Pinchbacks

Pinchbacks was a forum site and discord server that was initially hosted by MemeKirisame and nm41. Intended to be a spiritual successor to YTPMania made during its webmaster Smonge's prolonged absence, it was the next big attempt at making a new "active" home for YTP and YTP Tennis, as well as other forms of art. Pinchbacks' name comes from one of the taglines for YTP, sampled from Hotel Mario: "Where there's smoke, they pinch back."

Pinchbacks had great ambitions but ultimately fell flat; the forum faced many problems and permanently closed shortly after launch, while the discord carried on until mid-January 2025, when it was closed by its then-owner, ThirtyTwelve.

History

The Pinchbacks website was launched in February 2022. A SimpleMachines forum, one of the notable perks of the website was the ability for users to have custom HTML on one's user page.

Like YouChew, Pinchbacks had custom banners submitted by users. The thread for Doubles Cup 4 was also (temporarily) migrated to the forum (and now is unfortunately lost).

The site was incredibly unreliable to use. There were many problems with showing posts in the correct order, as well as buttons that did nothing across the site. The persistent issues made it challenging for users to find attachment to the forum, and it closed around September 2022. Forum activity generally returned to YTPMania, however Discord servers like The Tennis Isles became more and more of a home for tennis. This would remain the case until YTPMania's closure and the launch of YellowTealPurple in late 2024.

Archives

There is no official archive of the forum, however traces of it still exist on the Wayback Machine.