I think they do tbh. Its power in social media is HUGE

The only place I see ATRL mentioned anymore is the sistrens on twitter who can't join.

idk why I cackled at this

ot yeah we went #1 in Americas trends when sign ups opened

This

Its power to distract me from doing any studying all damn day for a week straight, you mean?

I don't see people mentioning it outside of here. I had never even heard of it before like 2012

No, it's only mentioned by people who can't join.

I'll only consider atrl influential if it can make unknown acts well known ala Death Grips

This, majority of the internet doesn't give a **** about atrl, for example the one of the biggest threads this year the Lucia Cole thing was only relevant on here and a few others on twitter.

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Tbh if it werent for ATRL i would've never heard of artists like Halsey, Azealia Banks, CL, Tinashe, Troye Sivian, etc., i could go on for days...

I'm not saying these artists are known thanks to ATRL, but it has definitely exposed them to new demos.

This is basically the extent of the impact.

Google your posts (because Search blows) and see multiple results on different forums and then tell me it doesn't have some kind of outreach on the Internet, as well as the multiple copyright warnings from labels/agents/lawyers that the site has received over the years.

Its threads are both imitated and duplicated into articles. Unfortunately it's a small community of people compared to global population that rarely accepts new members and therefore remains in the 5.8k range of activity. The server wouldn't be able to cope anyway, so it's probably for the best.

All hail the New ATRL and the bright future for this forum.

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the tea