Tribe Magazine
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Tribe Magazine was a free print magazine originally distributed in Toronto, Ontario as well as across Canada from 1993 through to 2005. The magazine featured photography, music, CD reviews, dance and club listings. It currently has an online presence only in the form of an internet message board which provides many of the functions the print version of the magazine did.
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[edit] Magazine
Tribe Magazine's beginnings coincided with Toronto's fledgling club scene. The name was coined after alexd observed "tribes" of club kids roaming the streets of the city looking for warehouse parties after the normal bars closed.
In 2004, it boasted a circulation of 100,000 readers a month [1].
[edit] Message Board
While the print version of the Magazine no longer exists, Tribe lives on in the form of an internet message board. Many of the users like to think it gained international exposure, when in June and July of 2004 a member allegedly witnessed an intoxicated Russell Crowe causing a scene at a local bar [2].
If anything, the message board is a repository of thoughts and feelings totally unrelated to anything resembling the ideals that inspired the founding of the magazine, and the subsequent introduction of the aforementioned forum. Many of the users, despite having no rave scene to reflect on, remain on the board to effectively blog the details of their life as well as any interesting pieces of internet idiocy. Typically, the later revolves around some sort of internet-viral, whether the source be on Youtube or in the news.
[edit] Popular Topics on the Message Board
The board is home to popular topics that rarely fall away from the first two pages. The Top10 most popular being the following threads, in this order:
- Nobody Cares
- A brand brand new picture thread. (with pics)
- what the hell are you listening to thread!
- Word Association Game [locked thread]
- What are you having for dinner?
- The Pot/Marijuana Appreciation Thread.
- ~*...what tribers look like (just pix)...*~
- I am the thread ender!
- Team Insomniac
- how bout another word association game.....
Honourable mentions go to the following threads for having nearly as high statistics as the aforementioned.
- CRUSH time !!
- NOT WORK SAFE : the hawt_girl thread [a thread featuring pictures of naked and semi naked women]
- The Eternal Video Game Thread
- Come in here if you want to f*ck
[edit] Tribe Cool
It is not certain where the term originates, however it has taken on 2 distinct yet related meanings. The first being related to either the time spent on the message board by any given user, or the amount of posts they have contributed. The second meaning, though not nearly as popular as the previous, has to do with unwritten rules of what to say or post on the board. e.g. a discussion on bukkake would not be considered "tribe cool"; whereas discussion of "the jizztini", would be.
[edit] Notable Banned Users of the Tribe Magazine Message Board
- sea - Banned for wishing happy birthday to Hitler and threatening to kill alexd.
- universalmetropolis - An incarnation of sea, also banned for threatening to kill alexd.
- pukka - Banned for general anti-tribe and anti-alexd behaviour. Possible protégé of sea.
- soju - Banned for inventing a story about being assaulted by someone known to other users and general anti-tribe behaviour; was also banned from the Hullabaloo (rave) board for stalking/threatening Anabolic frolic. Known for periodic returns under other now-banned Tribe aliases.
- D Monic - Tribe Messageboard creator and former Tribe Magazine Messageboard moderator. Banned for pointing out unfair inconsistancies in the enforcement of the posted rule and questioning alexd in general, which led to a notable online argument and the temporary destruction of the breaks forum.
- OM Festival - Banned for an argument with alexd over philosophical differences.
- craig pettigrew - Banned for non-payment of advertising fees.
- evil dynovac - Banned for posting a picture of tubgirl.
- lucid niteclub - Banned for stealing alexd's ideas after meeting with him over false advertising promises.
- disco stu - Banned himself after calling everyone a loser and threatening to beat up deep. came back as mikeinflames, but was discovered and subsequently banned.
[edit] Lucid Niteclub
It should be noted that in beautiful piece of cosmic irony, Lucid Niteclub was "evicted" and the parent company closed up operations in Toronto. Lucid now lives on in memory as a failed superclub.
