Jon and Kate Plus 8
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[edit] Introduction
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[edit] The Show
[edit] The Family
- Kate Gosselin
- Jon Gosselin
- Mady Gosselin
- Cara Gosselin
- Hannah Gosselin
- Collin Gosselin
- Leah Gosselin
- Joel Gosselin
- Aaden Gosselin
- Alexis Gosselin
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
- GWoP: Stands for Gosselins Without Pity, a popular blog. [1]
- Jane: A nickname for Jon, because he is viewed by some fans as having been totally emasculated by Kate.
- Keight: Another name for Kate Gosselin.
- KON: Another name for Kate Gosselin.
[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
[edit] 2004
[edit] April
- On April 6, 2004, the domain sixgosselins.com was registered. [2]
[edit] 2006
[edit] June
- On June 21, 2006, an article about sixgosselins.com was created on AboutUs by AboutUsBot. [3] Since March 18, 2009, the article has only been updated twice and those edits were done by bots. [4]
[edit] 2007
[edit] April
- On April 16, 2007, the show premiered on television in the United States. [5]
- On April 17, 2007, an English language article about Jon and Kate Plus 8 was created on Wikipedia. [6]
[edit] July
- On July 26, 2007, an English language article about Jon Gosselin was created on Wikipedia as a redirect to Jon and Kate Plus 8. [7]
[edit] 2008
[edit] January
- In January 2008, the bebo group JonandKatePlus8 was created. [8]
[edit] February
- On February 1, 2008, the blog Gosselins Do Not Need Our Pity had its first dated post on their current home on BlogSpot. [9]
- On February 29, 2008, the Yahoo!Group jonandkateplus8 was created. [10]
[edit] April
- On April 28, 2008, the blog Gosselins Without Pity had its first dated post on their current home on BlogSpot. [11]
- On April 29, 2008, the blog Kate Is A Shrew had its first dated post on their home, blogspot. [12]
[edit] June
- In June 2008, Television Without Pity shut down their Jon and Kate Plus 8 thread. The speculation was that it was deleted because many of the comments had to be deleted. [13]
- In June 2008, the bebo group BEBO_7133633107 was created. [14]
- Between June 18 and June 25, 2009, Shalomsteph made 67 edits to the English language Wikipedia article about the show. This is the most edits by any single editor on the article. [15]
- In June 2008, an editor connected to Gosselins Without Pity was banned from Wikipedia for the edits that they made to the article. [16] Accusations were made that the contributor was banned because they let people know the truth about Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin. [17]
[edit] August
- On August 10, 2008, the blog Kate Is A Shrew thought about shutting down. [18]
- On August 11, 2008, the blog Kate Is A Shrew took shots at two blogs, Gosselins Do Not Need Our Pity and The Anti-Gosselins Without Pity, for supporting the family despite all the bad things that Jon and Kate do. [19]
- On August 17, 2008, an article was created about Cara Gosselin on TVIV. [20]
[edit] September
- In September 2008, Gosselins Without Pity suffered some down time. [21]
- In September 2008, the fan community kerfluffled over the blogs PennsMommy and Gosselins Without Pity and if they were an invasion of privacy. [22]
- In September 2008, the English language Wikipedia article worked on addressing the Paul Petersen controversy. [23]
- On September 12, 2008, the blog Jon and Kate Plus 8 -- A Balanced View had their first post. [24]
[edit] October
- In October 2008, the bebo group jonandkateplus8fans was created. [25]
- In October 2008, the English language Wikipedia article was tagged for not having a neutral point of view. [26]
- On October 2, 2008, a Wikia wiki about the show was created. [27]
[edit] November
- In November 2008, the bebo group gosselinonline was created. [28]
- On November 3, 2008, the Yahoo!Group Open-Discussion-Jon-and-Kate-plus-8 was created. [29]
[edit] December
- In December 2008, viewers were encouraged to vote for their favorite episodes for a marathon of episodes that ran in January 2009. [30] The viewers choice results were:
10: When the kids all went to the dentist 9: The North Carolina Lighthouse Visit 8: Plane Ride To Utah 7: Pittsburgh's Zoo 6: Behind The Scenes 5: Jon's delicious Korean Meal 4: Mr. Mom 3: The Tups First Day Of School 2: The Gosselins go Camping 1: Most Embarrassing Moments! [31]
- On December 4, 2008, the first post was made to Gosselin Garb[32], a blog dedicated to documenting all the items that appear on the show that fans might be interested in acquiring.
- On December 10, 2008, Jon and Kate Plus 8 -- A Balanced View posted about how it was ridiculous that some of the viewers of the show were asking fans to protest by boycotting products by sponsors of the show. [33]
- In the period between December 16, 2008 and March 16, 2009, the top sites for people searching for the phrase "Jon and Kate Plus 8" were:
- discovery.com
- sixgosselins.com
- wikipedia.org
- retroblog.net
- zap2it.com [34]
- In the period between December 16, 2008 and March 16, 2009, the top sites for people searching for the phrase "Jon Gosselin" were:
- parentdish.com
- beliefnet.com
- blogspot.com
- wikipedia.org
- starmagazine.com[35]
[edit] 2009
[edit] January
- In January 2009, Gosselins Without Pity posted a request for readers to help a reporter doing an article about the family. [36]
- On January 21, 2009, the LiveJournal community gosselinfamily was created. [37]
- On January 23, 2009, the Yahoo!Group jk8fans was created. [38]
[edit] February
- In February 2009, the fan community discussed the alleged martial problems after reports surfaced of Jon Gosselin going out drinking with some co-eds. There was also some speculation that these rumors were being spread by the show's producers in order to get more viewers. [39]
- As of February 2009, the English language Wikipedia article was the 1637 most popularly viewed article on the wiki. [40]
- On February 24, 2009, a Polish language Wikipedia article was created about the show. [41]
[edit] March
- In March 2009, the show ran a promo about big news after a new episode. There was a lot of speculation that the news would be that Jon and Kate were getting divorced. Over on Gosselins Without Pity, a number of people thought it was just hype with the show trying to use the controversy about Jon to get more viewers. [42]
- In March 2009, sixgosselins.com was estimated by Quantcast to be the 11,076 most visited site in the United States. [43]
[edit] May
- In May 2009, according to HitWise, "Jon and Kate Plus 8" was one of the fastest trending keyword search terms. [44]
[edit] June
- In the first week June 2009, "kate gosselin bikini pictures" was one of the fastest moving search terms online. [45]
- On June 22, 2009, the fandom responded to the news that Jon Gosselin and Kate Gosselin were getting divorced. [46]
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential communities
One of the most influential blogs for the Jon and Kate Plus 8 fandom is Gosselins Without Pity.
[edit] Influential fanworks
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[edit] Fandom members
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[edit] Fandom size
[edit] March 2009
As of March 18, 2009, there were 605 fans on FanPop. [47]
[edit] May 2009
As of May 18, 2009, there were 744 fans on FanPop. [48]
[edit] June 2009
As of June 16, 2009, there are 685,614 fans on Facebook.[49] There were 860 fans on FanPop.
[edit] External links
[edit] Official links
- TLC: Jon & Kate + 8
- Gosselin Sextuplets & Twins - The official family website
- Figure 8 Films - Surviving Sextuplets & Twins
[edit] Blogs
[edit] Fan links
- Jon and Kate Plus 8: FanPop
- Jon and Kate Plus 8: FanworksFinder
- Jon and Kate Plus 8: IMDB
- Jon and Kate Plus 8: Mahalo
- Jon and Kate Plus 8: TV.com
[edit] Wikis
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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