My guess is that the music of Johan Röhr was not commissioned as PFC perfect fit content, at least not at first. Rather he just worked out how to game the system with large amounts of bland but competent music under a bunch of aliases... because he made $30 million from royalties in 2022, indicating that he did not have a PFC deal at that time.
It's entirely possible that Johan Röhr's success inspired the concept of PFC. So Spotify, seeing that a lot of people mostly want bland music, made a business decision to reduce their royalty costs.
I think Liz Pelly is doing a good job to highlight how this kinda dumbing down effect is happening, and how the streaming platform model is creating these market distortions. But I'm not sure if this is an evil conspiracy to steal from 'real' artists, or just a rational response to the demand for bland muzak.
As an aside, there's an artist called Relaxing Piano Therapy, which could actually be one of Johan Röhr's aliases, or something he's related to via his Overtone label. Anyway, they have one album before 2019 and 247 albums from 2019 to present (I detect a nice 1 album per week cadence). Some albums are very long, it's a lot of content. One album from 2019 has 50 tracks, each with about 350,000 plays (~17.5 million total). There's another album from 2024 with 0 plays. They have about 5,000 monthly listeners. I guess they used to be in official Spotify playlists, but not any more.
We can only guess why users flag things, but in those cases I'd guess it was because they were follow-up indignation pieces with lots of inflammatory energy but little intellectually interesting information. It could also have to do with the titles being flamebait (which of course is related).
You guys do get that HN is not a site for arguing angrily about the hottest political controversies and/or divisive personalities? If so, it shouldn't be a puzzle why community members flagged those posts: that kind of thing is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
It seems like a standard practice on HN nowadays. I am afraid some mods may be politically charged. See the following thread for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926
dang is about as politically neutral as it gets, but it's become very apparent that anything that points to something negative that may loosely relate to Conservatives or the Republican party will get flagged by users.
How do you cope with the sudden loss of the need to use your body for movement or hunting in the wild? By going to the gym and dedicating time to physical fitness. Isn’t that similar?
I feel the metaphor is more how do you re-learn to stand on your feet and walk after a year in space. You might have to start from scratch, and not even factoring in that neural paths might take longer than muscle fibers to get back to a baseline (mental) fitness.
Clearly an inappropriate use of flagging by @quickthrowman.
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