RIP to WATMM Discussion thread

  On 2/3/2025 at 8:39 PM, colunga said:

Who were some of the most surprising VIP members? it can be revealed now. 

A friend long ago said one of the guitarists from Alexisonfire was on here. thats all I got. 

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  On 2/3/2025 at 6:33 PM, Alcofribas said:

sorry but this was actually homo

  On 2/3/2025 at 6:33 PM, Alcofribas said:

sorry but this was actually homo

Wonder if taphead had anything to do with all this

  On 2/3/2025 at 8:39 PM, colunga said:

Who were some of the most surprising VIP members? it can be revealed now. 

A friend long ago said one of the guitarists from Alexisonfire was on here. thats all I got. 

hm. are you sure they didn’t mean the singer of From First To Last…?

I totally respect Joyrex wanting to move on after 25 years. he put a lot of work into this place. but what i don't respect is the "i'm going to shut this place down no matter what & no one else can carry the torch" attitude. Joyrex, WATMM hasn't been a personal site for your personal projects & writings, it is the collected content of a lot of people from all over the world who have been contributing over an extended period of time. I don't think you should be so cavalier about shutting down something like that.

i can say with confidence that if you try to archive or move the 25 years of content here, there is a 100% chance that multiple things will get broken. there is so much media, embeds, and links here that it is unavoidable. not to mention all of the external sites that link back to this place & to specific posts here. that will all get broken if the domain name changes or things get moved somewhere else. it will end up as just more bit rot & lost history on the internet and that would be a big shame.

Joyrex, if you've got a forum that works well, has 25 years of content, and has been and continues to be financially self-sufficient for the past 12 years running, that's solid gold! you can't just torch something like that based on your personal feelings. there are other people involved here & their feelings should be taken into account as well. if you want to move on that's totally understandable, but you've got a bunch of mods here that are willing to step up & take over & they have a lot of love for the forum & are not going to just run it into the ground. please hand the keys over to them. it would just make everything so much better and easier. you can even have legal documentation drawn up regarding the ownership change making it clear that the new owner(s) have full responsibility for the existing content & are responsible for any moderation moving forward if that's something you worry about.

i can understand someone not wanting to see their thing tarnished or ruined after they move on from it, but seeing as this is a public forum it's not really 'your thing' after a certain point, is it? it is a public meeting place for others and this is something that i feel should be respected.

  On 2/3/2025 at 8:39 PM, colunga said:

Who were some of the most surprising VIP members? it can be revealed now. 

A friend long ago said one of the guitarists from Alexisonfire was on here. thats all I got. 

tht tne! 

  On 2/3/2025 at 10:48 PM, digit said:

I totally respect Joyrex wanting to move on after 25 years. he put a lot of work into this place. but what i don't respect is the "i'm going to shut this place down no matter what & no one else can carry the torch" attitude. Joyrex, WATMM hasn't been a personal site for your personal projects & writings, it is the collected content of a lot of people from all over the world who have been contributing over an extended period of time. I don't think you should be so cavalier about shutting down something like that.

i can say with confidence that if you try to archive or move the 25 years of content here, there is a 100% chance that multiple things will get broken. there is so much media, embeds, and links here that it is unavoidable. not to mention all of the external sites that link back to this place & to specific posts here. that will all get broken if the domain name changes or things get moved somewhere else. it will end up as just more bit rot & lost history on the internet and that would be a big shame.

Joyrex, if you've got a forum that works well, has 25 years of content, and has been and continues to be financially self-sufficient for the past 12 years running, that's solid gold! you can't just torch something like that based on your personal feelings. there are other people involved here & their feelings should be taken into account as well. if you want to move on that's totally understandable, but you've got a bunch of mods here that are willing to step up & take over & they have a lot of love for the forum & are not going to just run it into the ground. please hand the keys over to them. it would just make everything so much better and easier. you can even have legal documentation drawn up regarding the ownership change making it clear that the new owner(s) have full responsibility for the existing content & are responsible for any moderation moving forward if that's something you worry about.

i can understand someone not wanting to see their thing tarnished or ruined after they move on from it, but seeing as this is a public forum it's not really 'your thing' after a certain point, is it? it is a public meeting place for others and this is something that i feel should be respected.

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Great post man but he just doesn't care. The big baby has spoken

Shutting down WATMM would be gross act of cultural violence.

