Cavetown didnโt โfall offโ
a lot of the shift in how people talk about him is just people dropping interest when heโs no longer being flattened into a โsoft kawaii sad boyโ aesthetic. He's a grown man now, he should be allowed to enjoy that however he feels it is fit.
And itโs worth calling out: when trans masc artists get reduced to aesthetics like that, it often overlaps with subtle transphobia, where theyโre only embraced as long as they feel โcuteโ โsoftโ or "non-threatening smol boi's"
The moment they grow, change sound, or stop fitting that expectation, people act like theyโve declined instead of just being a grown person making art.
You can dislike the newer direction of an artist, but framing it as โfalling offโ when itโs really just โnot catering to a fetishized image anymoreโ is where it gets messy. Just sayin
