As Uncle Iroh said: "If you search for the light, sometimes you may find it. But if darkness is what you seek, it is all you will ever see". Perfect for Redditors

If you’re making the reddit goobers angry, you’re doing something right in my opinion Nothing infuriates them more than someone being well adjusted and speaking the truth.

I'm a software dev, and I was cracking up at your shoutout to the Spotify DevOps team. So good.

Nik: stresses all along the way that he doesn't dislike Hardcore but the lack of Breakdowns with a playlist title like this Reddit: How dare he hate on Hardcore? 😂😂😂😂

Nik's face whenever he hears actual hardcore music is wonderful. Haha. But I agree, a playlist called "The Breakdown" that's missing actual legit, classic hardcore bands? Ridiculous.

I was once guarded/protective and emotional about the music I listen to... but then I turned 15.

If you've never spent time in New York, you won't have any idea how insanely accurate the "folding your pizza, I'm from here" ploy is...

Opposing views in rock and metal?! How dare you! Triggered is an understatement bucko!

am i the only one who thinks that nik looks better now? like he looks much more healthier and that makes me honestly very happy. great content Finn, by the way! Became one of my favorite metal youtubers. kinda like a metal dad that i don't have. keep it going man!

Justice for Nik! The good boy of modern metal who hath done NO wrong!

"I'm mad at Nik because he isn't stuck in the past like me. Metal and hardcore fans are only allowed to like the stuff they liked growing up and he should know this"

I hereby sentence Nik Nocturnal to 7 years of No Eye Contact. Put on this unwashed Corey Taylor mask from the 90s, you earned it.

Make prints of 24 disappointed Nick faces and send it to him as Christmas calendar😂😂😂

I stand with you & Nik. So many people on Reddit behave like 12 yr olds. So annoying... Love the inclusion of Andy saying "Here's the thing."

I stand with Finn and Nic

Reddit needs to chill out and leave you guys alone. #JusticeForNik

Canadians can’t be canceled Trudeau has entered the chat* 🌚

Love to see mom and dad supporting each other 🥲

I like how often heavy music creators are interacting now. Obvious not everyone likes everybody, but I enjoy seeing fun stuff like this.

Those people probably need to listen to the Graystone song :D

Shattered Realm was my first ever Hardcore show back in 2004/5, I'd never seen a proper hardcore pit before and literally the entire floor was one big pit for their entire set. Simpler times.

Spotify put our poppiest / lightest song “Messy” on a metal playlist 😂 I think someone is out to lunch

"Riot Stairs, isnt that a Deadguy song?" That made me remember the like button.

One thing that I love is that both "normies" and "elitists" (I hate both those terms) can agree that spotify is ass at making playlists.

I enjoyed this way too much. Keep laying into these angry gatekeeper types Finn. They need to learn how to relax 😂

Reddit is definitely toxic but this post youre referring to has 0 upvotes, 32 comments, and the caption says "I love Nik." Seems like no one really cares

Me, at least once weekly, for nearly no reason at all: HERE’S THE THING

As someone who scrolls through Reddit every now and then, you couldn’t be more right about the community, but you could say that about the whole site, you’d have an aneurism when looking at r/Slipknot after Jay left, some even calling for the band to quit, they even have their own gripe against AJ Good of the House of Masks YT channel.

People who get butthurt over music because music is their whole identity is CRINGE.

People on the internet mad about something?... WHAT??

I used to frequent band message boards back in the day before reddit was a thing, eventually I realized I was wasting all my time and getting myself riled up for no reason at all so I stopped using them entirely. Then reddit came along and I did it all over again for every subject except for metal. Quit that too. Eventually I realized I was much happier if I quit all conversation based social media platforms. KZfaq comments are the only thing I still use, and I usually just leave a comment and then never return to it to avoid arguments.

Finally some relief for Finn lmfao, can't wait to see this!

"unlike all you losers on reddit". My hand rushed on the like button.

The gatekeeping by Reddit nerds is more outrageous than any specific band/genre fans out there. They've got the gumption of Gandalf screaming at the balrog that "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Break it down for us

Nic diddled peoples feelings. CANCELED!!!!

Haha I just got done watching this video. I was shocked as passionate as he is about breakdowns that he hadn't heard of Sunami or Jesus Piece

Totally agree on spotify's pre-made playlist sucking! "Metal workout" has Black Sabbath, Ozzy , Godsmack....

Cancelled has truly lost all meaning as a word.

When you went on about Sworn Enemy, Shattered Realm, Ramallah etc… you were naming my fav hardcore bands and I thank you… and I was a Juggalo in middle school (still am)

14:08 "Here's The Thing". Right on cue. Thank you.

imagine being at a show full of this subreddit, lmao .

I was just listening to Emmure's Shinjuku Masterlord and the main hook of it was so relevant to the subject matter in this video and made it slap even harder... "do you really think I GIVE A F#CK?"

7:33 Nik's confusion NEEDS to be a gif on my phone like NOW😂😂

Not a real breakdown list without a Jam Band breakdown

I'm subscribing because you used SRE in the correct context.

I just love that sworn enemy got brought up so much. They have been one of my favorite bands for so long and it's a bummer to meet so few other people into them

I always thought 'HARDCORE PUNK' was like The Casualties and other crusty dudes...just me?

His disappointed faces should be turned into NFT.

"Where's the breakdown?" Great merch idea

'here's the thing' reoccurring is always a chuckle.

