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LiveJournal
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Typically abbreviated as "LJ," "liveurinal" and "eljay," and occasionally by nerdraged users as "elgay," LiveJournal is a free online journaling service created by Brad Fitzpatrick under the Danga Company was owned by Mena of Six Apart who described LJ as "a journaling service with a lot of teen girls screaming OMG." It was recently sold to the Russian Bolshevik company, SUP, creating many conspiracy rumors. It's all true.
Those who use LiveJournal are called LJ Users, LiveJournalERS or, moar frequently, LJers. Every Emo Kid has an LJ.
Often seen as a seething, attention-starved hivemind of histrionic 16 year old girls, furries, bears, homosexuals, middle-aged virgins, old memes, the occasional fundie nutcase, and the orginal histrionic 16 year old girls five years later, wallowing in depression and despair once those deluded self-agrandizing hopes hit the stark reality of real life, their own unimportance, and lack of talent. Such a collection of drama obviously needs referees to occasionally keep combatants apart. The gestapo corps of LJ Abuse fulfills that role. Regardless of their status as any of the above, At least 100 percent of livejournal users are either pro-ana or BBW. Weights of members range from 45-85 and 400-999699. However, midgets of a relatively normal weight (because all midgets are also fat dykes, but not all fat dykes are midgets) and Ann Coulter are also members of livejournal.
In recent years LiveJournal has become far moar popular than other "blogging" services, such as Blogger and Diary-X. This is attributable to both its "Friends" feature and its moar-or-less unique way of commenting on other users' posts. These tools, while certainly ingenious, have created substantial (read: unimaginable amounts of) drama. The service briefly going down led to ALL CAPS LULZ.
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[edit] Proof all bloggers are pedophiles
Recently, Perverted-Justice wrote an article about the "pedophile" and "pedophile sympathizers" scene on LiveJournal. No doubt the NAMBLA fucks over at LiveJournal are wiping their hard drives of the evidence as we speak.
[edit] The Great Strike-Through of 2007
On or around May 39th of 2007, SixApart, in a knee-jerk reaction to some homophobic, psychopathic right-wing Christian militant group called Warriors for Innocence - made up entirely of kids whose daddies liked to molest them when Mommy was out working the streets - PMSing at them that their site harbored pedophiles, child-molesters, etc. et al. In response, SixApart did what any good corporation would do - DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING! SixApart baleeted well over 500 journals in a matter of a few hours, if there was any reference to loli, shota, fucking little boys, pedophilia, or Your mom. The downside of this, is that numerous survivor communities were taken out by sniper fire from the dark. What really sealed SixApart's fate though, was that some of those communities that were taken out were, yep, you guessed it, FANDOM communities, primarily, yaoi and slash fandom communities. With the impending threat of having to move to Greatest Journal to get their fix of Harry Potter fucking Draco Malfoy, the militant lesbian factions of the internets swarmed on LiveJournal, refusing to let this affront to their sensibilities and only source of masturbatory material go unchallenged. SixApart, realizing they pulled a hell of a boner, tried to make it go away as quickly as possible. It later surfaced that this house cleaning was pulled 13 days before SixApart make their first IPO on the stock market. Users were not amused.
Full article: The Great Livejournal Strikethrough of 2007
[edit] Flagging
29 November 2007: Because being called Nazi censorship freaks once wasn't enough, LiveJournal implements a new flagging system comprising two parts: the option for users to label their personal journals as "adult," and a little flag button on every entry to allow users to send insta-reports to LJ Abuse. Since such a feature could never possibly be abused in any fashion, especially not by people with stupid grudges, users hailed this innovation as a great boon.
[edit] In Soviet Russia, internet writes on you
2 December 2007: SixApart announces that LiveJournal has been sold to the Russians. Massive anti-Communist wank, Russian hate, standard paranoia, and a few lulzy "SUP WILL SAVE LIVEJOURNAL FOR FANDOM!!" responses ensued. For news as it happens, see The Great LiveJournal Buyout of 2007
[edit] Advisory Board
SUP, in the interest of maximizing LJ's drama content, instituted an "advisory board". Four of the members of the advisory board are internet celebrities who don't really give a shit about LJ. Two of these members are to be elected from the horde of perverts that make up LJ's userbase. Nominations for the election are going on here, including a number of brain-damaged fangirls and the Tron Guy. In light of the fact that the Russian autocrats that own LJ will do whatever the hell they want anyways, ED users with LJ accounts are encouraged to make sure to the candidates who are the biggest lolcows get the at least 100 comments needed to pass to the election stage, and during the actual election, Vote For The Worst.
[edit] See Also
- Bears
- Goth macros
- Kraken's ghost
- Livejourbal
- Livejournal Buyout
- Madradrant
- Mcclane
- Six Apart
- Unrealistic expectations
- Vox, LJ for grown-ups!
- Fbr trash, lj's main community of "lyk omgzz"
[edit] External links
- LiveJournal, where it all began.
- Better Business Bureau report for LiveJournal.
- Ad for LiveJournal
- official livejournal anthem: scroll down and click the handy play button
- LiveJournal: move over wikipedia, there's a new place to meet hot young 11 year olds
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