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Lipstick Alley (Also referred to as LSA for short) is an online forum that discusses a wide range of topics like politics, news, and gossip from an African-American perspective. Its userbase predominantly consists of African American women. It is also considered the Internet's largest African American forum. In essence, it can be seen as a Black Kiwi Farms. Das rite!Lipstick OriginsLipstick Alley was created as an offshoot of the message boards on eddiegeorge.com, the personal website of former Tennessee Titans running back Eddie George. Lipstick Alley became a seperate forum when Eddie George asked the forum to be disassociated from his website. The manager of eddiegeorge.com, Janitor, moved the forum to a new domain he had lipstickalley.com, thus leading to the birth of the Lipstick Alley forum:
Janitor's notes on the origins of the name Lipstick Alley:
Janitor would eventually move on from Lipstick Alley and sell the board to one of the forum members Curious Too, who now goes by The Admin:
Da Rules and Da Culture
Users of Lipstick Alley are referred to as "Fonts". The community is mainly comprised of African American females. Fonts enjoy having "heated" discussions about "volatile" topics such as single mothers, obesity and interracial dating. The forum also discusses celebrities in a similar way to how Kiwi Farms discusses and follows lolcows.
How Lipstick Alley describes itself as a community:
Advice for Newbies:
Rules For Lipstick Alley Accounts:
General Behavior Rules:
Bullying and Harassment Rules:
Posting Rules:
Privacy Rules:
Hate Speech Rules:
One interesting feature of Lipstick Alley's rules regarding speech is their use of the Greek letter μ (Mu, the equivalent of the letter M). On Lipstick Alley, for certain works, particularly "sexual" and "fuck", the Fonts will replace the "u" with a "μ" resulting in words like "sexμal" or "fμck". This may possibly be the result of a word filter or is a unique form of self censorship on the forum.
Sexual Content Rules:
Additional Prohibited Content Rules:
Thread Banning Policy:
Rules regarding reporting content, infractions, bans and ban evading:
Some forums on Lipstick Alley allow for anonymous posting:
If these rules are broken, your identity will be revealed.
Da ForumsLipstick Alley has several different forums and boards within it for discussing a wide variety of different topics. This section will go over the main forums of Lipstick Alley:
Celebrity Alley - Celebrity News and Gossip
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Celebrity Alley is a forum for discussing celebrity news and gossip, ranging from movies and music.
Celebrity Discussion Forum Rules:
The Culture
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The Culture is a forum dedicated to talking about the African diaspora and its various forms of culture and history. They wuz kangz and kweenz and shiet!
The Lounge
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The Lounge appears to be a general off-topic forum that discusses a variety of topics ranging from technology, astrology, LGBT, writing, to more interesting ones like a Psychic Hotline. Yes, there's a subforum for discussing psychic readings.
The Confessions subforum within the Lounge has special rules where you can post confessions anonymously.
The Alley News Stand
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The Alley News Stand is essentially Lipstick Alley's A&N section, featuring threads talking about politics and news, including a dedicated Trayvon Martin Forum.
Ask Lipstick Alley
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Ask Lipstick Alley is more or less Lipstick Alley's equivalent to Q&A, although it seems to be more focused on romantic advice and mental health, such as with the Interracial Relationship sub forum.
Glow-Up Alley
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Glow-Up Alley is a dedicated forum for discussing fashion and personal hair care.
Religion and Spirituality
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Religion and Spirituality is Lipstick Alley's dedicated religion forum ranging from religious debates to New Age spirituality.
Home and Lifestyle Forum
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Home and Lifestyle Forum is a dedicated forum for discussing topics related to home life, but it also contains a Genealogy subforum for finding dem rootz and shiet!
Sports Alley
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Sports Alley is a dedicated forum for discussing various sports such as football and basketball. As Lipstick Alley is an offshoot of eddiegeorge.com, the dedicated site of a former football player, this forum is probably the closest to Lipstick Alley's original form.
Business Alley
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Business Alley is Lipstick Alley's equivalent to The Bidness and is a forum dedicated to discussing business and finance.
The Front Desk
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The Front Desk is Lipstick Alley's main adminsitrative forum, containing the site's rulebook, announcements, and a link to the Lipstick Alley Wiki.
Da Controversies
#DropKiwiFarms and Keffals
#DropKiwiFarms was a campaign that was started by Keffals / Lucas Roberts to get Kiwi Farms deplatformed from the Internet. Lipstick Alley would create a thread titled "Far-right website Kiwi Farms offline after Cloudflare drops them following public backlash" to discuss CloudFlare dropping the Farms. Suprisingly, despite the forum's reputation, Lipstick Alley users actually defended Kiwi Farms:
They even called out users in the thread defending Keffals, pointing out that Lucas and Bobposting were giving HRT to minors behind their parents' backs:
Lisa Rodríguez
Lisa Rodríguez is an actress who is most famous for her role as Karla in the movie Next Friday. As celebrities are Lipstick Alley's lolcows, they made fun of Lisa Rodríguez, which prompted the actress to join the forum in order to argue against users claiming she was homeless. Her description asked users to not cyberbully her:
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Diplo
Diplo is a musician who a stalker that accussed him of sexual assault. Diplo would claim in an Instagram post that his stalker spread false allegations of sexual assault on Lipstick Alley against him:
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On January 26th, 2025, Diplo managed to settle the lawsuit against his stalker regarding these allegations:
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Ari Lennox
In 2021, R&B singer Ari Lennox would call out Lipstick Alley claiming that an anonymous user had been using the forum to spread false allegations against her:
Qaadir Howard
Qaadir Howard is a YouTuber musician who claimed that he was being doxed by a group of women on Lipstick Alley in 2021.
Video of Qaadir talking about Lipstick Alley doxing him (Warning: The Video is Loud):
Qaadir has a thread on Lipstick Alley with over 370 pages, which is essentially his Lipstick Alley lolcow thread:
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Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar is a rapper who had a feud with another rapper Drake in which the two would make diss tracks against each other. In one of Drake's diss tracks against Kendrick Lamar titled "Family Matter", Drake claims that Kendrick Lamar beats his wife. It turns out however that the source of this allegation was actually an anonymous user on Lipstick Alley:
Bad FontsIn addition to the external controversies Lipstick Alley has been involved in, the forum has also attracted some particularly troublesome users or "Bad Fonts".
Luka Rocco Magnotta
Luka Rocco Magnotta is a Canadian cannibal and convicted murder who is infamous for murdering a Chinese student named Jun Li in Montreal on May 24th, 2012. Luka was an LSA font and posted pictures of himself on Lipstick Alley:
Luka isn't the only murderer to have ventured on Lipstick Alley, as an anonymous LSA font once confessed to murder on the site:
Armani Fren
Armani Fren is an LSA font that made a post admitting to manipulating and raping a 12 year old:
AlleybuxAlleybux are a unique feature of Lipstick Alley. They are an internal forum currency that can be used at a special Lipstick Alley shop to purchase things like profile customizations. They can also be gifted to other users and even accrue interest. Das rite, Lipstick Alley literally has its own form of welfare:
Explanation of how Alleybux are earned and how the Alleybux system works:
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