#i saw an instagram comment today saying that tyler joseph is a perfect human being

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i'm gonna sound like such a hater but i was watching the craving (single version)'s music video, where it's basically about tyler's feelings towards scaled and icy's reception.

and i do feel for him, you spend so much of your time and you give so much of yourself to make art only for it to be discarded and hated. but there's a more cynical part of me that's like... it's not my fault the album was bad though lol stop trying to guilt trip me

i genuinely believe Scaled and Icy was twenty one pilots' darkest moment. i don't just mean because of how the album was received critically, or the content of the songs themselves, but i think people forget that a huge part of the vitriol towards SAI was because it was fresh off the heels off of Tyler's platforms tweet incident.

it was kind of a big deal. people were getting their tattoos covered/removed and shit. tyler couldn't even apologize initially and doubled down on it

and so, charged with this momentum of infamy + the album genuinely just being lackluster compared to their other works, scaled and icy was devoured by the crowd. and honestly i feel like the backlash they received for it was lowkey deserved. it was just karma for weird behavior

anyway. my point is that i don't feel bad about thinking scaled and icy isn't up to snuff. it sucks. it's okay if you like it. it's okay if you don't. at the end of the day, the album was a financial success and they're still millionaires. from an artist's point of view, i know it hurts when people shit on your art. but i don't feel bad for thinking it's bad.

i'm glad we have Clancy to usher in a new era of songs. he can mark a new point in time to start fresh. tyler has long since apologized, and honestly? it's just a fantastic reminder that everyone you look up to has the capacity to fuck up. everyone fucks up. it's what makes us human