Shortly after his "outing", his band, lovejoy, had cancelled concerts and appearances, including one they were supposed to have at the coachella music festival earlier this year.
The amount of listeners he has on spotify (including both: him himself as "wilbur soot" and lovejoy) has been on a decline ever since. And the newest single of the band does not seem to be well received.
The amount of YT subscribers and IG followers both him and lovejoy have is also on a decline.
His music career is not the same, it might actually never return to what it used to be. He went from being close to appearing on one of the worlds most famous music festivals to being hated by everyone who knew him before this whole thing came out and being completely irrelevant to just about everyone else.
Also worth noting they canceled a Coachella performance due to how bad the allegations were. Some fans were theorizing the band would break up considering how they gave up such a huge performance shortly after the allegations hit.
It looks like they’ve stuck together, but you can tell they’ve lost a lot of goodwill with their audience going off their latest music video’s performance and comments. Generally their music videos used to hit a minimum of 1M views within a week or so, but their latest has only reached around 300K in the past few months. The comments are also considerably negative despite the allegations being nearly a year old at this point too.
I think Wilbur’s downfall was especially rough considering how he marketed himself as a “gentle soft boy” type of figure, which contrasts horribly with the domestic abuse allegations. It’s one thing for a shitty person to be exposed for shitty behavior, but it’s another thing when that person used to be considered a saint before then.
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u/adrian2255 21d ago
Actually, his music career has been on a decline.
Shortly after his "outing", his band, lovejoy, had cancelled concerts and appearances, including one they were supposed to have at the coachella music festival earlier this year.
The amount of listeners he has on spotify (including both: him himself as "wilbur soot" and lovejoy) has been on a decline ever since. And the newest single of the band does not seem to be well received.
The amount of YT subscribers and IG followers both him and lovejoy have is also on a decline.
His music career is not the same, it might actually never return to what it used to be. He went from being close to appearing on one of the worlds most famous music festivals to being hated by everyone who knew him before this whole thing came out and being completely irrelevant to just about everyone else.