[Your Cyber Persona] JuicyCampus shutting down?; College youth set to rediscover bathroom stall walls
February 4th, 2009 by Dave StudinskiJuicyCampus.com is shutting down tomorrow, the site’s toolish-looking founder and CEO said today in a post on the site’s “official” blogspot address. (Wait, they can custom-build a comment system but can’t figure out how to use fucking WordPress?)
Granted, I’ll believe it when it happens. There’s no accountability or credibility for the site as it is, so why not lie to strum up more page views?
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What a wild ride this has been! In the past year and a half, JuicyCampus has become synonymous with college gossip, and is more popular than I could have ever expected. We’ve expanded to more than 500 campuses across the US, and have more than a million unique visitors coming to the site every month. It’s clear that we have provided a platform that students have found interesting, entertaining, and fun.
Unfortunately, even with great traffic and strong user loyalty, a business can’t survive and grow without a steady stream of revenue to support it. In these historically difficult economic times, online ad revenue has plummeted and venture capital funding has dissolved. JuicyCampus’ exponential growth outpaced our ability to muster the resources needed to survive this economic downturn, and as a result, we are closing down the site as of Feb. 5, 2009.
On behalf of everyone here at JuicyCampus, I would like to thank all of our users for reading, contributing to, and telling your friends about the site. And I’d like to thank everyone who has engaged in meaningful discussion about online privacy and internet censorship. JuicyCampus has raised issues that have passionate advocates on both sides, and I hope that dialogue will continue. While there are parts of JuicyCampus that none of us will miss – the mean-spirited posts and personal attacks – it has also been a place for the fun, lighthearted gossip of college life. I hope that is how it is remembered.
Keep it Juicy,
Matt Ivester
Founder & CEO
JuicyCampus.com
[via WashingtonCityPaper, Daily News]
as ridiculous as it is, juicy campus is gone, but they already have a new site called acb that i guess has a better web layout but this one has a login so really you’re posts aren’t exactly ‘anoyomus’..so basically juicy campus never shut down, just set up a new layout and a new name
Nicole
February 14th, 2009