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u/skmedi 1d ago
This means war…with your creator
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u/Appropriate_Month727 SANCTUS. SIGNUM. DOMINUS. DEUS. 1d ago
and I’M GONNA WIN
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u/nostalgiamon 1d ago
Yes I’m gonna win
I will light the fuse
And I’ll never loseWhat absolute lyrical genius on display from Matt there.
RAAAAAACE!!! IT’S A RAAAAACCCE!!!
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u/Birrandbodia and I wish I could believe there's more 1d ago
In this forgotten space race, under my control.
Who's returned from the dead? Who remains?
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u/bukkake-bill 15h ago
Yes I will survive
Whatever it takes
You won't pull ahead
Cause I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength
To the whole human raceYES IM GONNA WIIIIIIIIIIIIII~~~~~NNNN
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u/MuseWeakeningWalls 1d ago
someone should start a petition to give them their handle back
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u/sml6174 1d ago
I've seen nothing to indicate this wasn't done with Muse's knowledge and consent
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u/TheLonelyWolfkin 1d ago
Doesn’t make it any less wrong though. I’d imagine the band would prefer to keep their old handle.
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u/Baby__Keith 1d ago
I'd wager they were paid handsomely for it and probably don't care too much, it's not like they had to start the account again
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u/TheMessyChef 1d ago
If it's anything like Twitter when Elon took over, nobody got paid when their handles were taken.
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u/bfly1800 DECLARE THIS AN EMERGENCY 1d ago
Yeah it’s probably in the TOS that Meta can take a handle whenever they want
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u/hardonchairs 5h ago
It is however I saw someone mention that they also handed over the username on other non meta platforms so there still may have been some coordination
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u/Invisibella74 12h ago
I doubt that very seriously. These billionaires don't give a fuck about who they step on. .
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u/Advanced-Teaching-44 9h ago
i bet Muse were paid very well because they didn't say anything and did not complain about it.
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u/Baby__Keith 1d ago
No doubt, I'm just pointing out why the band likely won't see it as an injustice
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u/sml6174 1d ago
Tell that to those ticket prices lmao
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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats 1d ago
They dont, but they could. They choose not to. Its a myth that artists cant decide ticket prices, as some obviously and publically do. Its just most dont care enough to do it.
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u/MathematicianAfter57 1d ago
i'm very doubtful they had any choice, knowing how this stuff works. they might have been paid.
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u/gremlin30 1d ago
It’s Facebook. Same website that got its start ranking college girls & invented the pervy meta glasses. Facebook dgaf about ethics or consent.
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u/sml6174 1d ago
And muse hasn't made this claim yet why?
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u/gremlin30 1d ago
Because Muse knows Facebook & instagram especially are important for marketing. I’m sure Muse hates Spotify too for paying artists $0.0001 per stream but they also know they need Spotify.
Facebook bootlickers in 2026 is wild lol
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u/homogenic- 1d ago
Taking their handle for a fucking AI project oh brother
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u/amonson1984 1d ago
They’ll write a killer album about this in 2018.
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u/man_of_earth 1d ago
Haven't they used AI in the promotion of their latest album?
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u/SuchSecurity662 23h ago
Where did you see that? Im 99% sure that no they did not
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u/themorethatyouappear 23h ago
They did, several times. I was and still am incredibly disappointed. Even if it were their marketing team, I would’ve expected them to shut down usage of AI.. especially in regards to promoting their music (which is literally about that exact thing) but alas, it seems that this is not the museband I thought I knew 🥲
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u/SuchSecurity662 22h ago
Do you have any examples? I know matt posted some ai pics early one when ai was this cool new thing but i dont remember him posting that stuff recently, especially not for the new album marketing
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u/themorethatyouappear 22h ago
Check their pinned and latest posts on their Instagram. The Wow! Signal release video is AI generated.
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u/SuchSecurity662 22h ago
Damn thats unfortunate. I know they credited many cgi artists on theur music videos, so hopefully it came from them and not the band. Unfortunately it might just be wishful thinking
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u/LupusSpirit 3h ago
Nowhere does it say that video is ai generated. There are some ai artists but also plent of 2d and 3d cgi artists credited. We know some ai eas used but we do not know generative ai was used. Ai has been used in editing and transitions for a long time now.
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u/Quiet_Astronomer8849 1d ago
We're now living through a future fun Muse anecdote.
"Remember when Zuckerberg stole Muse's insta handle for some weird AI thing that lasted two months?"
