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Confused Bystander Can’t Understand Why Gamers are Talking About Gotye So Much

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Stepping up to openly question today’s media trends, local user Jim Stevens thinks the game industry’s sudden obsession with Gotye needs to be addressed.

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“I’ve been seeing an alarming number of Gotye discussions – rankings, opinions, heated debates – seemingly out of nowhere,” said Stevens, who admitted to knowing little of either games media or the Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter.

Stevens called the year-end media attention “excessive” and “irresponsible” considering the artist hasn’t released music since 2011.

“It’s been four years since Someone That I Used to Know. I don’t think Gotye even talks about Gotye anymore.”

“You couldn’t even make a Top 5 list of his albums, there’s only 3!” Stevens said in frustration, closing out of a Gotye Wikipedia tab.

Soon after the interview, an adolescent child could be heard yelling from behind a closed bedroom door: “Geralt isn’t Gotye, Dad.”

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Sharon Coone

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