Once a vibrant community....

[KrisisID]

Once an active and vibrant community of people to talk and air out their dirty laundry, is now in its final paces... about to die.

A place where Karma, used to upset the n00bs into making raging threads.

Where friends were made, and "virtual" enemies were created.

Where many young DJ's first made their scratch into the scene

After all the drama and bullshit one thing united us all, it was the fact that we all parties our faces off, and loved doing it.

What fnk meant to me?

Helped me develop myself as a new DJ entering into the scene, it helped me meet and greet and network with many names in the local community. I have made a lot of friends through fnk, a lot of them still very near and dear to me right now. Meeting you people irl opened me up, where I was once closed off and shy.

I guess facebook took over most of it.

oh well... just some of my nostalgia...

[Liqwid]

totes. i used to be on here ALL THE TIME!

[Antenna_Boy]

^ Likewise =)

[ebbomega]

Heh.

Funny how when it was active, all anybody could say about FNK was that it was filled with heartless losers, and ex-scenesters and burnouts.

Now that everybody's gone it was a "vibrant community".

This board has been known as "Effin' ghey" for almost as long as I've been on it.

[MissBehavior]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Heh.

Funny how when it was active, all anybody could say about FNK was that it was filled with heartless losers, and ex-scenesters and burnouts.

Now that everybody's gone it was a "vibrant community".

This board has been known as "Effin' ghey" for almost as long as I've been on it.

This.

I kinda miss all the torrents of hate, though. Made for cheap entertainment.

[Liqwid]

Originally Posted by Antenna_Boy

^ Likewise =)

john!

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by MissBehavior

This.

I kinda miss all the torrents of hate, though. Made for cheap entertainment.

Not saying I disliked it myself. Lord knows how active I've been on this board for the last, what, 7 years? It's been great.

But I just find people romanticizing what this was kinda funny. "Vibrant" wouldn't be the operative word I think... that was more LX. Al threw parties, fostered meet-ups and actively contributed to the scene on a consistent basis. Here we just bitched about how parties have gone downhill and acted like stupid twits while we made fun of other stupid twits. "Active" is a little more accurate. Definitely a fun place to do all that.

And then there was XTCity, buncha candyravers who then had their ecstasy honeymoon burnouts and so it died, paving the way for ED, which then died out and splintered into Pod6 and the Geej, both of which are down for the count. Gotta hand it to Myles, at least this place is still standing. Desolate as it were but I guess less traffic means less need to administrate? Still, fun to check in every once in a while.

Quick! Someone do something stupid!

[Ghost Belushi]

they say heaven is a vibrant community, but i am stuck here in this shitty limbo.

[ebbomega]

Bring back MC Bear.

[Phrenetic]

was fun, found lots of local wisdom on here. Things sure change.

[FireWire]

Yes... it is better to describe it as a once "active" community as opposed to a "vibrant" one.

This forum's activity died off in 2008, and that was also when ticket prices for raves and various other events skyrocketed and many people (including myself) stopped being able to attend events (I was mainly here to keep up with events and the music). Then, as someone pointed out earlier - the rise of social networking websites have also contributed to diverting traffic from FNK to themselves (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.), and this website lost almost all of its traffic.

And yes, there was a lot of stupidity, arguing, bickering, name calling, prejudice, and elitist-like behaviors which scared many new members away... therefore preventing new people from becoming regulars. Oh well... I guess this is what happens when a collective of people cannot get along.

I enjoyed talking on here and sharing thoughts with you guys, but all the arguing and ignorance turned me off and made me move on. I miss all of the intellectual discussions about life however, and actively discussing the music scene - FNK was really good for that.

[Automatik]

This is my first time back here in 8 years... was kinda shocked to see the shadow of a community I remembered. Things change and evolve the only constant in this world is Microsoft and the need for hair cuts.

[crookedking]

^^i bet a lot of people have been on this board long enough to loose (that's for grapes) their hair.

[etno]

I do miss a lot of the people I met on LX,XTCity, ED, and here. But mostly left the crews as they all grew up, or continued doing drugs. What can be said for nostalgia? I could think good things and tear up, or I could remember the people I would punch in the face to this day for what was said. Looking upon my page here, my last log in was sept 2009!! My web identity is long gone, replaced by status updates and pokes. I sure do miss talk-sic tuesdays at the spanish. Not sure if I should think of those days as the best of my life...but going on 30 makes it seem so. I have so much love for my memories, you all helped make them so I owe you. Take care of yourselves, we're all missed.

[QuanNeur]

I left Vancouver in 1998 but this board and others helped me feel like I still knew about what was going on party-wise back home. It was interesting watching Vancouver's rave scene get bigger and bigger and then finally implode on itself.

I would absolutely kill to have a browse through LoungeX. If any of you guys know Al you should encourage him to put up a read-only copy of the old board. I would love to have a dive into the old LoungeX reviews section and relive those late 90's moments of bliss, fear and amazement.

[decypher]

Hey anyone want to get into an over-contrived argument where we all shout ourselves to sleep and hopefully reveal some embarrassing personal detail in the process?

[M.C. BEAR]

negative karmas drove me to overdose on quaaludes. i had finally hit rock bottom when the good lord sent me a message, "M.C. Bear, it's time to leave the hiphop game behind you and find your true calling - helping others."

[dre420]

Ooh the good old days! I loved using this site to see what was happening, read reviews, and look at all the pictures. It got me into raving in the first place. I guess we all grow up sometime though!

[SomeGuy]

Random question, why is everyone talking like F'n'K is totally dead? This is the first time I've been on in years and to me it seems very much alive, much smaller than it used to be but that's how it started.. Is this website shutting down or something?

[duke lion]

I remember most of the people in this thread, its been a LONG time since ive been on fnk. But yeah, i used to spend countless hours on this forum.
It was glorious in its day.
Is ppcock still around, dude cracked me up.

[SEAN!]

I think the catalyst for the decline in activity was the 2-3 months that fnk was down for back in 08, it never recovered after that.

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by etno

I do miss a lot of the people I met on LX,XTCity, ED, and here. But mostly left the crews as they all grew up, or continued doing drugs. What can be said for nostalgia? I could think good things and tear up, or I could remember the people I would punch in the face to this day for what was said. Looking upon my page here, my last log in was sept 2009!! My web identity is long gone, replaced by status updates and pokes. I sure do miss talk-sic tuesdays at the spanish. Not sure if I should think of those days as the best of my life...but going on 30 makes it seem so. I have so much love for my memories, you all helped make them so I owe you. Take care of yourselves, we're all missed.

Heh, the spansih cultural centre is now called the metro and they through narcotic anonymous dances there every month.

its kind of weird being there clean and listening to the same type of music i did when i wasn't

[MC Hammered]

I'm still here...

[dj_soo]

a lot of rave boards are going the way of the dinosaur. everyone grew up and the kids are all on facebook and twitter now.

[dj_soo]

one thing about this board tho...

I wrote some really good insults on here...