2 Years Later...The Last Days of SOHH and The GENESIS of THE COLI

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on the same token.. that was also all years in the making..

So true, I remember being at work trying to keep my laughter down at my desk reading some of the threads in TLR and OT, anytime I clicked on JBO it was a wrap. You know a thread was good when it was doing 10-15+ pages. It's becoming the same way with The Coli here, got a good group of posters from sohh/pc that can still keep the hilarity and fukkery going on along with debates, news, and tech, definitely gotta give props to staff members for making a stable site and keeping things familiar (sections), along with a fresh look.
 
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I remember cats were telling us to go to the coli instead. I thought it was just some copy cat site from some other haters but then I noticed I seen a bunch of OG posters leaving in mass to the coli. The biggest internet exodus. :wow: Where they do that at?

Probably the BIGGEST online movement I've ever witnessed or been apart of. Even the old Nas BBS never had so many posters just make that move to a new forum, most of us ended up at Allhiphop's ill community at first but I mean damn near EVERYONE from Sohh said "fukk it" all in the same breath and gave the Coli life:blessed:
 

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I lurked sohh heavy for years. shyt got me thru school and crappy office jobs. So I was always curious who was fukkin who? I know mad nikkas was fukkin these busted ass hoes. Except for like a few cute girls the rest were terrible. There probably a few sohh babies running around right now
 

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i randomly saw the-coli link in some thread.. signed up.. and, that was that..

who was the dude still over their upping his threads for weeks after.. :russ: there was a thread here clowning it, cause i remember the entire first 2pgs were all his threads.. :dead:
we got over 14,000 members on here...you know this guy is hiding here somewhere :dead:
 

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there was a thread in Arcadium on :hamster: with 2 members respondin to each other for 2 weeks after everyone had left and one of em said "lets get another opinion on this...." :deadmanny:

i went back a few weeks later and that was the last thing said in the thread....if u post here and u know its u then come forward....:sas1:
 

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Nomad1 said:
hold up fam there was a sohh vs 4 c h a n??

No, there was ONE dumbass that was trying to start a war and decided to 'call out' Quatro-chan.

We in the Jerusalem Bird Observatory told him 'Sit yo' dumbass down', but the idiot went over there several times trolling/flaming.

At first, they didn't take him seriously, until he got a couple more dumbasses to go in with him.

They got annoyed and fukked up SOHH, AHH, and a couple other sites just because of his stupid ass.

Like I said in that thread: How you gon' declare war on the WHOLE Internet?​
 

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Norton G.Nubuck said:
no,it twas a massacre of mass proportions,like a Giant swatting at gnats..

and don't mention them,you're liable to get banned..

New cats here have NO idea what it was like going to the SOHH homepage and seeing nothing but swastikas and then '404 Warnings' for the whole summer.​
 

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SOHH was dope. The Coli is basically a copy of it. Basic logic.

They best time was before Project Covo - I thought that shyt said "CoNvo" for SOHH long - when the web was the wild west. JBO was like nothing you've ever seen. Now it's basically these long ass threads of all Asians or all White girls. Back then it was a legit porn destination for thousands and thousands of lurkers who were like "Hippity Hop what now?" guess that was before Porn Tube sites.

One of the aspects that I remember was these gore vids would get posted. I would never click the link, just read pages and pages of people describing what they saw. I realized then that the web was a scary scary place.

The deep web shyt was sort of later on in SOHH's golden years, but I remember rading that thread like a horror movie. Dudes were saying that shadowy figures were after them after they went down there.

We play the Photoshop game with JZ and Ye an nem, but niqqas used to get got on SOHH. Just regular cats who had the nerve to post "Club pix and [be] in em". Or their homemade album covers. We had a field day.

I will admit that near the end it was sort of a chore to keep SOHH going but for some reason I wouldn't quit.

the Coli has been a blessed rebirth. I'm legit grateful for Her.
 

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The admins for SOHH was the main reason that place crumbled. The never listened to what members wanted, treated us like it was a privilege to be on there, policed the forums like it was north korea. Only reason I stayed so long was there wasn't a better option.

:deadmanny:

For me it was either sohh or all hip hop, sohh/pc had just enough to pull you in an see what this place was about. Once I started posting and reading threads, it was a wrap.
 

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No, there was ONE dumbass that was trying to start a war and decided to 'call out' Quatro-chan.

We in the Jerusalem Bird Observatory told him 'Sit yo' dumbass down', but the idiot went over there several times trolling/flaming.

At first, they didn't take him seriously, until he got a couple more dumbasses to go in with him.

They got annoyed and fukked up SOHH, AHH, and a couple other sites just because of his stupid ass.

Like I said in that thread: How you gon' declare war on the WHOLE Internet?​

I remember being among those who told dude to chill when he made the thread. How he got anyone to cosign him is beyond me.

For those who weren't there, this was around the time on SOHH when the trolls in the Jerusalem Bird Observatory were doing so-called "invasions" on other forums. They crashed some B grade site by spamming it to death, which prompted a certain dummy to get bold and call out they who shall remain nameless.


New cats here have NO idea what it was like going to the SOHH homepage and seeing nothing but swastikas and then '404 Warnings' for the whole summer.​

Remember when it actually made the news? Had MTV and other sites making articles on it

Anyone who wants to read those articles, along with seeing the screencaps of the aftermath, google is your friend.
 
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I was there at the very end...:sadbron:
:laugh: Me & @Skooby was like the the last kids to stay at the hospital at the death bed of our abusive mother.

The rest of our brothers and sisters were like; :childplease: All she used to do was beat us and call us stupid

Me & @Skooby : But, she looooovvvveeddddd ussss :to:

:laugh:

I took me a while, but, I've come around to thecoli

This forum is really the people's forum

I don't like everything about it, but, I still love it, brehs

:ufdup:But, stop actin' like we didn't have great times, despite...

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