  On 2/3/2025 at 10:49 PM, dr lopez said:

tht tne! 

Maximus mischief was Brian Eno

Edit: don’t contradict my headcanon, Joyrex 

I got pretty upset about this the other night. Splattered amongst the mad stuff I use to write, I actually spilled a lot of guts and emotion into those posts. Some of it might of seemed like the ranting and raving of a lunatic but truth be told watmm was the only place I felt free to write and express a lot of stuff that was freewheeling around inside my head at the time. I'm not sure I would want people who know me in real life to read some of that stuff. But here I felt free to do that. I could express myself in whatever way I wanted to. Just wanted to say that. 

Pretty obvious that papa wants the site nuked from orbit cause of all the political stuff that has been posted on here. 

Maybe some of y'all dont realise quite how fascist america is going.

more watmm lovin vibes, this time from none other than Salvatorin 

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I just biked in to say everyone needs to get jazzb8, jot it down, smoke a pipe in a space helmet, drink some fucking ice water with ice, hand out in secrete, do a backflip on a spike, carry a ghost up a mountain, grow a baobab out of their head, masturbate their penis, get fucked by essines' beard, eat a batcock, come stupid hard, bust through drywall, have a 14" sweatpants boner, burlap, be quite vomiting at some tracks, watch the ride prikface, nigh-yeet, dog that, figure out what kind of cat is that?, tetris on cellphone at dinner table, discover whether that facility near montauk has something to do with it, explode an atomic bomb in the sea even though it might cause a chain reaction and destroy the world but do it anyway, and all you cunts better do it for the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardness of the act.

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Deep Sea Creatures are ballin outta control y0!


 

this is srupid af

@auxien

  On 2/4/2025 at 12:27 AM, toaoaoad said:

@auxien

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day 3 posting Tycho videos every day until Joypapa decides to hand over the site to someone else 

#nevernotWATMM #TychoSaveWATMMTalk2Joyrex #SaveWATMM4Ever #WATMMNeverDieCrew #4WATMMEverNow #WeAlwayswillbeTheMusicMakers #forumdotwatmmdotcom #pleasehelpthisisgoingtofuckupmyYouTubealgorithmintothinkingiactuallylikethisshit #ohgoditstoolate#thisaintgonnawork #ffsJoyrexpls

  On 2/4/2025 at 12:41 AM, auxien said:

day 3 posting Tycho videos every day until Joypapa decides to hand over the site to someone else 

#nevernotWATMM #TychoSaveWATMMTalk2Joyrex #SaveWATMM4Ever #WATMMNeverDieCrew #4WATMMEverNow #WeAlwayswillbeTheMusicMakers #forumdotwatmmdotcom #pleasehelpthisisgoingtofuckupmyYouTubealgorithmintothinkingiactuallylikethisshit #ohgoditstoolate#thisaintgonnawork #ffsJoyrexpls

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Lol it's always so much worse than I could have expected 

  On 2/4/2025 at 12:41 AM, auxien said:

day 3 posting Tycho videos every day until Joypapa decides to hand over the site to someone else 

#nevernotWATMM #TychoSaveWATMMTalk2Joyrex #SaveWATMM4Ever #WATMMNeverDieCrew #4WATMMEverNow #WeAlwayswillbeTheMusicMakers #forumdotwatmmdotcom #pleasehelpthisisgoingtofuckupmyYouTubealgorithmintothinkingiactuallylikethisshit #ohgoditstoolate#thisaintgonnawork #ffsJoyrexpls

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I like your slow paced strategy. he probably hasn't noticed yet, maybe he felt a tiny annoyance the other day. surely in a few days when you switch from tycho to fuckin coldplay, papa will be sweating in his sleep from an inception-like nightmare, wake up in the middle of the night, "honey what's wrong?", "i need to keep the forum alive damn it"

  On 2/4/2025 at 12:51 AM, IOS said:

switch from tycho to fuckin coldplay

Tycho/coldplay collab when 

  On 2/4/2025 at 12:54 AM, toaoaoad said:

Tycho/coldplay collab when 

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  On 2/3/2025 at 11:46 PM, Dragon said:

more watmm lovin vibes, this time from none other than Salvatorin 

 

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one of watmm's finest

  On 2/4/2025 at 1:01 AM, Alcofribas said:

one of watmm's finest

Probably thee finest at the end of it all.