Gap Playlists Blog being Decimated

Who?

Awww - that's a lot of work gone. Find another platform - hope you saved everything!

Hope you saved everything

I have all of the playlists saved, of course. And all of the marketing photos, like this 1993 ad featuring Debbie Harry.

But all of my work since 2015 is GONE.

All of the links on the Internet will be worthless by morning.

Thanks, DL freaks, who decided to have fun and destroy my blog.

Copy that post 2015 content before it’s all gone.

R4 it’s probably the same freak who accuses everyone of being and goes to Instahoes and tells them when we post their photos here.

He’s a real problem.

[quote]Someone is making false copyright claims

Guess there's now way to find out who the POS is?

I have all of the content. It's the links, like shared by THE NEW YORKER, that will be worthless now.

Anyone who reads the article now (which STILL generates thousands of hits to the blog each month) will find dead links.

I have not lost content. I'm losing the links which generate visibility to my quest to find more Gap In-Store Playlists.

Who did it, daddy? I’ll rip their fucking lungs out.

R8 That must sting. Have you tried contacting Blogger and clarifying that these are false claims? They may be able to retrieve what’s been deleted if they find that the claims against you are unfounded.

I would also share with them the New Yorker article in which you were cited.

People suck OP. I will follow your instagram now. We need our historians of the esoteric, rare and obscure.

I've emailed Blogger. No response as they keep sending me new notices of deleted posts.

Blogger now has the remaining posts lists as "Deceptive Website" with a huge WARNING.

It's really over.

Aw, that's a bummer, OP. You seem nice, and that's a fun, harmless hobby. Sometimes people are assholes.

R13 if the copyright claims are false, you should be able to resolve this. Just take a deep breath and remain diligent. Your pages are not completely deleted; I am sure Blogger can retrieve them.

Have you thought of contacting GAP? Helping you could be good pr.

A friend of mine was some kind of store manager at the Gap throughout the 90s and obsessively took and saved all the cassettes and cds the store would play, etc. Boxes upon boxes. He finally decided to try to sell them at a Garage sale and no one would take them.

I'm convincing him to just toss them out.

Also, I’ve always found you incredibly endearing and I think what you do is sweet. :::cyber hug:::

R16 Why not have him give them to op?

What exactly is the copyright claim?

Those playlists, by themselves, are not copyrighted.

And even if they were, you have a fair use argument—publishing them falls under "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research."

Were you charging people to view the site? No, right?

R16 what is your point?

R15, GAP is totally supportive, AND I have BIG news to hopefully announce soon. Soon!

Blogger deletes immediately. Even if the copyright claims are false, they don't reinstate the old links. You have to make new ones. And that means the old links are still dead, like from THE NEW YORKER.

FREE GAP PLAYLIST GUY!!!!!!

Dear, maybe it's time to grow-up and get started with your life? That was 30 years ago. Get out of the basement, get some friends, maybe a job...

You know me and your dad want the best for you.

Rebuild the site on Squarespace.

The free blog hosting sites just delete everything that's disputed, regardless of whether a claim is valid or not.

But you should publish under an LLC, so if someone decides to sue you (God knows why), they can't personally bankrupt you.

[quote]what is your point?

This is Datalounge. Did you forget?

R16 is just trying to upset me.

R19, it's the marketing images. GAP loses the rights after one year of usage. The photographers and directors retain ownership.

All someone has to do is claim ownership of the photos, and Blogger deletes everything immediately, without a "trial."

It's GONE.

[quote]is just trying to upset me.

No, actually. Not everything is about YOU.

Damn, R21. I am assuming you have confirmed all of this, so I won’t push my suggestions any further.

I’m happy to read that GAP is supportive of you and that you have “big news” to share, so, apparently, all is not lost. Keep your head up and don’t let the embittered trolls and [italic]real[/italic] basement dwellers get you down.

I’m sending you love in thought and spirit ❤️

I bet r16 is the one who did this mess

The BIG NEWS is really BIG. But I have to wait to see if it pans out.

There have been several posters like R16 over the last 6 years who have tried to bait me and upset me.

"Ooh, I had ALL of the 1992-1993 playlists but I threw them out last week!" and similar taunts.

[quote]It's the marketing images. GAP loses the rights after one year of usage. The photographers and directors retain ownership.

OK, this is actually a valid issue.

You need to take those images down, or write the photographers individually to get permission to use them.

There are lawyers — known as "copyright trolls" — who represent photographers and are suing independent bloggers, even Instagrammers, for posting their clients' images online. They sue you for $50,000 or $100,000 to extort you to settle for $5,000, since that's what it'll cost to hire a lawyer to defend yourself in court.

I know, because that is exactly what happened to me. I posted something on my personal blog, which was totally fair use, but this copyright troll lawyer sued me, even though I took the image down immediately. It cost me $6k to hire a lawyer to deal with the court mishegas and pay off the photographer, which has destroyed me financially.

