantano, called by The New York Times the world's currently most important music critic, started out his music discovery journey by participating in Any Forums's discussions. Fantano describes Any Forums as an "original sin that all humor traces its roots to".[124] Another music reviewer commonly referenced on the board is Piero Scaruffi.[125] Some artists have held Q&A sessions on Any Forums, including deadmau5 and Andrew W.K.[126][127] Other artists, including Zeal & Ardor and Conrad Tao, admitted posting their music anonymously on Any Forums before its official release in order to get honest feedback on it, as well as getting inspired on the board.[128][129] The group Death Grips seeded various clues on Any Forums in 2012 about their upcoming album.[130] In 2011, CNN reported about a fake Radiohead song that started as a joke on Any Forums, mistakenly thinking it's true.[131] A music track of chart topping single "Royals" by singer Lorde appeared on Any Forums in 2012 before its official release, although Lorde denied in 2014 ever writing on the board.[132] Singer Lauren Mayberry shared on Twitter in 2015 a link to a thread on Any Forums about her band's song "Leave a Trace" to showcase what online misogyny looks like,[133] with the thread later being analyzed scholarly in a scientific article.[134] (2/2)
>Singer Lauren Mayberry shared on Twitter in 2015 a link to a thread on Any Forums about her band's song "Leave a Trace" to showcase what online misogyny looks like,[133] with the thread later being analyzed scholarly in a scientific article.[134] Can I have the link the the scientific article please
Evan Williams
Das rite, the only board I visit bros Good to be Any Forumstant folks
>French scholar Albin Wagener studied this specific case in a scientific paper, showing how online discrimination was organized in online forums, when related to sexism.[14]
>A music track of chart topping single "Royals" by singer Lorde appeared on Any Forums in 2012 before its official release, although Lorde denied in 2014 ever writing on the board. o i am laffin
Man, reading that really solidifies how awful this place is nowadays
Brayden Rivera
>no citation after the year 2015 Yeah, around that time the board stopped being relevant
Gabriel Nguyen
It's just that the year after that the whole site started being equated with that "le evil alt right place" so any journalist referencing any board as a source of something positive or interesting would be in trouble
Gabriel Sullivan
Please name some instances of anything notable originating from Any Forums after 2015
Jaxson Richardson
Severely outdated article. There is nothing worthwhile happening here anymore.
Lucas Cruz
like something from a time capsule
Julian Gray
thanks Any Forums!
Josiah Cook
You're welcome sweaty xo
Easton Scott
Why are feminists like this?
Carson Taylor
Someone edit the page.
"The board has since devolved into an abundance of K-pop, musical ignorance, lack of musical curiosity, and zoomers, whislt simultaneously falling victim to the site-wide insurgency of political zealots, and has therefore become irrelevant."
Carter Reyes
Just write a blog post saying this and then someone can quote it as a """source"""
Juan Jones
and whoreposting.
Wyatt Peterson
All Academics are grifters (outside of hard sciences) and compete to get published. Finding a niche or shitposting to get attention will insure it.
Asher Richardson
That Any Forums has been dead for years. Now it's just filled with the same contrarian assholes as all the other boards.
