On Prince vs. the Internet

Between Bowie and Prince, 2016 has been a rough year for effeminate-masculine outré artiste-types--the Venn Diagram of those two fanbases overlaps much more than I realized.  Yet though David Bowie's death hit me far harder than I ever though it would, unlike many of my peers, I confess that Prince's passing initially left me somewhat detached.  All I could really remember of him was "1999", some lame Jay Leno monologues about "The Artist Formally Known As", and an off-hand Simpsons...