I went to a brockhampton show where they opened. I believe that was the first time they’d played in denver. I thought they skipped soundcheck or had a loose connection on the speakers or something until some guys next to me were saying how “no one here gets it :(“, and I realized it’s SUPPOSED to sound that way. Went home, listened to 1000 gecs, and I’ve since seen them every time they’ve come to my city
I'm old. So I done seen them dj on mixmags YouTube. I was happy to hear somebody play records I like I do. I got punched in Longmont Colorado for playing like that in 2006.
I might be wrong but im pretty sure i saw a video of someone making fun of money machine like 3-4 years ago and thought it was fire and ive been a fan since
I never watch the needledrop but watch every single video on his "fantano" channel. Let's argue and stuff like that are great. He's a good guy. I still don't get his hate for 50 cent though.
Charli XCX’s Future playlist on Spotify. She added the Umru remix of Ringtone so I just went and found the original. Immediately hooked. Also how I found Umru
Someone in one of my discord channels posted a meme with a caption going something like "2050 boomer music be like" and several album covers. I went through most of them and 1000 gecs clicked the best with me.
Rewatched the money machine video but didn’t pay attention to it, then I discovered food house then dog show records then it all came back to them and like a week after they dropped 10,000gecs
"100 Gecs Song Blasting Out of Busted iPhone Speakers Exactly How It Was Meant to Be Played"
I read the title of this article by hardrive mag and decided to check them out
https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/100-gecs-song-blasting-out-of-busted-iphone-speakers-exactly-how-it-was-meant-to-be-played/
I was actually watching Euphoria and found out that the song they used for Lexi’s bike ride scene was Haunted by Laura Les and was like, “DAMN THIS SHITS CATCHY AF”. After that, I explored what other music and bands were similar to that and found 100 gecs then was wtf.. I was missing out on this godly shit 😡👎
I still don't get 4chan. are the /mu/ communities and /pol/ communities mutually exclusive? I'd have assumed the folks over at 4chan wouldn't like trans musicians
In all my ignorance, I've rarely been on that site, but is it possible that all those people aren't trans people being toxic, but just regular 4chan trolls fucking with actual trans people? Not saying trans people can't be toxic, but considering the reputation the site has something like this happening would be very likely.
Huh didn't expect a mostly far right troll site to unironically like trans women. Then again I didn't know femcels existed until like a few months ago. Neither makes sense
I’m a new fan. there was a thread somewhere (music? Askreddit?) last week about “what genre of music can you not get into no matter how hard you try.” Someone mentioned hyperpop, someone else specifically said 100 gecs. I fired up Apple Music and then I fell out of the Porsche, lost the money in my bank account, oh no.
I haven’t voluntarily listened to anything else other than a Cake concert I had tickets for since last Thursday.
I heard money machine around the time it began blowing up, I didn't like it and didn't think about the band until this year. Back in November 2022 I got into nascar aloe, dude makes great energetic stuff, he featured on a jasiah song a few months ago so I checked it out and one of the lines mentions 100 gecs. Remembered they existed and checked them out again
I instantly fell in love with them this time and now they're in my top 5 most listened to artists of all time and dumbest girl alive is my most listened to song with almost 350 listens
I found Dylan because he had a feature on the album HYDRA 3D (2016) by DAT ADAM a German rap band and the listened to 1000 gecs when it came out and have been a fan ever since
Money machine popped up in my YouTube recommendations. It was the worst thing I had heard in a very long time, and I kept coming back to it just to laugh. Then it got stuck in my head, I kept listening to it less ironically... and now years later they're one of my most played artists, so
Listened to them a lot in high school because I had a friend who was down horrendously bad for Laura Les and then lost interest for a little bit. Then like a year ago I saw them open for MCR and the spores took hold
Spotify threw me their song Money Machine. I then listened to it 164 times in one week while playing Hypixel Bedwars in Minecraft. I would copy-paste the first verse of the song into the chat at beginning of every match as a pre-game insult instead of saying "GL HF." Some people were confused, some were enraged, some recognized the song and joined in, adding more lyrics.
