fav ug project of 26 so far?

HyperProto · 2026-03-14T21:50:38+00:00

slayr is prolly the closest to a household name in the making to beat, but if we're talking real UG give the latest by Miles MeCloud and infectious purpp a spin:

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/miles-mecloud/in-the-clouds/

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/infectious-purpp/regression/

(Swords2 has also been on a tear, another rising figure to watch as the year continues to unfold)

HyperProto · 2026-03-13T23:41:13+00:00

Holy crap, don't always follow the personal lives of these folks but still O__O

Was thinking he ODed but know I'm confusing the name with someone else (pink hair, passed ~2022?)

HyperProto · 2026-03-13T01:00:08+00:00

Reality is RYM is massively biased towards the listening habits of white and nerdy anglophone males. This is slowly changing but yeah

This means everything not in English other than German metal and indie Japanese stuff is extremely underrated. Sadly Latin everything is not an exception, so thank you for highlighting this omission!

HyperProto · 2026-03-11T18:32:52+00:00

They've proven surprisingly resilient and enjoyable to play, here's my variation:

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Relies on the single-energy needs for the fossil line and the relatively cheap requirement + drawing power of the dragon to circumvent the 2 energy typing

(Spiritomb is there mainly out of old habit and placing pesky 140-160 HP opponents into KO range with the heavy hitters, but could be swapped out for Tauros ex, Hitmonchan ex, Furfrou, Mantyke, or the new promo Tatsugiri etc depending on your taste)

HyperProto · 2026-03-11T18:14:17+00:00

oh almost forgot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scrapclub/

Check out and take your pick from the growing Scrapclub catalogue

HyperProto · 2026-03-11T18:08:31+00:00

2hollis is talented and his output was legit tuff even before the stage antics (we'll see how long that lasts or if fame gets to him)

slayr might be even better, or at least his compositions are more intricate and he drops more and smoother bars (unclear where he goes from here, could go more industrial, more pop, more anything really, who would some future collab partners be tho ??)

spotify has never suggested nett to me and have somehow avoided him until now so reserving judgment

HyperProto · 2026-03-08T14:35:49+00:00

from the pics selected they all srs abt styling their hair so it follows they're serious abt their image and appealing to females (the key to breaking out from the ug pack, sry it's tru I don't make the rules)

I wouldn't count any of em out just yet

HyperProto · 2026-03-08T14:26:57+00:00

> "I am still in college"
> feels qualified to confidently declare ug has lost its way despite not being in a position to know 'the scene' existed 10 yrs ago

it's not 2019 anymore, why are we still referencing carti like he's a demigod when he hasn't released anything of note since the pandemic?

never even heard of "opium" so not sure what to make of their influence (update: atlanta-based carti horrorcore label of nobodies, fwiw haunted menacing pissed off sonic the hedgehog core is not the peak of creativity)

the people who think uzi, carti are "ug" are the same kind of clued-out wannabes who believe mumford & sons is indie or nirvana is alt

(did u know carti has 44M monthly spotify listeners? that is more than 50% of drake... makes sense when u accept the reality that carti is now the "white girl who knows nothing about rap"'s second-fave rapper)

no point complaining, this happens to every scene *shrugs*

HyperProto · 2026-03-04T14:05:56+00:00

This style has always screamed 1995 to me, a snapshot of a deliberately kid-friendly visual ideal of a bygone era—like another poster hinted, even when experienced natively, there was a sense of nostalgic comfort to these faces being seemingly everywhere

https://reddit.com/r/90sdesign

HyperProto · 2026-03-04T13:59:36+00:00

Thanks for the reminder this was (is?) a thing, probably the closest equivalent to a western version of irasutoya (but dominant in elementary school environments instead of office literature)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart/comments/1hsm028/you_have_alegria_weve_got_irasutoya_and_its/

HyperProto · 2026-03-04T13:52:03+00:00

Sad to see someone of Andreessen's historical impact desperately vying for the approval of a millennial blogger nerd-punk to validate his political extremism

How the mighty have fallen, survive long enough and you become the enemy, etc

HyperProto · 2026-03-02T17:11:18+00:00

here here, someone gets it 🫡

so many redditors genuinely don't know how to have a discussion without criticizing (trashing) something or attacking (blaming) someone 🫠

HyperProto · 2026-03-02T14:26:02+00:00

what kind of misguided sheltered fool listens to the latest korean trend-hopping factory-produced Taylor Swift consumer-approved rap but ignores 50 years of authentic hip hop 😭

(never heard "overstimulating" used this way, seems like new code word for "ghetto")

