When I began my teenage immersion into subculture-type things , I also began laughing at people. To prove that I was cool, I had to make fun of what wasn’t cool (I doubt I fooled anyone). My inferiority complex triumphed over my moral compass; therefore, I engaged in some punching down. This included an ironic engagement with art that was too sloppy to ever be beloved by a mass audience. Later in our timeline, websites such as Everything is Terrible! would create institutions around this kind of mockery. "Look at these nimrods," we think to ourselves. "What were they thinking? I am superior to them!"

This kind of expression that we may ridicule is known as outsider art . Since this is the music section of this publication, I will be specifically writing about outsider music. What diff

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