Yes sort of but it was Bad

LMAO OZ

in dwrp i think the closest i've seen was max filing the serial numbers off a freddie mercury-based OC, but apparently musician RPF type rp is very common on insanejournal

back in like 2011ish i modded a game where someone apped steven colbert as the character from the colbert report, not the actual guy

another mod, who worked in the music industry and would not ever shut up about how she Worked With Gackt And Other J-Rock Stars So She Knows How Celebrities Feel, was so outraged by the concept that she said she would delete the entire game and burn it all down if this person's app was accepted

i thought it was fine tho

it is funny to consider how hard she would have lost her shit if anybody ever apped like, gackt-as-a-400-year-old-vampire or whatever

lmao

I DO remember when band rpfrp was super popular on LJ like, circa 2001. I know because when I was 12 I found some Blink-182 RPers and thought it was the real band

it was very confusing because I wasn't aware at the time that tom delonge was dating Chester Bennington but what the fuck did I know?

I mean... at the very least Ziggy Stardust has it's own mythos, so you can separate it a little from playing the musician outright, but still...

It's still kinda weird tho.