Cavetown didnât âfall offâ
a lot of the shift in how people talk about him is just people dropping interest when heâs no longer being flattened into a âsoft kawaii sad boyâ aesthetic. He's a grown man now, he should be allowed to enjoy that however he feels it is fit.
And itâs worth calling out: when trans masc artists get reduced to aesthetics like that, it often overlaps with subtle transphobia, where theyâre only embraced as long as they feel âcuteâ âsoftâ or "non-threatening smol boi's"
The moment they grow, change sound, or stop fitting that expectation, people act like theyâve declined instead of just being a grown person making art.
You can dislike the newer direction of an artist, but framing it as âfalling offâ when itâs really just ânot catering to a fetishized image anymoreâ is where it gets messy. Just sayin
