Accountability in Music [ARCHIVED] • Page 895

Young Cash Money Baby

 

Ataris board goated

 

Wow

 

I didn’t post a lot, but I was on Trio’s Blood Pact message board for years.

 

I started on the say anything boards lol

 

pretty sure i went straight from world of warcraft fansite forums to AP

 

oh so ap WAS better

 

Myspace blink 182 group to AP

 

AP to chorus, the end.

 

agreed I mean hell I wrote a positive review for The Used's lies for liars.

 

Yeah there were definitely cliques on there too. All the cool kids would post in the general forums and make fun of the dorks in the band forum.

I sometimes wonder what happened to that Ken guy, he used to write some funny Tucker Max-lite stories about his escapades, then started talking about how he was investigating 9/11 conspiracies.

 

I left.

 

The White Pony was always nice on AP.net

 

there was an 'Official Babe Thread' on AP. I remember thinking it was weird even back then lol

 

lmfao

 

I started with a subscription to Alternative Press in like middle school and then found my way to AP.net somehow, went from Scott Heisel lover to Scott Heisel hater pretty quickly. Both definitely helped shape my music tastes though.

I remember lurking Bridge Nine boards as well

 

I remember the original Taylor Swift thread being dedicated more to pictures of her than to her music. (I’m thinking specifically, like, around when Fearless came out.) Took a couple of us to start turning that around.

I also remember someone having a cropped version of that Hayley leak as an avatar? That’s so fucking wild and awful to think about.

 

I definitely remember the cropped Hayley avatar

 

you're old school AP.net if you understand a certain thread about pumpkins

 

I posted on the Weezer boards and joined their street team. Got two vinyl copies of the Red Album in exchange for several five-star reviews on different platforms.

 

I started out on the Further Seems Forever message board and then moved to ap.net from there. The FSF board was just as awful and cliquey as everyone else here has said about other bands. The shit people said about Jon Bunch was fucking horrendous, especially now when we know how his story ends. Sometimes I still hope those people feel some modicum of shame for how they treated him and anyone who wasn't part of their clique. Guess it was just that old world, lawless Wild West of early internet where anyone could be a dick and mental health wasn't prioritized the way it is now. Obviously you can still find it basically everywhere (hello, Reddit, Twitter/X, etc.), but there are also way more people who will push back now and say that that's not okay.

 

One of the greatest mysteries. A few people met him in person, so he’s at least real.

I’m guilty of being a shithead on there. That board (and AP, actually) legitimately changed my life. I met my now wife there, I sold shirts for Takeover on Warped, AP posted about Smartpunk hiring in CA, and the rest is history. I still keep up with around 20 of us from the General Chat. My 7 year old asked me the other day if I liked the song that was playing in his Roblox game and I was floored when I recognized it was an 8 bit version of “only one”.

The internet is wild.

 

Always knew Weezer reviews were astroturfed.

 

my condolences