The best breakdown is obviously Brace Legs by Born of Osiris

Granted, I'm new to modern metalcore, so I had no clue breakdowns came from hardcore originally, but when someone says "breakdown" I expect a metalcore breakdown, and I watched this video, and barely got my itch scratched because none of it was close. I had Nik's expectations. At the end of the day, Reddit will always be Reddit. EDIT: Also, your comment about Nik being the most influential person in metal is true for me personally, I got back into metal/metalcore at the end of 2022, and it was through his reactions.

The end about molotovs got you put on another government list

It was probably 1995 I saw Sworn Enemy in NYC at a Coney Island High. NEVER seen a whole club go absolutely nuts like they did for them. Every single person.

I was at a Dillinger Escape Plan show circa 2002 or so. Was standing in line and my buddy just says " oh, the hardcore kids are here, yay). I look up and see this mongloid with a stubbly shaved head, wife beater, mouth slightly agape and just walking around breathing. That dude is the first thing that came to mind from over 20 years ago when I went to R/Hardcore.

Nic should start introducing himself as the Anthony Fantano of deathcore. would look good on a t shirt.

No way this title is true. Reddit is always a positive community who loves everyone. 😑

I voted for you at the Nik nocturnal awards. You guys are both legends in my book!

the way he says it's the breakdown playlist reminds me of the way people said it's the catalina wine mixer off step brothers

Right on bro!!! Hardcore keyboard balls, soft hands. My heart goes out to all the frail NPCs that dwell in the sub-reddits of internet butt-hurt purgatory, RIP😢😢😢

Tbh I got into metalcore from the trustkill bands and loved that Era and even every Era even risecore. I say this because im not really into hardcore. However I also hate how these hipster pitchfork guys try to rewrite what hardcore is about by separating hardcore to hardcore "punk". Like during the trustkill Era there was a bunch of what they'd consider the bad hardcore bordering on metalcore but it sounded amazing and I loved it. I'll always align more to hardcore vs what they call hardcore punk because hardcore punk to me is just people being hipsters calling everything frat this and mainstream that when they weren't even in the scenes to begin with and their opinion is null. Love the video broski.

I thought punks would get mad at the statement that this kind of music does not make Nik want to mosh. Punks open really crazy moshpits to songs like theese, without breakdowns

"Reddit is mad at someone that isn't me." Movin' on up in the world 👌 haha

One time I got banned from Reddit for asking “how is Joe rogan a Nazi” If Reddit is against you, it just means you’re a normal person with normal views

I add this playlist to mines after watching this vid 👍

No one here is going to mention the fact he was on Jared dines musicians mansion and wrote a hardcore with a sick massive breakdown in the band Greystone in only 5 hours?

I refuse to go into any music sub reddit. People take things way to personal.

Thought I was the only one looking at Spotify-made playlists like “what the hell is this?!”

I am so over breakdowns so i might actually check out this playlist lol

Maybe the redditors are the spotify programmers?

Got my popcorn 🍿🥱

Lol I had forgot that video popped in my recommend as well. Thanks for reminding me to watch it.

Finn really hit him with a "I'm not reading all that" sigma af

A hardocre community on Reddit. They can't cancel a show without breaking down in tears, let alone cancelling Nik lmao

Started the video laughing, ended it laughing, now laughing in the comments. My boss better not find out what I do instead of working the last hour of my shift 😂

I spit my drink out when you mentioned dashboard confessional again. Shit gets me every fucking time 😂

Glassjaw catching strays!! I like Glassjaw. Post hardcore is based as fuck… but I don’t listen to it for breakdowns.

No ARF ARF?

Hey, I like that pitchfork-core stuff! But you and Nic are dead-on. That should be called the breakdown poseur playlist. Put some Terror or Earth Crisis on that mess!

Oh shit, that’s my Reddit post. Y’all, I Love nik and just thought it was funny I swear- I’m a metalcore/deathcore kid at heart

Ok if Reddit hates it I must sub. Also this guy is funny. I thought I was subbed already.

Gotta love people who “hate” you so much, that they dedicate a whole page about how much they -love- despise you

Glassjaw gets grandfathered in because of how awesome worship and tribute was. An intrigal part of my youth.

I remember there was a big controversy regarding their Phonk playlist not too long ago, too...

Nik rules. Haters mad.

Hey, some of us Bluegrass boys know our breakdowns...some of us.

The fact that reddit rages about Finn and Nik, yet they're still the two biggest metal youtubers as far as I know, shows that people being loud about something on the internet doesn't mean it actually matters

What we do is go 15 minutes south to New Haven and settle it in front of Jamey Jastas family’s pizza place.

I’m convinced Bryan Stars wrote that article about Finn

Aw, I feel bad for that racoon. I hope he's moved on.

Bad Blood is Scott Vogel’s new buffalo hardcore band! Which is cool cuz im from buff and saw them a few times and theyre great! As well as Exhibition 😅

I saw Nik’s video earlier and it was great. All those songs should either have wildly heavy or EXTREMELY historic breakdowns and Nik’s video, isn’t wrong!

Nics sad confused face is the new John Travolta looking around meme from pulp fiction.

Spotify doesn't even know what a breakdown is. I think they really think it's just a new genre of metal. WTF.

I'm not even a hardcore fan and I know that's not a breakdown playlist lmao!

"open up this avocado pit"

Nik has a great online personality. I wish he was my best friend.

As a lifelong Kentuckian metalhead I take offense to this.

So actually no one is really mad at Nik Nokturnal lol