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== Total Abandonment ==
* Encyclopedia Dramatica, a website described as "Wikipedia for Trolls" began a [[Retool]] in April 2011 into [[Oh Internet]], which continued their tradition at cataloging memes and internet culture, but without all the [[Not Safe for Work]] material and trolling culture and style. Users of the site [[Internet Counterattack|were not too pleased at this]], to say the least, quickly setting up mirror websites as a replacement and the head administrator was bombarded with hate mail and death threats. It should be noted, historically, that the site started out as a catalog for [[
* [[Gaia Online]] may qualify. Originally an anime-centric roleplay site, it's focus has shifted towards general entertainment and pop culture, much of the quality of the site's features has dropped considerably, and a great deal of new items and features require the purchase of Gaia Cash, a virtual currency bought with real money, which is a sharp turn to a site that was for the most part free and losing much of their fanbase in the process.
== Slipped ==
* [[
* The Good Old Games digital distribution was designed to 1: provide quality old games, 2: do so at low prices and, 3: With no [[DRM]]. It has always had a few newish titles in it's library, though all very much [[Cult Classic|Cult Classics]] (Like ''[[Psychonauts]]'' and ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'') and the newest titles being sequels (like one would get in the bundles that one would otherwise buy to get the old games) or spiritual successors to games that fit (Such as [[UFO:
** As of March 2012, the site may be on the verge of total abandonment since it has fully rebranded itself as "GOG.com" and announced a bunch of indie but recent games such as ''[[Trine]]'' and ''[[Space Chem]]''. A rep claimed “What the letters stand for doesn’t matter so much as what we stand for, which is quality gaming with no DRM and at fair prices”.
* [[Image Boards|4chan]] was intended to be a place to discuss Japanese comics and anime, an American counterpart to the popular Japanese Futaba Channel ("2chan") imageboard. However, these days many consider it to be more of a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] and [[Troll|trolling]] site due in thanks to the infamous /b/ board. It is not uncommon for a fan of anime and other Japanese media to say they wouldn’t touch the site with a 10 foot pole, and with the stuff that goes on there, who would blame them? They still have plenty of discussions about Anime and Manga, and an untold amount of Anime memes have originated from here but a good amount of people that came just for the memes are unfortunately advocates of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]], and as a result, there are a pretty strong hostility towards anime and Japanese around 4chan these days.
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* [[Deviant ART]] has spent the past couple years trying to [[Retool]] itself into an art-themed social-networking site. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Not everyone is happy about this.]]
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== Unique Situations ==
* [[
** Despite the name,
** Troper Tales was a big example within the site itself. It was
** Subsequent to 2012, TV Tropes began actively embracing a kind of combined [[Moral Guardians|Moral Guardian]]/Cultural Gatekeeper role, in which the administration was actively declaring they had the right and obligation to decide which works and topics were "acceptable" to Western Civilization as a whole and which did not merit even acknowledgment of their existence. The latter were usually accused, Soviet-style, of obscenity of one kind or another ("pedoshit" was a favorite descriptor of works disapproved of by the TVT management, regardless of actual pedophilic content; and by extension anyone who objected to the new regime was automatically tarred as a pedophile).
* The site [http://www.moviemistakes.com/ Movie (and TV) Mistakes] seems to to be moving the same way as
* The [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page Internet Movie Firearms Database] is a lot like
* [[YouTube]] was originally meant to be a medium for people to broadcast their homemade videos and independent shows (hence the motto, "Broadcast Yourself"). Then a bunch of people got the idea to start uploading a bunch of commercial copyrighted material so that others could watch their favorite shows and movies anywhere without the hassle of commercials or having to buy the DVD. Today, it seems most people go to [[YouTube]] for mostly clips if not full episodes of mainstream commercial shows while the site's creators (and now Google since they purchased it) are dealing with lawsuits from companies like Viacom, suggesting they let all the copyrighted material be posted to increase [[YouTube]]'s exposure. This eventually lead to the creation of Vevo, which is backed by the industry and specifically caters to music. Of course in fairness, [[YouTube]]'s roots still exists as homemade videos are still posted and viewed daily. If anything [[YouTube]]'s decay seems to be more of the fault of the video uploaders more than the executives.
* How about [[Google|Google Street View]]? It started as a service to allow Internet dwellers to explore the roads of their own home, and of other cities and countries, including far-off nations such as South Africa, Romania or Brazil. Then in 2009, they started introducing landmarks, including parks, stadiums (the [[World Cup]] being the whole reason for South African updates) and other points of interests. After 2009 and 2010, which had spread to nearly 30 countries, Street View began catering more to landmarks, taking an apparent focus to museums (the Internet equivalent of [[Adored by the Network]]), and not even updating roads, except for a brief unadvertised update to France and Brazil, until they introduced a Channel Island and Monaco, which were the only two new places to be introduced in nearly a ''year''. This might be the side-effect of the [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Wi-Fi Capturing Case]] though, as not only are road updates relatively neglected, but their last two updates was the official introduction of Google Places (indoor business photos) and a whole bunch of parks already collected. Note that Google Street View stays out of Total Abandonment and Slipped due to the fact they still offer roadside views, and the occasional, but rare, actual road update, and that park updates usually include in-park roads.
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