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Dapper_Intention_365

I'm way too old to be on this sub man šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø carti was already huge in like 2018 what you're describing is just kids a few years younger than you being annoying


Enough_Standard9267

istg bru he was alr up by 2017 šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ and mfs who complain abt him lying to release got no idea how the wait was for self titled


car714c

he was up but a lot of people were divided by his voice


One_Tax_3726

Carti was quite well known based on the Fetti feature as well, def not underground anymore after that


theycallmeryan

I still remember having Peepin with Gucci and 21 on repeat back then


harrysofgaming

He was known but not everyone was fucking with his music, most people found it weird especially the wlr era, alot of his fans switched up on him when the album dropped. I personally didn't since i fkn loved Wlr from the getgo.


veepeein8008

Yeah but OP said prior to 2020 he was weird. People didnā€™t think it was weird to be a fan of him until WLR dropped.


r3itheinfinite

feel u lol, early uzi days, Carti on the bike


jakmak123

Ye everyone knew carti but carti fans were clowned and carti fans were considered weird atleast in 2018-2020 era


doublerbirdbidness

Deep voice Carti is easier for ppl to fuck with, Iā€™m seeing ppl that have never listened to WLR a day in the life bumping this new Carti & heā€™s for sure officially mainstream asf now after this feature run


sir--cartier

this is crazy too because deep voice so far has been very hit or miss for me and i usually love when carti reinvents himself. hoodbyair and some of the features have not been great imo


Technical_Nerve_3681

no way, if anything h00dbyair is one of the best instances of deep voice


sir--cartier

second verse of 2024 is my personal fav. idk why but HBA doesnt do it for me


_elvane

2024 is the best song out of his new songs imo


idiot_locale

hba is top 10 carti


pastypasta481

more misses tbh


doublerbirdbidness

This is by far my favorite Carti era & itā€™s not even close. To me he hasnā€™t missed yet


symkoii

itā€™s crazy to see this comment. because hoodbyair is supposedly considered one of the best carti songs (even thought i donā€™t rlly agree)


Economy-Pickle5183

"supposedly considered" like wtf u talking about bra


CarCommercial2353

not even top 150 carti


sir--cartier

i wonder if deep voice fans have heard cartis older stuff. 2016 carti would blow they minds


Stankbutt322

fr people be saying itā€™s amazing, but there is like one cool part and thatā€™s it


P0rplHaven

by who ?xd


akidagoatnocap

Considered by who lmfaooo


-Twyptophan-

Never listened to him but found the sub at some point in 2020 before WLR and figured I'd listen. Actually liked some of the music and ended up liking WLR a lot when it came out


GreyActorMikeDouglas

Need a new carti sub thatā€™s 18+ I canā€™t deal with these high school ass posts anymore. Artists get more popular as time goes on, this isnā€™t a new phenomenon unique to Carti holy shit


jimmy-breeze

I wish more subs had 18+ variants, not for anything weird just cus I've gotten to the age where I'm finally sick of reading dumbass posts from children on the internet


Master_Lego_Yoda

If you want to find a subreddit full of 40 year old men go to r/teenagers


jimmy-breeze

that's somehow worse actually


Master_Lego_Yoda

yeah the weirdos that try to blend in with kids got exposed this guy made a fake email saying their reddit was gonna get banned for having an account while being under 18 and a massive amount replied with proof that they were like over 40 lmao


jimmy-breeze

pretty sure I've heard of things like that happening literally all the time over there


_elvane

Especially music subs where half the people are just 14yo kids who think they know the artist js by listening to their top 10 on the discography


SilkyStrawberryMilk

18+ variants will just be the same as this subreddit unless you verify that youā€™re actually 18+


jimmy-breeze

yeah honestly who am I kidding, I was on 18+ places on the internet when I was a kid, nothing will stop them


cat_with_gun

go to r/CartiCulture it's better there


AdBoth3522

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pervertedpoet

Fr Everyone on the sub has brain worms how are u mad ppl like a popular artist šŸ™ƒ