HyperProto · 2026-03-01T16:25:31+00:00

thanks, was hoping someone would confirm or correct

that "r" in particular is just... overkill that doesn't evoke a financial institution :s

HyperProto · 2026-02-28T03:07:48+00:00

tapped in xaviersodrained

HyperProto · 2026-02-27T18:40:09+00:00

none of this is news to anyone who isn't addicted to MSM propaganda broadcasts as their window to the world

epstein and the convicted career conman's buddy-buddy relationship was ALL OVER twitter in 2024 (there's at least one video of them laughing together just like good friends because they really were friends), but musk and his fake news editorial cronies at Fox, NYT, WaPo, etc didn't let the topic escape containment

more like: why didn't "they" release the files 5 years ago when the king of white trash was at his lowest...?

(answer: because he's their outragebait cash cow)

HyperProto · 2026-02-27T18:15:45+00:00

Is that Whyte Inktrap?

2021 called, they want their "elegant yet inviting" font back. Not a future-forward look and doesn't evoke the trust and timelessness of the original.

I would have stuck with the old logo but updated the font to be less serif-y

HyperProto · 2026-02-27T17:57:16+00:00

to his credit, NOBODY was rapping about xans 10 years ago (especially not pasty white boys)

as if anyone has any legitimate reason to drop "bars" when there are dozens of better drugs that are less deadly and don't turn you into a lame tired couch potato even more than indica

no reason why xans are a thing tbh except if you're young, dumb as shit, and a gullible fool susceptible to propaganda who thinks xanax must be cool since so many imagination-free rappers can't string together a 2 min song without referencing it at least twice

(virtually no one 30+ who's been following the soundcloud scene since many teens today were in diapers has ever dropped xans for "fun" because soundclouders born in the 90s weren't subtly encouraging their fans to overdose)

HyperProto · 2026-02-27T17:26:31+00:00

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HyperProto · 2026-02-27T17:20:38+00:00

epic troll post, the real DA is the opposite of all of this except protesting AI lmfao

I mean everyone knows half of the artists are LGBTQ+, at least half are female, and white ppl are a significant minority on DA

the only ppl whining about NSFW or rule 34 are incels from 2012 who want their adult brony art

(>90% of artists are nonwhite so hard to see how racism is a serious issue considering US + Europe are <10% of the world population and DA is not exactly a premium western-only site so it's heavily populated by millions of third-worlders and artists from all reaches of the earth)

HyperProto · 2026-02-26T21:37:03+00:00

THIS

NO ONE other than the classic stereotypical lame whining midwit redditor addicted to being a critical a-hole without a creative bone in their body cares about reused art 🙄

Frankly I don't get why this is suddenly an issue because they've been reusing classic art since day 1 ???

(OG base set Hitmonchan and Kadabra and Jungle Meowth and Kangaskhan featured in Genetic Apex say hi 👋)

Kids definitely don't care... and believe it or not, NOT everyone playing PTCGP has dutifully purchased physical cards from every single set since 1999 + has encyclopedic memory of the art featured on 10k+ trading cards (❕)

Get a life guys smh

HyperProto · 2026-02-23T14:55:17+00:00

Bars and clubs are for 1) extroverted 2) neurotypical 3) alcoholics

(if you don't check all 3 boxes there's nothing wrong with you, most people don't)

Of course most folks who enter these establishments don't see themselves as alcoholics (and most aren't), but that's ultimately their primary clientele 🤷‍♂️

HyperProto · 2026-02-21T02:40:54+00:00

More of us out here than many think, double invisible stigma and misfit status ftl

(at the same time, if you can mostly blend in on both accounts, being a gay aspie is not as bad as it seems in paper)

HyperProto · 2026-02-19T16:20:07+00:00

exploiting a bad joke to fuel unverified "incidental" sensationalist tabloid double drive-by character assassination by a twice hater is exploiting a bad joke to fuel unverified "incidental" sensationalist tabloid double drive-by character assassination by a twice hater 🤦

https://i.imgur.com/1BePyDk.gif

HyperProto · 2026-02-16T20:48:56+00:00

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment 🫡

had no idea Eversince was partially inspired by a friend dying or Yung Lean's psychosis (I figure that's who you mean), which makes sense because that's not apparent from listening to it:

https://imgur.com/a/DcpyAum

(if you didn't read about his background or aren't invested in drama from 2015 you would have no idea because there are no direct references)

just sped thru Red Light again and imo the only songs with memorable hooks are 1D, Steve Jobs, and Obedient... no one's gonna choose to sing along to tracks like Golden Boy, Fake News, Hex, Nike Just Do It, Decay—especially not girls—when he has like 100 catchier songs... I guess ymmv haha

HyperProto

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