Depending on your levels of empathy, Whirr is a shoegaze band with a solid if predictable LP under its belt, or possibly the most obnoxious social media presence in the modern alternative scene. For years the group have been known for their unfiltered and bullish way that they operate online, insulting anyone and everyone with whichever slurs they felt most comfortable with on the day. Despite this torrent of abuse, Whirr managed to find themselves not one but two record labels to produce their merchandise and music.
At least, until today.
Earlier, Whirr decided that they’d try stay above the wave of relevancy by picking a fight with someone in the scene with some clout behind them. Their target was the band G.L.O.S.S. (who incidentally we included on our punk mixtape earlier in the month), who speak out about the bullshit trans people face through their searing lyrics and bludgeoning hardcore instrumentation. Seeing an “easy” target, Whirr started their bullshit fairly simply via this tweet (editor’s note: Looks like Whirr went through and deleted the tweets, however no one can hide from the screenshot button).
However, things quickly picked up pace with Whirr going 0 – 80 in the space of two tweets.
And finally, we have this which honestly, I feel a bit sickened posting. But, for the annals of history, I feel I should include it as the thing the broke Whirr.
From that point on, the band stuck to tweeting the rightfully disgusted non–transphobic people reacting to their posts. But soon, after the band left their social media accounts, others from the scene, fans and bands, trans, non-binary or otherwise, begun to condemn them en force. Then, the vocalist of G.L.O.S.S., Sadie Switchblade, joined Twitter solely to rebut the band. Her responses are something glorious.
@free_whirl r u just sad u missed the boat on punk and play music for people with Macklemore hair who blog about bacon-infused bloodymarys?
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
Finally, Run For Cover records, one of their two record labels, released the following posts.
We as individuals and as a label are accepting of all people and require the same from the bands and people we work with…
— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) October 20, 2015
G.L.O.S.S. is awesome and crucially important and we need more bands like them.
— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) October 20, 2015
And thus, after two years of being the dumb jocks of the alternative scene, Whirr finally has to face the consequences for being just the worst to absolutely everyone. That being said, Graveface Records, the band’s second label has yet to make any comment on the incident, and several members of Whirr belong to other projects including Nothing, who a little while back earned praise for standing against Martin Shkreli’s pill hike despite him giving donations to their record label. But still, seeing them dropped so suddenly is reason enough for celebration, so let us send-off Whirr with a series of their lowest moments. 
UPDATE: Whirr have posted an apology on their twitter, with band member Nick Bassett claiming that the tweets were in fact written by a friend of the bands who they frequently allow to use their account. However if you look back at an interview with Bassett from last year you’ll, like us, probably remain unconvinced.