Throwaway for obvious reasons. This idea already existed. http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Gossipreport.com http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Gossipreport.com The date i

Throwaway for obvious reasons. This idea already existed. http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Gossipreport.com http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Gossipreport.com The date is wrong, though. It was more like 2007/08. They had strong PR going, from sheer outrage alone. There was a segment on Dr. Phil, where he proceeded (to his credit) to tear them a new one. They were aiming to become the TMZ, for regular people. The site was real, it existed. I never found anyone I knew on there, but apparently they had real people (in addition to the number of obviously fake profiles to get people to stay and join). Not sure why it was shut down. They were running with a skeleton crew, so I doubt it was lack of funding. Most likely it was the backlash and the realization that it would cost a fortune in legal fees (defamation of character, anyone?)