The History of Gag City: The Barbz Led Stan Twitter Promo Explained
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- In late 2023, as Nicki Minaj's album Pink Friday 2 approached its release date, Barbz (Nicki stans) created the viral trend 'Gag City' to promote Nicki's new music. The fans quickly developed Gag City into an expansive pink fictional world by welcoming celebrities to the metropolis and even some large brands, like Spotify, began to set up shop in this stan twitter mystical world. However, the term Gag City, in reference to Nicki and her projects, wasn't first used in 2023 and the foundations of Gag City were already being laid back in 2022...
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What happened? 💀
oh joe our unproblematic king
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@@dustmite7558 Basically, after Megan dissed Nicki in her new song, HISS, in which she said, “These hoes ain’t mad at Megan, they mad at Megan’s Law” which was a shot at Nicki’s husband, and her brother, as they are both registered sex offenders, which is what Megans Law is, and said Nicki got Tina Snow (Cocaine) up her nose, she responded on ig live, previewing a track, that went, “Bad B*txh, she like 6 foot, I call her “Big Foot”. A b*tch fell off, I said get up your good foot.” Which was a reference to Megan getting shot in her foot, by rapper Tory Lanez, and Nicki then proceeded to like a bunch of tweets mocking Megan, and her getting shot.
your timing is horrible everytime and i literally love it help😭😭😭
everytime? when else did he post at a bad time?
@@MeMarcusTheCreator the thing is, he posted this around the time of the nicki-megan beef where gag city and basically nicki's career started crumbling 😭
@@zomba79 I know about this time, trust me. 😅 it’s just that they said every time, and I wondered if there was any other time he done any bad timing posts?
@@MeMarcusTheCreatorposting a video about that one floptok girl 2 days before she was revealed to be a real person lmao
@@heterOnegative oh i remember that! 😅
I can't believe a JoeRegrets video is how I learn Taylor Swift is in fact not sending me a free Le Creuset.
I think it would have been fine if it was JUST barbz using AI. Nicki is a multi millionaire, she has the money to hire artists. People saying “AI isn’t actually hurting artists-“ IT IS! Companies are laying off their artists in favor of using AI, or just straight up never hiring them.
she kind of had to cave once it blew up. she was trying to get her image blocked on AI websites before Gag City. She also did pay an artist who made her PF2 promo videos/photos that she credited on Twitter -_-
it’s not her job to hire artists and i’m sure we’re gonna be seeing this a lot more in the future
@@sourmilkies right because she's jobless, should've just retired at this point..
I don't give a care if she uses AI images or not, as it is part of the aesthetic now, but perhaps it would be a better look if she hired a real artist to make images in the style of AI. That would put to bed the classist angle
@@sourmilkiesit quite literally is or her labels job to hire people for it. AI art has a lot of issues that can be avoided by hiring a real person.
not you posting this when gag city is currently in AI-generated flames
ai-generated flames 😭
Thats the point lmao
Anytime Joe uploads my day instantly gets better 😭😭
Watching gag city crumble after the album dropped was crazy
I mean it did do its job which was to promote an album so why keep this meme alive?
It seems to have lasted longer than dojas demon bs… it also was the highest selling female rap album of 2023… she surpassed doja in 14 days. Doja had 91 at that point. That was really just a starting point too. So maybe factor in efficiency and effectiveness….
@@cranksetwrench nicki herself is still trying to make it happen lol
Nuclear War engulfed the beautiful metropolitan area known as: “Gag City” on October 23rd 2077.
Some claim that Armageddon was brought on by the island of Floptropica, others claim that the Katy Kats were fed up of being left out of a Joe Regrets video, and took dramatic action.
Because War, War never changes.
@@jmaraisthat was the theme of her album era. she didn’t even tour yet so yea she made it happen already.
You're timing on this video is impeccable iykyk 🥴
What happened??
I’m so confused- pls someone explain 😭🙏🏻
@@imtheonewhobroughtthebeans915 referencing the taylor ai situation i think
im pretty sure the megan beef@@imtheonewhobroughtthebeans915
@@imtheonewhobroughtthebeans915
nicki minaj is scrambling after megan thee stallion allegedly dissed her in a song (referenced her sex offender husband) while megan stays undisturbed
For those of ya'll wondering about those pointing out the timing of this video's upload in regards to the topic: Meg thee Stallion's "Hiss"' has a lyric mentioning Meagan's Law, a law regarding s3x offenders. Nicki took that personally because she's married to one and went off on a live over it and apparently wrote a response where she made fun of Meg's looks and also her foot injury from when Tory Lanez shot here.
