A History of Fandom Purges
… they deleted Fandom Wank???I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.
- 2002 - FFN bans porn
- 2002 - FFN bans RPF
- 2004 - FFN bans script format
- 2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
- 2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough
- 2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
- 2010 - FFN forums deleted
- 2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
- 2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
- 2014 - Quizilla shuts down
- 2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.
Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.
As of today, the journal exists with exactly two entries, which is too bad. The wanks there were bloody hilarious!
some of fandom wank was saved. you can find it here: https://archive.org/details/FandomWank-2015-03-01 (you’ll need to unpack it first).