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[[File:Explain to the folks at home.jpg|thumb|255x255px|Norm Macdonald, whose podcast had an inside joke of saying "Explain to the folks at home..." in reference to an obvious concept.]]
'''Explain-to-the-folks-at-home-ism''' (or Prerequisiteflation) is the phenomenon of music theory communicators wasting so much time explaining the basic prerequisites for a concept that they never get around to actually exploring the fun stuff you can do with it.  
'''Explain-to-the-folks-at-home-ism''' (or '''Prerequisiteflation''') is when an intellectual content creator, especially a music theorist, caters to the beginners instead of the target audience by breaking down rudimentary elements of the concept that their audience already knows. They might say something like this:


This phenomenon is perpetuated both by theorists who are too lazy and inarticulate to put together compelling ideas with visual/auditory explanations, and an audience too stupid, helpless and perpetually ignorant to understand anything unless you spend 12 minutes holding their hand every step of the way.  
<blockquote>''“That F is exactly why Jacob Collier is the master of notes. Oh...what's a note? Glad you asked. See, a note is...”''


<blockquote>''“This PinkPantheress song uses a lot of chords, which leads to the question… What even is a chord? Let's take a step back for a minute. In music (or more accurately, in western music! Hahahahaha!), there are these things called keys, this one right here is called C...”''</blockquote>
''"...but where do notes actually come from?? Couldn't be a better time to answer that. In Western music - wait...I almost forgot haha! What IS Western Music?!"''</blockquote>


Explain-to-the-folks-at-home-ism is a problem for explanatory content in any field, but most music theory enthusiasts are so uniquely dumb and lacking in resourcefulness that even saying "If you don't know what a chord is, I linked a video in the description explaining it, come back and watch this video about PinkPantheress's new single after" poses an intellectual challenge too frightening to bear.
In the words of Chris Hansen, ''"You see how this looks"''.
 
This problem could easily be solved if there were seperate videos made for audiences based on their skill/knowledge level, but this phenomenon explains the sheer idiocy of music theory content creators. The motivations for wasting the audience's time are unclear, all that is clear is that it's annoying as f*ck.




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Latest revision as of 10:43, 10 July 2026

Norm Macdonald, whose podcast had an inside joke of saying "Explain to the folks at home..." in reference to an obvious concept.

Explain-to-the-folks-at-home-ism (or Prerequisiteflation) is when an intellectual content creator, especially a music theorist, caters to the beginners instead of the target audience by breaking down rudimentary elements of the concept that their audience already knows. They might say something like this:

“That F is exactly why Jacob Collier is the master of notes. Oh...what's a note? Glad you asked. See, a note is...” "...but where do notes actually come from?? Couldn't be a better time to answer that. In Western music - wait...I almost forgot haha! What IS Western Music?!"

In the words of Chris Hansen, "You see how this looks".

This problem could easily be solved if there were seperate videos made for audiences based on their skill/knowledge level, but this phenomenon explains the sheer idiocy of music theory content creators. The motivations for wasting the audience's time are unclear, all that is clear is that it's annoying as f*ck.

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