CYou're on On Repeat, and the album chart just got a twenty-year-old surprise.
LWait, The Black Parade finally hit number one? I thought that already happened.
CVariety is reporting it's their first-ever number one on the albums chart, twenty years after release.
LThat album ran my high school years. I can still hear the opening piano.
CIt's not just nostalgia, though. A reissue and some limited vinyl sent it back up.
LSent it back up? More like fans finally got the chart rules to count what we've been streaming for years.
COr, allegedly, the fan army bought four copies each in different colors. That's not the same as a new hit.
LCome on, every artist does that now. You're just mad emo kids get a W.
CI'm not mad. I'm questioning whether a two-decade-old record topping the chart says anything about music right now.
LIt says the record's better than whatever the industry tried to push this week. That's something.
CFair, but I'll take a new band getting that slot over a nostalgia loop.
LYou say that until it's your favorite old album.
LDifferent corner of the internet — MrBeast claimed on X that he hired over a hundred artists to hand-draw 140,000 frames for his show.
CThat's a big swing. What's the show?
LIt's his animated series MrBeast Lab. Some reports put the cost at seven million dollars.
CThe confirmed part: he released short MrBeast Lab episodes and said he hired many artists, as practice for a longer series. The specific numbers — a hundred artists, 140,000 frames, seven million — those aren't independently confirmed.
LUnverified, sure. But if it's true, that's a creator paying artists instead of using AI. That should be good.
CUnless the hand-drawn work feeds an AI model. One reply put it bluntly: "using artists to create AI slop is next level evil."
LThat's a leap. Paying artists is the opposite of replacing them.
CThe worry is that artists get used as training data without a real deal. We don't know that here.
LIf the money went to a hundred human artists, that part's a win, whatever the show is.
CI'd like to see the names in the credits.