Awesomo

There’s this South Park episode where Cartman disguises himself as a Japanese robot named Awesomo to trick Butters into confessing his secrets. Money Boy found that robot and made it a music video. The message is simple: he’s awesome.

Sebastian Meisinger runs Money Boy, which is either a brilliant art project about online culture or exactly what it looks like—a guy with a Facebook page, a Twitter account where he says controversial stuff, and weird takes on whatever music genre he’s feeling that week. He gets dunked on constantly. Other rappers go at him. He’s the internet’s punching bag.

But then he makes a video where a robot just repeats that it’s awesome, and suddenly the whole thing makes sense. You can’t be mad at a robot. You can’t prove it’s wrong. It just exists, being awesome, and that’s the argument.

I don’t know if this is good music or a joke or commentary or all three. It doesn’t matter. Money Boy figured something out about how online life works—how persistence and sincerity and a little bit of absurdity can flip what people think of you. Everyone wants to be mad at him until he’s something you can’t quite pin down. A robot. A mystery. Someone awesome.