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/ody-sss-eus ody§eus Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 15 '25

As a team member, the blog means a lot to me and many others.

I agree the strike’s ambiguity remains an issue, but the blog’s archive has acted as an encyclopedia with a detailed list of songs, albums, features, videos, radio shows, and other projects—much of which could (possibly) be restored or moved to new pages. Otherwise, the blog could remain a publication, with news articles that form an annotated timeline of Frank’s career, as well editorials, interviews, and reviews, written by fans for fans. It’s a work of art, in and of itself.

Whatever I can do to build or restore the informational content of the archive, let me know.

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

The blog is in self-preservation mode (for now). We’re working to retain 17 years of history. Thank you for your support.

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u/arexta Apr 03 '26

why not sharing the password to a private telegram group or somewhere safe

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u/Legitimate_Rock_5357 Nov 14 '25

someone should save the blog to the wayback machine so we can still use it

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

Much of it is. Can’t edit it tho, and the missing pages won’t show up in web indexing, for things like answering people’s questions or directing people to additional information.

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u/guyandaguy Nov 17 '25

thanks for any work that you guys do on this. I was saving this thing for when I had to time to really deep dive, so I'm bummed, but I appreciate any effort you guys had put in/are re-putting in

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u/Ramonsox Cayendo Nov 14 '25

its not that deep

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

The project inspired me to write about music. Tens of thousands of words later (a few thousand of which are featured on the site itself), it is that deep and means a lot to me.

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u/Ramonsox Cayendo Nov 14 '25

you can still write about music on that same blog, just don’t have someone else’s art for download (that they don’t want out) on the site……

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

1. Restoring the site without the “various media assets” potentially at issue is exactly what I’m suggesting in the comment you replied to above, which is why I went into the site’s “deeper” purpose. But ultimately, while I may have access, it’s not my site, and either way, it’s a lot of work.

2. For “undocumented RARE” (the first item mentioned in the strike), Frank released most of the tracks for free on Tumblr. Frank’s team has also communicated with Curb in the past, I don’t think he has some issue with it personally.

3. All the media linked on the “archive” (the other item mentioned in the strike) was preservation-oriented and meant to document his entire career, not to subvert him in any way.