An ‘elitist’ metal YouTube show has divided fans.
Called The Metal Gatekeepers, the 20-minute weekly show is hosted by two veteran metalheads Cody (34) and Tristan (35), who met when they played in the death metal band Acid Lobotomy in the early 2000s.
“It’s a simple format,” said Cody, “the first 10 minutes is me and Tristan going through the latest metal albums and telling the viewers what they should be listening to and what is poser garbage for wusses!”
“And then we have Posers Pwned, where we get some random viewer on and destroy their disgusting taste in metal, tell them what a hopeless poser they are, and why they should stop pretending and go listen to some pop garbage instead,” said Tristan.
With Cody and Tristan both in part-time customer service jobs and ‘free family-based living arrangements’, they have time to pour hours of research into the show.
Though the show, now in its fourth episode, has copped a big backlash in the comments sections, with a lot of commenters calling them “out of touch”, “elitist nerds”, “losers”, “weirdos who look like that gamer guy from South Park“, and “arrogant d—heads”.
But Cody and Tristan don’t care.
“It sucks that most of our ‘fans’ are posers who make the mistake listening to a wide variety of metal,” said Cody.
“Real metalheads listen to the same handful of albums over and over until they’re burned into their brains and it can be appreciated on a scientific level, something the posers who only listen to an album a couple of times will never understand,” said Tristan. “The hate from the idiots who watch us only fuels us to go even harder. We’re trying to educate people here.”