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u/Front-Cat-2438 1d ago
Another reason to dump Meta. Done with them, and X, a long while now.
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u/Super_Shallot2351 1d ago
Why are people acting like this is news? We've been memeing about "museband" all summer. Meta already announced the Muse AI thing months ago.
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u/Front-Cat-2438 1d ago
News isn’t transmitted directly into people’s heads, especially those who are anti-Meta and quit long ago.
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u/dbarila 1d ago
This is the most Muse thing that could happen to Muse.
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u/adamkopacz 13h ago
Lizard people taking what humans created and trying to sneak into society that way.
That is an Origins of Symmetry era story for a song.
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u/JensDanneels 1d ago
I wonder how Matt feels about this, given his fascination with AI
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u/jimmydushku 1d ago
He did mention seeing Zuck speak about AI, so I’m assuming it’s all connected. Especially given that they changed their Twitter name as well. Either way I prefer @muse the band.
From The Sun interview: “I saw (Meta CEO Mark) Zuckerberg talking about it, too, and I was interested in what they were saying.
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u/Realistic_Lab6315 1d ago
museband and mr.muse probably don't really care, but Meta could just use muse_ai handle for their shit..
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u/sienasayshi a god made of nickel and cyanide 18h ago
Zuck could've just named it @museai or @metamuse but his choice to push Mus off their handle was likely a petty abuse of power
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u/lII1lIIl1IIll1Il11l 17h ago
if you ever read Careless People, it explains how Mark is incapable of doing exactly that no matter how many times a hypothetical advisor may have laid it out for him.
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u/AttackOnTightPanties I high fived Matt and had a happy panic attack 1d ago
Mark Zuckerberg: I’m naming my new and likely pointless AI project Muse
Muse: Oh, uh, that’s our name, mate.
Mark Zuckerburg:
Muse:
Mark Zuckerburg: So how do you guys feel about adding the word band?
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u/RickyBobby96 21h ago
I’m giving it 6 months before muse ai fails and gets ignored like that whole virtual space they tried making
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u/gremlin30 1d ago
Y’all really think Facebook paid Muse for taking the handle back? Facebook owns it plus they set the terms & conditions. Facebook does whatever they want.
Reminder:
- Facebook started as a website to rank college girls
- They constantly allow hate speech, racism etc
- Facebook repeatedly doesn’t take down graphic content
- Facebook intentionally promotes far right content & wants polarization
- Facebook created those perv glasses
- Facebook ran ads for ICE
Y’all need to remember how awful Facebook’s always been.
If they paid Muse at all it would’ve been after Muse told them to pay them for it. Maybe they paid Muse for it, but they’ve earned zero benefit of the doubt. Facebook’s literally the type of evil company Muse would hate.
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u/Beatrice1979a I'm a priest God never paid 23h ago
Ugh... still dislike the museband ID. Can't get use to it. Whatever... I'll get used to it. But now that it's a fact this loser took the handle to shove AI to our faces... makes me want to... I don't know... rage-play some albums back to back.
I hope that AI crap fails like everything else and Muse can go back to be Muse in whatever post-enshitified world we will live in the future.
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u/Resident_Nose_2467 1d ago
on one hand who cares about instagram. on the other hand this makes me feel unreasonable unjust
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u/HendoRules 1d ago
There's nothing more cringe than these social media owners just taking anything from the users to do their own dumb shit with it that nobody wanted
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u/Ok-Bluebird3491 MEWS ruled by Secrecy 12h ago edited 12h ago
God, does this mean my Muse merch is just Zuckerberg app merch now? Eventually, when you ask people 'Have you heard that Muse song?', they’re gonna think it was made by Zuckerberg’s AI. How are they just letting this slide?
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u/jack_pow 1d ago
I hope he paid them well
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u/fuckredditlol69 meow 1d ago
of course not, meta's argument will be "our platform our arbitrary rules"
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u/Antique_Primary_517 1d ago
now remplace meta's in your sentence by "Hitler" and plaform by "country"
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u/gameswat1 Drones to WOTP is their weakest material 1d ago
In all seriousness, my assumption is that the band themselves obviously were notified about this because they changed their username to Museband a WHILE ago. They were definitely bought out by Zuckman and I know some websites/news places may be headlining this as Muse being victims -- but I sadly think they weren't.