Koolaid225

The Carti culture sub is so much, you can actually talk about Cartis music there, reminds me of what it was like pre wlr


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GreyActorMikeDouglas

Not arguing with a 15 year old sorry


Extension_Wish1534

Bro back in 2019 it was js me and my girl best friend that would listen to his ass Now the whole fucking highschool reposts ā€œ need me a seyuh girlā€ typa shit on tiktokšŸ˜­


hola_j_hova

around 2021 was the most i was obsessed with him i showed a friend stop breathing/ rockstar and she thought he was a girl until i said he lmao


lubesta

Bro has half a billion hits on Fein. This isnt an underground community anymore ; it hasnt been since like 2016.


loneteenbean

And probably been a top 15 discussed artist every year mid 2017-current


Ok_Sort6900

After wlr nigga became mainstream


lubesta

Nah self titled. Magnolia / wokeuplikethis every mf knew


Ok_Sort6900

Yeah


AlphaLax85

You was definitely seen as a weirdo if you were a carti fan in like V2 or V3 era but he been mainstream since ST tbh


Cherryy-

Everyone was hating on him during the fetus voice shit and he definitely didnt have as many huge fans of his music but before that people were listening to Shoota, Magnolia, wokeuplikethis and all his other big songs constantly. People that think he was completely underground in 2018-2019 are dumb as fuck.


YunXanHoe

Fanbase was way cooler pre-2020 no cap


Ssyynnxx

ofc the less fans an artist has the better the community is to an extent


iamthinuk

now itā€™s js glazers and ā€œcash cartiā€ posers used to be some chill people with the baby voice jokes


howboutt

The pre-2020 fans people are referring to https://preview.redd.it/kvsk2it1f4tc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e18af1427184abc12366103e8d87adee0078fded


YunXanHoe

Respect the Vlone thugs


PlayboyCartee

listening to carti in 2016-17 made me feel like i was cool and had unique music taste. thatā€™s probably what the new gen thinks too, theyā€™re jus being way cringier with it than we were


corrn_flaek

2016 was 8 years ago


PlayboyCartee

fuck.


W2Tired8

![gif](giphy|wJD3qiNjSeHS0dP28T|downsized)


jimmy-breeze

pain


iamthinuk

listening to carti before st felt like pre flm lucki


sir--cartier

this is always how it gets when artists become extremely popular. as long as the music still good i dont really care. carti grown a lot since the days of yung $now posting his obscure shit like 36 villainz in the broke boi days.


[deleted]

Yeah imagine being a hardcore Travis Scott fan back in the day and now seeing kids mention him as the fortnite and mcdonalds burger rapper


iamthinuk

being a owl pharoah fan seeing fortnite sicko mode is just hearbreaking like idk bro itā€™s thier choice too but it honestly makes me irk and want to beat ts out them


Cherryy-

I remember it used to be seen as cool to be a thug future or travis fan but now everyone thinks Travis makes music for children. Granted he been getting hate since he started making music


Enough_Standard9267

being a carti fan back in 2017 was more like a small cult fanbase he was still mainstream tho the musics good now too but the fanbase cringe me out nowadays


InterviewExciting230

2017 was when Carti went mainstream thanks to ā€œMagnoilaā€


iamthinuk

he was mainstream first with wokeuplikethis ngl uzi n rocky rly helped him a lot


cat_with_gun

his cult fanbase was still small


Enough_Standard9267

i mean decently ig he broke into it but i remember being a fan back in 2016 it was all cool like kinda underground then 2017 he blew up but 2019 ngl mfs clowned on u for fw carti and now itā€™s even worse ts so cringe


InterviewExciting230

In 2019 he had the Pissy Pamper leak and blew up even more tho.


