Posted December 29, 200619 yr A popular Britney Spears fan site is closing up shop in part because the star has lost her credibility with fans, the Web site WorldofBritney.com said in a press release issued online Wednesday. "As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is WoB. We're moving on to greater, bigger things," Ruben Garay, the Webmaster and founder of the site said in the release. "I would therefore like to announce the permanent shut down of World of Britney.com beginning January 31st, 2007." The site, which launched in 2000, will morph into a celebrity blog, competing with blogger Perez Hilton among others, the message said. -CNN.com Edited December 29, 200619 yr by Tyler
December 29, 200619 yr Author Letter from the founder. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 27th, 2006. Los Angeles, CA. As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is WoB. We're moving on to greater, bigger things. I would therefore like to announce the permanent shut down of World of Britney.com beginning January 31st, 2007. As WoB closes, Carolina and I will be launching a brand new state of the art Celebrity Blog that will try to compete with Perez Hilton, Pink is the New Blog, Popsugar and all of those. The new site will be 100% Web 2.0 compliant featuring widgets, live search, communities, the ability to send in cool videos through your cell phone and so on. It's something I've been silently working on for the past 3 months, and with 7 years of experience as a successful webmaster, I think 2007 will be a huge year for this new site (which I won't mention the name of yet but, you'll be like 'Ohhhhhh'...) No worries though, Britney will still be covered and our relationship with her people, Larry etc....will remain intact. I'm also going to use the new blog to educate people about the entertainment industry, get people into making short films, have competitions, etc.... The point is to combine what everyone else is doing at the moment with all their celebrity blogs into one place. I think that WoB has had its run.......its feet are not holding firm anymore, not because of my ability to run it, but because I believe Britney is unfortunately done (for me at least). No matter what anyone thinks or how they may disagree, it's very hard to maintain the respect needed to keep things going, so in turn, I'm trying to be a step ahead of it, and yes, for those of you laughing and remembering what happened in March of 2002, this time, it will be for good :) WoB will continue to provide its daily updates to fans up until it's time to say goodbye. We look forward to continuing to report news on Britney, it just won't be exclusive about her anymore. Thanks for your attention and a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have been visiting the site since the beginning and supported WoB through it all ! It's been a total blast. All my best, PS - A Quote from earlier in the days... 'Britney Spears, the reason why she's so huge is probably not so much because of her music, but because she's unique in a way no other music artist has ever shown herself to be, it comes as a package. Britney is....a mirror image of an all hard working american family with a kid who one day was set to have her face in every single Pepsi bottle around the planet. Sometimes we forget, we don't realize, that we're all the same...we let ourselves get dragged into a world that only exists in our minds, a world that gets portrayed so fake to millions of people, a world that is brainwashed into our minds, making us believe things that aren't really there.' If you know your WoB history, you know where it's from ;) Ruben Garay Webmaster & Founder World of Britney.com Edited December 29, 200619 yr by Tyler
December 29, 200619 yr Author ALSO A NOTE TO PEREZ FROM RUEBEN Uhhhhh Perez....What The F*Ck Dude.... Grabbing the press release below and posting half of it on your site (which makes it inaccurate to follow the way it's supposed to be followed) and then ending with 'To see uncensored pictures of Britney's Vagina CLICK HERE' is pretty F*CKING disrespectful of you and to Britney Spears. You should know better.....the intent of the press release was NOT for you to bend it like Perez. Guess by the time I get a hold of you in the morning half a million people will already have read what you wrote. The decision behind shutting down the site had NOTHING to do with Britney's crotch shots and the way you played it this time was outright low. It's simply time for me to move on and the reasons are different from what you claim them to be. I still and will always RESPECT BRITNEY as a human being, we are just choosing to not go on with this site. I was there for you when you asked me for help when you just got started, and this is a blatant disrespect from a fellow webmaster to another. Draw coke lines running down Oprah's nose for all I care, but don't put WoB and Britney on the line the way you just did. Sad dude, just sad.
December 29, 200619 yr That Ruben guy can go and p*** off! He's not a true Britney fan if he turns his back on her, and also, WoB wasn't that big of a Britney site, most of the stories were inaccurate and Ruben didn't always have the true statements or stories!
December 30, 200619 yr Online fans rapidly desert Britney Friday, December 29 2006, 13:51 GMT DigitalSpy By David Cribb Britney Spears is losing fans at an alarming rate, according to the creator of one of her biggest websites. Ruben Gray, webmaster of WorldOfBritney.com has been forced to close his website down, due to the declining number of the singer's followers. "As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is WorldOfBritney.com," Gray explained. He added that he thinks Spears' career could be over in a matter of months, due to her behaviour and personal antics: "I think that WoB has had its run... its feet are not holding firm anymore, not because of my ability to run it, but because I believe Britney is unfortunately done."
December 30, 200619 yr Perez Hilton revealed the truth about this whole story, apparently the site was changing its owner and the new proprietor wasn't interested in running it anymore, so offered the site to this Ruben guy for $50,000, amount of money that Ruben didn't have. So he asked Britney's management to buy the site for him, but they rejected it and said no, and now he's put the excuse of Britney "losing credibility and respect" to hide the real fact that he couldn't afford buying the domain.
December 31, 200619 yr Author Perez Hilton revealed the truth about this whole story, apparently the site was changing its owner and the new proprietor wasn't interested in running it anymore, so offered the site to this Ruben guy for $50,000, amount of money that Ruben didn't have. So he asked Britney's management to buy the site for him, but they rejected it and said no, and now he's put the excuse of Britney "losing credibility and respect" to hide the real fact that he couldn't afford buying the domain. LOL, i'm not surprised.
