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Yo! Project is a forum where all kind of song projects are welcome~!
It started out as an H!P based project but soon evolved.
Y!P's history under the spoiler if you're interested to read 'cause I am too lazy to actually summarize it
Spoiler: click to toggle As Yo! Project's ever exciting (in a way that is not) 5 year anniversary looms in the distance and more and more people start joining, I thought I'd kind of lay out Yo! Project's path from itty bitty baby project no one cared about to a flourishing forum with almost 200 members. It might help some people understand why I run Yo! Project the way I do.
Back in the day, there weren't so many projects up and running. There was basically jpopmusic.com and mm-bbs, two forums that played the karaoke game but on very different levels. Projects were starting to become popular bit by bit- and around this time, seramyu fandom was dying more and more as the final stage went into effect.
A bunch of seramyu fans started turning to Hello! Project for their adorable bubblegum pop fix. Among those people were myself and Sohee. Sohee was full of ideas and ambition and ran around 3 e-myus (online seramyu radio play) at any point in time and had taken a shine to me when I showed up “on the scene.†We were both part of another group called Eggo Moni, a project that was then based on sign-ups and first come, first serve.
Both of us enjoyed Eggo Moni but disliked the level of quality coming from it. We both decided to create our own “projectâ€, opting to hold auditions rather than sign-ups to ensure vocal stability. She also wanted a place to hold host to a dream of hers- to cover Morning Musume from Morning Coffee to the bitter end, adding girls as the project went on.
She asked me to co-produce, mostly because I was sitting around in MSN with her at the time. I had zero experience in mixing, producing, or anything of the sort but had been interested for a while, mostly because I was sick of seeing all these places where people sang terribly and mixed terribly and got complimented for it. I wanted a hand in creating this place so I could make sure honesty was always celebrated and respected because, dammit, I had a lot to say about some stuff.
We decided on the name Yo! Project because the greeting “yo†is used in Sweden, where Sohee is from, and is considered kind of ghetto and I'm from a violent and run-down suburb that's not exactly a ghetto but it's not where you want to find yourself in the middle of the night. What up. I'm street. Ish.
So we started Yo! Project as a traditional project. Yomusu was created and sent to record Morning Coffee/Ai no Tane. A few more subgroups popped into being- Momo Tea, JKL, Giri Giri, Yabeye, UU, Lix3. The only thing that was different about us from other projects back then is we had a forum dedicated to holding your own auditions and posting your own karaokes.
Other than that, things were all very serious. We had rules, like one person can only be in two groups (which is why Lix3 was Lix3 ~sans Liana~ for it's entire duration and I NEVER JOINED.) We discussed things intensely that did not need to be discussed. We even have an archnemesis- the girl who ran Eggo Moni and I went our separate ways after I learned of her plan to trick a guy and a girl into recording a ton of songs, releasing them, reviewing them favorably and then telling the duo they did it as a joke, that they were both terrible and everyone was laughing at them. I contacted the guy and girl to tell them this was going into effect. I may be a loudmouthed bitch but let me tell you, I stand up for the little guy! And thus was the beginning of Eggo Moni vs Yo! Project, which is a wonderful story for another day.
We slowly calmed down and matured. Sohee eventually left the forum and no longer comes around, mostly because she was upset with me about something or another (we fought more often than not) and quit Yo! Project. When she calmed down and asked to be reinstated as an admin a few months later, I told her no, that I'd found a rhythm doing it solo and couldn't deal with her flaking on me all the time (that hadn't been the first time she quit Y!P). That lead to her eventually leaving Yo! Project all together.
It was not long after I started running the BBS solo that I got rid of the “project†aspect of Yo! Project. It lead to a sort of stress and seriousness I didn't want to deal with anymore, like thinking “Well, this mix is good enough for any old karaoke release but is it good enough to be a project release?†or people thinking less of themselves because they posted on the forum but weren't part of “Yo! Project.†The entire concept had sort of died, anyway. Sohee, as emotional as she was, was kind of our motivation and our push. It would be another year or two before I formed my own sense of ambition and until then, the forum hung on by a thread. This era is where Yomusu's Love Machine and Koi no Dancesite lives in, sigh. One day, we'll get back to that.
The people posting at Y!P at that time did so because it was a small, comforting place even if it wasn't all that active or exciting. We treated the forum like a chat room, running around like wild. We understood each other and our senses of humor. We fought, sometimes, but still loved each other. Okay I fought with Windy and Sohee. No one else really fought. I've always been kind of a dick, sorry guys.
However, we were still creating and releasing high quality karaokes- and we were the only ones listening to them. I was getting sick of this. I was also realizing that, for some reason, karaoke had moved off forums and moved onto youtube. The concept of dubbing a PV with your karaoke was not foreign to me- in fact, Sohee had always insisted we release “PVs†with our singles. We'd upload them and they'd be downloaded on your computer because youtube didn't exist yet. Even back then, I thought it was aaabsolutely ridiculous but I had to let Sohee win SOME battles, what can I say.
But when in Rome, right? So I grit my teeth and mentioned to Jko I wanted to put dubs up on youtube even if it made me die inside. Jko jumped on the concept as she had video editing software and nothing to do with it. So we put Yomusu's I Wish and Happy Summer Wedding up on youtube March 24th, 2008. We put more of our songs up. I started pimping Yo! Project like mad, even joining a few other projects largely to raise our visibility (though I always had fun and fell in love with the project in doing so). The rest is basically history.
Even though it was me who instigated the changes and have fallen the most for “youtube†karaoke out of all the old timers (I fought against it so hard and now I'm working on a full concert dub, what happened), sometimes I have the most difficulty with how large the forum has gotten. No matter what happens, I always think of Y!P as my internet home, a place I could come to and not only take off my shoes, but ALL OF MY CLOTHES and be super comfortable. I try very hard to maintain that sense at Y!P- a lot of people disagree with how much running around I let happen in the forum, but that's kind of what Yo! Project is ABOUT. People, running around. I choose admins who dissented with me on many things but understood THAT concept as much as I do. Admin intervention doesn't come until it ABSOLUTELY has to.
More and more I'm seeing how that attitude and running a large forum is an almost impossible balance to find, but myself and my admins will always be dedicated to it. I'm started to let go of my control and depend on the admins I've appointed more and more- and, as always, we make sure every large forum choice or change is decided by the forum as a whole. Hell, even the small changes. I want this to be a comfortable forum for all, not my own personal playground in which everyone must do my bidding.
So I invite everyone to try and keep that in mind. This IS a place to discuss- and to disagree. This IS a place for friends to run around and make jokes, make each other and the forum laugh. This IS a place to be yourself, loud, proud, and (relatively) uncensored. I don't want to take it to the extreme of other forums, where it's perfectly acceptable to throw personal insults around just because someone mispells a lot of words. But Y!P won't be the land of bubblegum sugarcanes. If someone says something other people disagree with, those people have every right to speak their minds about it. And that person has every right to retaliate. It will always be this way.
These days it feels like my tiny internet home I sit naked in all the time has become a gigantic gym and I'm still pretty much naked. A lot of us are still naked. And some people are standing in the corner of the gym, pointing and scowling with disgust at our nudity. We will have to learn to be respectful and put on underwear, yeah. But at Y!P, no shirts, no shoes? No problem!
Thank you.
If you sign up for Y!P, an admin have to approve you first, so don't worry about not being able to log in immediately. ^^ Please try to share Y!P further and make it grown even more~
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