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Radiohead Gradually Erases its Internet Presence

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the lighter-shade-of-pale? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Is this a cleverly crafted Radiohead album launch, a protest, or something else?

Radiohead's internet presence is disappearing. As Reddit users noted, their website slowly decreased in opacity until it went entirely blank. It appears that tweets and Facebook posts from their accounts have been steadily disappearing. Update (5/1, 2:00 p.m. ET): There are no longer any tweets or Facebook posts on the band's accounts. Their profile pictures and cover photos have gone completely blank, as well. This comes one day after fans of the band received mysterious flyers with the words "Sing a song of sixpence that goes/Burn the Witch/We know where you live." It's unclear what it is, but something seems to be happening. Update (5/1, 2:28 p.m. ET): Now, it appears Thom Yorke has deleted his tweets. Update (5/1, 3:18 p.m. ET): Their Google+ page has now gone blank.

In the age of Napster, the band has been forward-thinking, so it could be anything.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:54AM (#340625)

    The last step will be the entire band snuffing themselves out like a candle in real life because they've achieved nirvana.

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  • (Score: 1) by Hardness on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:22AM

    by Hardness (4766) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:22AM (#340635)

    They said that ages ago when OK Computer was released...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:44AM (#340763)

    I expect the forthcoming album to have an entirely black album cover, no-one's ever done that before, they're groundbreaking yet again!

    • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday May 08 2016, @01:45AM

      by cafebabe (894) on Sunday May 08 2016, @01:45AM (#343066) Journal

      I presume that an artist or band has released a black album cover. I also presume that a transparent album cover has been released. In the latter case, I would hope that the digital representation of a transparent album cover is a transparent .GIF or .PNG

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:19AM (#340772)

    Hey, it worked for Kurt Cobain.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:36PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:36PM (#340859)

    What is the sound of a candle snuffing itself?

    (And also how)

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