Yahoo! IM Live Recap
Posted July 15th, 2005 by Court Sullivan
Wow, it's a blast from the past. Amir just IMed me a link to someone who captured 225 screenshots during our 5 nights competing in the Yahoo Messenger IM Live Contest (see also, my blurb). That's quite the devoted Fanbucket account if you ask me.
Here's a link to the original contest promotion page, now just home to the winners (should have been us).
The thing about the contest was, the flash technology Yahoo used to do the contest (we weren't actually on Yahoo Messenger, it was an application they developed specifically for the contest) wouldn't allow you to copy/paste the text in the window. So all 16+ hours of our entertaining America could only be captured via screenshot. OH THE AGONY!
The screenshots don't seem to be in any order, so if you do decide to peruse the collection, realize that it's sort of jumping around days and times.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I must dig out Amir's boogers.

(I how Smashmouth happened to be playing in the background while I stuffed my face with Kremos--songs were selected randomly by Yahoo, not us, btw.)
Here's a link to the original contest promotion page, now just home to the winners (should have been us).
The thing about the contest was, the flash technology Yahoo used to do the contest (we weren't actually on Yahoo Messenger, it was an application they developed specifically for the contest) wouldn't allow you to copy/paste the text in the window. So all 16+ hours of our entertaining America could only be captured via screenshot. OH THE AGONY!
The screenshots don't seem to be in any order, so if you do decide to peruse the collection, realize that it's sort of jumping around days and times.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I must dig out Amir's boogers.

(I how Smashmouth happened to be playing in the background while I stuffed my face with Kremos--songs were selected randomly by Yahoo, not us, btw.)







3 Comments
lol Court. That would be my photobucket. I finally got around to uploading those shits and to be perfectly honest, I think I have TONS more on my other computer but that thing is a hell hole so I don't wanna even try at the moment. Hope you liked reminising about the past.
Maybe you guys coulda done better if amir didn't spend half his time whoring for votes.
"Just download and vote ppl! Vote for us!" and other similar (but frequent) comments are a huge turn-off when you just want to see some funny convos.
Nice, thanks Marisa, it was a good nostalgic moment :)
As for the vote whoring, Fox, that was mostly pushed on us by Yahoo (we talked to them on messenger during the contest). Believe it or not, the vote whoring worked because people were constantly tuning in and out and weren't very clued in to "oh, we should be voting." We would've rather kept that to a minimum, but it was that or not get enough votes to keep going. Besides, I didn't realize how much work keeping a convo funny for 3 straight hours was. Every night I went to bed mentally exhausted.
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