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Lolita Secrets was an English-language Livejournal community that hosted anonymously posted image macros in the style of confessions. Submissions and posting would happen on a weekly basis and spanned from opinions about brand releases and community drama to the poster's personal habits and feelings in the fashion.
Lolita Secrets was an English-language Livejournal community that hosted anonymously posted image macros in the style of confessions. Submissions and posting would happen on a weekly basis and spanned from opinions about brand releases and community drama to the poster's personal habits and feelings in the fashion.
The page described its concept as follows:
<blockquote>"This community is based off of PostSecret, how it works is very simple- you use MS Paint or any other graphics program to create a 'secret' about lolita fashion, whether it be you are secretly terrified of Novala or that you absolutely hate Moi Meme Moitie's winter line, this is where to post your secret!"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111213203850/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/profile</ref></blockquote>


=History=
=History=


The Lolita Secrets livejournal community was created on April 17, 2007<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111213203850/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/profile</ref>, with its first posts happening shortly thereafter.
The Lolita Secrets livejournal community was created on April 17, 2007<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111213203850/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/profile</ref>, with its first posts happening shortly thereafter. Secrets would be submitted and screened by moderators according to the following rules before being posted in a weekly Sunday posting.
 
* Secrets can be a maximum of 640x640 in size
* Post your own secret, not anybody else's
* Wank is kind of inevitable, because secrets are usually kept secrets for a reason, but please try andkeep bitching to a minimum or else I will bring out the ban hammer.
* Only secrets about Lolita and related fashions (aristocrat, dandy ect.) allowed.
* Secrets about J-rockers/V-Kei artists are allowed, but only if they dress in lolita
* Flaming is allowed, but no names are allowed, and if you use a picture, please obscure the face.
* When using pictures of a person, obscure the face. Names aren't allowed. Userpics are fine. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111213203850/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/profile</ref>
 
 
Lolita Secrets was also affiliated with the Lolita Valentines community, which was meant to be a positive, encouraging alternative to the main Secrets community.
 
"[I]t works something like '''loli_secret''' only in a  more positive way! make a graphic of some sort with text or something on it. it can be about someone you like, someone's accomplishments you think were pretty awesome, someone's super!behaviour, "i ♥ ---!!!", etc. creativity is totally welcome."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120113065903/http://loli-valentines.livejournal.com/profile</ref>
 
In December 2011, following backlash and takedown notices for a recent secrets post, moderator robotkittenarmy formally stepped down <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120120045029/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/138795.html</ref>, followed shortly thereafter by the remaining moderator team.  Recruitment efforts for a new moderation team began in early January 2012 <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120120045029/http://loli-secret.livejournal.com/139630.html</ref>, but posts stopped around the same time, and the community was deleted and purged by the next year.  An unaffiliated replacement community, Behind the Bows, was created January 17, 2010<ref>https://behind-the-bows.livejournal.com/profile</ref> following the same concept and rules and remains active to the present day.
 
== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="120">
File:LolitaSecretOct2011.jpg
File:LolitaSecretOct302011.png
File:LolitaSecretOct2.jpg
File:LolitaSecretWeek14.jpg
</gallery>


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 21:00, 8 January 2022

Lolita Secrets
LolitaSecretsScreenshot2012.PNG
Screenshot of Lolita Secrets homepage as of February 2012
Available inEnglish
FoundedApril 2007
Websitehttp://loli-secret.livejournal.com
Current statusClosed

Lolita Secrets was an English-language Livejournal community that hosted anonymously posted image macros in the style of confessions. Submissions and posting would happen on a weekly basis and spanned from opinions about brand releases and community drama to the poster's personal habits and feelings in the fashion.

The page described its concept as follows:

"This community is based off of PostSecret, how it works is very simple- you use MS Paint or any other graphics program to create a 'secret' about lolita fashion, whether it be you are secretly terrified of Novala or that you absolutely hate Moi Meme Moitie's winter line, this is where to post your secret!"[1]

History

The Lolita Secrets livejournal community was created on April 17, 2007[2], with its first posts happening shortly thereafter. Secrets would be submitted and screened by moderators according to the following rules before being posted in a weekly Sunday posting.

  • Secrets can be a maximum of 640x640 in size
  • Post your own secret, not anybody else's
  • Wank is kind of inevitable, because secrets are usually kept secrets for a reason, but please try andkeep bitching to a minimum or else I will bring out the ban hammer.
  • Only secrets about Lolita and related fashions (aristocrat, dandy ect.) allowed.
  • Secrets about J-rockers/V-Kei artists are allowed, but only if they dress in lolita
  • Flaming is allowed, but no names are allowed, and if you use a picture, please obscure the face.
  • When using pictures of a person, obscure the face. Names aren't allowed. Userpics are fine. [3]


Lolita Secrets was also affiliated with the Lolita Valentines community, which was meant to be a positive, encouraging alternative to the main Secrets community.

"[I]t works something like loli_secret only in a  more positive way! make a graphic of some sort with text or something on it. it can be about someone you like, someone's accomplishments you think were pretty awesome, someone's super!behaviour, "i ♥ ---!!!", etc. creativity is totally welcome."[4]

In December 2011, following backlash and takedown notices for a recent secrets post, moderator robotkittenarmy formally stepped down [5], followed shortly thereafter by the remaining moderator team. Recruitment efforts for a new moderation team began in early January 2012 [6], but posts stopped around the same time, and the community was deleted and purged by the next year. An unaffiliated replacement community, Behind the Bows, was created January 17, 2010[7] following the same concept and rules and remains active to the present day.

Gallery

Footnotes

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