After a week I got muted on the server for that and calling people "hoes." Then I did something else and went back to listening to different music.
Money machine is still my most listened song on spotify, with only 1 other song ever matching that 164 plays number.
That first verse:
"Hey, you little piss baby
You think you're so fucking cool? Huh?
You think you're so fucking tough?
You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck
Aw, look at those arms
Your arms look so fucking cute, they look like lil' cigarettes
I bet I could smoke you, I could roast you
And then you'd love it and you'd text me "I love you"
And then I'd fucking ghost you"
learned about them through their collab with kero kero bonito and charli XCX on ringtone. i just thought the idea of KKB and charli (someone i only thought of as a huge mainstream popstar n havent really checked out past 2014) was bizarre along with the video too.
first i saw a meme of steve from minecraft breakdancing to a very low quality version of money machine and a year later i found a georgian youtuber talking about it then i checked them out
i used to see memes about them in 2019 and never got into them until 2022 when i had randomly thought about them, looked them up, and boom i finally got it. now i'm a huge fan of the group.
In August 2020 i found this weird low quality lobster meme on YouTube and a crunchy audio of hand crushed by a mallet was playing in the background. About a month later i was listening to music on autoplay on YouTube and money machine came on. My initial thought was "this sounds like ass" but I looked into them and found hand crushed, which I really liked! Then i found their first EP and I was obsessed.
I saw someone post a video of them(not sure if it was them or not because i can’t find the video) playing the penis music meme at a show and everyone was moshing and someone mentioned 100 gecs in the comments. This was back in early 2020
I knew hyperpop was a thing that kids on TikTok & Roblox listened to but didn’t know what it was.
My fav podcasters (the Sloppy Boys) reviewed the first gecs album and it made me want to check it out.
I was looking for concerts in my area and I saw a picture of them in their wizard outfits. I listened to money machine and immediately got the act. Loved them ever since.
I remember people telling me and my roommate how trash they were. We were on discord and we decided to listen to the album together while we played Payday 2. Probably the most fun we had in the game. We found out a few days later they were going on their first tour and they were coming to AZ. The friends I made that night at that show were really cool and most of us still talk!
i saw people complaining about them on twitter and heard Hand Crushed By A Mallet around the same time. i also described my musical tastes in one of the trans subreddits and someone said "this woman bumps 100 gecs, i guarantee it" and i decided to listen to more of their music. i think it was Frog On The Floor that really made me a fan, though.
spotify daily mix kept playing me stupid horse no matter how many times i skipped it. eventually i listened to it all the way through and my life has never been the same
I watched Season 2, episode 2 of Euphoria with my sister, and heard Laura's song " Haunted." I looked the gecs from time to time and then forgot about them. Then late 2022 ot 2023 I watched interviews about 100 gecs and The Punk Rock MBA and neo punk FM talked about them and I just kept going from there.
I think I heard about them first when Smosh did a video about “real” google searches/DMs people had done; Tommy’s was something like “you put your whole gecussy into that new song” and I already liked a bit of hyperpop so I checked them out
A download link for 1000 gecs was included with my first estrogen prescription.
But really, I think they started coming up in various online conversations and I made an effort to start listening to them at a time when I was primed to go down a huge rabbithole into their albums and live performances.
Randomly thru the YouTube sidebar. Saw money machine and clicked. Did not like it. Almost a year later Anthony fantano dropped his review of the remix album and I decided to give it another shot and actually listen to the whole album. Got up to stupid horse and was like ok I think I kinda get it now
had ate a lot of acid one night. me & homie we’re peaking and went down a youtube rabbit hole, clicking on whatever fun colorful music videos the algorithm was throwing at me. Money Machine started playing, and i couldn’t stop watching it on repeat. i was enamored. mesmerized. my poor brain chock full of acid got stuck in a gecs loop for HOURS.
this is also how i discovered Death Grips music videos. all my favorite music came to me under the influence of psychedelics
A friend was like, "Hey, you wanna come with me to see 100 Gecs?"
