a self-explanatory Instagram account with 84,000 followers at the time of writing - acts as both a source of up-to-date news on “FO3”, as well as a kind of therapeutic forum to release frustration at Frank’s lack of music via a shared sense of humour. In this way, anticipation culture is building a community around not just new music, but the very idea of it. Some make fan album covers in anticipation of an announcement, while others take a pre-release or leaked song and create their own video edits. Tracking photoshoots, meet-ups and studio sessions that could indicate a record’s progress, the resulting information leads to speculation, while fans morph these tiny shreds of details into memes. Put simply, the fans running these accounts get the scoop on new tracks by following not just the artists themselves but their managers, producers, collaborators and close friends, scouring through their endless posts, stories, comments and follows for a glimmer of news. Since July 2018, accounts such as and have been acting as inside sources where fans can get the most up-to-date information to followers before it reaches - and often informing - the mainstream news cycle. Two artists to have experienced this kind of behaviour from their fans are hip-hop’s Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert, whose respective new albums Whole Lotta Red (release date still tbc) and Eternal Atake (out now! finally!) have been subject to years of delays.

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