This is a thread for the discussion of all things related to the extensively documented and confirmed phenomenon of pretentious faggots claiming to like music that they secretly do not actually enjoy, for purely contrived and superficial reasons, their characteristics and their psychological motivations for engaging in this pathetic behaviour. We also discuss the specific artists that these people most frequently select for this performative, fake social signalling display, such as:

>Merzbow
>Lou Reed
>Captain Beefheart
>AMM
>Xiu Xiu
>Ween
>Talk Talk
>Frank Zappa
>Death Grips
>The Residents

The most common response from these types is “Why would anyone pretend to like something?”, which is a 100% certain confirmation that the person themselves pretends to like things, as everyone knows the answer to this question intuitively. It is a behaviour which has already been confirmed multiple times with various studies and hoaxes played on people like art critics and wine tasters, who were caught red handed pretending to like things, as seen here:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Tate:_An_American_Artist_1928–1960

https://www.cracked.com/article_18380_the-6-most-statistically-full-shit-professions.html

What are some of your thoughts and observations on this extremely pathetic and deeply pitiful behaviour?