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[[Conrad Slater]] was the first administrator and moderator of the forum, as well as its creator. Following his tenure, the administration led by [[Thereisnospork303]] and [[RabbitSnore]] took over following the [[Planet Freedom]] incident. | [[Conrad Slater]] was the first administrator and moderator of the forum, as well as its creator. Following his tenure, the administration led by [[Thereisnospork303]] and [[RabbitSnore]] took over following the [[Planet Freedom]] incident. | ||
| − | The | + | The earliest years of YouChew were the most active, but also harbored the worst attitudes. It was a byproduct of the acerbic mid-2000s Internet environment, with some trolling-heavy threads like the Worst of [[DeviantArt]] and even hostile treatment of some forum members themselves (such as [[kinghomer45]]). Pretty much everyone on the site was a teenager back then, and most have matured and admit their attitudes in those days weren't all that great. |
| − | On July 24, 2010, [[Dopply]] and the other [[Moderators|administrators]] decided to update to the Invision software due to constant glitches with the PHPBB3 software. The update did not remove any posts and almost everything remained intact. The new software also contained features such as a point system, reputation, status updates, blogs, and a shop. TINS and RabbitSnore stepped down not long afterwards, passing the ownership baton to Dopply. | + | The inaugural [[YouChew Festival 2010|YouChew Festival]] was held from March 21, 2010 to April 6, 2010, celebrating the website's second and final incarnation's anniversary, and the community as a whole's third anniversary. However, it outstayed its welcome and lasted an extra month, finally ending on May 7, 2010. The event was received amazingly by the community, and it became an annual forum mainstay for the rest of its duration. As a result of the Oz incident described below, though, the record of the 2011 Festival has disappeared forever. |
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| + | On July 24, 2010, [[Dopply]] and the other [[Moderators|administrators]] decided to update to the Invision software due to constant glitches with the PHPBB3 software. The update did not remove any posts and almost everything remained intact. The new software also contained features such as a point system, reputation, status updates, blogs, and a shop. TINS and RabbitSnore stepped down not long afterwards, passing the ownership baton to Dopply. The staff overall would soon see a large influx of new blood, with about a dozen promotions happening throughout the rest of 2010 and 2011. | ||
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| + | October of 2010 would see the start of another classic annual YouChew tradition - the Halloween Festival. During the festival, users dressed up as a character of their choosing - basically temporarily changing their username and avatar while roleplaying as said character. For some years, users could also give virtual candy to the costumes they liked best. For the first couple years, people roleplayed all over the forum, but this proved overwhelming and eventually Halloween roleplay was restricted to a roleplay-specific section. | ||
On February 6th 2011, the forums were moved to the domain youchew.net with a new faster server, as part of Dopply's renovations to the site. Having "poop" in your site name or URL is confessedly not the most professional looking. | On February 6th 2011, the forums were moved to the domain youchew.net with a new faster server, as part of Dopply's renovations to the site. Having "poop" in your site name or URL is confessedly not the most professional looking. | ||
| − | Shortly after the festival, [[Eric Osborne|Oz]], who had been on Tech Staff (a group that was since dissolved due to the general inactivity of most of its members) for several months, showed his true colors and nearly succeeded at causing a rift within the community, but in the end failed and was irreversibly banned. As there would've been risk in continuing to use the forum after Oz left his mark, for a couple of weeks the community migrated to [[Planet Freedom]] as a temporary refuge and the main forum had to be restored to a February backup, which was the most recently usable backup from before Oz's impact. | + | Shortly after the festival, [[Eric Osborne|Oz]], who had been on Tech Staff (a group that was since dissolved due to the general inactivity of most of its members) for several months, showed his true colors and nearly succeeded at causing a rift within the community, but in the end failed and was irreversibly banned. As there would've been risk in continuing to use the forum after Oz left his mark, for a couple of weeks the community migrated to [[Planet Freedom]] as a temporary refuge and the main forum had to be restored to a February backup, which was the most recently usable backup from before Oz's impact. The Oz incident remains the darkest stain on YouChew's history, and while the forum would last for years yet, there was an indisputable change in its atmosphere. |