Nicky's brother who she supports is also a s3x offender, he violently assaulted an 11 yr old child and his lawyer's defense was to say other men had done it to her before so it was ok (Nicky paid that lawyer)
Wow that’s so fucked, I mean I like Nicki’s music but I don’t know why no one is calling her out straight on for this. Making fun of someone who got shot is just fucked and don’t really deserve fame
she ignores them and then writes weird disses and likes weird shit on twitter about peoples abuse and she harrassed a tiktoker for calling her out writing weird stuff about her and her family@@berry_cakeisgood
@@berry_cakeisgoodtwitter has been eating her up!
She also liked over 100 tweets shading Meg, including one that made fun of the shooting incident. It's embarrassing, especially at that grown age. I think a Meg really struck a nerve with that line lmao.
The fact that her album rollout was AI images of a fake city is crazy. Budget who
😂😂😂
Exactly she didn’t have a budget
Some of the pictures were by alexzander
@@Chrissy_Hillsshe literally went on several interviews
@@Chrissy_Hillsand how do you know?
Please tell me a Floptropica video is in the works. It’s not a want, it’s A NEED 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
The lore is coming …
he gave you a heart, you better get your rose toys in and ur helmets on...
omg this man never seems to fail in getting me rolling on the floor
THE TIMING 😭😭
honestly gag city was so annoying to me cause of all the rampant ai art. especially when nicki kept doing it for Press Play. Its SUPER ridiculous that shes also a massive hypocrite because she was SOOO against AI music as well.
she deadass against ai music but dont mind her whole ass cover album made by ai ?????
It's probably because she doesn't actually give a shit until it starts to threaten her directly. She gives less than a shit if other artists stuggle and get snuffed out by lazy imitations, but if it proves any threat to her form of capital, then she will have something to say about it. She's a 1% first and foremost before she's an artist. She'll only start to care about AI art if it proves to be a threat to her income.
you do know neither her nor anyone who works for her is making those images tho right
@@noellefritz5678 oh so she has no idea and control to these images at all?
@@sugarfall6611 how dumb and clueless do you have to be to come to this conclusion
The rollout for this album was a mess. Nicki is an A-List artist and probably one of her labels top earners. She most DEF has the budget to come up with her own visuals and art. I feel like her focus hasn't been on actual promo but rather chart updates on twitter. The Gag City theme just seemed to inconsistent in terms of looks and aesthetic.
The thing with creating AI of real people is that you're training the program. Which can then be used for shitty things like porn or discrimination. Taylor Swift was already targeted and idk how many more exist. Fans need to be more aware of what their 'harmless' fun is enabling.
it is not training the program. it was already trained and nothing came out of this
@@lottielcl8262it's the fact that most ai also can't make porn or harmful inages
Honestly sometimes random porn ai images of celebrities show up on tumblr and it's disgusting
@@lottielcl8262 trained on what mf? Ai isn't born with shit in it's program. It's all data taken from actual people.
@@lottielcl8262 yes, and how the hell do you think it gets trained? the more you feed it, the better it gets at recognizing and replicating.
Girl is getting more consistent. Love a self improvement queen
Evolution at its finest.
i know you work and plan out your videos ahead of time but the timing makes everything that has happening in the past 24 hours hilarious
The timing of this video drop is immaculate.
i needed this thank your for the being the most iconic historian
On October 23rd 2077, Gag City’s conflict with The Republic of Floptropica hit a boiling point.
Floptropica hit out, launching nuclear warheads at the city state. Gag City itself, retaliated. Launching their own nuclear arsenal at the island nation.
The war occurred for two hours, the hellish conflict wiping out both sides of the conflict. Survivors still remember the horrors of that sunny Saturday morning.
The war proved one thing:
War, War never changes.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk History Class.
AND FLOPTROPICA WONNN
okayyyyy fallout!
