Yacht Fakes a Stolen Sex Tape for Publicity

I'm still fucking fuming.

 

people would only care about a leaked sex tape if you were already famous.


And I saw them on campus my freshman year of college (billed in between AGBPOL and The Front Bottoms). They were legitimately awful. Like, just not good music at all with an obnoxious stage presence that would only work if people are actually into your music. Basically a shitty attempt at trying to sound like LCD Soundystem

 

how tf did they think 'hey let's pretend to have been victimized, that will be a good idea'??

 

this band isn't bad
this publicity stunt was bad

 

this band sucks

 

Well they just ruined their career, good. Gross fucking stunt

 

they released a bad statement

 

I can't believe they actually thought this was a good idea. How are people this stupid?

 

Haven't listened to Yacht in nearly a decade but I did like them in high school. Had no idea they were still around.

Anyway, man, what a major fuck up on their part. Can't imagine a group of people coming together and being so collectively dense that they thought this would be a good idea by any stretch of the term

 

tweets from the band's PR

 

So messed up

 

lol@them referring to it as a 'celebrity sex tape'.

The absurdity to me is them thinking this would be some huge news plastered all over the media.

Like, the fact that they even thought this was slightly a good idea is insane. "Hey...you know what will make people listen to our music? A video of us having sex!"

 

I am not sure how to embed a tweet but Eric Wareheim tweeted about it yesterday and I hope he didnt know in advance

 

It actually did work, locally at least. I saw it on multiple Los Angeles news sites yesterday

 

Huh, this isn't the first shitty thing they've done:
YACHT Caught in Nerd Flame War, Tours, Names LP | Pitchfork

 

Def got sketch vibes

 

Some Stan was going in on me earlier defending them saying it isn't a big deal. This was no tween either. I had to block them.

 

this band even posted yesterday that they were "exploited "

and now their statement reads like they weren't doing it

 

this is so gross

 

What a terrible thing to do.

 

someone on facebook was trying spin this as "bad pr is better than no pr" and that their album came out last year, and now people are talking about it. and asked "Did they lose fans with the so-so new record generally? Would you bail on a band you loved 'cause of a dumb moment?"

YES. I WOULD ABSOLUTELY BAIL. da faq?

 

lots of people refuse to abandon pedophiles, rapists, abusers, and other kinds of shit people. in the grand scheme of things, this isn't as bad as that stuff and i imagine it wont have much of an effect on their audience.

 

Shows how shitty their music must be that they had to do a stunt like this to get people to talk about their band.

 

Met my girlfriend when Yacht played at a school here in Salem. We bonded over how bad Yacht was and how it seemed like they were trying way too hard. Good to see things haven't changed.