basically the gist of it is, remixed posted a thread about how emma, one of the members of radio ARTPOP, posted online that gaga doesn't visit GGD anymore due to the negativity on the site about her. this prompted a lot of meltdowns, one specifically by jayyy, that came for gaga and emma and dragged them both for filth..like majorly. then the radio ARTPOP people retaliated with their newest episode, tim from radio ARTPOP posted a twitlonger further going into the matter and now we're here. basically.
ARTPOP is a great album, she just needs to discount it and promote it more thats all ! Or move on to something new but i feel like shes still tired from the hip surgery !
I think the fall was releasing Judas as a single. It's a great song but the GP was not here for it
I think if it was released later on, without the whole Eastern mess and some solid promo, it could have done well overall, but at a later stadium. the Born This Way era really suffered from the single choices and the way of handling them.
GUYS. Radio ARTPOP apparently posted a response to my letter but I think you have to be a GGD member to see it... Could a member check it out (link to the thread on my wall) and post it here...?
GUYS. Radio ARTPOP apparently posted a response to my letter but I think you have to be a GGD member to see it... Could a member check it out (link to the thread on my wall) and post it here...?
I'm assuming it's ok to post it here...
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At the risk of receiving unnecessary comments such as "no1 curr" or "another thread?!" or my favorite "Too long, not gonna read," I can't keep silent any longer after the insane drama that was Monday night.
My name is Tim. I joined GGD at the end of TFM era under the username TimAteMyHeart. I watched the active forum members go from mostly ego-centric assholes to a loving community, and I've watched it begin to deteriorate again. I made friends here. I was here when I won the phone call at the Monster Ball. I even uploaded an audio rip of the entire show for my friends and community here. I was here when BTW leaked. I was here for the blackout, the Skype meltdown, and every meltdown since. I don't go a single day not being on GGD. Some people here still remember me for my old website, BlueberryKissMe.com (which now links to Radio ARTPOP's website, I hope). Some people remember my "legendary" GGD blog, The Straight Co-Worker Chronicles. And I still remember the names of most of the people who made me want to visit this site every day: ChicaSkas, The Bad Romancer, Gaga Is Mine, Alien Tulip, 4twistedshadows, and willo just to name a few.
I was an active poster who until a couple months ago shared every detail of my life, including my financial insecurity, the tiny studio apartment I shared with a roommate and now my boyfriend, and yes, my sex life. Members like ChicaSkas even offered to help me when I would never have asked for anyone's help. But in January, I started a little YouTube show called Radio ARTFLOP (that was literally the title). We came online whenever we felt like it (usually once a month) to discuss and criticize the rumors that fans started during the Blackout. We wanted to make something entertaining for the fans while we all waited for ARTPOP. At the time, there wasn't even really a "we." It was just me, asking my GGD friends to come on cam with me to make this show.
And what happened? I made amazing friends. Honestly, every single week I go on cam with some of the best people I have ever met, and I knew none of them before I started the show. I know things about them that their real-life best friends probably don't know. We help each other through everything we can, and we're eager to help fans we see online having a rough time. It's just who we are.
We reached popularity the night that the ARTPOP era started in July, and that is the same night we renamed the show Radio ARTPOP. A couple weeks later, we realized that some of the fans who were watching us and the new Monsters we'd bring on every week needed our help because no one else would help them. Every week for five months, I've received tweets, emails, facebook messages, etc. thanking everyone on the show for either a) giving them a good distraction from life or b) making them feel like they had real friends who liked Gaga because many of our viewers are just teenagers, struggling to get through each day in a world where they don't feel accepted or can't make friends or where being gay is a bad thing. This was way before Gaga gave us the snippets.
Before a single Monster had any reason to bash us, hundreds of Monsters watched us every week and appreciated us and what we had to say.
Since receiving the snippets, we have been generalized as "worshippers," "delusional fans," "YAS-men," "hypocritical," "super fans," and "big-headed." Once upon a time, I called Marc Monster a "super fan" and "big-headed." I've had him on my show, spoken to him privately, and even met him since then, and I apologized to him months ago. But only now have I witnessed just how uneducated, jealous, hateful, and/or irrational fans have to be to label someone they have never met, never held a discussion with, and never tried to actually know, for no concrete reason.
People say that my show is about praising Gaga, that since receiving the snippets, all we do is worship everything she does, like we're afraid to step on her toes. This doesn't line up with my constant bashing of Jewels & Drugs, my dislike for the Elton John duet of ARTPOP, my criticism of the SNL performance of DWUW, or my lack of respect for the DWUW Rick Ross remix, along with other past critiques on her work. No one on Radio ARTPOP is afraid of being real. Emma keeps quiet when she feels her Haus work or knowledge inappropriately interferes with a topic. And when someone likes something Gaga has done, they say so. It worries me that some fans doubt what Gaga does so much that they can't believe there are fans like myself, my friends, and many of the guests I didn't know before meeting them on my show, who actually DO like most of Gaga's work, performances, clothes, etc.
