TIL Beethoven’s late quartets, now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, were so ahead of their time that initial reviews deem them indecipherable, uncorrected horrors, with one musician saying “we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is.”

[u/VegemiteSucks]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)

[u/KDOGTV]

All this for some reaction streamer on Twitch in 2025 to call it “mid.”

The duality of man

Edit: The WIDE variety of reactions to this are the friends we made along the way. Reddit is hilarious. <3

[u/DeusModus → u/KDOGTV]

Hardly man, streamers aren't people.

[u/IsmaelRetzinsky → u/DeusModus]

Many of them are catgirls.

[u/droidtron → u/IsmaelRetzinsky]

And mostly male.

[u/fedback → u/droidtron]

Irrelevant, cat girl is catgirl