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Who’s that?
Edit: googled it, it’s a musician. So you’re saying he’s trying to like purposely get people to invent a conspiracy about him like the “Paul is dead” conspiracy about Paul McCartney?
the conspiracy theory itself has existed since the early aughts if not before. the question is just how much is he feeding into it/whether he originated it.
Yeah, you got it. The conspiracy about him is that Andrew WK is more like a character he's playing rather than a real person. Around 2008 or so people started claiming there have been multiple people who've played the character. But from all evidence I can find, it really is just one real person. I think he's feeding into it or that he's the one who first proposed it. I think he's done stuff like pretended to be his own manager or purposefully be strange in interviews, and he's done this for over a decade.
So he's just american Gackt?
How do you mean? I only know about Gackt from Gundam music.
is that some kind of creepy pasta?
1960s stuff that one of the Beatles died and was replaced by someone who looked the same. People got way too into it saying the Beatles put clues everywhere, like the cover of their albums. The one I've always heard is that Paul McCartney is barefoot and out of step on the cover of Abbey Road because he represents a corpse. And there's a license plate of a car with the letters LMW which is supposed to be "Linda McCartney weeps." It is kinda like creepy pasta before they existed, just people going nuts with pattern recognition.