“It seems like he’s leaning on automation. “He doesn’t use Twitter in much of a personal capacity he operates more like a brand,” says Adam Moussa, who works as lead social media manager for Eater and has a knack for analyzing Alper’s looping prompts. Others gripe that Alper tweets more like a bot than a human. Could be a terrible day with 4k Covid deaths and Capitol riot and he’s all ‘What’s the best rock duet with piano?’ and I am soothed.” As one of his fans recently put it : “All he wants to talk about is the music. He’s like the human embodiment of BuzzFeed’s old “No haters” motto. Alper’s online persona is defined by this positivity, which sometimes seems as out of place on Twitter as a clavinet on a Black Flag album. The throughline is a childlike enthusiasm for music and an unflappable air of positivity, which Alper’s followers find refreshing and his detractors find grating.
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He’s everywhere - asking you your favorite movie ending, alerting you to McLovin’s 40th birthday, sharing bumper sticker aphorisms like “Once you find your favorite band, there’s nobody else you want.” Among music writers, Alper’s name has even entered the lexicon as slangy shorthand for a certain style of engagement-bait prompt-tweeting. If you spend any time in the nebulously defined world of “Music Twitter,” you’ve seen his posts.
īut with his friendly yet relentless barrage of relatable prompts, Alper has achieved a certain ubiquity on social media. He has a SiriusXM show show) and his own PR company, boasting an eclectic list of past and present clients. He’s a veteran music publicist in his early 50s, the kind of guy who seems more interested in chatting about Led Zeppelin deep cuts than advancing up a corporate ladder. What album can we all agree is a classic?Īlper is not a celebrity. My wife is happy that I get to share all this stuff and not bother her all the time.” “But if I go viral with a question I asked that has 5,000 responses, or if I post something that gets four retweets of an indie band I just found, it’s all good to me. “It’s nice that people are reading ,” he tells me over Zoom from his home in Toronto.
He only wants to share his lifelong passion for music. Alper, though, says the numbers aren’t the point. ) has amassed around 750,000 Twitter followers - more than Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young combined. “I’m looking to find all those new people that started following me, who’ve never had an opportunity to that question, or want to share some amazing experience, or what they think the best song under two minutes is.”Īs of this writing, Alper (a.k.a. “I’m not asking the same question a couple times a year because I’m looking to go viral,” he says. (One guy even set up a parody account to predict Alper’s tweets from “one day in the future.”) Alper doesn’t care. The video was received more than 1,700 reactions and 2,900 shares (shown below).Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, Alper repeats prompts. In the video, the original music was changed to Baka Mitai. One of the most popular videos was uploaded on January 14th, 2020 and titled "𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙖 𝙈𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙞". On January 2020, an unknown Facebook user created the page " The same video of walkman monkey with different music" as a place to upload various video of the monkey. On July 23rd, 2020, YouTube user Dugan Goether uploaded another video "monkey with guts theme" which received more than 2,4 million views (shown below, right). The video received 37,000 views (shown below, right). For example On April 15th, 2019, YouTube user Cole uploaded video "Monkey listening to playboi carti (location)". Many years later, it became popular to pair video with various kinds of music by editing songs in. Choromatsu the monkey died at 29 years old in 2007. The video received more than 10,000 views in eleven years (shown below). In the video, a monkey named Choromatsu listens to music on a Sony Walkman. The earliest footage online was uploaded on April 7th, 2010 by YouTube user onlyfyi in a video titled "Weird Japanese Ads – Monkey with Sony Walkman".
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