{"id":14144,"date":"2026-04-28T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:42:53","slug":"missing-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/28\/missing-myspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing MySpace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/myspace-chris-dewolfe-serendipity-social-media-documentary-1236873630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Myspace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe Misses The \u201cSerendipity\u201d Of Social Media As Van Toffler-Produced Documentary Premieres<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/peter-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter White<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"myspace: the movie (Official)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBOfD2JBv0w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/myspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Myspace<\/a>, which launched 2003, ushered in a joyous time for social media, where users discovered their favorite new band and debuted their angular new haircut for their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of the site, which was subsequently bought by Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp in 2005, is told in\u00a0<em>Myspace<\/em>, a documentary directed by Tommy Avallone and produced by Gunpowder &amp; Sky, the company founded by former MTV boss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/van-toffler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Van Toffler<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film, which premieres today at the HotDocs festival, explores the rise of the site, which introduced top 8 friendships, and how it helped launch the careers of the likes of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Dane Cook, and influencers such as Jeffree Star and Tila Tequila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/myspace-chris-dewolfe-serendipity-social-media-documentary-1236873630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Myspace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe Misses The \u201cSerendipity\u201d Of Social Media As Van Toffler-Produced Documentary Premieres By\u00a0Peter White Myspace, which launched 2003, ushered in a joyous time for social media, where users discovered their favorite new band and debuted their angular new haircut for their friends. The story of the site, which was subsequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}