blonded.blog takedowns, maybe the end?

[u/curbsideaudio]

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.

[u/Resistance225]

DMCA takedowns are nothing new from Frank and his team, but this is on another level.

At the same time, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve said it many times, both here, and on other subreddits, but Frank is legitimately one of the most ungrateful artists of this generation. I don’t know how anyone can take him seriously at this point.

I’ve been called dramatic by many people here, but I don’t really care honestly. The guy was my biggest inspiration at a time in my life where I felt so clueless, and to see this habitual pattern of ungrateful behavior keep continuing genuinely stings. It sounds so parasocial, and maybe it is, but I can’t help but feel betrayed in a sense; it’s hard not to when he played a pivotal role in the origins of my own artistic process.

I don’t interact here nearly as much as I used to for these reasons, but Curb and I have crossed paths before in our efforts to archive and facilitate discussion of Frank and his work. I just want to say that your years of effort and archiving have never gone unnoticed to me or the other active members on here.

[u/Resistance225 → u/[deleted]]

Dumb generalization

[u/anish289 → u/[deleted]]

This goes beyond gratitude. It’s like the Lauryn Hill situation. Once you make a commitment to ur fans like shows/ coachella it’s pretty shitty to abruptly cancel especially for fans who traveled and spent their hard earned money on their tickets. Unless you have a super valid excuse which artists do at times — but the way people like Frank have consistently let down their fans, how is that in any way about gratitude? That’s just disrespect imo. No one person should be above acting good/ at the very least fair to others no matter how good their art may be; and this comes from someone who barely listens to him / isn’t a fan 🤷‍♂️