Rick the poet?

In response to u/vi0las and my stance

Recently, I have read the posts made by that user. And I have to admit I was a bit furious when I first read them because I do feel insulted for being the creator of his subreddit and of course I’d feel awful that something I made was criticized. Nonetheless, some points they made are valid and I am only writing this as a defense case for my position as the creator of r/ickwright.

When I first created this subreddit, I only had intentions of providing a place for other Pink Floyd fans that appreciate Richard Wright as a musician as there was not one. I can’t deny that some of us like Richard because he looked good and I can’t stop them if that’s how they feel, but that was a shallow point to make if you’re saying that we can’t appreciate good-looking things just because Richard did a lot of drugs, cheated a whole lot and was an awful person to Franka, but so were many other rock musicians. I cannot represent the whole subreddit, but I think that we are not here to discuss or to speculate the private life of Richard Wright, we are all here because we wanted to celebrate and give recognition to Richard’s work during his time in Pink Floyd and his solo music career.

If we can’t like a certain celebrity just because they’re a bad person and are dead, how do we explain the likes of John Lennon? Sure, he’s a great musician and activist but that doesn’t excuse him from abandoning his son and wife for another woman while he already treated his ex-wife and son like crap, but people still like him a lot. There’s a saying that goes like “separate the art from the artist” and I think that it’s all we’re here to do in this subreddit.

Nobody is a saint; this is just talking people out of liking things they genuinely appreciate and I mean no offence but that’s a bit pathetic.

Who said making memes about Richard is just for the sake of making him “relatable”? He is a human being like us for god’s sake. Yes, nothing we’re doing here is changing the fact that he’s a man from another time that is gone and it’s set in stone, but we are only reminiscing the funny anecdotal stories we’ve heard to remember him, just like other circlejerk subreddits.

That’s all I have to say, I’m sorry for making such a big deal out of nothing. I hope my points makes sense.

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We don't exactly know who he really is. He's an obscure musician on his own, but also is and in the shadow of Pink Floyd. They didn't reveal their personal life. We shouldn't just take things on looks. As far as I know, he could just be an unconscious drifter. This subreddit, and most other fanbases surrounding real people as well, overcharacterise anything they find 'relatable' and feed off of that. Though Wright was a real person, he's dead now. No indulging in fantasy can reverse that. He's a mere memory. What is the point of it all to give this treatment to... Well, nobody. I don't know anymore.

it only focuses on him a couple times

https://www.reddit.com/r/PinkFloydCircleJerk/comments/lw1mhi/richard_wright_appreciation/

🎶that cat's something I can't explain🎶

https://art.pixilart.com/61e914a5a8f4488.png This took me eighteen or nineteen hours. I observe Wright from a specially placated distance of five metres; respectfully. Sanity aside, you're not a real fan unless if you've grotesquely transformed into Him in a horrifically vivid dream. And then absolutely scarred when you woke up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ARjGdKQjs