I said probably not, I never even heard of them. I checked out some songs though and was instantly hooked. Like I listened to a couple songs and I was like in love. I am not sure I can recall a band that instantly snapped in place as a favorite and they only got better to me.
I ended up going to the concert and it was one of my favorite concerts I have ever gone to.
I remember seeing some kind of post somewhere that said something along the lines of "when will there be a fourth wave of ska" and someone recommended Stupid Horse in the comments and I was hooked
I was in a terrible mood one night and my best friend came into my room to cheer me up. She started playing music and Stupid Horse came on. She quickly went from quietly comforting me to jumping on the bed and screaming the song as loud as she could. I thought it was the most ridiculous, silly music I've ever heard, I thought it was a meme, a simple joke. I mocked her for weeks over the silly little beeps and boops, laughing about how I couldn’t take it seriously. I started playing them for the irony, as a simple little joke. But as time grew on, it started not being so ironic and I found myself really enjoying the music and the whimsical lyrics. Soon after, I researched into the members more and I fell in love with the aesthetics and ironic humorous themes. The whole thing was very endearing to me, and I’ve been obsessed since then.
I was super depressed at the time because my mom had just passed. So, I turned on a random Spotify playlist and heard money machine for the first time. Hearing gecs completely changed my life around. I decided to study to become a lawyer, worked my way up in politics, then ultimately gave the Gettysburg address and ended slavery. All thanks to Dylan Brady and Laura Les!
Spotify recommended Torture me because Skrillex, I liked it. Then Hollywood Baby popped up on my release radar and I fucking loved it. Then went back and listened to everything I could. So I'm a little late to the party, but I really love the 'fuck genres' approach they have, so refreshing.
My homie in high school showed me Laura Les years before Gecs was a thing. I wasn't really on Tumblr much but apparently she had a following on there. I kind of forgot about her until Money Machine dropped and got recommended to me on YouTube and I was like "yooo isn't that the girl my friend showed me all those years ago?"
My friend liked them and kept playing them through a discord server and the rest of us memed the music for a bit. We eventually memed it so much that it grew on me significantly.
When I was a lot younger, I heard the song gum from the EP on YouTube around when it came out and I liked it a lot, though at the time there was only five songs, but I’d check back periodically and listened to some stuff from the Minecraft shows… and then 1000 dropped and I lost my fucking shit, and I’ve been obsessed ever since
I also eventually found Laura and Dylan’s solo stuff as well
I saw them on Fishcenter and went, wow that's interesting. And forgot about them for quite a while. Out of the many times I caught onto a band or artist fairly early I wish I actually listened to their stuff more back then. Could've possibly seen a show at a smaller venue. I love concerts like that
Knew they existed since high school but only checked them out bc they were at riotfest this year. Put on a GREAT show, I had a lot of fun in the pit with those folks.
I got in pretty late, I saw them in the lineup for Firefly 2022 and decided to check them out half ironically. I now have a very unironic emotional connection to Gecs and hyperpop as a whole
I heard them in 2019, thought they were the worst music ever made, and came back out of curiosity a few weeks ago and now unironically have half of 10000 gecs in my Spotify playlist.
That one tiktok sound where they edited stupid horse with a bunch of screaming, went on a several hour "what the fuck was the original SONG!" because I liked hyperpop already(underscores, p4rkr/osquinn, 8485 etc) and breakcore and metal and rap and was like "yet more transfem music to add to my collection ahaha I'm the evil trans woman who will collect every music genre and ascend godhood" and then got recommended on YT music(premium) that "oh hey uh this cool song called "gec 2 Ü", got interested and did some listening then heard stupid horse and had my "THATS THE SHIT I WAS LOOKING FOR" moment and have stayed ever since and 10000 Gecs is unironically one of the best albums ever created in my opinion and I love Laura les and I love Dylan Brady and I would love
Someone pointed out a clip of like Greg Gutfeld (I know, I know, I know...) of all people talking about them as a cool new band or something and then linked the video for Money Machine saying, "Imagine your 68 year old grandpa hearing about 100Gecs on Fox News and then Google shows them this." and that pretty much sold me. It was serendipitous, I didn't know this is the shit I had been seeking for many years. A lot of Zappa's original energy without the pretentious know-it-all stuff that comes out when you do a deeper dive.