R31, I understand that, and I have permission from most of the photographers.

But once Blogger deletes the posts, THEY ARE GONE.

I should never have used Blogger, but it was easy.

The boy in the middle of this 1996 ad is SO CUTE!

R30 Well, fuck ‘em. You are doing something that brings you joy and that is all that matters. I have been on here on and off for close to a decade. I have never witnessed you be anything but sweet and sincere. I sense that you are a kind soul.

I love snarking and can be a real pointless bitch on a good day and cunt on a bad one, but one thing I hate is bullies, especially those who aim their venom at kind and unassuming people like you.

We’re here for you.

You know about the Internet Wayback Machine, right, OP?

You can scoop up text and images from snapshots they've taken of your site.

R34 He’s concerned with the actual links, which were cited in a The New Yorker article, now being defunct.

Yes, I derive pleasure from listening to the music on the Gap playlists.

However, so have THOUSANDS OF OTHERS these last 6 years. Others LOVE finding their old song friends that they loved from when they worked at GAP.

It's not just me. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of others have found joy in my posting the playlists.

R34, once deleted, the links are worthless. I haver not lost pics nor playlists, just the links.

R36 Well, thousands and thousands more will still be able to enjoy your posts. Maybe it was time for a restructuring 😘

I’m so sorry Gap Guy. If I there’s anything I can do…

I know, R37.

I just have to figure out to how to accomplish that.

I guess I will have to buy my own website.

I HOPE the news I am expecting will come, though! It will be amazing!

Easy solutions:

Once you have a new site, you can redirect the old links.

Or you can ask the New Yorker writer to update them in the article.

How can I ask THE NEW YORKER to redirect 2017 links?

Good riddance, Aspie maniac!

It's like when I was in Alcatraz in February 2000!

R41 Email their website. The worst thing that can happen is that they won’t respond. All they have to do is edit the article. After all, you’re not asking them to reprint anything; it’s a digital article.

Aw! In that photograph you look just as I had pictured you. Cutie.

I will try, R44.

Thank you!

GAP LEATHER - FALL 2000.

Help me!

I think H&M is behind this.

Aw GapPlaylistsGuy. I love your familiar energy. Hopefully you can save the archive.

Your best bet is to redirect the old links cited in the New Yorker article to your new site, once you have it.

You still have the Blogspot login and can get into that account — yes? — so it should be easy. Do a 301 permanent redirect.

But for a project like this, which means so much to you, you really should buy a URL of your own so you're not beholden to hosting companies like Blogspot.

So if you buy, say, myplaylistsite.com, your URL myplaylistsite.com/march2005 can remain a permanent link in your control, even if you move hosting companies. (You may, however, have to rebuild your page content, but we all do periodically.)

I have not lost anything except for the LINKS that have been on the Internet for the last six years.

But I still need several more playlists, so that's why I am devastated at this attack on my blog.

Thanks for the suggestions, R50~!~!!!!!

If you do a 301 redirect for each link, it's a permanent redirect that is recognized by search engines, so you will not lose the SEO juice you've accumulated over these years.

You can relax – it will take some work, but everything you've built won't be lost.

R46 Be sure to make your email concise and professional. Lead with the fact that your website was cited in one of their articles. I wouldn’t go into Blogger deleting your posts or any of the claims lobbied against you. Just say you decided to move your site - you may want to share with them that GAP is supportive of your efforts and that there may be a collaborative project down the pipeline - and ask if they would be willing to update the digital article with a link to your new site. Of course, you should work on creating the new site [italic]before[/italic] requesting this of them.

Keep us up to date.

I am so sorry Gap Playlist Guy. I’ve mentioned before I worked at GAP in the late 90s/early 00d and it was a really fun job and the in-store music was great.

Thank you, R52!

I will try this weekend!

Right now, I am freaked out from the continuing "DELETED" emails from Blogger tonight.

Good luck, oddly endearing Gap Guy! 😘🤗🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

R55 Create a separate folder and have the emails redirected there. The last thing you need right now is a fucking [italic]ding[/italic] for each deletion; that would grate on anyone’s nerves.

R53, thank you for the advice and counsel. GAP has ALWAYS supported my goals, and they have always wanted me to succeed. I have generated TONS of positive feelings about GAP with this quest, which GAP acknowledges.

Here's me and Mark in Holiday 1998!

You were HOT. Look at you, Mr. GAP!

I'm on the right.

MARK is on the left.

Our waitress is is in the middle in drunken Dallas! April 7, 1999!

You're cute, gap playlist guy!

Mark in April 2000.

Michael Troy Bise on April 15, 2000 at Town East in DALLAS!

Is Mark dead?

No, Mark is SO hot!

Dang, sorry to hear this.

R65 Both if you are! Thank you for being so open with us. You’re sweet. ;)

Am i I cute?

I'm so sorry to hear this. I love nice, positive stories about people's collections. I'll bet it's not a Datalounger, GPG. We may practice bitchery of the pointless variety, but we leave it in Datalounge.

