RFSHQ.com
Founding Company
At the turn of the millennium the two managers of the group went their separate ways with RFS taking the name (and ultimately the company) with him. During late 1999 through 2001, RFS Media Productions temporarily went under the name Twilight Foundry, and managed a semi successful Pokemon Red/Blue glitch website, before shutting down and re-emerging in 2004 as a media production and management group that currently monitors several websites maintained in their network along with creating the content for said websites. Today RFS Media Productions is a company managed by Justin "RFS" Bardin and Dan Gusak .
Website Slogans
- May 2007 - ???: "Making your ding ding go toot toot since 2004."
- July 2006 - April 2007: "Yes, you can touch it."
- January 2006 - June 2006: "Everything your parents warned you about."
- May 2004 - December 2005: "Dangerous comedy!"
Website History
Created originally as a hub for RFS to host sarcastic reviews of bad Nintendo NES games, RFSHQ was only known in the small community for the computer game Robot Arena 2. To this day, the website's staff is comprised entirely of people from this era of the site. Until November 2004, RFSHQ was hosted on a free website server provided by GeoCities and used a free .tk domain. RFSHQ.com was purchased along with a hosting contract and the site began to expand with its newfound storage space, adding a plethora of new content sections including animations, videos, imagery, and more.
RFSHQ did not begin to gain popularity however, until the Robot Arena 2 community began to die out. Word of mouth advertising along with a few experimental local viral ads in RFS's hometown allowed RFSHQ's target audience to be greatly expanded. With the help of such websites as YTMND, MiniClip, Newgrounds, and YouTube, RFSHQ was able to attract a variety of viewers.
Acting as a centralized hub for RFS Media Productions' network of sites, RFSHQ contains links to other company ventures including:
- RFSHQ: The company's main website featuring an array of original content and discussion forums.
- AUnet: Blue Version: A website contributing to the popular "flash loop" website fad.
- AUnet: Red Version: A second flash loop website containing loops made by visitors and fans. (Coming Soon)
- UpUrs!: A free image hosting service coded by RFSHQ's "goose".
- RFSH-You: A website similiar to YouTube that allows RFSHQ users to host their videos, audio, animations, and more. (Coming Soon)
- This Is A Real Site: A parked domain that acts as the sandbox for new RFSHQ features and ideas.
- Happy Feet Fansite: Another parked domain that displays a fullscreen flash loop.
Website Content
As of May 2007, RFSHQ currently has the following sections in their lineup on content:
- Photophile: Contains articles with images focusing on a central topic. Mostly forum-inspired. (formerly "Dangerous Pictures")
- TXT Dumpster: Full-text articles with no images.
- The Vault: Content by RFS Media Productions that was created before RFSHQ.
- Radio F Show: The official RFSHQ video series. Contains comedy sketches and parodies.
- Game Graveyard: Contains articles about video games and accessories. (formerly "NES Reviews")
- Awesome Video Games: Video series by FFSTV that parodies 1990's video game TV shows.
- The Kids In The House: A collection of television voiceovers and original skits.
- Extras & Exclusives: Non-comedy articles. Usually include a download of some sort.
- Code: BS: Video series created by Shoe Films that came before Radio F Show.
- This Week In Anime: A look at what's new in anime television, games, toys, and more.
- Juicy Tidbits: Short articles or previews of upcoming content.
- Flash Loops: Weekly Shockwave Flash videos that loop a GIF and MP3.
- Robot Arena 2 Database: A download center full of modifications for the PC game Robot Arena 2.
The following content sections have been retired:
- Comic Factory: Comic strips and other short series by RFSHQ users.
- Worst Of YouTube: Negative reviews of bad YouTube videos.
- Newfac Robotics: A collection of information on combat robots created by RFSHQ.
- New Age Comedy: Stick figure animations and battles created in Pivot.
- The Gemini Show: Video series based on the Robot Arena 2 community.
- The Music Box: Database full of free music albums by RFSHQ users.
- Sonic Music Remixes: Remixed versions of Sonic the Hedgehog music from the Sega Genesis.
- The Game Show Show: A video game review show. Meant to be a video version of Game Graveyard.
- Flash Of The Week: Weekly reviews of Flash cartoons and games.
- Adventures Of Team Nigga: An independent comic series based on the trolling group of the same name.
April 2006 Domain Suspension
For one week in April 2006, HostingPlex suspended the RFSHQ.com website, and all related sister sites hosted on the same server. The reason given by HostingPlex was that RFSHQ had been mass-emailing spam using services provided by HostingPlex. This was not the case, as it was soon discovered that a few users were abusing a hole in HostingPlex's security and were able to send thousands of emails using the pathfiledb Download Database for the Robot Arena 2 computer game that RFSHQ was hosting.
Because this suspension occurred the day before RFS' birthday, he made a commemorative banner for RFSHQ using the HostingPlex "Suspended Account" page that displayed the error message along with "Happy Birthday RFS! Love, HostingPlex". The banner was used for the rest of April and into May.
December 2006 - May 2007 Downtime
On December 15th, 2006, a group of website defacers were able to abuse a security hole in HostingPlex, RFSHQ's host, and edit the index.php file of the website, effectively ruining the layout and design but not the content. The front page was restored, and although RFSHQ's security was up-to-date, the problem was with their host, and the website was defaced several more times. Rather than re-launch in broken form, RFS Media Productions is busy remodeling the website and content for a fresh launch in 2007 with their new hosting provider, DreamHost.
The downtime, however, stretched into 2007, surpassing several projected launch dates. RFSHQ v4.0 as it was called, was scheduled for release on January 1st, 2007 but hit so many problems along the way that the website was scrapped entirely and was released as RFSHQ V on May 9th, 2004, the site's birthday.
RFSHQ Forum
Perhaps the most confusing section of the forum is the "spam" forum, named "Chuck E. Cheese's". Posts in this forum do not add towards a user's cumulative count and most of the rules are unmoderated with the exception of autobans. This leads many new users to believe that they are allowed to post anything, which is true to some extent, but most fail to realize that although moderation appears to be backwards, users are frequently banned for stupid behaviour. Permanent bans for posting the spam forum, although rare, do occur.
Contact
- RFS Media Productions
- Justin "RFS" Bardin
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Address
- RFS Media Productions
- PO Box 2033
- Rockport TX 78381 US
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