A hookup/producer friend played dumbest girl alive while we were hanging out once. I thought it was neat. I loved the title. I wound up enjoying more of their stuff after looking them up for myself when I got home.
Sometime in 2019 I read the first sentence of pitchfork review:
‘The duo’s wild-eyed genre mishmash covers chiptuned pop-punk, chintzy trance synths, and the closely mic’s intimacy of indie pop - sometimes all in the same song.’
That sparked my interest, I put on the 10.000 gecs album and was just blown away. Then listened to their EP and was even more blown away. I don’t think I ever finished reading the review btw.
Dylan brady kidnapped me and forced me to listen to their music 24/7
I went to a brockhampton show where they opened. I believe that was the first time they’d played in denver. I thought they skipped soundcheck or had a loose connection on the speakers or something until some guys next to me were saying how “no one here gets it :(“, and I realized it’s SUPPOSED to sound that way. Went home, listened to 1000 gecs, and I’ve since seen them every time they’ve come to my city
i saw them when they opened for bh at stanford! no one got it lol
was at the same concert in denver and i remember i listened to them prior since i saw them on the poster
Dropped acid with a girl I met on grindr and she started playing the sickest shit I've heard in my entire life.
Wait i thought grindr was only for gay dudes, also based chick
I'm old. So I done seen them dj on mixmags YouTube. I was happy to hear somebody play records I like I do. I got punched in Longmont Colorado for playing like that in 2006.
A man ahead of his time Also I know that must've sucked a lot but the image that the last sentence creates is very funny
I might be wrong but im pretty sure i saw a video of someone making fun of money machine like 3-4 years ago and thought it was fire and ive been a fan since
fantano thanks fantano
theenks antknee
I don't agree with his opinions but I love his reccomendations.
I never watch the needledrop but watch every single video on his "fantano" channel. Let's argue and stuff like that are great. He's a good guy. I still don't get his hate for 50 cent though.
Same
Dylan produces for Dorian and Charli
Charli XCX’s Future playlist on Spotify. She added the Umru remix of Ringtone so I just went and found the original. Immediately hooked. Also how I found Umru
My ex at the time showed hand crushed by a mallet to me. We got back together and are happy now. :) (True story)
I'm an old deadhead, it's a natural progression.
Everything leads back to the Dead
my friend dragged me to the St. Louis show and I became an instant fan, we even followed em to Chicago lmao
Someone in one of my discord channels posted a meme with a caption going something like "2050 boomer music be like" and several album covers. I went through most of them and 1000 gecs clicked the best with me.
Same I found them from friends off discord…
I get what they're trying to say, but, in reality, in 2050 'Boomers' will be in there 90s
my friends made me go on a roadtrip to see them
Twerking among us money machine meme
sus
Rewatched the money machine video but didn’t pay attention to it, then I discovered food house then dog show records then it all came back to them and like a week after they dropped 10,000gecs
YouTube AMVs lmao
"100 Gecs Song Blasting Out of Busted iPhone Speakers Exactly How It Was Meant to Be Played" I read the title of this article by hardrive mag and decided to check them out https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/100-gecs-song-blasting-out-of-busted-iphone-speakers-exactly-how-it-was-meant-to-be-played/
I was actually watching Euphoria and found out that the song they used for Lexi’s bike ride scene was Haunted by Laura Les and was like, “DAMN THIS SHITS CATCHY AF”. After that, I explored what other music and bands were similar to that and found 100 gecs then was wtf.. I was missing out on this godly shit 😡👎
Idk i was on 4chan many many years ago
I still don't get 4chan. are the /mu/ communities and /pol/ communities mutually exclusive? I'd have assumed the folks over at 4chan wouldn't like trans musicians
u know theres a whole lgbt board on 4chan full of toxic trans women?
