3 Name: Anonymous 2025-01-16 20:39
I think the sense of denpa you're speaking about came from a group of friends who called themselves DENPA MOBB. The core of which being N0thanky0u, Dotesmite, and Princess Plunderphonics. Who were all interested in dropping out, reading anarchist philosophy, making LOTS of noisy weird music, manically expositing at absurd length (about the procrastinators scene, otaku, imageboards, n1x, stirner, luke Smith, thinkpads, Linux, their individual fixations, their meatspace derived cultures (london stuff, Estonian punk stuff, rap stuff respectively), and especially Internet culture, gripes about everyone and everything from peculiar people who wanted to be left alone), and encouraging people to live like them if they felt the call. Lots of people have independently adopted the word to describe some electric dissociation before and since them. And each time the ultimate real sense of the term has been a revelation of the limit which they believe defines unusual and delusional electric experience. Outside of the core, OsakaSyndrome seemed just as connected and influential to their style of videos but seemed to always be at the periphery, having more of an individual connection with core members rather than interfacing w/the group. Then there were a huge number of closely related channels, friends like the other members of the crabstack podcast, and friends with similar styles like Jalae. Other channels like Mr Daggers Irl, were never considered denpa really I don't think but seemed like precursors and contemporaries for also going insane in their room or whatever. Anyway, of the core group only N0thanky0u really makes videos in that spirit anymore and they're way more Demure now. I don't think plunder makes videos anymore and Dotesmite only occasionally posts good not-very-denpa OSRS videos. Osaka has mellowed out A LOT now and kind of just makes pretty normal neet/life videos only made interesting by their lineage. Jalae's still very denpa. Idk. This is just a very small perspective, I doubt anyone actually involved would describe it like this.