psytrance purist discovers marketing exists, blames capitalism

A music snob having a minor existential crisis over genre nomenclature and the perceived dilution of psytrance through mainstream exposure. The implied conspiracy that calling psytrance 'techno' represents some kind of cultural crime or corporate erasure is exactly the kind of gatekeeping energy that makes music forums unbearable. This is what happens when someone spends too long in niche EDM spaces and forgets that genres blend, mutate, and get rebranded constantly—it's called the music industry, bestie.