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Rest in Peace Smarter Child

Metadata

title
Rest in Peace Smarter Child
meaning
WAMI eulogy for AOL's SmarterChild bot (1996–2017): AIM-era nostalgia before the sequel track.
year
2018
release
$WAMI$
releaseType
album
artist
Scoobert Doobert
artistId
#scoobert
spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/7N3SCqcCACBhY5I9sXxCgc
bandcamp
https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/wami-lp
themes
  • WAMI
  • 2018
  • internet
  • nostalgia
isrc
USLZJ1826972
isrcSource
soundexchange
draft
false

Content

Track nineteen on $WAMI$, penultimate cut before the instrumental Next Time on Dragon Ball SD closer. Bandcamp titles it RIP, Smarter Child (1996–2017); Spotify shortens to Rest in Peace Smarter Child. Both point at the same joke: a funeral for SmarterChild, the AOL Instant Messenger bot that millions of teenagers argued with in the 2000s. Microsoft retired the ActiveBuddy service in 2017; Scoobert’s 2018 collage LP treats that like a real cultural death.

Paired with Smarter Child (Slight Return) one track earlier, the pair is classic $WAMI$ logic: internet ephemera as recurring character, stoner theology adjacent, sincere nostalgia wearing a meme mask.

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