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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.

LJ's popularity has dwindled in recent years, with the advent of first [[My Space]], then [[~~Face Book~~]], 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 [[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 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].