The complete antithesis to Oz in terms of Tech Staff members was tabull, who was always able and professional in his work and would become promoted to administrator in mid-2011 due to his technical prowess. Dopply would relinquish site ownership to [[SuperYoshi]] in late 2011, though Dopply would later return to the staff. Under a year later, site ownership changed once more with tabull becoming head admin. He held the fort for four years and more or less doubled the site's lifespan. He retired from site ownership and admin duties in 2016 in light of the stresses ownership incurred, and would pass on the head admin role to the final owner of YouChew, [[Whelt]]. | The complete antithesis to Oz in terms of Tech Staff members was tabull, who was always able and professional in his work and would become promoted to administrator in mid-2011 due to his technical prowess. Dopply would relinquish site ownership to [[SuperYoshi]] in late 2011, though Dopply would later return to the staff. Under a year later, site ownership changed once more with tabull becoming head admin. He held the fort for four years and more or less doubled the site's lifespan. He retired from site ownership and admin duties in 2016 in light of the stresses ownership incurred, and would pass on the head admin role to the final owner of YouChew, [[Whelt]]. | ||
| − | YouChew saw a gradual decline in activity in its final years, | + | YouChew saw a gradual decline in activity in its final years, suffering both from continued drama and an increasing community divide between older members (who were often no longer interested in YouTube Poop) and the younger members (many of whom largely used YouChew for its Poop sections). These factors culminated in its closure in 2018, although the community lives on through splinter groups. The older members moved on to [[Neon Castle]], a gaming-based community, while the younger ones now peruse [[YTPMania]], which continues the focus on YouTube Poop. Additionally, many former YouChew members (including those who are no longer part of any official communities) remain connected to one another through social media. |
===The Site Boards=== | ===The Site Boards=== | ||
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YouChew (formerly YouChewPoop) was the former community portal for youtubepoop.com, yet it later became a site unto itself after Conrad Slater retired as administrator during the shenanigans surrounding Planet Freedom. Conrad Slater bought the domain name because he thought it was funny. (He was wrong.) The site ran from 2007 to 2018, a considerably long lifespan considering its niche subject.
To this day people claim to be a little grossed out by the term YouTube Poop so the idea of actually eating Poop must surely conjure such imagery to give reason to quit making or watching Poop altogether and instead turn their attention to re-dubs, bad slideshows, AMVs, Vlogging, and other kinds of YouTube Pollution. This led to the eventual name change from "YouChewPoop" to "YouChew".
Anyway, YouChew was pretty much the hub of the pooping community. It was a discussion grounds where poopers can talk to each other about poops, share good (or bad!) ones, and even give advice. At the same time, a lot of casual conversation was had, showing that poopers really are just like you and me. (See, we aren't a cult. Take that, bloggers!) In addition, there were many news articles, events, and other things that occur, and some things occurring in the past have become landmarks and fondly-remembered parts of poop history.
The Site
YouChew comprised of three main parts, with some other additional elements. By far the most active part of the site was the forum, which has been called the heartbeat of the YouChew community, as it is where the most communication takes place. The News Page, also called the Front Page, provides semi-professional as well as outright unprofessional news coverage of site events as well as reviews of media. Finally, the site also contained the Chewiki; a place to learn about Youtube Poop and memes. The Chewiki has been revived under YTPedia, which you are reading right now, though with much of the fat trimmed and the relics of aughts Internet updated to the current times.
The News Page
- Main Article: YCP News Office
The News Page was controlled most directly by Crazy Luigi, the final Editor-in-Chief of the YouChew Writing Staff. He and his editors led the site's team of writers and attempt to provide enjoyable and informative pieces of writing for the viewers of the front page.
Conrad Slater created the News Page and was the first contributor of articles, the first of them chronicling the site's creation and development.
The Forum
With several hundred regular users at its peak, the forum was the most active place on the site. "The Forum" has been used to describe two discussion boards: the first incarnation, which used Lussumo Vanilla software; and the second incarnation, which initially used PHPBB3. The Vanilla forums were for a long time archived, but in August of 2011 the posts and accounts from Vanilla were merged into the current incarnation thanks to the efforts of tabull.
History
Conrad Slater was the first administrator and moderator of the forum, as well as its creator. Following his tenure, the administration led by Thereisnospork303 and RabbitSnore took over following the Planet Freedom incident.
