AOB: a message for the pessimist & a site for the realest

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Originally Posted by God Of War

this, i think the site is doing well. i think all the people saying text is dead is the reason its dying. why not bring it back to life. u gon be on the net anyway u gon be here. or u gon be at another site. do somehting useful and contribute to the movement. its not abut battling or toicals its about writing.,,,writing wont ever die we just got to make this platform for it dope again

GoW's point here warranted it's own thread.

This post isn't about out debating why 'text will not die', because I've heard, and at times believed, that debate for over a decade....

Writing will die on the same day the last of our kind does (if then). As long as there are thoughts, there'll be a will to convey them - and as long as there is a will to convey them, there will be a way.

What this post IS about is some facts... reasons for even the pessimist to see why this site has all the potential to be the realest one text-life-to-date.

(1) The Past
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It happens....
Many of us have seen text sites come and go. When a site crashes -- sometimes heads move to new sites, sometimes the sites bounce back, sometimes they are never the same.

Rapworld crashed in '02 - and it never came back to form... which is why i went to bboys in the first place, and why i started battling on other sites at the same time. Bboys crashed in '03, and came back stronger than ever -- then after a crash in like '05, heads moved to projectrhyme, and some of the newer heads went to bragginwrites.... later, creating the rise of netcees...

The rise of Netcees....
The strong community on Netcees was formed because of it's greatest strength, and ultimately, it's greatest weakness, Allah / David Llama.

Through his years in text before running his own site - he became a 'text history' savant, and put hella time into two things --- the leagues, and more uniquely at the time, the ARCHIVES FROM ALL SITES.

It really was a smarter move than some people recognize, but by consolidating the "HALL OF NAMES" - with drops from legends from any and all sites, he established the foundation for attracting talent from across the net, and his leagues would keep those heads there.

now let's unwrap the present.