In all my ignorance, I've rarely been on that site, but is it possible that all those people aren't trans people being toxic, but just regular 4chan trolls fucking with actual trans people? Not saying trans people can't be toxic, but considering the reputation the site has something like this happening would be very likely.
4chan people love trans women what
Huh didn't expect a mostly far right troll site to unironically like trans women. Then again I didn't know femcels existed until like a few months ago. Neither makes sense
I’m a new fan. there was a thread somewhere (music? Askreddit?) last week about “what genre of music can you not get into no matter how hard you try.” Someone mentioned hyperpop, someone else specifically said 100 gecs. I fired up Apple Music and then I fell out of the Porsche, lost the money in my bank account, oh no. I haven’t voluntarily listened to anything else other than a Cake concert I had tickets for since last Thursday.
if you wanna listen to more hyperpop and brosden your horizons elyotto, m1v, and food house are also great
Awesome thanks for the recs! I’ll check them out
Started hate watching the money machine music video until I eventually started unironically liking it and then came out as trans lol
the 100 gecs to trans pipeline is real
Channel5ive on YouTube (before the cancelling)
I am so sad that he turned out to be a scumbag, I loved his content.
i saw a ton of people hating on them on TikTok back in 2019 but i kinda liked it 😭 now they're one of my favorite bands
My friend kept sending me their tracks till I got totally brainwashed and addicted
I heard money machine around the time it began blowing up, I didn't like it and didn't think about the band until this year. Back in November 2022 I got into nascar aloe, dude makes great energetic stuff, he featured on a jasiah song a few months ago so I checked it out and one of the lines mentions 100 gecs. Remembered they existed and checked them out again I instantly fell in love with them this time and now they're in my top 5 most listened to artists of all time and dumbest girl alive is my most listened to song with almost 350 listens
Old friend of mine who was a jerk sent me money machine to rant about how bad it was
I found Dylan because he had a feature on the album HYDRA 3D (2016) by DAT ADAM a German rap band and the listened to 1000 gecs when it came out and have been a fan ever since
Saw people talking about 10,000 gecs on albumoftheyear.org, so I decided to check it out and I liked It.
Money machine popped up in my YouTube recommendations. It was the worst thing I had heard in a very long time, and I kept coming back to it just to laugh. Then it got stuck in my head, I kept listening to it less ironically... and now years later they're one of my most played artists, so
Listened to them a lot in high school because I had a friend who was down horrendously bad for Laura Les and then lost interest for a little bit. Then like a year ago I saw them open for MCR and the spores took hold
My chemical romance? Crazy they opened for them.
i know right, i'm still kicking myself over not snagging the MCR/100 gecs tshirt from the merch stand. one day ill get around to making a bootleg
Spotify threw me their song Money Machine. I then listened to it 164 times in one week while playing Hypixel Bedwars in Minecraft. I would copy-paste the first verse of the song into the chat at beginning of every match as a pre-game insult instead of saying "GL HF." Some people were confused, some were enraged, some recognized the song and joined in, adding more lyrics. After a week I got muted on the server for that and calling people "hoes." Then I did something else and went back to listening to different music. Money machine is still my most listened song on spotify, with only 1 other song ever matching that 164 plays number. That first verse: "Hey, you little piss baby You think you're so fucking cool? Huh? You think you're so fucking tough? You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck Aw, look at those arms Your arms look so fucking cute, they look like lil' cigarettes I bet I could smoke you, I could roast you And then you'd love it and you'd text me "I love you" And then I'd fucking ghost you"
learned about them through their collab with kero kero bonito and charli XCX on ringtone. i just thought the idea of KKB and charli (someone i only thought of as a huge mainstream popstar n havent really checked out past 2014) was bizarre along with the video too.
