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Tiktok is a stupid app anyway. Too much controversies about this app.

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Like I said earlier I'm passing some time looking for old website with Wayback Machine.


Here is Green Day website in 2000 during Warning: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018210716/http://greenday.com/
In 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021203001253/http://www.greenday.com/home.php3
In 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090331084157/http://www.greenday.com/splash/splash.php
In 2012 just before the release of Uno: https://web.archive.org/web/20120705000435/http://greenday.com/

Sadly I can't find anything during the American Idiot era!!
You can see there was already an Idiot Club during the Warning era way before AI
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Edit: Fun fact the first ever Idiot of the Month was a Jack Messinger...... in December 1997!
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43 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Like I said earlier I'm passing some time looking for old website with Wayback Machine.


Here is Green Day website in 2000 during Warning: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018210716/http://greenday.com/
In 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021203001253/http://www.greenday.com/home.php3
In 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090331084157/http://www.greenday.com/splash/splash.php
In 2012 just before the release of Uno: https://web.archive.org/web/20120705000435/http://greenday.com/

Sadly I can't find anything during the American Idiot era!!
You can see there was already an Idiot Club during the Warning era way before AI
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Edit: Fun fact the first ever Idiot of the Month was a Jack Messinger...... in December 1997!
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These are cool. So much news and fan interaction then compared to now.  The website now is basically just a merch store and social media interaction has declined drastically from what they once did. 

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I think the Idiot Club exists since 94, but I could be wrong.

Btw, one of the worst things GD did this last decade, imo, was to change the name to Idiot Nation. The other thing was to abandon the club/Nation entirely. There used to be a lot of cool stuff besides pre-sale codes, like the exclusive t-shirts (I never got one though), interviews, videos...

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I’ve never been a member so it’s not that much of a deal to me, but I agree Idiot Club was a much better name. It was funny. Idiot Nation is just lame.

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Someone on Reddit said that FOAMF Mike looks like someone’s middle aged aunt named Cathy, and I totally agree. (I also died laughing 🤣🤣🤣).

I’d like to add crazy cat lady, soccer mom who keeps a flask in her purse at all times, and the one grandma that says stuff like “when I was your age, we kicked rocks for fun”. Grandma’s name is Doris though.

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I joined the Idiot Club for a couple years and it switched over to Idiot Nation during that time. I remember thinking that was a stupid.

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I joined Idiot Nation around the 99 Revolutions tour and it was so fucking lame. The board was awful, there was no more exclusive content, and the contests were...lame. I mean okay it's cool they had contests, but the prizes were kind of lame. 

(Maybe I'm just salty I never won those Uno, Dos, Tre picks)

I can't believe they just abandoned it completely. With livestreams being the rage this would be a great time to start it up and give members some exclusive footage or just a deal on tickets.

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22 minutes ago, The Grohl said:

I joined Idiot Nation around the 99 Revolutions tour and it was so fucking lame. The board was awful, there was no more exclusive content, and the contests were...lame. I mean okay it's cool they had contests, but the prizes were kind of lame. 

(Maybe I'm just salty I never won those Uno, Dos, Tre picks)

I can't believe they just abandoned it completely. With livestreams being the rage this would be a great time to start it up and give members some exclusive footage or just a deal on tickets.

It seems like the reason they don’t give ticket deals through fan clubs anymore is because it is so hard to sell music that ticket access is now bundled with music sales and sold through the label’s affiliated merch store, taking it completely out of the hands of the band or management that can offer deals to fans. Without these bundles, FOAM would have sold half the copies that it did and still it didn’t sell much. 
 

(Also band run websites are kind of made redundant by social media apps now so they’ve just been replaced at much less cost and trouble)

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Didn't Green Day used to had an app for mobile? With absolutely NO UPDATES and NOTHING INTERESTING?

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Just now, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Didn't Green Day used to had an app for mobile? With absolutely NO UPDATES and NOTHING INTERESTING?

It’s almost like Billie was making all their creative business decisions, getting an idea in his head and then getting bored and not following through 😂

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1 minute ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Didn't Green Day used to had an app for mobile? With absolutely NO UPDATES and NOTHING INTERESTING?

It was interesting to them because they got to harvest your data :lol:

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5 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

It was interesting to them because they got to harvest your data :lol:

Oh snap. Kind of like with the Text Frank Storm bullshit 🤦‍♀️

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25 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Oh snap. Kind of like with the Text Frank Storm bullshit 🤦‍♀️

Or the Church of Lushotology certificate :lol: They hinted they might mail us stuff so we all willingly gave them our addresses What was up with that? We’re so gullible

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If Mike ever does stand up again, I need to know about it.

I absolutely have to see that. I'm making it a health requirement.

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On 1/25/2021 at 3:44 PM, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Like I said earlier I'm passing some time looking for old website with Wayback Machine.


Here is Green Day website in 2000 during Warning: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018210716/http://greenday.com/
In 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021203001253/http://www.greenday.com/home.php3
In 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090331084157/http://www.greenday.com/splash/splash.php
In 2012 just before the release of Uno: https://web.archive.org/web/20120705000435/http://greenday.com/

Sadly I can't find anything during the American Idiot era!!
You can see there was already an Idiot Club during the Warning era way before AI
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Edit: Fun fact the first ever Idiot of the Month was a Jack Messinger...... in December 1997!
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We need a Smell of the Month Club, I feel it in my lungs.  

Wait.    I thought this was The Network Authority.   What the holy crap is going on here, is this a marijauna message board?   Oh dear, it's not legal where I am, I'm out of here! 

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Today I listened to some of foamf for the first time since it was released and it's actually not as shit as I remember :lol: Most of it is like super upbeat and it made me wanna party, so that's fun :happy: And Sugar Youth is a fucking banger

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iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2021 was very good!
It's sad that Green Day wasn't there.

Foo Fighters, Weezer, Muse and Blink gave an amazing performance.
Even Black Keys, Billie Eilish and The Killers wasn't that bad!

FULL SHOW bad quality tho:

 

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