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 '''Allthingsweezer''' (formally known as '''Albumsix''') is the name of a [[Weezer]] fansite started by boardies kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor.  The forums at Allthingsweezer are currently the most active Weezer forum on the internet.
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+==History==
+===Fake Album===
+Albumsix.com, as Allthingsweezer was originally known, 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]] 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 Cuomo|Cuomo]] himself had, leading many to first get their news of the album from Albumsix and not Cuomo's 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 like ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' took note of the fake album and began running news stories on it, confirming it as fact.  Following naming the album, the website posted a false release date for ''Tout Ensemble'' of [[April 22]], [[2008]].
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+Finally, Cuomo and Koch 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.
+===Forums===
+After ''Tout Ensemble'' proved to be a hoax, Albumsix.com was revamped into a forum.  Soon, the original creators kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor teamed up with Weerez.com's Greg to make albumsix the Official [[Weerez.com]] forums.  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 Koch, who posts under the name [[Karlophone]].  In the fall of 2009, the name of the website was changed to allthingsweezer.com, with all albumssix.com traffic being redirected tot he new address.
+===Chat===
+One of the more popular features on Allthingsweezer is the chat function.  The chat was proposed by BenHogan77, however the administrators deleted the thread he created where the suggestion was made. The chat is a place where many boardies discuss [[All Things Not Weezer]], but when large pieces of Weezer news are released, the chat often turns into a heavily focused Weezer dicussion.  Many times, fans have arranged gatherings for Karl himself to come into the chat and interact with boardies.  Often, Karl will give hints and nuggets of info as to new happenings in the Weezer world such as potential tour openers, details of unreleased songs, and comments about different moments in Weezer history.
+===Crash===
+In late September of [[2008]], Albumsix mysteriously crashed.  [[AutomaticWeezerFan]] wrote a blog saying that the site "had it coming", but in reality the forums were only temporarily down.  User and Administrator lordofthemanor posted on the official [[Weezer.com]] forum that the site would be up again soon.  When the site came back it had been significantly revamped and required re-registration (all of the data was lost in the crash).
+The crash was predicted in [[Weezerpedia:Scripture|The scriptures]].
+===T-Shirts===
+During the early Albumsix period, the site temporarily had an online store featuring t-shirts with many designs created by the fans for the fans as well as several slogan t-shirts perpetuating the memes of the forums.  The store was closed after it became too expensive to keep open.
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