Grimes Said She Orchestrated Cyberattack That Shut Down ‘Hipster Runoff’
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In a Vanity Fair interview, Grimes tells the story of committing a federal crime and blackmailing the iconic one-man blogging machine.

:wut:

actually this writeup is better

lol the blogger

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Veteran & Mom of 3. Director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Previously: Sr. Cybersecurity Staffer on the campaign to elect Joe Biden in 2020.

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remember hipster runoff?

“Ohio school shooting teen TJ Lane listened to Grimes. Has fringe indie become the sound of teen angst?”

:data-laughing:

  • FunkyButtLovin [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    “Back in the day, like before the woke era, I actually got canceled for this,” she said in the interview, referring to the photo. “I was trying to be like, all integrity, and start my career, and it was like ‘Grimes Gone Wild’ or something, and it was just this like, super wack, mean story, and it was like this meme which was going all over the internet,” she says. She’d just released her breakout album Visions a few months prior, which won a bunch of awards.

    She kinda reminds me of the doctor from Idiocracy.