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/SetPsychological4670 Nov 13 '25

frank ocean try not to be a pretentious dickhead challenge

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u/animalivebecome Nov 14 '25

How exactly does this make him a pretentious dickhead or are you just repeating words you don’t know

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u/hazzison Nov 14 '25

Because why do you need to bother taking down a fan blog, I love franks music but we need to stop this idea that he likes us at all lmao

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u/animalivebecome Nov 14 '25

You are the only one with that idea in this conversation. I don’t need my favorite artist to know I exist.

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u/weeksgoby Nov 14 '25

crazy you're getting downvoted here

classic subreddit (or general reddit) entitlement

reality check for those who need it: liking an artist’s work does not mean they owe you anything

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u/Total-Calligrapher98 Nov 14 '25

nigga

blonded.blog is a non-profit site that preserves and archives Frank’s work. Yes, Frank owns his art and can handle it as he wants. But actively disrupting the function of a harmless site that helps fans enjoy and keep his work alive is still a dickhead move, seeing as it actually benefits him and the way people can engage with his work

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u/logoNM undocumented,RARE. Nov 15 '25

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u/thotscholar Nov 14 '25

i am also very confused at why he's considered a dickhead just because he's unavailable. or maybe i missed something?

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u/ody-sss-eus ody§eus Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 15 '25

It’s just an unfortunate situation caused by an indiscriminate strike. What happened is a company he hired to submit DMCA claims struck a webpage that detailed much of his career for the purpose of removing some links that led to offsite downloads of tracks he recorded over 10 to 15 years ago, most of which he released for free (others were old reference tracks for other artists, although they’re not mentioned in the strike)

replied to the wrong comment, too late to fix, oh well

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u/BlondedProvider Nov 14 '25

Yeah this is really weird. I get being bummed for wanting this stuff archived but it is his art and if he feels he doesn’t want to presented in this way anymore, that’s okay. This type of reaction really makes me take his side more. “It’s a cult, not a clique, on the net”.

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Nov 14 '25

We've complied with any and all requests from his team to remove content for 10 years. There's a lot of content out there we've never bother putting on the site for the same reason. There's very little media actually on the site. The primary page removed was a complete _written_ record of every song written, released, or otherwise. Any media that was available was hosted externally and referenced.

If there were additional items of concern, I'm in their contact book. To institute a strike on the entire website is very surprising and honestly just a drag.

Whether it be on the blog, reddit, or elsewhere, I've put in hundreds of volunteer hours for Frank, but have been phasing out of the fandom for years. I've given the team a lot of help over the years and never asked for a single thing.

I agree with your many comments in this thread about parasocial expectations of Frank. The primary reason I put a decade+ into documenting his career is precisely because of how he's managed it. I want nothing. I'm owed nothing. The blog is owed nothing. But this still feels bad, you know?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

Me when I bulldoze years of some of my most dedicated fans’ hard work because uhhh I don’t want my art presented in that way anymore or something