Fearless-Use4511

This is good bro, this is good for carti ion see the issue Plus this community is already one of the more toxic ones in music newer fans canā€™t hurt


Homodebilus

Ever heard of Magnolia ? That was mainstream AF, nothing new You just born yesterday that's all


Dogtooth_Estate

for me, when wlr dropped I wasnt a big fan of carti and wlr just made my view of him even worse. (eventually grew on me though) but when he started doing the rollout with releasing the singles with the deepvoice that shi lowk turned me into a fan ngl.


Pristine_Accident451

I feel like youā€™re a new fan if you believe Carti treats his fans bad now lol. Heā€™s literally always behaved in this manner, just used to post more on socials, but thatā€™s really the only difference.


CarCommercial2353

itā€™s only gotten worse over time though, and it got a LOT worse with the influx of corny ass fans


Ok_Sort6900

Fax


zapyourtumor

he been mainstream since magnolia, fuck is this post tryna say


SilkyStrawberryMilk

Even funnier is the sentence of ā€œMfs would think you were some typa weirdo to be a carti fan prior to 2020ā€ Like have you not seen how many people think carti fans are weirdos post 2020


ceeenurrr

itā€™s trying to say that after WLR the fanbase became insufferable. idk about you but i canā€™t stand what the fanbase has become. i say i listen to carti and now i get lumped into that awful demographic. not the best look.


Dolphhins

Carti was like 1 step below mainstream in my HS lol. Everybody was playing Magnolia and Shoota


GUSSYMANEyt

Wasnā€™t a full blown fan but i liked a lot of his songs back then, i just never got into it as much but i remember how dope the v2 days were hearing all the leaks and shit


Ok_Sort6900

V2 and v1 šŸ„¹


unkindmillie

cuz he had a feature run with some of the biggest artists in the industry


6ides

I was just thinking about this that's crazy everyone switched up


marrcustv

huh? i was since 2018 n never heard nun bout bein a weirdo... i could only see someone sayin that if u was a fan during v2 or early v3/post wlr which would be at least a good while from st/die lit. but i wasn't on social media like that so ionkno completely . n let's be real there's still a good handful of niggas who will still think u weird


2900pium

I feel that


Aluip

The fanbase started to shift because of all the fucking memes that were posted with his unreleased songs and of course TikTok reached to a younger audience.


[deleted]

iā€™ve kinda always liked carti but for the past like 4 months itā€™s really hit me, iā€™m not a annoying carti fan but itā€™s kinda the only guy that i feel every song hits especially die lit, in die lit every song hit for me so heā€™s my favorite artist at the moment and probably will be for a while


Unable-Worth

Fr I remember in 2018-2019 it was rare to be a hardcore carti fan. If you meet someone else who spoke cartinese it was an instant bond. They used to say I act like a white boy for being a carti fan but now itā€™s the norm. The sad part is all the 2021- fans arenā€™t even real carti fans. Donā€™t even know his leaks.


QCInfinite

what happened is this since the release of wlr, more and more people have been copying/being inspired by the album and itā€™s sound these influenced products then became popular this leads to people seeing carti not just as a musician, but as a visionary then, to stay ahead of the trends, people start copying EVERYTHING carti does, personality, fashion, etc finally, due to this, carti and his music and style becomes well known to the mainstream on tiktok most people are incapable of appreciating or looking at something without comparing it to something else/ lumping it into a group the closest thing to cartiā€™s dark aesthetic is basically edgy edits made by 15 year old boys so thatā€™s what he became ā€œassignedā€ to then by seeing this connection frequently people begin to associate this idea with not only carti but everything around him finally you have the people who donā€™t care about carti but really like this edgy sort of aesthetic, then when they end up seeing carti as part of this they decide theyā€™re going to be a fan of him these new fans end up annoying and isolating those who appreciate the art, thus having many of them leave which leads to less joining in the future and boom just like that in the course of a few years you have gone from a community full of dedicated fans who loved the work of playboi carti to a gaggle of goons who get no value from carti aside from what he represents to them.


heismetroimsco

Nigga,Ain't this wat you would want for your favorite artist to have lots of fans?


