Last Friday night, I walked in on my roommate furiously typing on their laptop, in an attempt to revive an old Minecraft account.
Our favorite experimental pop weirdos, 100 Gecs, were throwing a music festival inside the video game, called Square Garden.
The Minecraft servers were overwhelmed, but we managed to hop onto the official Twitch stream right as Charli XCX launched her set with a gloriously inspired remix of Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat” x “Vroom Vroom.” On-screen, pixelated people bobbed around the woodland-themed festival grounds.
Watching them made me euphoric and a little weepy—it’s been so long since I’ve seen a crowd. In recent weeks, video game concerts have emerged as an innovative workaround to the loss of social life spawned