Burning a T-Shirt

In the wake of Strikethrough, Aja demonstrated her repudiation of Livejournal by burning a LJ t-shirt on video.hearsawho. Transcript of the video, 04 August 2007. (Accessed 17 March 2015) 
However, the t-shirt was very difficult to ignite.Fandom Wank Wiki., via Wayback: 05 September 2011. (Accessed 17 March 2015) 
[[image:tshirtisrobust.jpg|thumb|left|icon by kadath ("THE T-SHIRT IS ROBUST" is referencing The servers are robust])]]
Many viewers were amused.Discussion in fandom_wank: Strikethrough Two: Electric Boogaloo - Apologies for trolling but ..., 04 August 2007. (Accessed 17 March 2015)
The original video is no longer on YouTube, but the remix edition (using Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love") is still viewable here. This is thought to be the first Video Flounce.
==Aja's Comments: 2012==
==Original Transcript (Audio)==
==Fan Reaction==
===2007===
* "whoever that is in the vid, I fuckin applaud her." comment by lizrocks at 
* "Why try and burn it? Why not just write/sew/draw "sucks" (or something similar) on it and wear it in public as often as possible? If I can find a good marker in my house, that's what I'm doing." comment by cattyhunts at 
* "you are my hero" comment by randombastary at 
* "AJA, YOU ARE MY GODDESS ALWAYS AND FOREVER. Roq the fuck on. comment by ex_pinkocrac87 at 
* "VIKING THORVALD THINKS WOMAN SPEAKS TOO MUCH BUT HER BURNING IS GOOD!!!! PILLAGE THE NEWS VILLAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!" comment by thorvald viking at 
* "::starts slow clap::" comment by theheartless69 at 
* "Well, that's just embarrassing." comment by gmth at 
* "Con-FLICT, honey; the accent's on the second syllable. Also who the fuck has a Livejournal shirt?" comment by kinneas at 
* "I have a HUGE embarrassment squick and this triggered it hardcore. It actually took a couple of tries before I could sit through it." comment by hearsawho at 
* "Oh my god. That is simultaneously the best and most embarrassing thing I've ever read in my life.... Ack, so embarrased to be in fandom right now. SO EMBARRASSED! comment by pet at 
* "It was the burning of the livejournal t-shirt that finally sent me into the cringing ball I am currently in....I could never giggle at it. It wouldn't even burn. As if watching the painful embarrassment wasn't bad enough, there's this awkward eternity where she was just sat there staring at it and trying to look dignified. You'd think at some point in that stretch, there'd be some little glimmer that would just go "W.T.F. ARE. YOU. DOING?"" comment by verpon at 
* "Oh man. What really got me was the cut. As if it wasn't awkward enough, there's this awesomely painful jump cut to moments later when she finally got it to lit. I admit I started laughing really hard, but I think it was more out discomfort than actual amusement.... Yeah, the hilariousness of that goes without saying. Burning the shirt that LJ already has your money for? Leaving behind the server space that LJ ALSO already has your money for? But I agree. I don't know which is more disturbing, the over-dramatic way people are behaving, or LJ's cowardly silence over the whole thing. (Unless that's their plan. Stay completely silent and smoke out the really batshit parts of fandom.)" comment by chudley cannon at 
* "My amusement is that people are angry enough that they're burning shirts and such while getting huffy. She was trying to be serious and it came across as semi-overdramatic. That display of action isn't going to resolve much -- talking to the company will. What LiveJournal really SHOULD do is come up with a forum or open meeting to where they actually tell us what is/isn't appropriate." comment by dracolovessharry at 
* "That was the funniest thing I've seen all day." comment by nonny mouse at 
* "Wow, that totally wins the epic version of the Scarlett O'Hara Golden Flounce award!" comment by squib at 
* "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA HOLY MOTHER I HAVEN'T LAUGHED THIS HARD IN YEARS. YES! DO IT AGAIN!" comment by aerobot at 
===2014===
* "Oh my god I forgot about the attempt to burn a shirt. What beautiful fuckery that was." All this leaving tumblr talk is making me hark back to the LJ days of old, man oh man. 
===2015===
* "I will never get over that. The fact that the t-shirt didn't light on fire at all, that it was horribly planned out in case it did light on fire (just sitting on her couch holding it with her arm??), and then that she still posted the unedited video online. Wow. Amazing." comment at fail_fandomanon Re: Aja and Andy, 11 March 2015. (Accessed 17 March 2015) 
==Transformative Works==
* Fires of Fandom, video by mcbeckerson (mod of lol meme) 
==References==
Category:2007 Events