angelated logs on to Genius with Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" playing in her 10-yr-old kiniky CD player. Meanwhile, ALLCAPSification chills on his kiniky seat and eats kiniky chicken nuggets and a kiniky yogurt.
ANGELATED: Yo captain! The user interview for you is coming up soon! Are you ready??? :D I have a plan kinda laid out.
ALLCAPSification: Yeah, I'm ready :)
angelated has no idea how to proceed.
ANG: So how're you doing? How've you been spending your summer thus far?
ALL: I'm doing great! I actually started school yesterday, but I've been busy all summer. I did a six-week-long internship with the Public Works Division of my hometown, working mostly at the waste water treatment plant (inb4 “That's sh**ty”). It was a great experience. I really got to learn what goes into making a city function, and I got to meet some great people.
Apart from that, I've been helping my older sister move into her new apartment, and I started making plans with her boyfriend to start a business centered around sustainable food and affordable housing for low-income families. Hopefully that takes off the way we want it to. Other than that, not much, lol.
ANG: Woah, an internship and helping start a business to help the underprivileged? Hell no, that's not sh**ty – you're helping to improve the quality of life for your community and the environment.
It seems that you really care about the well-being of your area; what do you think is a problem that we face [in our society/the world] that doesn't get enough attention?
ALL: Hmm, that's a good question. I feel like a lot of issues are being given a decent amount of attention nowadays (although not all of that attention is necessarily helpful– I plan on making a thread on this later). If I had to state one issue that I think doesn't get enough attention, it would be meat and diary consumption. While many people make their arguments against meat and dairy consumption from an ethics standpoint (which I understand), for me, it's a sustainability thing. We've used up so much land to make room for animal agriculture, yet it's arguably the most inefficient process for making food (why feed grain to a chicken when you can turn that grain into food for yourself?). Considering that hunger is a huge problem even in first-world countries and that plant-based diets are more efficient, more environmentally friendly, healthier when properly planned, etc., and I think it's fair to say that we really need to reduce our consumption of meat and diary if we want to advance.
I'm a huge hypocrite since I'm eating chicken nuggets and yogurt as I type this, but hey, being a hypocrite doesn't make me wrong lol.
ANG: I wouldn't categorize that as hypocrisy, more like self-awareness, haha. I know that being on the internet 10 hrs a day is detrimental to my health yet here I am. I totally agree that animal products are causes of environmental issues, obesity, and animal cruelty (so i became vegetarian).
Nom nom nom, on the topic of food: if you could have an unlimited supply of one food, what would it be?
ALL: It would either be chicken strips or cheese pizza. Maybe popcorn. Idk, I think I'd rather just have an unlimited supply of every food lmao.
ANG: Now, on to some Genius-orientated questions. How did you discover Genius, and what made you stay?
ALL: I came for the rap, and I stayed for everything else lmao. When I was getting into rap for the second time after hearing N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton for the first time, I went to look up the lyrics for “f** tha Police”, and the Genius song page was the first result. I then discovered the forums after finding a versus thread on Google (which thread I don't remember). I lurked around the forums for about a year and saw that Genius was a great place to discuss and learn about rap music, which is what led to me creating my account on December 30th of last year. After cementing myself as a member of the community, I realized that the site could be used for much more than rap music, which has only fueled my decision to stay.
ANG:…and we all know you as a dope mediator today! Is there anything you plan on doing on Genius in the future?
ALL: As of now, I just plan on doing what I've been doing (going in the threads and encouraging discussions). I plan on annotating on the side since there's a lot of dust songs that need some TLC, but my heart and my efforts will remain in the forums since that's the part I enjoy the most. ANG: Time for a fire round! ScopeY's beard or Empath's?
ALL: Oh wow, this is hard. Hmm, Empath's beard is incredibly impressive, but ScopeY's is legendary, so I think I'll pick that.
ANG: Give me a list of top 5 anything.
ALL: Top 5 reasons to grow an afro:
1. It's easy to maintain if it's your natural hair.
2. You can grow it out as long as you want without it getting in your face.
3. Even when it's messy, people love it.
4. It's fun to play with.
5. You can hide stuff in it.
ANG: Proudest achievement?
ALL: Getting the second-highest rating on my set design in a state theatre competition.
ANG: Kinik? ALL: Kinik. ANG: A song the whole world needs to listen to?
ALL: “Hey Ya!” by OutKast (although I'm pretty sure the whole world has already heard that)
ANG: Ya**. Favorite album art?
ALL: At the moment It changes a lot though.
ANG: Best kind of chocolate?
ALL: I was a dark chocolate person for the longest time, but I've started eating milk chocolate more. Kit Kats >>>.
ANG: Worse fruit?
ALL: I love all fruits equally.
ANG: Is there a question you want me to ask you? >v<
ALL: Not that I can think of :3
ANG: Our interview is finished now! Do you want to close with any shoutouts or additional comments? <3
ALL: