Rebranding

[Saney]

I'll admit, it could've turned out a LOT worse...

And this is why you're my favourite member. Don't tell Absinthe.

 

[Mister Lister]

I love the Kiwi Farms name.

I can already imagine people referring to lolcow general as the cattle market or milking shed.

 

[Jackie Chin]

Qwekie Kiwi Farms

 

[Venusaur]

Kiwi Forums I think would be best. It sounds close to the original name, it's become a bit of a name outside of the site already. Kiwi farm might get us traffic from confused people that just want to get some produce, or want to breed small flightless birds.

The problem is because Kiwis stands for fruits, birds and New Zealanders, things might get confusing for people searching. So yeah...something to consider.

I dunno if tying something else to it would make it clearer. Kiwi Forums: Something something lolcows.

 

[CatParty]

we want randos to wander in. shit would be hilarious. kiwi is great.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

In my opinion, Kiwi Forums is better than that goldieism "Kiwi Farm".

A while ago, Null stated that the forum logo will be unique for all subforums. Maybe the forum logo should be displayed as "Kiwi Farm" when you browse the GK threads.

 

[Le Bateleur]

CWC's Pokésite 4

Or Kiwi Farms. Whatever.

Just be sure to come up with a suitably withering term for people who joined after the name change, so that comparative oldfags like me can turn up from time to time and call people it.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

If you asked me a week ago, I'd have said let things be... But with recent information coming to light... Yeah. I want this. Let's be kiwi farms.

If Chris is led to believe his forum is gone... I could call that a bonus.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I like "Kiwi Forums" better than "Farms". I always thought the whole cow/milk/farm metaphor was kind of lame. Either way, I'm a kiwi respecter.

 

[drtoboggan]

I like the Kiwi Forums name, but I get this feeling the name would draw wayward New Zealanders, ornithologists, and NZ fruit farmers. But that would give me a whole new audience to sell on the SCRAPS System. And chicks from NZ are teh hotness. So go for it.

 

[Clown Doll]

As long as the Chris emoticons and the awesome Sonichu comic background stays, I don't have a problem with the name change to either Kiwi Forums / Kiwi Farm although I prefer Kiwi Forums greatly to Kiwi Farm.

 

[RP 520]

Are we still going to keep the "Where no shit is too minor" tag-line?

 

[Dr. Meme]

I say we rename it The Pickle Factory and give tully another heart attack when he comes back

 

[trueandhonestfan]

I don't really care if we change the name. If we do, I like Kiwi Farms or Kweaky(/Queaky) Forums

 

[Silver]

Kiwi Farm singular.
Also people have mentioned a wish to keep the chris emotes, maybe we could in the context of "lolcow emotes" and get people to make emotes of TJChurch (an emote version of the photo we have of him would be beautiful I think) and Golday and more Jace, etc

 

[KingofManga420]

I love the idea of rebranding but I don't get why everyone is afraid of de-emphasizing Chris. You can't de-emphasize him, he's the Once and Future OPL and he's immortalized. We may all follow different people here but I don't think anyone can argue that no one will ever be as infamous as him.

That being said, I wish I joined years ago when I first started reading the CWCki about 6 years ago...

 

[Night Terror]

Kiwi Forums. I'd rather it wasn't Farm, but my jimmies won't be rustled if it's Farm.

 

[ASoulMan]

I'd like for it to be called Kiwi Forums. I don't mind the rebranding since I don't follow Chris so much.

 

[DeagleDad420]

Kiwi Farms makes me laugh every fucking time I read it but the important part of a brand name is that the meaning, implications, and style are all very obvious to newcomers at first glance, because most people do not give more than one glance at something before they disregard it as "Gay" and go back to jacking off to hentai or browsing EBay for paintball guns.

I.E. you want to read the title and immediately get "oh this is something I may be interested in hmm yes verily much I will register the account now" not "what the fuck is some farming website doing with sonic webcomics as the background"

this is why as hilarious as it is, we are already way too much of an in-joke hugbox culture (seriously what the fuck) and I think if we rebrand it should be something that stands the test of time long after "KIWI FARMS" stops being funny (and it will, trust me) - Null mentioned trying to register a domain like dailydo.se or something a while back, something like that would be great... Ideally we need to be accessible enough that enough new people will join, therefore keeping the community from going stagnant+ flushing out the possibility of a hugbox while also makign sure we brand carefully enough that we don't attract Tyce-tier retards, or if we do, that we ban them immediately and laugh at them forever

here's a few examples of what I'm talking about, just random bullshit I thought off the top of my head, probably really bad ones but probably illustrate the "theme" I'm going for

autismranch.com
cowranch.com
dailydo.se
villageofidiots.com
laughatcrazypeople.edu
Dollars2009.gov

shit like that

Then again you run into the problem that, well, there is no word for what we are doing. "Lolcow" is the most accepted one but it isn't perfect and isn't 100% accepted. When I have to explain this shit to people I just say it's a form for "crazy youtube idiots" becuase there is literally no word to describe what we are fucking doing. So it's tempting, given that, to just make up some nonsense like KIWI FARMS. However that being said I think something like "daily dose" is probably the closest of what we're looking for

 

[Arctic]

It would be crazy if we actually decided to name ourselves after the misspellings of a dyslectic stoner. But I'm 100% in favor!