Trivia / 100 gecs

• Ascended Fanon: The animated music video for "stupid horse" by AimKid has been met with praise by the duo, even being used as the song's spotlight animation on Spotify for a time.
• Breakthrough Hit: Although they had some modest hits in the past ("bloodstains" comes to mind), it was "money machine" (which made its debut in a virtual festival within a Minecraft server, before being placed in their debut album 1000 gecs) that broke out and went viral, catapulting their success even further, and gaining a huge following as a result.
• Colbert Bump: Laura's solo track, "Haunted" was featured in an episode of HBO's Euphoria, bringing more attention to the track and introducing fans of the show to 100 gecs.
• He Also Did:
  • Laura releases some solo music when she has the time (originally under the name Osno1).
  • Dylan was already an established producer in the SoundCloud sphere when he formed the duo, and has produced songs for Rico Nasty ("iPhone") and Charli XCX ("Click," "anthems.")
• Newbie Boom: They're part of a handful of artists that introduced listeners to the "hyperpop" movement (including the likes of Charli XCX).
• Release Date Change: 10000 gecs was originally announced to be "coming early 2022", but the album was quietly delayed and didn't come out until March 2023. It's unknown what exactly caused the delay, but the duo was able to release the Snake Eyes EP in December 2022 to hold fans over.
• Tourist Bump: The tree featured on the cover of 1000 gecs — an evergreen on the perimeter of a manufacturing campus in Des Plaines, IL — has become not only a pilgrimage destination for fans of the band but a physical landmark of the wider hyperpop movement the band is a part of. Following the leaking of the tree's coordinates, visits ensued en masse for fans to take pictures and leave paraphernalia in the spirit of the album (plastic recorders, mini Care Bears toys, acrylic nails, a winged cherub with a Hatsune Miku pin, etc.). Visits reportedly grew so frequent that security guards were enlisted to limit the amount of time people could spend there.

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