The Great LiveJournal Strikethrough of 2007

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The Great Livejournal Strikethrough of 2007 is the self-important dramalicious name given to the mass (IRL l wish) deletion of poor-quality [[pedo]] and [[furry]] [[LiveJournal]]s starting on May 29, 2007 and continuing for round 2 on or about August 2, 2007. The name was coined by the enraged pedos and furries themselves in the aptly-named

, where most of them spent vast amounts of time creating numerous protest icons and banners and decrying the end of [[nerd]] civilization as brought about by the evil owners of LiveJournal, [[Six Apart]]. The floods of hate mail from [[butthurt]] furries and pedos was the catalyst for [[Brad]]'s departure from LiveJournal. See below for [[sauce]]!

Exercising their constitutional right to free speech on a privately-owned web site, [[Over 9000|over 38,000]] [[Harry Potter]] and [[anime]] [[fag]]s joined a separate "protest" community,

, to "show their solidarity" with their [[fandom]] [[otherkin]]. Since Pirates of the Caribbean had just come out, many of the oppressed used song lyrics from the movie as a rallying cry: "Yo ho ho, all together, hoist the colors high! Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!"

Meanwhile in the rest of the world, [[breeder|heterosexual]] soldiers were blown to bits by roadside bombs, [[azn|North Koreans]] perished by the [[at least 100|hundreds]] in gulags, and [[Paris Hilton]] prepared to serve her jail term. But nevar 4get, fandom counts.

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Sequence of Events

May 29, 2007

* A redneck splinter group called Warriors for Innocence (spyware-laden site with srsly ghey banner http://www.warriorsforinnocence.org/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here they think people might want to steal), desiring [[Christian]] domination and the fame of [[Chris Hansen]], tells eljay's advertisers that their ads are being displayed on pedo journals.

* Advertisers pull their ads.

* Six Apart decides to nuke pedo and furry journals. About 500 journals and communities are deleted, including popular [[Harry Potter]] worship community

and a number of "[[fanfic]]", "[[pedophilia|age play]]", "[[shota]]" and "[[rape|survivor]]" communities as well as a community for [[Mexican]]s to discuss Lolita (the book) -- basically anything with child molesting listed as an interest.

* Nerds and chomo kid-sister-fuckers go [[batshit]].

* Meanwhile [[Ed Rodriguez]] is still using LJ to find teenage "roommates".

May 30, 2007

* Numerous protest communities are formed and the generation of new icons and banners reaches an epic pace, becoming reminiscent of the brightly-colored protest banners of the Vietnam War era. And just as important.

* [[e-detective]]s http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/830650.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">deduce that Warriors For Innocence is a Christian Dominionist group (see [[Zionist]], but for [[Retards|Jesus-lovers]], not [[Jews|Jesus-killers]]).

* Further sleuthing http://suesviews2.blogspot.com/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">finds that one of the WFI "crusaders" is a batshit redneck with [[Confederate]] flags and anti-homo slurs pasted all over her blog. She also supports http://www.blogger.com/profile/01122159049927843800" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cary Cartter as a write-in candidate for President. Cary Cartter happens to be a man with a girl's name and a zealot Christian Dominionist who lists [[Mel Gibson|The Passion of the Christ]], [[The Lord of the Rings]], and [[Star Wars]] as his favorite movies and model railroading as his favorite hobby. SMARTER E-SLEUTHS MAY SEE SOME IRONIC PARALLELS HERE.

* [[b/|/b/]] http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/63345.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">raids the blog.

* The CEO of Six Apart, Barak Berkowitz issues a statement to CNet:

* This whips LJ fandom into a freshly enraged froth because it means someone is telling them they're not wanted, just like in the lunchroom in junior high.

* The redneck Christfans gleefully e-taunt the horde http://www.warriorsforinnocence.org/2007/05/missing-point.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here and http://americanandproud.net/?p=292" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.

* Late in the evening, Six Apart employee

falls upon his sword and http://www.metafilter.com/61636/livejournal-suspends-hundreds-of-accounts#1712054" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posts his cellphone number on [[MetaFilter]] so that hundreds of angry [[basement dweller]]s can http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/66342.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">call him. They immediately start flaming him about a post he made [[last Thursday]] criticizing the Metafilter color scheme, using it as prima facie evidence that he is an evil corporate troll.

May 31, 2007

* Barak "bin Laden" Berkowitz () http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">issues an apology on , posted to the front page of the site.

* Thus begins a http://news.livejournal.com/99515.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">series http://news.livejournal.com/99650.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">of http://news.livejournal.com/100060.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posts on

, all but the last of which hits the 5,000-comment limit with nerds cursing Barak Berkowitz and Six Apart, and furiously vowing to exercise their [[tl;dr|First Amendment]] rights on some other private web site pretty soon.

* Many pedo journals are undeleted.

June 8, 2007

* The fucking [[EFF]] gets involved, probably just to make the Harry Potter fans [[STFU]] and stop e-mailing them.

June 2007 - August 2007

* Over 38,000 Harry Potter and anime fags didn't leave LiveJournal, but did leave their protest icons up.

Encore performance

image that resulted in [[banned|bannination]].]]

August 2, 2007

On or about August 2, 2007, Six Apart banned several more pedo "fan" journals including for the image at right. Yet another fandom wank started on about http://news.livejournal.com/102095.html?page=7#comments" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">page 7 of the most recent post in , including threats of class action [[lawsuit|e-lawsuits]] and hyperbolic [[unwarranted self-importance]].

August 3, 2007 - LJ Employee Mocks Fantards

attempted to start a meta-wank in by posting an [[ALL CAPS]] "insert content here" style post which sums up this entire article using [[over 9000]] fewer bytes. The first comment was from , a LiveJournal employee who has written official policy posts on . The comment was mocking towards [[pedos]], and of course, [[fandom]] took immediate offense. :) This sparked a [[crapflood]] of enraged comments, many in the original "insert content here" style. The entire thread has since been [[delete]]d, but is archived http://never.draven.tripod.com/efw.htm" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.

[[Copypasta]]:

The reaction eventually went as high as Leva Cygnet, who would like you to know that zie is [[unwarranted self-importance|a member of a Fortune 100 company]]. Zie posted a http://firefox.org/news/articles/555/1/Livejournal-Employee-Publicly-Mocks-Fandom/Page1.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pissed-off article about the mockery on [[Firefox]] News which included a link to the original comment (and later links to the [[copypasta]] once it was baleeted).

August 6, 2007 - Brad's Departure

By Monday, August 6th, founder [[Brad]] had announced his

from LiveJournal, stating he was "bored." He later http://brad.livejournal.com/2334177.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">backpedaled and claimed "that boredom isn't SixApart's fault." Of "the latest [[CP|child porn]] debacle," http://brad.livejournal.com/2334177.html?thread=13866721#t13866721" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stated "...as far as I heard: child porn. [...] I heard about it for about 30 seconds just earlier today." Later:

That's right. [[Fandom]] killed [[Brad]].

Notable posts

* http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_lawyers/36677.html" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This post on -- yes, it's true, and comes complete with [[gay]] [[anime]] [[Harry Potter]] icon
* http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/266024.html and subsequent
* http://lolaraincoat.livejournal.com/253978.html list of suspended journals and communities (unofficial)
* http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html

Gallery

See also

* [[Nipplegate]]
* [[The Great FurAffinity Exodus of 2006]]
* [[EverQuest/Mystere|The Mystere incident in EverQuest]]

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