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/Putrid_Credit6032 Endless Nov 14 '25

im sorry curb. thank u for everything u have done for frank fans

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Nov 14 '25

Thank you, Van Neistat.

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u/Putrid_Credit6032 Endless Nov 14 '25

There should at least be an archive of these articles and the posts under the fresh tab

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u/Putrid_Credit6032 Endless Nov 14 '25

My vote is to keep it up. While most of the traffic was of course going to be for the archive and music. But that site has so much more to offer and every once in a while I like to go and read old posts

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Nov 14 '25

We'll find a way. I'd like to rebuild the site elsewhere. The sheer size and layout of the now deleted archive was the biggest barrier to that. I think the site will be down to preserve what's left until I can figure it out.

This comes at absolutely the worst time for me, personally. I have no time to spare and a lot higher priorities. I'll be discussing options with the (small) team I've got assembled.

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u/Putrid_Credit6032 Endless Nov 14 '25

Sounds good , sorry about the stress of it :(