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Albumsix.com started off as a single home page with a mysterious image reading "Album Six, Coming Soon", which linked to the official Weezer website. Shortly after it began to gain steam, [[Karl Koch|Karl]] posted in [[Karl's Corner]] that he "honestly had no idea" what it was about. Later, Albumsix broke the news of [[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]] almost immediately after Rivers himself had, leading many to first get their news of the album from Albumsix and not Rivers' MySpace page. | Albumsix.com started off as a single home page with a mysterious image reading "Album Six, Coming Soon", which linked to the official Weezer website. Shortly after it began to gain steam, [[Karl Koch|Karl]] posted in [[Karl's Corner]] that he "honestly had no idea" what it was about. Later, Albumsix broke the news of [[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]] almost immediately after Rivers himself had, leading many to first get their news of the album from Albumsix and not Rivers' MySpace page. | ||
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Albumsix went on to post a fictitious teaser for the then confirmed sixth Weezer album. Albumsix called the album ''[[Tout Ensemble]]''. Large music media publishers | Albumsix went on to post a fictitious teaser for the then confirmed sixth Weezer album. Albumsix called the album ''[[Tout Ensemble]]''. Large music media publishers ([[Rolling Stone]], [[Pitchfork Media]] took note of the fake album and began running news stories on it, confirming it as fact. Following naming the album, Tout Ensemble posted a false release date of [[April 22]], [[2008]]. | ||
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Finally, Rivers and Karl both made posts that Weezer was in no way affiliated with Albumsix.com and that Weezer's new album was not called Tout Ensemble. Albumsix.com changed the homepage to a letter admitting that they had made everything up. | Finally, Rivers and Karl both made posts that Weezer was in no way affiliated with Albumsix.com and that Weezer's new album was not called Tout Ensemble. Albumsix.com changed the homepage to a letter admitting that they had made everything up. | ||
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After Tout Ensemble proved hoax, Albumsix.com was revamped into the Official [[Weerez.com]] forums, with original creators kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor acting as admin alongside Weerez.com's Greg. The forums grew very rapidly and are now read by all members of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo has not been confirmed), and several bits of Weezer information are released there by Karl Koch, who posts under the name karlophone. | After Tout Ensemble proved hoax, Albumsix.com was revamped into the Official [[Weerez.com]] forums, with original creators kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor acting as admin alongside Weerez.com's Greg. The forums grew very rapidly and are now read by all members of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo has not been confirmed), and several bits of Weezer information are released there by Karl Koch, who posts under the name karlophone. | ||