I know it's not me, anyway.

R68 Yes, you are, love :). Even more importantly, your soul is [italic]radiant[/italic]. :*

OP - If I were you, I'd contact Gap and see if you can setup a website on their behalf. You've done all the work - might as well work with them and maybe make some money off of it.

This is a great source for social media posts and engagement. The Gap should be overjoyed to have this as a resource.

[quote] But for a project like this, which means so much to you, you really should buy a URL of your own so you're not beholden to hosting companies like Blogspot.

Yes, I really think you were on borrowed time on Blogger.

I recently cleaned up my bookmarks / favorites on Safari and found a lot of dead links. Links go dead all the time.

You are gorgeous, darling! 💖💖💖💖💖

How is this crossed out?

There has to be some douche, again, one of the "everyone i disagree with is a boris" types who clears his cookies and just f&fs the crap out of the thread.

It's not Boris nor Svetlana.

There are a lot of people here who hate me and find it funny to hurt me.

GAP is supportive of my quest.

HOPEFULLY, an exciting announcement will be made soon.

I have not lost pics nor playlists. Just LINKS.

Summer 1992.

Gap Playlist Guy, the GAP I worked at had an attached GAP Kids store, and I worked at both stores. The February 1998 Gap Kids playlist had a song from Eurovision called “Save All Your Kisses For Me” by Brotherhood of Man that was corny but fun. I remember liking that one.

Thanks, R78.

Why is GPGuy being hassled here? He's the absolute most harmless poster of all.

R74 I just noticed this. I am tempted to FF to oblivion the creature that called op an “aspie” upthread.

[quote][R46] Be sure to make your email concise and professional. Lead with the fact that your website was cited in one of their articles. I wouldn’t go into Blogger deleting your posts or any of the claims lobbied against you. Just say you decided to move your site - you may want to share with them that GAP is supportive of your efforts and that there may be a collaborative project down the pipeline - and ask if they would be willing to update the digital article with a link to your new site. Of course, you should work on creating the new site before requesting this of them.

OR "linky-stinky" tends to work also.

I'm sympathetic to GPG's situation right now, losing his platform (Blogger) and links. Also, it's cool to have a thread about this particular topic.

However, I think GPG does post his Gap playlist stuff in other threads, apropos of nothing. I can't be sure, but, at times, it was more than just one post in a thread (apropos of nothing).

I’m sorry op that’s shitty and after all the work you out into it. A pox on the house of the bitch responsible for this.

Thanks for that D Harry photo, GapGuy, and I am sorry about your list site. I think it’s cool you’re into it.

I remember buying Debravation that summer of 1993 and listening to the CD from ny shared dorm room bathtub.

R83 I for one LOVE when GG drops into a totally unrelated thread to leave a Gap related factoid.

Wherefore art thou, GPG?

Old Navy hitman

Is GPG looking for a boyfriend?

I’d much rather read a hundred posts from Gap Playlist Guy than the endless threads about Harry/Megan/the Royals. Hope you can find a solution, GPG. Lots of good advice here.

I decided to check on the updates to the Gap In-Store Music List and I was very saddened to read what happened. I appreciated your hard work and I am glad I made copies of your lists. Thanks for all the time you devoted to the Gap Playlists.

GPG, I love your work and dedication. I am concerned though that the same thing might happen to your Instagram account. Same assholes own both, and the copyright claims might "travel" across platforms. I hope that is not the case!

GPG resolved the issue, thank god. He’s spoken about it in another thread.

Link please, R93.

R94 Here, I think:

R94 Or this one, actually:

In the thread posted at R96:

[quote]Well, after posts were being deleted left and right two weeks ago for "copyright violation," I was almost resigned to giving up forever.

[quote]However, that next Sunday or Monday, I got a message from Google saying that they decided the claims weren't valid, and they reinstated by site in full.

[quote]So, that was wonderful! I was really depressed that someone tried to lie and get the blog destroyed, but now that is over.

[quote]I **do** have something in the works that would be my dream come true! Fingers crossed it happens!

Thank you, R93/R95/R96/R97.

I want to cuddle with GPG as he reads playlists to me and throws out interesting GAP factoids.

Yay! Thanks for clearing that up r97

[quote] Yay!

I'm so happy.

GPG, I smell an organic PR campaign to get more followers to your Instagram page. You are no Sunshine Saks, but your clever enough to fool the simpletons here on DL. I hope your venture is successful. I love seeing the throwbacks. It reminds me of my time at the Gap which are happy memories.

GPG,

which “Mirror, Mirror” version is your favorite? Link, please. They’re all so good.

Wow

GPG - What was playing July 2000 in the gap?

GapPlaylistsGuy, do you have the playlists for GapKids. I have some gifts to make.

Will you fuck me, gap playlist guy? I'll be wearing assless denim chaps fashioned out of late 90's painter paints.