More importantly, this idea that my friends or myself are "super fans" is too far. None of us think about the snippets any more. The only reason that many of the hateful comments come from fans thinking we're big-headed ever since Gaga gave us the snippets is because the commenters only saw the snippet episodes, maybe another episode here and there. The first couple weeks after the snippets, we thanked Gaga for watching and contributing, and that by itself made people think we were big-headed, because we were thanking the world's biggest pop star for taking time out of her day for us. Doesn't that seem over-the-top to anyone else, to bash us for thanking her? The truth is, when Jessica, Justin, Emma, Brandon, and I talk, the snippets aren't mentioned. We're planning the next week's episode. We're discussing who we want on the show in the future or the nice comment someone left us. We're organizing potential side-projects to give back to the viewers. And, most importantly, we're discussing our lives outside of the internet, because what people think of us online is completely unrelated to the real life situations we each go through every week.
Last night's rant by Jessica Finn was for our segment called A Piece Of Us. We use this time to discuss something we feel is important, whether it is about Gaga or not. We have helped Monsters struggling with depression, cutting, and bullies. We have told some of our own darkest stories. Jessica volunteered to speak for the segment last night. Like many of us, she'd seen the online negativity, the unhelpful criticism, and the constant begging on Twitter for the DWUW video. Our viewers have seen it and brought it up. She saw what a member of ATRL posted about Emma, who is one of our close friends, and that made her angry. Like she said on the show, she is not a member of GGD. When she saw the ATRL post, it was on Twitter with no other info, and we'd just told her about the drama in the thread with Emma's statuses. It's understandable that she thought the post was from GGD. She doesn't even know what the site looks like, and if you re-watch the episode you'll very clearly hear it said that her comments do not reflect all of GagaDaily, only some users, and especially fans on Twitter and other social networks.
Jessica Finn is a 17-year-old high school senior who wanted to vent about hatred and negativity and a lack of online kindness. Most of you would view her as a KID, but instead of saying "Yasss" for an hour or talking about how everything Gaga does is "flawless," she volunteered to step up and try and help some people understand how serious their in-constructive criticism and hurtful words are. This same girl was only 15 years old when in July 2012 this community nicknamed her "CD Girl" and bashed her non-stop. She received death threats and "kill yourself" tweets for a year because she screamed over a garage full of other loud fans for five seconds. TO THIS DAY THERE ARE STILL NEW POSTS ON GGD THAT POKE FUN AT "CD GIRL," and her friends tell her, so OF COURSE she only knows the negative sides of this website. And last night she tried to inspire positive behavior and is receiving the same nasty garbage she was sent when no one knew her name.
Emma delivered the news that Gaga wasn't visiting GagaDaily any more. Jessica Finn just had something more to say about it, and it was basically what I think Gaga would have said to some of you, though that's not my place to say. In one thread last night, someone bashed everyone on Radio ARTPOP, then apologized for bashing Emma because the user doesn't know her. Why is it alright to bash everyone but Emma when you don't know any of us?
I still see kindness on this website. I've gone out of my way to thank some members whose posts especially moved me or made me feel grateful. But last night I watched a 17-year-old girl tell others to stop being assholes, and those others attacked her.
I don't need responses. I don't even want responses because most of you need to learn when an appropriate time is to be rude or sarcastic, and talking online to people you don't know, whose opinions you don't agree with, but who you make assumptions and stereotypes about is NOT the time for your unnecessary cruelness. To the people who read this and remember me, thank you. To the people who haven't been involved in the drama yet, thank you. To the people who are reading this and are realizing that I as a whole person and my friends as whole people are not defined (and do not care to be defined) by what we do online, thank you.
If anyone actually wants to give us a chance and get to know us, tweet us, email us, or catch up with past episodes here and see what we're all about.
To the mods: I am so sorry that the members here took so much out of context and made your jobs difficult last night. There were no notes for last night's show that said "bash GagaDaily," and I feel that what was said was clearly stated to be a discussion of some fans including some GagaDaily users.
GUYS. Radio ARTPOP apparently posted a response to my letter but I think you have to be a GGD member to see it... Could a member check it out (link to the thread on my wall) and post it here...?
GUYS. Radio ARTPOP apparently posted a response to my letter but I think you have to be a GGD member to see it... Could a member check it out (link to the thread on my wall) and post it here...?