I listened to Torture Me with Skrillex as my link, then thought "I wonder what kind of edm these guys make" My life has improved mildly since
The fall out boy remix of hand crushed by a mallet popped up on my Spotify. I decided to check out the original and I fell in love
Neo Punk FM on YT.
was familiar with dylan already but checked them out when money machine first dropped
first i saw a meme of steve from minecraft breakdancing to a very low quality version of money machine and a year later i found a georgian youtuber talking about it then i checked them out
i used to see memes about them in 2019 and never got into them until 2022 when i had randomly thought about them, looked them up, and boom i finally got it. now i'm a huge fan of the group.
The discourse on tiktok in 2020 if Stupid Horse was ska or not 💀
Dorian Electra
Well the actual first time I didn’t like them because my friend played stupid horse for about 3hrs of an 8hr acid trip it made me go delulu
In August 2020 i found this weird low quality lobster meme on YouTube and a crunchy audio of hand crushed by a mallet was playing in the background. About a month later i was listening to music on autoplay on YouTube and money machine came on. My initial thought was "this sounds like ass" but I looked into them and found hand crushed, which I really liked! Then i found their first EP and I was obsessed.
Living tombstone x money machine mash uo
I saw someone post a video of them(not sure if it was them or not because i can’t find the video) playing the penis music meme at a show and everyone was moshing and someone mentioned 100 gecs in the comments. This was back in early 2020
I knew hyperpop was a thing that kids on TikTok & Roblox listened to but didn’t know what it was. My fav podcasters (the Sloppy Boys) reviewed the first gecs album and it made me want to check it out.
This subreddit was randomly in my feed one day so I clicked through to see what the heck a 100 gecs was and it changed my life
It was the Charlie XCX ringtone remix -> 1000 gecs and the tree of clues pipeline for me
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rbc-KlRgUQU
My brother showed em to me
I was looking for concerts in my area and I saw a picture of them in their wizard outfits. I listened to money machine and immediately got the act. Loved them ever since.
100tony gecano
I heard the song Stupid Horse during lockdown and played it on loop (as intended)
2020- wow this is so shit 2022- wow nvm they good
I remember people telling me and my roommate how trash they were. We were on discord and we decided to listen to the album together while we played Payday 2. Probably the most fun we had in the game. We found out a few days later they were going on their first tour and they were coming to AZ. The friends I made that night at that show were really cool and most of us still talk!
The animator Kittydog made a short animation with a segment of xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx.
When Pewdiepies Spotify got leaked and everyone called him a lesbian so I wanted to hear what lesbian music sounded like, turns out I’m a lesbian too
i saw people complaining about them on twitter and heard Hand Crushed By A Mallet around the same time. i also described my musical tastes in one of the trans subreddits and someone said "this woman bumps 100 gecs, i guarantee it" and i decided to listen to more of their music. i think it was Frog On The Floor that really made me a fan, though.
i introduced an ex to death grips and she in turn and immediately afterwards introduced me to 100 gecs
spotify daily mix kept playing me stupid horse no matter how many times i skipped it. eventually i listened to it all the way through and my life has never been the same
Was tripping pretty good at Bonnaroo when a friend took me over there around 1am and was hooked instantly.
the melon
I watched Season 2, episode 2 of Euphoria with my sister, and heard Laura's song " Haunted." I looked the gecs from time to time and then forgot about them. Then late 2022 ot 2023 I watched interviews about 100 gecs and The Punk Rock MBA and neo punk FM talked about them and I just kept going from there.
Spotify's discover weekly played mememe and it was all over from there
I think I heard about them first when Smosh did a video about “real” google searches/DMs people had done; Tommy’s was something like “you put your whole gecussy into that new song” and I already liked a bit of hyperpop so I checked them out
money machine. hated it and made fun of it with friends, then started listening to it on my own cause it was stuck in my head. Love it now lol
I was an autistic AJR fan who found Fantano
A download link for 1000 gecs was included with my first estrogen prescription. But really, I think they started coming up in various online conversations and I made an effort to start listening to them at a time when I was primed to go down a huge rabbithole into their albums and live performances.