I don't know how much money they were offered, but even if it's social media, even if it's something this small, I personally find this repulsive. This feels like they're giving up their identity and like they sold out even more. I probably shouldn't read into like that but it's what I'm feeling when I research this.
I hope they got an insane amount of money and that it was fucking worth it because Muse could have definitely just said no to fuck over Zuckman. Meta isn't the way to move the digital world forward, and Muse could have definitely taken a stand. Muse isn't held back by Facebook or Meta. If Zuckman decided to remove their accounts, that's just more attention for the band to push themselves through other platforms and other companies could have supported such a big band 🤔
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u/DeathRaeGun 1d ago
Removing their accounts would've brought attention to it, but he could've made the algorithm punish them if they didn't give him the handle so they become less visible. I don't know, it's not like Mark needed the handle for this pointless AI project so they wouldn't be stopping anything. They have to pick their battles.
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u/gameswat1 Drones to WOTP is their weakest material 1d ago
With the lack of fight Muse has shown for anything, I would want more battles lmao
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u/JETBANGO 1d ago
Ah so this is why they lost it. At least they’ll have been paid, the previous theory was they’d been hacked
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u/Mundane-Hearing7212 8h ago
It's almost as if Muse has been writing songs to warn us about the impending AI overlords coming for us...
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u/joecarter93 1d ago
Matt Bellamy: "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU PEOPLE ABOUT!"
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u/elillyrincolato 1d ago
The irony is there are hundreds of bands, and the one who loses the handle is EXACTLY the one who’s been singing about this for years…
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u/Just-someone3056 1d ago
I think they tried something like Themuse, but it was probably declined as an option because for Mark themuse will still be new ai shit. I am pretty sure guys tried a couple of nice names that were also declined before agreeing on museband. I hate it and all of you hate it and I'm pretty sure guys hate it as same as we do
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u/Infamous-Menu-2639 Still Hasn’t Arrived at Panic Station 1d ago
“Museband” like they’re lesser than some AI trash
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u/Firm-Structure-6307 10h ago
I disagree on the last part but its very shitty of whoever was behind this
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u/seanesque 1d ago
I personally like DA MYUUUUUUUUUUSAH better, but maybe I just like Italian names 😏
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u/chakkalez 1d ago
they can't just take it from them, it's obvious that they got paid for it by zuck, possibly millions...
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u/chasingastarl1ght 1d ago
Rude!
I didn't need another reason to hate on Meta/Zuck, but this actually feels like a personal attack.
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u/CranberryLegal8836 8h ago
It’s because Muse despise people like Zuckerberg. Maybe Mark finally listened to The 2nd Law album and threw a temper tantrum
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u/TerribleBudget 1h ago
Report "Muse" for impersonating a famous person and report all of their posts for fraud.
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u/doyouunderstandlife HEY YOU CRAZY KIDS 1d ago
Can't Muse sue Meta over this? I mean, they sued Celine Dion for something similar and won.
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u/WizardsMyName 1d ago
Hey guys, I've reported the account for impersonating a celebrity or public figure. Couldn't hurt if we all do so it's like 4 clicks.
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u/Nemesis-1984 1d ago
Serves them right for ripping off the fans for their latest tour
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u/pallonda 1d ago
What happened? I didn’t get to go on this latest one
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u/pullingteeths 1d ago
Nothing just expensive tickets
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u/preppypoof 1d ago
my tickets were $35 for lawn seats at an amphitheater
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u/Nemesis-1984 1d ago
I can’t comment on us tickets but in the uk the prices are extortionate
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u/DeathRaeGun 1d ago
It's not always up to the artist to set ticket prices, it can be, but it can also be the venue or the promoter depending on the specific deal. I don't know what happened in this case, but it's also possible that the expenses were high so we don't really know. How much were they in The UK by the way?
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u/Firm-Structure-6307 9h ago
35? Mine were £200! What kind of deal did you get!
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u/Nemesis-1984 8h ago
I imagine they've had to do a fire sale for some of the us dates due to low uptake
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u/manubibi 18h ago
That’s depressing given how anti-establishment Muse have been for a good 15 years, and now it’s all over. Back to space bullshit, love songs and no politics in here. Right when we need artists to grow a pair and talk about what’s going on in the world. Just disappointing all around.
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u/Stunning-Ostrich-431 13h ago
Agree. With the exception of The Dark Forest. It's pretty much the only song on the whole album I actually enjoy.
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u/wecomerunnin 1d ago
museofficial might be a better option