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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.
See Catalog · $WAMI$ album notes