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''LiveJournal: We know drama.''▼
LiveJournal is an [http://livejournal.com online journal hosting site]. LJ's English-language content tends to be more diary-like than other blogging sites, and as such it has a (not totally unwarranted) reputation for being frequented by whiny teenagers. Its format is user-friendly and highly customizable, offering multiple user pics, mood settings, and journal layouts. Because of its more personal approach to blogging, LJ attracts a lot of teenage girls. It also attracts a lot of drama. The two are possibly related. ▼
▲'''LiveJournal''' is
The site is also greatly used by fanfiction writers, possibly due to the comments section, which makes each entry something like a miniature forum. As such, LJ is home to many communities, which discuss everything from knitting to politics. Mainly, though, it's fanfiction. A lot of fanfiction. LiveJournal seems to specialize in writing communities, of which it has hundreds, most of them fanfiction. [[Livejournal Roleplay|Roleplaying]] communities were also popular (most have since moved to a spinoff, Dreamwidth), all of them basically fanfiction.▼
▲The site is also greatly used by [[Fanfic|fanfiction]] writers, possibly due to the comments section, which makes each entry something like a miniature forum. As such, '''LJ''' is home to many communities, which discuss everything from knitting to politics. Mainly, though, it's fanfiction. A ''lot'' of fanfiction. '''LiveJournal''' seems to specialize in writing communities, of which it has hundreds, most of them fanfiction. [[Livejournal Roleplay|Roleplaying]] communities were also popular (most have since moved to a
LJ's popularity has dwindled in recent years, with the advent of first [[My Space]], then [[Facebook]], and then [[Tumblr]], which attracted a lot of the slash fangirls who previously used Livejournal. It also garnered a reputation for [[Bowdlerize|banning journals because of "objectionable content"]] (particularly [[The Purge|Strikethrough '07]]) which violates the Terms of Service; this is called TOS'ing. LiveJournal has TOS'd some of its most popular journals, like Fandom_Wank and scans_daily. They're real [[Incredibly Lame Pun|TOSsers]]. Major changes to the site interface in December '11 drove many fandom users, particularly roleplayers, off the site as well.▼
▲'''LJ''''s popularity has dwindled in recent years, with the advent of first [[
LJ's journal system is open source, so a lot of clones have sprung up over the years, and (in some cases) subsequently perished; survivors include [http://www.insanejournal.com/ InsaneJournal], [http://www.deadjournal.com/ DeadJournal], [http://www.journalfen.net/ JournalFen] and [http://www.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth]. Since its founding, JournalFen has been a haven for [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/ Fandom_Wank], which exists largely to point out LiveJournal drama. Scans_daily has [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/ moved to InsaneJournal] and [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/profile has also moved to Dreamwidth].▼
▲'''LJ''''s journal system is open source, so a lot of clones have sprung up over the years, and (in some cases) subsequently perished; survivors include [http://www.insanejournal.com/ InsaneJournal], [http://www.deadjournal.com/ DeadJournal], [http://www.journalfen.net/ JournalFen] (now mostly dead after a server collapse) and [http://www.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth]. Since its founding, JournalFen
LJ is also, for unclear reasons, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the most popular host]] for [[Russian Language|Russian-language]] bloggers, to the point where the Russian term for blogging is [[Brand Name Takeover|derived from the Russian name]] of LiveJournal. A Russian company now owns the site, a number of high-profile Russian politicians maintain LJs, Russian authors used LJ to publish excerpts or teasers for their new books, and it's even been theorized that the DDoS attacks on the site in April 2011 were caused by the Russian government in order to silence a critical blogger. The Russian content on LJ is a lot more like the rest of the English language blogosphere, and rarely interacts with the English-speaking side of LJ (aside from the occasional Russian spam comment on an English-language journal).▼
▲'''LJ''' is also, for unclear reasons, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the most popular host]] for [[Russian Language|Russian-language]] bloggers, to the point where the Russian term for blogging is [[Brand Name Takeover|derived from the Russian name]] of '''LiveJournal'''. A Russian company now owns the site, a number of high-profile Russian politicians maintain LJs, Russian authors used '''LJ''' to publish excerpts or teasers for their new books, and it's even been theorized that the DDoS attacks on the site in April 2011 were caused by the Russian government in order to silence a critical blogger. The Russian content on '''LJ''' is a lot more like the rest of the English language
See also: [[Journal Roleplay]] - This particular style of roleplay started on LJ.▼
▲See also: [[Journal Roleplay]] - This particular style of roleplay started on '''LJ'''.
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