Talk:Broadwaystuck

"Broadway Homestuck" is NOT AN ALIAS OF THIS GROUP.

I'm the Lotus Time Capsule host. Broadway Homestuck is a random scammer posting free fancontent that isn't theirs to sites that pay them for it. They have stripped attribution from the tracks they stole and made up this entirely new handle and applied it to works that were never even Broadwaystuck to begin with.

"Broadway Homestuck" on Spotify (or itunes, or google play, or whatever else, it's a few places) is unaffiliated with anyone who actually produced those tracks. I don't support them because they are getting paid by Spotify for others' work, and the track art they have selected makes me strongly suspicious that they are profiting off of me, specifically, saving others' work (and making it look like it's me doing it!). What they are doing is in my estimation the second-worst-case possible scenario that could come from my actions and I'm really, really bummed out about it. Tindeck tracks were licensed for noncommercial distribution and spotify et al. are explicitly commercial. I don't want anyone to ever think that I am benefitting inappropriately from what I'm doing here.

The reasons I think this are

1. the... odd selection of songs, particularly due to facts of personal history and collaborations. The most stand-out example is La Seine, which *is* a Broadway Karkat collab, but it was posted to the duetist's account, SkylarCapuch. It is also not a parody, just a fun duet the singer did. I have it for archival reasons and I put it in BKK's folder because SkylarCapuch didn't have anything else to put it with, so it is technically misfiled by my own rules. Again, it is not a homestuck song. The only reason it's on this Spotify is because they grabbed all the files from me and didn't know what they were looking at.
2. a couple of specific typos that mirror what I did when manually naming thousands of tracks
3. the album art, which I added when a given track didn't have any originally affixed
4. missing attribution for collaborators such as Kylee Henke, which is really unlike OG BKK
5. zero announcement on any OG BKK social media, which is BIZARRE for an artist opening a new income stream!
6. Nobody who knows what it is calls it "Broadway Homestuck". It's "Broadwaystuck" and has been for 12+ years.

and the smoking gun, 7) You Can't Fight The Homestuck and Stuck This Way have NOTHING TO DO WITH BROADWAYSTUCK and there is no WAY in hell OG BKK would have touched that song with a ten foot pole. Those are from Kylee Henke's entirely unrelated project, Fruity Rumpus Meme Factory.

XOXOXOXO Anmochi