January 4, 2005: LiveJournal Sold to SixApart

Happy New Year! It’s the first week of January, and V and Emily are exploring the effects of LiveJournal’s sale to SixApart Media on January 4, 2005. Fandom is an eternal wanderer, forever losing its homes on the internet. Was this sale the harbinger of things to come? How did updates to LJ’s terms of use affect fandom and fanfiction? Will fandom ever find a forever-home online?

Sources

Fanlore
Wikipedia

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