YellowTealPurple

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YellowTealPurple is an art forum website primarily maintained by dani_phantump, infinitysnapz and Boundless.

While it is considered the spiritual successor to YTPMania, YellowTealPurple focused on a much broader range of art, through videos, images, and more. As said in its introduction, it is "not youchew".

The name comes from the acronym for Youtube Poop; You = Yellow, Tube = Teal, Poop = Purple - but it was also chosen because the name by itself does not directly elicit "poop" associations - honouring its roots, but allowing room for expansion. It's initial roots come from a relatively joke term used interchangeably by GameBop and MycroProcessor in select tennis rounds produced independently by the pair in 2010 and 2011.

Many YouChew veterans, including a substantial amount who never made an account on YTPMania, have joined the site, including a few who resumed visible internet activity completely.

History

Towards the end of 2024, it was announced that YTPMania would be going down at the end of the year. The webmaster Smonge had less and less drive to continue maintaining the forum when it was already quite inactive, so it was determined the plug would be pulled on December 31st, 2024.

A new forum site to replace YTPMania had been proposed and speculated since Smonge's first departure from the community in the early 2020's; one of these was the ill-fated Pinchbacks, as well as Retrospections' RemixSphere project. In October of 2024, the groundwork for YellowTealPurple had been proposed- the name coined by MemeKirisame- and with funding and a server being found later than month, it looked like a successor would finally happen. The forum opened up on November 18th, 2024, to much fanfare.

Much of its structure and purpose was dictated by dani_phantump, who initially was involved from only a small visual design perspective but ended up having a large amount of input in discussions about the future site, from its look, to its functionality, organization and its intended collective energy. Much of the site's core administration in its initial years has operated under their guidance, with above average care being taken to maintain a calm, friendly, peaceful and casual community atmosphere as opposed to the chaos and toxicity of previous sites.

On March 9th, 2025, after roughly 4 months of user testing, the "de-YTPification" of the website was undertaken; all references to YTP in any way were removed. In its place were blanket terms related to "video art"/"video tennis"/etc. The age limit was set to 16+ sitewide; it originally was 13+ only for the YTP section but this was deemed unconstructive.

On July 25th, the site's age limit was once again increased to 18+ in the name of safety and responsibility. Unlike the previous increase, this came with no grandfathering in of underage users who had signed up previously.

Forum Layout

The website is split into many categories, each for different types of art or community discussion. Unlike its predecessors, YellowTealPurple has no "forum games"; these were considered spammy and unconstructive.

Video Tennis

Within the Media Remixing/Video Art Center (formerly YTP-Centric category) lies the tennis section, similar in format to previous iterations.

• The main section, which contains general discussion as well as the Tennis Cafe
• "Tennis:Wanted" where people can release serves for others to take, as well as plan new ones
• "Tennis:In Progress" for matches currently ongoing (not in tournaments)
• "Tennis:Failed" for matches that failed... :(
• "Tennis:Completed" for matches that finished (or are considered finished)
• "Tennis:Archives" for archives of existing matches, often from many years ago
• "Tennis:Tournaments" for tournament matches. The tournament thread itself resides in the main category, this is for match threads only.
• There also exists a secret "staff category" for Tennis Staff to discuss private endeavors...