![]() If a character portrayed by an actor (or that version of a character, if an adaptation) becomes more famous than their portrayer, the actor's name may be completely unknown to all except trivia buffs and paradoxically lead to extreme typecasting to the extent that an actor can't escape being pigeonholed, or rather mine it for the rest of their life. Iconic movie stars have their image reproduced in so many other places that it is easy to recognize their faces or get what part of them is being parodied and alluded to, without having to ever watch any of the movies they starred in. A "famous author" can be widely read, best-selling but largely unread, widely quote-mined, or just well known for "being an author". People, groups, art movements, and entire genres can also be swallowed by Mainstream Obscurity. When the work has become so famous that "everybody else knows about it", yet no one has actually read or been exposed to that work, that work is wallowing in Mainstream Obscurity. A good example is a famous witticism that an intellectual is someone who can listen to Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger note on account of the fact that the finale of Rossini's overture became a Standard Snippet used by the famous TV show, becoming associated with The Wild West despite the fact that it derives from an Italian opera about a Swiss rebel, which, being that it's an opera, has a smaller audience. Thing is, these elements become so overexposed that a lot of people might think they've seen it, or might even feel they don't have to see it, but individuals can't name things about it beyond these famous well-known aspects. ![]() Sure it lands on every critic's top 10 list, has a fantastic word of mouth on many amateur review sites, and is one of the most truly well-known works in media, and some part of the media (the Iconic Outfit, Iconic Item, Signature Scene) is known by Pop-Cultural Osmosis. Go ahead and share your volt.fm profiles with your friends and start comparing your tastes.Īnd, remember that you can share the link to the comparison page too, and as long as the privacy settings of both users allow, everyone should be able to view it.Mainstream Obscurity is what happens to a famous successful work intended for a wide general audience, that succeeds so well and becomes so known, that paradoxically, despite its fame, it remains relatively unknown to the general public. You can change these options in the Settings. People can only compare their tastes with you if your profile is public and you have allowed your top genres, artists, and songs to be visible to everyone. Volt.fm takes your privacy very seriously. The most popular/obscure, newest/oldest, and longest/shortest favorite song of each user is also displayed which you can play and listen to. In the next section, you can see a comparison of your profiles based on the popularity, release date, and length of the music you both listen to. You can easily see who prefers energetic music and who's more into, for example, instrumental music. It then shows a side-by-side analysis of your music tastes. The comparison report starts with the genres, artists, and tracks that you both have in common. ![]() To compare your taste with any other user, open their volt.fm profile and then click on the View Report button below the compatibility bar. ![]() So it was time to expand this feature and let users see a full detailed comparison of their Spotify profiles. It showed a meter that indicated your level of compatibility (Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Very High, and SUPER) and some of your shared top artists and songs.īut volt.fm has greatly changed since then and now has a lot more data that can be used to compare the taste of users. One of the early features that was added to volt.fm was the compatibility section that you could see on the user profiles.
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