liferuiners

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Name: Life Ruiners
Date(s): Created 6 September 2012 - Last updated 18 May 2016
Moderator: amellywood, can_youwhisper, harrys_butt, smolderhotter
Founder: clearlybeloved?
Type: discussion
Fandom: One Direction
URL: livejournal

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liferuiners is a One Direction community on livejournal. It had open membership at first[1], but as of 2022, membership is moderated, and all posts except the welcome post are locked.

It was originally named ontd_1djr and appears to have been inspired by ontd_1d. The welcome post describes it as "Just another comm for ONTD types into 1D."[1] Some of the comments on the welcome post indicate there was a problem with the ontd_1d comm, possibly with posts hitting the comment limit and the mods not being available to create a new post so discussion in the comments could continue. (Two days after _1djr was created, the ontd_1d twitter account was vagueblogging about having a life outside of modding.[2])

Someone at onedanon gave the new comm a positive review: "i prefer the new community. they dug their own graves at _1d. i was getting so tired of the endless negativity, it really put me off from participating. and i like the mods better."[3]

Sometime between May and July 2013, the comm was renamed to liferuiners. According to tweets from members, people wanted a comm name that didn't contain the word "1d" in case someone looked at their browser tabs.[4][5]

As of February 2022, the community has 986 posts; 532,081 comments; and 1,342 members.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b WELCOME, YOU ALL, Archived version livejournal post by clearlybeloved in liferuiners, 6 September 2012. Accessed 17 February 2022.
  2. ^ ONTD_1D twitter account, Archived version
  3. ^ ontd_1djr, Archived version, anonymous comment in onedanon, 16 September 2012.
  4. ^ yeah, people are just embarrassed at work/school i guess so they're changing the name, Archived version, twitter thread 22 May 2013.
  5. ^ ontdteenwolf seems like quite possibly the most embarrassing place right behind the comm formerly known as ontd_1djr, Archived version, tweet by acidpops_, 9 July 2013.
  6. ^ liferuiners - Profile, Archived version, accessed 17 February 2022.