ATRL

Pop culture Internet forum

ATRL

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Type of site

| Internet forum
Available in| English
URL| atrl.net
Commercial| Yes
Registration| Closed (with occasional open periods)
Users| >32,134 registered users
Launched| 1999 (as Absolute TRL)
Current status| Active
Written in| PHP, MySQL (powered by Invision Community 4.3.5)

ATRL, previously known as Absolute TRL and PopFusion, is an Internet forum that discusses pop culture.[1]

## History

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Absolute TRL was founded in 1999, as a fan site of MTV's TV Show Total Request Live. In 2005, the main site was closed in favor of the forum. It got renamed to PopFusion in 2006, and retained that name for a year. In 2007, it was renamed to ATRL. Despite the cancelation of Total Request Live in late 2008, it continued operating as a general pop culture forum. In 2017, ATRL gained media attention when a member of the forum discovered hidden artwork, and incomplete tracklist of Taylor Swift's then-upcoming sixth studio album, Reputation (2017), ahead of the official announcement on her website.[2][3][4][5] In a BuzzFeed article on pop fandom culture, ATRL is described as a "space for fans to argue in favor of their chosen artist with statistics and ideas about cultural impact".[1]

## See also

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* List of Internet forums

## References

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1. ^ a b Dominguez, Pier (September 21, 2017). "Pop Music Stans Aren't Crazy, They're Having A Conversation". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
2. ^ Cusumano, Katherine (August 23, 2017). "What Game is Taylor Swift Playing? Here's All the Conspiracy Theories Floating Around About New Album Reputation". W. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
3. ^ Park, Andrea (August 23, 2017). "Information About Taylor Swift's 'Reputation' Album May Have Been Leaked Before the Official Release". Teen Vogue. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
4. ^ Feldman, Brian (August 23, 2017). "Stans Exposed Taylor Swift's New Album Before She Announced It". Intelligencer. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
5. ^ Orenstein, Hannah (August 23, 2017). "A Hacker Released Taylor Swift's New Album Info an Hour Before Taylor Did It Herself". Seventeen. Retrieved October 22, 2018.

## External links

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* Official website
* Classic ATRL (forum archive) Archived 2019-04-18 at the Wayback Machine