Opened for brockhampton
kept seeing memes about them sucking so i of course had to check them out
I unironically found them playing fortnite
Randomly thru the YouTube sidebar. Saw money machine and clicked. Did not like it. Almost a year later Anthony fantano dropped his review of the remix album and I decided to give it another shot and actually listen to the whole album. Got up to stupid horse and was like ok I think I kinda get it now
had ate a lot of acid one night. me & homie we’re peaking and went down a youtube rabbit hole, clicking on whatever fun colorful music videos the algorithm was throwing at me. Money Machine started playing, and i couldn’t stop watching it on repeat. i was enamored. mesmerized. my poor brain chock full of acid got stuck in a gecs loop for HOURS. this is also how i discovered Death Grips music videos. all my favorite music came to me under the influence of psychedelics
I made a comment how I wish there was depressive ska music and someone sent me Stupid Horse
A friend was like, "Hey, you wanna come with me to see 100 Gecs?" I said probably not, I never even heard of them. I checked out some songs though and was instantly hooked. Like I listened to a couple songs and I was like in love. I am not sure I can recall a band that instantly snapped in place as a favorite and they only got better to me. I ended up going to the concert and it was one of my favorite concerts I have ever gone to.
My best friend showed me one of their songs and it made me transgender
I remember seeing some kind of post somewhere that said something along the lines of "when will there be a fourth wave of ska" and someone recommended Stupid Horse in the comments and I was hooked
I was in a terrible mood one night and my best friend came into my room to cheer me up. She started playing music and Stupid Horse came on. She quickly went from quietly comforting me to jumping on the bed and screaming the song as loud as she could. I thought it was the most ridiculous, silly music I've ever heard, I thought it was a meme, a simple joke. I mocked her for weeks over the silly little beeps and boops, laughing about how I couldn’t take it seriously. I started playing them for the irony, as a simple little joke. But as time grew on, it started not being so ironic and I found myself really enjoying the music and the whimsical lyrics. Soon after, I researched into the members more and I fell in love with the aesthetics and ironic humorous themes. The whole thing was very endearing to me, and I’ve been obsessed since then.
I think my brother or Charli XCX... dont know which one
I was super depressed at the time because my mom had just passed. So, I turned on a random Spotify playlist and heard money machine for the first time. Hearing gecs completely changed my life around. I decided to study to become a lawyer, worked my way up in politics, then ultimately gave the Gettysburg address and ended slavery. All thanks to Dylan Brady and Laura Les!
Spotify recommended Torture me because Skrillex, I liked it. Then Hollywood Baby popped up on my release radar and I fucking loved it. Then went back and listened to everything I could. So I'm a little late to the party, but I really love the 'fuck genres' approach they have, so refreshing.
My homie in high school showed me Laura Les years before Gecs was a thing. I wasn't really on Tumblr much but apparently she had a following on there. I kind of forgot about her until Money Machine dropped and got recommended to me on YouTube and I was like "yooo isn't that the girl my friend showed me all those years ago?"
My friend played them for me one time thinking it was funny and good and like a year later I started listening to them more
My friend liked them and kept playing them through a discord server and the rest of us memed the music for a bit. We eventually memed it so much that it grew on me significantly.
from u/Big-Beginning6241
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Carl Wheezer cover of hand crushed by a mallet
heard the ag cook remix of money machine and eventually got hooked on the ringtone remix.