The earliest years of YouChew were the most active, but also harbored the worst attitudes. It was a byproduct of the acerbic mid-2000s Internet environment, with some trolling-heavy threads like the Worst of DeviantArt and even hostile treatment of some forum members themselves (such as kinghomer45). Pretty much everyone on the site was a teenager back then, and most have matured and admit their attitudes in those days weren't all that great.
The inaugural YouChew Festival was held from March 21, 2010 to April 6, 2010, celebrating the website's second and final incarnation's anniversary, and the community as a whole's third anniversary. However, it outstayed its welcome and lasted an extra month, finally ending on May 7, 2010. The event was received amazingly by the community, and it became an annual forum mainstay for the rest of its duration. As a result of the Oz incident described below, though, the record of the 2011 Festival has disappeared forever.
On July 24, 2010, Dopply and the other administrators decided to update to the Invision software due to constant glitches with the PHPBB3 software. The update did not remove any posts and almost everything remained intact. The new software also contained features such as a point system, reputation, status updates, blogs, and a shop. TINS and RabbitSnore stepped down not long afterwards, passing the ownership baton to Dopply. The staff overall would soon see a large influx of new blood, with about a dozen promotions happening throughout the rest of 2010 and 2011.
October of 2010 would see the start of another classic annual YouChew tradition - the Halloween Festival. During the festival, users dressed up as a character of their choosing - basically temporarily changing their username and avatar while roleplaying as said character. For some years, users could also give virtual candy to the costumes they liked best. For the first couple years, people roleplayed all over the forum, but this proved overwhelming and eventually Halloween roleplay was restricted to a roleplay-specific section.
On February 6th 2011, the forums were moved to the domain youchew.net with a new faster server, as part of Dopply's renovations to the site. Having "poop" in your site name or URL is confessedly not the most professional looking.
Shortly after the festival, Oz, who had been on Tech Staff (a group that was since dissolved due to the general inactivity of most of its members) for several months, showed his true colors and nearly succeeded at causing a rift within the community, but in the end failed and was irreversibly banned. As there would've been risk in continuing to use the forum after Oz left his mark, for a couple of weeks the community migrated to Planet Freedom as a temporary refuge and the main forum had to be restored to a February backup, which was the most recently usable backup from before Oz's impact. The Oz incident remains the darkest stain on YouChew's history, and while the forum would last for years yet, there was an indisputable change in its atmosphere.
The complete antithesis to Oz in terms of Tech Staff members was tabull, who was always able and professional in his work and would become promoted to administrator in mid-2011 due to his technical prowess. Dopply would relinquish site ownership to SuperYoshi in late 2011, though Dopply would later return to the staff. Under a year later, site ownership changed once more with tabull becoming head admin. He held the fort for four years and more or less doubled the site's lifespan. He retired from site ownership and admin duties in 2016 in light of the stresses ownership incurred, and would pass on the head admin role to the final owner of YouChew, Whelt.
YouChew saw a gradual decline in activity in its final years, suffering both from continued drama and an increasing community divide between older members (who were often no longer interested in YouTube Poop) and the younger members (many of whom largely used YouChew for its Poop sections). These factors culminated in its closure in 2018, although the community lives on through splinter groups. The older members moved on to Neon Castle, a gaming-based community, while the younger ones now peruse YTPMania, which continues the focus on YouTube Poop. Additionally, many former YouChew members (including those who are no longer part of any official communities) remain connected to one another through social media.
The Site Boards
Conrad originally intended the forums as a place where poopers could engage in creative discussion about the visual medium of YouTube Poop. Along the way, however, the forums also spawned additional sections where people could talk about art, TV shows, and many other subjects. YouChew had a wide variety of sections, as detailed below, although in the forum's final few years the slowest sections were merged into more active ones.
Forum Center
- Introductions - Feel free to make yourself at home, and leave a good first impression on your peers.
- Site Discussion, Questions, and Suggestions - Suggest ideas about the site, collaborate, and ask questions so you can learn.
- Forum Announcements and Rules - Read up on the rules and important moderator announcements. Protected; only moderators and administrators can post.
- The Hub - An area where people could collaborate on projects, many of which were overly ambitious and few of which saw completion. Later hidden from public view in light of that poor success rate.
- Articles - Along with the Home Page, it is one of two places where the Writing Staff's articles can be read and commented on.
