musicians weaponizing harmony as emotional torture since Bach

A dark-humored text conversation displayed on a phone screen at 23:12 (11:12 PM). The user asks a seemingly innocent joke about the musical equivalent of gaslighting, receives a brief joke answer, then gets hit with an elaborate, detailed explanation that compares actual gaslighting tactics to music theory manipulation. It's a witty, somewhat unhinged meditation on how musicians can psychologically torture people through harmonic deception. Extracted text: 23:12 Monday > Hey 👋 what's the musical version of gaslighting? That would be... jazz. Just kidding. Kind of. The musical version of gaslighting is when someone plays you a major chord and tells you it's minor, insists you're just "not hearing it right," and then adds a diminished seventh and blames you for feeling tense. It's psychological warfare in 4/4 time.