Hours later, she removed the video due to "trolling of mass destruction" [55]. However, someone managed to save a copy before the video went down and reuploaded it under the username of anon4chanbtard. Her original account was hacked [56] , but she created one account after another to continue posting as other users began reporting her posts for trolling.
On October 3, she gained an entry in the Urban Dictionary, where she is described as a "recently popular troll in the GD, occasionally flirting with hot guys, but mostly calling everyone else names. She was last active on Gaia in with her th account. In August 22, , Gaia released a gold generator called "Flynn's Booty. In the accompanying FAQ, the staff said that "it is not predicted to have any long-term negative effect on the economy" [33]. By September 26, Flynn's Booty returned in the cash shop.
One of the slides displayed Flynn's Booty as an example, while another elaborated on the application of Skinner's Box to games. By October 6, pictures of Loia's presentation began circulating within Gaia's forums [39] , and users were angered over being compared to lab rats and began seeing the management as the ones responsible for the hyperinflation. Yip announced her resignation shortly [40] , leaving Liu as the last remaining founder.
Users were already demanding the discontinuation of Flynn's Booty [41] and the termination of both Schofield [42] and Loia [43] , and the discovery of Loia's presentation fueled the users' efforts even further. By December 16, Gaia made an unannounced update to its Terms of Service to prevent the recurrence of the events that led to the closure of the "Ask the Admins" threads.
In comparison to the previous version [46] , the newly-amended version [47] contained provisions against disparaging, ridiculing, and scorning Gaia, its employees, and officers [Sec. In addition, Gaia added an amendment to allow them to revise the Terms of Service without notifying its users, reversing their previous stance of sending notices when updates are made [Sec.
To circumvent censorship, users began giving Schofield nicknames like "Goldemort" [48] and "he-who-must-not-be-named" [49].
As a result, some users have left Gaia and went to other avatar-based forum sites where they shared their grievances over the site's operation [50] [51] [52] , while others resorted to vandalizing Gary Schofield's Crunchbase entry, which sporadically persisted until November , when Schofield's profile was deleted. On April 22nd, , the tech news blog Giga Om [6] reported that Gaia Online averaged one million posts per day. On September 11th, , the Internet news blog Virtual World News [5] published an article revealing that the site was receiving more than seven million monthly users.
According to a list of Internet Forums on Wikipedia , [10] Gaia Online has accumulated the most posts of any Internet forum with over 2. Do you? Archived from now-deleted original. View All Videos. View All Images. Show Comments. It's not coming any time soon, but we can't wait for season two, so here are some of the best memes from the show to remind you it's worth the wait. Here's a further explanation of this trend. Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution.
Read Edit History. About Gaia Online is an anime -themed social networking, gaming and discussion forum site. Upper Management is out of touch entirely with user-base and with employees. The focus has shifted drastically in a negative way where everything is about the bottom dollar.
Unsure if the company will be around in the next year. The current crew is very understaffed with the amount of work that is being placed on employees. Morale is at an all-time low. Management fails to listen to its customers and meet their needs and thus has damaged the company greatly. Everyone is scared about not having a job in a year or two because of the change in management. Remember that this site was at its most popular in the form of a community-focused site that didn't just see its users as clients to be milked of all their money.
Our approach has become annoying to the people who are supposed to be enjoying our site. If they stop enjoying it, they stop visiting it. If they stop visiting it, you lose your revenue. The new management killed off all of the worthwhile projects in favor of focusing solely on milking all the money they can from virtual item sales" The company is hemorrhaging good employees.
It's getting to the point where few people can stomach working with Gaia anymore, and as a result they're losing key people who have been with the company a long time. That money is then funneled into other projects rather than being used to make Gaia Online a website with a viable future. Company spirit seems to be at an all time low. Employees just seem broken, the creative spark is gone.
People are there for a paycheck: they go in, they get out. Nothing unique or interesting about Gaia exists anymore. The few employees who still care about Gaia and try to improve the site for its users are generally stymied by upper management, and sidelined into projects that are more likely to make some easy money for the site rather than create actual improvements.
I joined Gaia already well-aware of the company's reputation and issues, but it somehow managed to be even worse than I ever imagined.
Gaia is a broken system at this point. It's beyond repair. There's no point in offering any feedback or advice because it will never be acknowledged or used by anyone in management. They don't care. Exhibiting unabashed cronyism, new managers hired additional managers they'd worked with in the past to assist in gutting the company of its talent. Together, they've turned what was once a pleasant, enjoyable workplace into a humiliating grind to either drink the kool-aid and remain employed for another month, or just throw your hands up and openly apply for other jobs during work hours.
I don't believe any of the remaining employees sans management are under the impression that positive change is occurring, or that Gaia will ever return to the intensely creative and unique studio it once was. Unfortunately, it wasn't always productive. Some management hired based on their MBA, not skills or competence. Lack of direction and process, making projects run very inefficiently. Sometimes the focus is on the build limitations instead of asking "Is this fun to play?
Though I fondly remember my early years there, I unfortunately now share many sentiments with the other negative reviews here. New corporate management completely out of touch with the culture upon which Gaia was founded, much less how to maintain basic employee morale.
Original fanbase upon which the site was based leaving in droves. Stop valuing the appearance of a full office over actual productivity. Treat your employees with some respect. An entirely different company, literally almost an entirely new staff with little regard for its clients, even less for adequately compensating new, underpaid staff. Features Members of the site's community are known as Gaians and each is represented on the site by an avatar that can be customized with different skin tones, facial characteristics, hair style, gender, race and clothing.
Games The site hosts several Flash games that users can play to acquire gold and items. Highlights Cigarette In late , a Gaia user named Cigarette said in the forums that she was dying of terminal brain cancer.
By February , she mysteriously reappeared and Cycon uploaded the Flash cartoon "Ode to Cigarette" to Newgrounds in response, where it gained around , views [22] : On September 3, , Cycon referenced the incident in another Flash cartoon entitled "A Day in the Life of Cycon", where it gained around , views and a 2nd Place daily trophy at Newgrounds [23] despite both cartoons being banned from Gaia [24].
Million Page Thread On March 28, , Luigi Seno [28] known in Gaia as Lupig started in the Chatterbox forum the only area in the Gaia Online forums that allows spam a thread that aimed to gather a million pages worth of posts with each page consisting of fifteen posts each. Lolichan Loli-Chan is the nickname given to an anonymous camgirl from Florida who gained notoriety on 4chan sometime in at the age of Rules of the Internet Rules of the Internet is a list of protocols and conventions, originally written to serve as a guide for those who identified themselves with the Internet group Anonymous.
Clementine Hacking Incident Clementine, also known by her Gaia username of "Bluebird", was a member who lost her account after falling to a phishing attempt sometime in September Nov 12, 1 comment.
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