YouTube Poop
- Poop Listings - Show off your own poops and get some compliments to boost your
egoconfidence, or constructive criticism to help you improve the quality of your work. Or just use it for more views; we don't care. Also a great place to laugh (mockingly) at the various meme-filled poops new users tend to post. You can also show off other people's poops, and hopefully brighten up somebody's day. You can learn plenty from poops you post there. - Poop Talk - Discussion of YouTube Poop itself takes place here. Discuss sources that are used, or just talk about various poops and some of the culture.
- Media Library - Exchange sources, software, and find out the source of a certain clip.
- Poop Collaborations - Here, you can make a Poop Collaboration and have others join in your fun. The helpful Tennis Café staff can help you lock the thread of an completed/dead collab, answer your questions, or have them move a collab thread to another sub-forum as necessary.
- Collabs: Sign-Up/Wanted - These collabs have just started and are awaiting more poopers to sign up. Once enough people have signed up and begun pooping, they move to "in progress".
- Collabs: In Progress - Collabs that are in progress; they may or may not have a full roster of poopers. If you come early enough, you might be able to squeeze in.
- Collabs: Completed - These collabs have been finished. The collab video was put together and each user has sent their contribution.
- Collabs: Canceled and Failed] - Collabs are risky business. Some are successful, and the rest don't make it out alive. This is a life-or-death situation, and if "death" occurs, this is basically where they end up. The road not taken...
- Poop Tennis - Arrange YouTube Poop Tennis matches here. The Tennis Café staff also have administrator powers here, and can help with the same stuff as in the Collaboration forum.
- Tennis: Wanted
- Tennis: In Progress
- Tennis: Completed
- Tennis: Forfeited and Failed
- Tennis: Tournaments - The epic poop matches.
- Tennis Season - Again, the epic matches.
- Tennis Archives - Not as nostalgic as the archives of the regular site material, but possibly the best next thing!
Chat Center
- Off Topic Chat - Read about real-life situations that wouldn't fit anywhere else, or (almost) escape from it all and talk about nothing.
- Forum Games - Relax, laugh, and play some games here.
Media Center
- Gaming - Chat about games - old, new, or upcoming - and your opinions on them.
- Film, Television, and Videos - Talk about movies, Internet videos, and rant about Cartoon Network's latest shows.
- The Internet - Advertise a fun website you found, and chat about other stuff found on the Internet.
- Art and Images - Chat about various art-related stuff, post various images related to a certain topic, post said art you may or may not like, and even show off some of your own artwork.
- Music and Audio - Discuss your favourite types of music here, such as music-related news or simply talk about your favourite songs.
- Writing and Literature - Post a story you're working around and get praise and criticism like a Poop. Read other people's literature, and even talk about books in general. Later merged into Off Topic Chat.
- Computers and Tech Support - You can talk about computers here, and it is also the place to go to if you're having any technical issues. Later merged into Off Topic Chat.
- Food and Cooking - Because YouChew talked about pizza too damn much, this containment board was established. The last brand new section. Later merged into Off Topic Chat.
Site Peripherals
- Hall of Fame - Reminisce towards some of YouChew's most memorable and most magical times we've ever had.
The Vanilla Forums had a very similar system, though boards were often split into more specific categories (such as a board specifically for Sony Vegas tech support). Perhaps one of the most prominent old boards, however, was the "Showroom of Shame", where users showed off bad poops they found. The Showroom of Shame does not exist as a board on the new forums.
En Grande
It's also quite a little shindig where the peeps and the gents can shimmy all around up on each other, before you get busted by the po-man-chu in the white baron cap. Also known as SnabbitRore, the ultimate king of swing, the jungle V.I.P, and the local solid rabbit. Nobody knows about the influx of news from the news, or if the newcomers are really just bringers. Outside and all that, no one could really tell from what we see around there, except the Sonic things and all the threads with made by the Sonic things and also some other things, not always Sonic. COMBOS.
Also, it's the website that hosted the previous "Chewiki" incarnation of this very wiki.
Trivia
- On October 22, 2010, Pimpsahoy returned to the forums. This caused both the spam and the porn forums to be revived for one day. It was the best day ever to those who participated in it. And for those who didn't, well they wish they were there. Some believe that it should be considered a holiday.
