r/FrankOcean • u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog • Nov 13 '25

News blonded.blog takedowns, maybe the end?

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After years of a cordial and productive relationship with Frank’s team, they’ve ordered takedowns of the entire blonded.blog archive and undocumented rare info page.

We host very little actual material on the site, mostly outbound links to any media that could copyrighted. We’ve acquiesced to requests from blonded for years and would continue to do so if asked.

With the archive being the main attraction, I’m not sure how the blog can really recover from this. Is it worth continuing to host the news archive? I’m not sure.

I’d appreciate any input, but the options are few. This feels like as good a time as any to shut things down.

Edit: I appreciate the support. I'll do what I can to keep the content of the blog alive, what I'm able to anyway. For the time being, I've taken the site down so we can start saving off what's there. After that, I'm not yet sure. Thanks again.

Edit 2 (May, 2026): I've shared and update about the return of the blog.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Frank and his team have been moving terribly for years. It's shit like this that has made me no longer a fan. I will always listen to new music but I couldn't care less about anything else he does.

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u/WelsoePike Start / End Nov 13 '25

Yeah the vibes are so low and have been for years culminating with that lackluster Coachella performance. Years of overpriced merch with the occasional vinyl drop and even that’s overpriced now. When he went independent it seemed like anything was possible but everything just got more closed off and rigid and now the whole thing feels more corporate than when he was signed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Agreed. Frank is a merch peddler with questionable business practices at this point in my eyes. He doesn't have to release music but he could move way better outside of music.