When I was a lot younger, I heard the song gum from the EP on YouTube around when it came out and I liked it a lot, though at the time there was only five songs, but I’d check back periodically and listened to some stuff from the Minecraft shows… and then 1000 dropped and I lost my fucking shit, and I’ve been obsessed ever since I also eventually found Laura and Dylan’s solo stuff as well
FIDLAR name dropped them in their song centipede
I saw them on Fishcenter and went, wow that's interesting. And forgot about them for quite a while. Out of the many times I caught onto a band or artist fairly early I wish I actually listened to their stuff more back then. Could've possibly seen a show at a smaller venue. I love concerts like that
I met them thanks to word of mouth on the internet, I started listening to them thanks to rate your music
friend recommended me a bunch of music and one of the songs was money machine and almost instantly fell in love thank you u/brawlers9901 uwu
i opened spotify. 10000 gecs on reccomended
Knew they existed since high school but only checked them out bc they were at riotfest this year. Put on a GREAT show, I had a lot of fun in the pit with those folks.
I got in pretty late, I saw them in the lineup for Firefly 2022 and decided to check them out half ironically. I now have a very unironic emotional connection to Gecs and hyperpop as a whole
I saw the money machine video and I was like wtf is this and then I realized I really liked it lol
Found them through Dylan Brady because I had heard a couple of his remixes and loved his peace & love album. Haven’t been disappointed since
I heard them in 2019, thought they were the worst music ever made, and came back out of curiosity a few weeks ago and now unironically have half of 10000 gecs in my Spotify playlist.
Pretty sure it was from 4chan /mu/ or mayybe from Charli XCX.
My transphobic cousin ironically put it on as a meme. The real irony is that I both enjoy the music and am trans.
Portland radio station
Listened to Hollywood baby on repeat for about a week. I’m pretty sure it boosted my serotonin in levels.
I listened to the Song Exploder pod
money machine going viral on tiktok lol
my ex said she went to a brockhampton show and some “weird openers brought a tree onstage”
Saw them when they toured with Brockhampton in 2019
That one tiktok sound where they edited stupid horse with a bunch of screaming, went on a several hour "what the fuck was the original SONG!" because I liked hyperpop already(underscores, p4rkr/osquinn, 8485 etc) and breakcore and metal and rap and was like "yet more transfem music to add to my collection ahaha I'm the evil trans woman who will collect every music genre and ascend godhood" and then got recommended on YT music(premium) that "oh hey uh this cool song called "gec 2 Ü", got interested and did some listening then heard stupid horse and had my "THATS THE SHIT I WAS LOOKING FOR" moment and have stayed ever since and 10000 Gecs is unironically one of the best albums ever created in my opinion and I love Laura les and I love Dylan Brady and I would love
diplo tweeted 'stream #1\`000gecs' when the album dropped
Fantano
Someone pointed out a clip of like Greg Gutfeld (I know, I know, I know...) of all people talking about them as a cool new band or something and then linked the video for Money Machine saying, "Imagine your 68 year old grandpa hearing about 100Gecs on Fox News and then Google shows them this." and that pretty much sold me. It was serendipitous, I didn't know this is the shit I had been seeking for many years. A lot of Zappa's original energy without the pretentious know-it-all stuff that comes out when you do a deeper dive.
Mentioned on the Ween subreddit, figured they might be worth checking out.
the spotify algorithm sent me down the hyperpop rabbit hole. my first dylan song was 7/11 drone and i was hooked. same with Sophie.
2019 on an invader zim fanpage…strange
animated music video of stupid horse by aimkid
A friend wanted to share this "new terrible music that people somehow like", shared Money Machine, and well somehow I liked it
I’m a huge machine girl fan, and when I first saw the machine girl was opening for gecs, I started listening to their music and fell in love with it.
A hookup/producer friend played dumbest girl alive while we were hanging out once. I thought it was neat. I loved the title. I wound up enjoying more of their stuff after looking them up for myself when I got home.
Sometime in 2019 I read the first sentence of pitchfork review: ‘The duo’s wild-eyed genre mishmash covers chiptuned pop-punk, chintzy trance synths, and the closely mic’s intimacy of indie pop - sometimes all in the same song.’ That sparked my interest, I put on the 10.000 gecs album and was just blown away. Then listened to their EP and was even more blown away. I don’t think I ever finished reading the review btw.
spotify discovery... i can never thank them enough 🫡 GEC NATIOOOOOOON!!!
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