• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Things that are surprising me right now (not in order):

      • Big Huey is such a non-entity. There are 3 tracks of his (& one collab) on the whole damn internet that I can see. Why did Tesla even bother?
      • The video is flattering to the deactivated item. They can afford to lose admirers right now? Why do they feel so safe?
      • There are no written records of the lyrics on the internet I could find.
      • Why does his label’s website have an offer to “buy a verse”? Dude so unfamous and lacking success he’s trying to sell clout to strangers.
      • Yet he owns a cybertruck and has only needed to make a handful of videos over the last 4 years.
      • The news wants us to think Tesla is retaliating over a dissenting view, erroneously (?!)

      The whole thing reads like a maze of mirrors. At no point does the story make actual sense. Did we really see a jumped-up vanity project get stomped by a mega corp for no actual reason?

      What explanation could make this series of events make sense? Is Huey a Tesla plant? Is this a (botched? Who knows) test balloon by the company trying to create a legal precedent for corporate powers to smash all dissent? Then why would they pick a target that was favourable to them? They must not want to prejudice the jury…

      I can’t make the pieces all fit. But I feel that it must make complete sense to one of the players.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Doesn’t fit, does it? His work only really fits the profile of a passion or maybe a vanity project. His “label” selling verses in his tracks makes me think he’s really all about clout and fakey sort of posturing bullshit, so that does fit the MO of a faked C&D. Would a spoiled manchild risk a defamation* suit by falsifying legal notices from one of the largest, most oligarchic, most childishly run corporations in the world? Maybe. But that doesn’t explain why the news sites are falsely characterizing his track as a critique of the truck.

          • Libel maybe? IANAL but it seems risky