 Responding to some of these criticisms, Mike Brown of Hyperreal.org commented in 2018, Even in ‘93 to 4’ the word “IDM” wasn’t something any of us took seriously.It was just three letters with no particular meaning beyond our little nerdy community's way of referring to whatever music we liked from the fringes of electronic dance music.No one was intending to coin a genre name or to imply the artists and fans were geniuses.