I met CJ about a year ago at a CLBHUIS Funk Night at Chuck Studios. We were both wearing the same shoes, Camper shoes with a strange cartoonish toe cap. It was the first time I’d seen someone else wearing my favorite pair. That felt like enough of a reason to talk.

During an age where virality often decrees success, Peter Kuli, the 23-year-old musician behind the viral song “Ok, Boomer,” finds himself at odds with the internet culture which catapulted him to fame.