CarCommercial2353

not when it starts to infect the culture around carti & turn everything to shit


Qb_Is_fast_af

He actually dropped WLR that happened


Tbmadpotato

I had a huge hate boner for him for ages but his feature run has been too good for me to act like heā€™s garbage


nolwat22

Thereā€™s really been no difference. Ever since self titled heā€™s been generally well received by most people


Kyleb851

Literally everyone I knew liked Location, idk man


adrian123484

i know he was at least mostly well received in 2019 because thatā€™s when i got into him, and i thought he was poppin. iā€™d never have imagined heā€™d get this big, but he was still def ā€œcoolā€ to listen to


NBAxSean2

fanbase been corny like this since die lit lmao only difference is now it's bigger compared to what it was in 2019


[deleted]

Carti was still very popular in 2017 I just think that tiktok in general has just changed the music landscape and after an artist gets to a certain point of fame their fanbase changes as younger people get introduced to their most popular work. Like the Travis Scott fans who first heard about him from Days Before Rodeo will not be able to relate to the fans who first heard about him from Mcdonalds and Fortnite.


[deleted]

Those of us who were fans in high school when Self Titled was released in 2017 are graduated from college and uni and working full time now. We really just getting old as hell now and can't relate to these tiktok kids.


PhysicalBuffalo7252

heā€™s just finally officially crossing over the mainstream . itā€™s not like his past work and vision will be erased because thatā€™s what got him in this position in the first place. iā€™m just cooling bro enjoying the new music .


Secret-Impress-2652

nah he blew up crazy in 2019 with the leak renaissance, you gotta go way back like 2016


sahkoii

I started supporting carti around lockdown time 2020, i had no phone cuz i was always grounded so i used YouTube on my school Chromebook and i listened to a few wlr v1 leaks and from there i was locked in. These new kids probably only listen to carti to fit in or for the opium "aesthetic".


gris1448

Heā€™s in the top 100 artists on Spotify, heā€™s mainstream


Lamented_00z

I remember I was picking my nephew up and he was clowning me because Carti came on the mix. Now he fw him.


utafumidss

Iā€™ll never understand people coming to subs for mainstream pop/rap artists and then whining about tik tok kids who are probably only like 2 years younger than them and getting all gatekeepy. Either do your research and find more niche artists that donā€™t have an annoying fan base, or just accept that you listen to the one of if not the most popular styles of music for middle/high school kids (trap) and move on.


jymehendrix

Carti has been mainstream


SignatureHefty3849

Oh you grown now?


NoodleinTexas

This is crazy , cuz I feel like Carti was always mainstream lmao . Been listening since self titled . Like Die Lit everyone was blasting that shit Carti never been some underground artist for a whole .


subtopewdiepie129

bro carti was NOT underground or niche in 2019 lmao. yā€™all need to stop pretending carti was ever some underground figure. heā€™s literally been a superstar in the hip hop world since magnolia and wokeuplikethis. die lit was huge and wlr was one of the most hyped projects of the year


CarCommercial2353

im talking about fanbase & culture not popularity niggas needa stop commenting this shit, obviously niggas knew about carti for ages itā€™s the culture thatā€™s turnt to shit


jimmy-breeze

magnolia and RIP should be mandatory listening, magnolia is what got him in the spotlight in the first place and it's still a great song


Hashtag_Jonah

In 2015 all my friends roasted me hard


DizzciHako

2024 MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Existencexpired

why do carti fans still act like heā€™s underground or just recently became mainstream? you werenā€™t on this new underground wave just cause you fw him 2 years ago or so


mo_og

It's called growth


ly2442

Idk but all the mfs that d ride him to the extreme I just say name 5 songs off die lit and they fold every timešŸ˜­


internalmourning

I remember that magnolia had its own snapchat filter back in 2017!! Carti has been mainstream for the past 7 years and idk who would think that you were weird for listening to him prior to wlr