Many of the surviving gag city citizens migrated to Romans Holiday Island 🏩 🏝️
Omg I remember when I generated a pink museum for Gag City so that the Barbz could get educated 😭
Thank you for your service.
yea cus we really need it tbh lol@@chulscapetillo
ok as an artist I just wanna say I hate ai. It steals from us (the tools to make ai use images scraped from the entire internet which includes millions of pieces of art that these companies making ai tools have no rights to, ai has at points literally just copied whole drawings one to one directly) and these stupid ugly shit removes the whole point of art! Making art is why art is important, soulless images mean nothing. They carry no love for who your making them for and I find it disgusting. It’s disrespectful to the people you Stan, disrespectful to art as a concept and disrespectful to artists who actually take the time to pour their love and emotions into something for a creation they love.
thank you for pointing this out, and agreed. ☹️
Art has no intrinsic value
@@liebebe8289me if i was an airhead :
@@liebebe8289whatever that mean
We don’t really care about you
I was genuinely shocked when I got the notification cuz I wasn't expecting to see you for another month or so, luv u
giggling kicking my feet atm 🤭 i love this channel
Joe….your timing is always so perfect
why?? what happened
@@navybluee101long story bro, but I would watch spill sesh‘s video abt that topic
i'm a simple person. i see a joe regrets upload, i click.
OMFG, if this was posted minutes earlier, I could've listened in the shower 😫
I'm gagged, Joe is doing a video on Gag City?????
Thank you joe you're saying my life with your uploads🙏
Still waiting for a video on Floptok and Floptropica😍💅
"Slay consistently delivers the best videos every day. Your uploads never fail to brighten my day. Thank you for consistently providing top-notch content!"love your vids
Joe Regrets doing the hard work and guiding us through a world I can barely comprehend.
I got a Jenifer Anniston deep fake ad 😂
Thank you for becoming one of my favorite youtubers
Meg really took her to gag city in the end 🤭
Meg took herself to a #102 debut on global Spotify we don’t have to be worried
@@KATtube03 Girl you sound nasty and bitter
Ur mad 😂@@KATtube03
@@KATtube03bit shes right boo, nicki is still outstreaming megan by ALOT
@@jasastoparat least she’s not together or has a kid by a s offender😮💨
Is this a safe space to say that the Gag City meme was just Great Value Floptropica, but with bad AI images instead of actual edits? I've been fr nothing but disappointed on people for supporting AI despite it only thriving off of the hard work of artists who will not be compensated.
Nah, fr, it’s js Floptropica but obnoxious.
Real
Agreed.
Truth
I agree, such a shame
"I think it's robots and stuff" Your so real GOODNIGHTTT
The timing is impeccable babes
Also she blocked the person who said 6 fingers lmao. She is such a child tbh
Or she’s tired of y’all obsessing over her
@@emixxixx3001 orrr actually promoting ai is harmful
@@emixxixx3001that’s what u get when ur literally as big as her, of course people are gonna obsess, she’s literally a superstar
@@emixxixx30016 fingers.
@@Coffeecat_24 like literally big 🤣🤣🤣
2 VIDEOS IN THE SAME MONTH??!!
new year, new me! :)
It's actually serious guys, AI stole and learn from the real artist artworks. So please use it wisely
@@AnywhereMiami there some differences between learning from reference and learning then copycat the artstyle.
You step aside.
the fan-generated AI images were absolutely hilarious to see and the hype was so real but when she started doing it oop……
i couldnt click this fast enough!
also ive never seen the taylor ai AD but theres an oprah ai version that tries to sell you hair oil!!
not right now babe joe regrets just posted a video about some random internet trend I've never heard of based on a singer i don't listen to.
favourite channel.
The timing 😭😭
My fave part is when an AI picture of Taylor's Eras Tour arrival in Gag City.
Its called Gag City because it stinks so bad in there that you are gagging from the smell...
Saying that as a genshit player is crazy!
@@AngelKittyKittyHole you stan loona you have no room to talk. They literally flopped so hard that their company went bankrupt and their group dosbanded
@@yarn7733Watch out for chuu under your bed this night.
Loser
im late but u ate that nicki stan up @@yarn7733
The fans literally using AI themselves and then criticizing nicki for using it herself… huh?!
which fan? nicki's one??? I thot they never criticized her lololo
feel like there's a difference between regular degular people using Ai for personal use and millionaires who can actually afford to hire people to make the art for them.
floptropica will always be better. happy to see gag city crumble now thanks to queen megan 🥰
Gag city is now the highest grossing female tour and your Queen megans music is currently doing horrible. Now that nicki paid it no mind 😂
redo this now girl bahahaha
Really just unfortunate timing on this one
Surprised Joe hasn't made a video about Stanley Cups or Sephora 10 year olds yet...
