Lolita Secrets
 Screenshot of Lolita Secrets homepage as of February 2012 | |
| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Founded | April 2007 |
| Website | http://loli-secret.livejournal.com |
| Current status | Closed |
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.
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Footnotes
- ↑ "Community Profile". Lolita Secrets. Archived from the original on Dec 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Community Profile". Lolita Secrets. Archived from the original on Dec 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Community Profile". Lolita Secrets. Archived from the original on Dec 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Community Profile". Lolita Valentines. Archived from the original on Jan 13, 2012.
- ↑ "Concerning the 241st Secrets Post". Lolita Secrets. Dec 27, 2011. Archived from the original on Jan 3, 2012.
- ↑ "New mods, and transitioning out of the comm". Lolita Secrets. Jan 2, 2012. Archived from the original on Jan 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Profile". Behind the Bows. Retrieved Jan 7, 2021.
- ↑ "230th Secrets Post". Lolita Secrets. Oct 9, 2011. Archived from the original on Nov 15, 2011.
- ↑ "233rd Secrets Post". Lolita Secrets. Oct 30, 2011. Archived from the original on Nov 2, 2011.
- ↑ "229th Secrets Post". Lolita Secrets. Oct 2, 2011. Archived from the original on Nov 15, 2011.
- ↑ "14th Secrets Post". Lolita Secrets. Archived from the original
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