Marcel Winatschek

Dicke Lippen: Twenty-Four Hours

Katja Krasavice is Germany’s biggest YouTuber, and like all of them at a certain level, she makes music now. Dicke Lippen is the expected product of all that—you probably know exactly what you’re getting.

This YouTuber Mibu apparently decided the appropriate response was to listen to it for twenty-four hours straight. Just put it on and let it run without stopping, streamed the whole thing live. And he actually finished it. I don’t know what that sounds like by hour fifteen or twenty, but at some point it stops being music and just becomes noise—something that’s burned itself into your brain through pure repetition.

That’s basically internet culture in a nutshell. Nobody asked him to do it. Nobody needed it. He just decided to subject himself to this and filmed it for people to watch, and somehow that seems like the most honest thing anyone’s doing online right now.