Joe does iconic internet history, you're looking for a rant channel 🙏
We need a vid abt meg and nicki !!
Nicki & the Barbz are truly marketing geniuses. 👏🏽
Ur editing skills are insane
I just got this video recommended and let me say this: Nicki was using the AI barbz made as promo, because it BLEW UP. Every other artist would've done that. Looking at the official artwork for example Beep Beep ft. 50 Cent or even Big Foot now, it was all made by a hard-working graphic designer called Xanderworld. Everyone in the comments is saying how she's in the wrong, when she literally just promoted something the Barbz were doing...? It gave us the stamp of approval to keep it going.
Who Put #Rihanna 's FACE on the building 😭💀4:20
The Natalie Nunn Gag City plane will always make me sob
BABE WAKE UP JOEREGRETS UPLOADED
Emphasis on the “FAN MADE PROMOTION” this wasn’t Nicki idea
I can’t wait until your video covering the circus that is Nicki vs Megan Thee Stallion
yess new video love youuuu
What a timing
The timing couldn't have been worse 😅
Gag city is in shambles
The timing on this videos release…
The way gag city was nuked after the album release
new topic for you: The Willy Wonka Experience in Glasglow
help, i've been getting rihanna and beyonce versions of that ad 😭😭😭😭
nicki needs to stop with her ❄rants... its genuinely getting weird and unhinged
I love how I pay more attention to these videos than in school
Bonnie McKee did it with Hot City first
the only good thing that came about of geopolitics
Nicki just ended her career today gag city is over 😭
whatd she do besides the snow fueled tiktok benders
Nicki’s been through worse like 2018, I fear twitter discourse isn’t gonna result in anything major
I'll still listen to her😌
Gag City is currently in nuclear flames. I’m sobbing. 😭
WE NEED A TERRI JOE DEEP DIVE
Love your vids but please, raise the volume!
😭🙏flop city 😞
THE PRINCESS JANE CAMEO
As a Bárbara who goes by ‘barbs’ I find the fan base name strange
10:27 i keep seeing these ads but instead of taylor its always mr. beast?"??!!?
Mime of Darkness.. holy sht this is a whole new level. I love it!
it's meg's city now
LMFAO??
This aged horribly I fear.. HISS out of billboard after 6 weeks… #GETONYAGOODFOOT
@@AngelKittyKittyHole big foot didn't get close to top 1 and didn't even last a single week on billboard? i swear barbz are either blind or just stupid
gag city carried the album's rollout, i said what i said and i meant it
I mean you didn’t lie so go off
the timing is...😭😭😭
Take a shot every time you hear GAG CITY 👍
I love your voice and your accent
This is so unserious 😭😭😭
The fact that it's called pink friday 2 and not like pink saturday or pink weekend still gets me 😂
when nanny doesnt have ai by her side, her creativity flopped 🤭🤭
@@sugarfall6611 girl what?
what girl?@@jasastopar
So basically Nicki created her own Floptropica for Barbz and SOs
It was briefly mentioned but Nicki had/has NO PROMO the barbz had to do something!
and now Nicki’s a mess
-who still outsold Meghan and Cardi
@@AngelKittyKittyHole your queen of rape has zero bars and can't even diss properly, chile.
@@AngelKittyKittyHole Imagine thinking sales is more important than not supporting rapists and pedos.
Can you look into your own life girl?
@@AngelKittyKittyHole*who has a weird ass husband who finds her immaturity “sexy” (his words not mine).
Zesty dudes have been propping up Nicki Minaj's career for far too long, She can record a bowel Movement, and they would call it Iconic.
This is the WORST time to upload this😭😭
6:12 this is very much giving playing pretend during recess and establishing the rules so no one cries and goes to the teacher
I didn't even know about the gag city thing so thanks. I wasn't a fan of Minaj before due to not being into rap music. Now I'm even less of a fan because as an artist I know these are all images that were mashed together from real photographs and artwork taken by real human beings. AI scraping should be a crime but legally it often isn't considered one. People who claim gen AI is "a tool" only really mean it is a tool for stealing art because most of these are trained on scraped images. If you are an artist who still has a twitter account know this - they have it in their TOS that they will scrape all of your content for their own gen AI.
Not sure about this one, but she also added Gag City in Roblox as official collab
i’m on my flight leaving gaf city rn
The fact i only know about Floptropica 😭😭😭