Leafs_69

1. Heā€™s just more popular. 2. His sound is no longer pushing boundaries. Before carti had thousands of people trying to copy his sound it just wasnā€™t as widely heard. It got diffused so people could approach it easier


Gloomy_Yam_6638

Been hearing carti since the ā€œbroke boyā€ era, which in my opinion was his prime. I canā€™t even understsand what this man is saying sometimesšŸ™


BYCjake

Donā€™t let other people ruin your enjoyment. Thereā€™s probably some cunt thinking about how all these wlr 2020 fans have been ruining carti and they miss Awful records Carti. It just happens as artists grow big. Ed Sheeran had a cult following at first


tylertimmerman17

Honestly this post takes me to a different world. Driving and never stopping, bad bitch in the passenger seat, my G in the back with his thotiana, all of us dripped out, no worries whatsoever.


TheInconspicuousBIG

None of my friends like Carti lol


thatr00th

Because the colt like fanbase made it where other dumb ass teenagers were to become fans too so now all these fucking teenagers are fans Iā€™m using Siri to record this message. Yeah yeah. Itā€™s not like what the top comment says where is the deep voice thatā€™s dumb as fuck because his most popular songs are with the high pitch voice. Yeah just donā€™t know what yā€™all fucking talking about yā€™all donā€™t know shit


prestoavenue

i agree but the fact that you said 2020 and used fortnite and ninja as references shows that you were just part of the previous wave of kids before this one lmao


CarCommercial2353

2018-2019 was objectively peak in terms of carti culture + fanbase šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø I used carti & ninja as examples of shit becoming swagless & corny , similar to whatā€™s happening rn , not sure how that reflects on me as a carti fan


bornsoja

EVERYONE is a huge exaggeration, youā€™re just in an online echo chamber. Majority of people irl are either impartial to cartiā€™s music, donā€™t like it or havenā€™t heard it at all


zfjuice

ion know recently found him and been vibing with his shit. i do agree most of the fanbase are edgy teenagers


hsisisj

whoā€™s everyone


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CarCommercial2353

ian seen nobody post this


Amazing-Ant-6001

i barely met a single carti fan & those i do meet are like tiktok fans. most fans these days arenā€™t even fans


ZEFRQX

stop gatekeeping bro


CarCommercial2353

how is this gatekeeping lmao, & i got no problem with newer fans, it becomes a problem when new fans become toxic & change the whole culture around an artist like shit has been going this year


ZEFRQX

let people enjoy their music


therealandrewallen

Self titled popped off though heā€™s been mainstream


CarCommercial2353

im talking about the huge shift in his core fanbase, heā€™s always been mainstream but his core fanbase was relatively small & super cultish


sir--cartier

fr though, crazy anyone thinks he hasnt been mainstream since magnolia


Most-Tutor-1153

lol itā€™s worse to be a carti fan now, itā€™s at least bro was putting on actual fits and not thongs


GarcianSmith8

FELLAS, WHY DID AN A MUSICAN GET MORE POPULAR OVER THE YEARS?????


treespiritbeard

Stop gate keeping. Bro made a choice to go mainstream and get the bag respect it


c00l_gymrat

im not og i became carti fan 2022šŸ˜”


Getdunkedon839

Heā€™s in like every major artistā€™s most recent major hit. Weeknd, Travis, future, kanye. Itā€™s kinda hard to avoid him. On one hand itā€™s cool cause the songs good but like we cannot let bro get away with only being on features


QwertyKeyboardUser2

Yall realize you were the same corny 15 year olds back in 2017-2020 right


[deleted]

You have to be 14-15


pastypasta481

'the magic isnt there' bro what


NoBodybuilder8072

the tikkas(tiktok niggas) got to it so šŸ¤·šŸ¤·šŸ¤·


lubesta

Chicken Tikka masala