COME BRING YOUR HANDS… At this pivotal moment, America's destiny is in your hands. You must not support the propagation of fear, hate, and disinformation. FREAKNIK.COM amplifies the voices of truth. You and FREAKNIK.COM can become significant and indispensable in the battle for democracy—this is an “Our” fight.
FREAKNIK.COM shares a historical bond with you, you're not just an audience. We share ethical standards, education, professions, and cultural backgrounds, creating a potent voting bloc. An integral, valued part of an electorate connection that supersedes ordinary parameters of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Together, we are not just a platform and an audience but a community united by our shared values and history. FREAKNIK.COM, in 1996, was the first social media platform on the Worldwide Internet, reaching over forty million (40,000,000) online visitors by 1997.
FREAKNIK.COM’s impact was significant and controversial, defying analysis by simply tracking statistical segmentations such as age, gender, education, and income. The collective voice of our audience changed the Internet in 1996. Again, in January 2024, Hulu began discussing a Freaknik documentary project. News of the project leaked, sparking over one million online inquiries asking Hulu when the film's release date would be. Hulu, in April 2024, released a social media campaign for its FREAKNIK documentary launch, reaching forty-six (46) media outlets companies, who delivered more than one hundred and twenty, eight hundred and forty, one hundred and sixty-four (120,840,164) million impressions; at an ad cost of one hundred and forty-two thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars ($142,688). This is evidence of the collective voice, crucial in supporting the right candidates.
FREAKNIK.COM passionately supports Kamala Harris for President and Tim Walz for Vice President in the right fight and the proper cause. It's a fight that can be won. Vice President Kamala Harris has proven to be a steady-handed and gifted leader. President Harris will deliver even more for this country, leading with calm, not chaos. Her running mate choice, Tim Walz, stands for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and women’s right to make their own body decisions and is committed to protecting the needy, oppressed, and underprivileged. We must use our collective voice wisely to support these suitable candidates. FREAKNIK.COM’s endorsement must deliver more than the crucial wedge of voters needed to secure the election—enough to guarantee the administration's work. Enough to honor and protect the democracy our ancestors fought and died for. To ensure the children enjoy the legacy and heritage of the democratic process. It is our mission to do so! FREAKNIK.COM, from bringing together audiences, will be crucial to deciding the future of our democracy.
FREAKNIK.COM stands at the nexus of voters, consumers, and generational opinion influencers, ages 18 through 39 and above. Almost with exception, the most significant segments of the Black American voter and consumer population culturally and historically embrace FREAKNIK.COM, able to bring that support to the Presidential Election Campaign 2024, bringing every age, gender, race, economic, and educational segment having a stake in the outcome. They heard and understood why Liz and Dick Cheney, in the name of justice, pledged to support and vote for Democratic Presidential candidates Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARNED AND GIVEN
As symbolic as explicit, the so-called “Undecided” Young Black American Male Vote threatens to be withheld from Presidential Candidate Kamala Hariss. This has an uncanny resemblance to a pivotal event from ancient times, the effects of which mirror the possible outcome of the national presidential election. It was the fall of the ancient North African city-state of Carthage, which came under siege during the Third Punic War in 146 BC. Spoiler Alert: The gates of Carthage were opened from the inside by members of the society's elite who thought the rise to ultimate power would be shorter with Roman collaboration. Spoiler Alert: Rome eventually massacred the entire population of Carthage without ever capturing Hannibal. They burned the magnificent Carthage, port included, to ashes, then plowed salt into the ground, where no vegetation would grow for a thousand years. Spoiler Alert: The Roman general Scipio Africanus the Younger waited three years before on the continent, outside the reach of Carthage forces. He awaited the return of a disgruntled Numidian prince, Shafax, and his Numidian calvary, considered the best of the ancient world. Africanus had a score to settle not with Hannibal but with Carthage. Africanus would not have engaged Carthage but for Shafax. Carthage was defeated and captured. Incredibly, the Roman senate voted to entrust Carthage to be administrated only by Hannibal, the same undefeated general who had annihilated one Roman army after another on their home soil over thirteen years, one after another. Rome would realize Carthage would rise again; the answer was genocide. The lesson then is today: Don’t take winning for granted. Get out every vote!
FREAKNIK.COM Presidential Election 2024
Whether audience, voter, citizen, volunteer, or independent web wanderer, there is a role to play in the Presidential Election 2024 on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, and earlier. The coming Democratic Presidential Election campaign will benefit hugely from having the support of FREAKNIK.COM. The first of the internet’s actual social media platforms. For the 2024 presidential election, FREAKNIK.COM will deliver head-on messages to various national and global audiences to support a successful democratic election. FREAKNIK.COM is aligned with understanding the inter-demographical social stratification of multi-generational trust, reaching an impact level never thought possible. Even the reigning mega social media platforms have never reached the core of the African American population, 50.7 percent, ages 18 to 39, and beyond. The U.S. population is now more racially and ethnically diverse than before.
FREAKNIK.COM stands at the nexus of voters, consumers, and generational opinion influencers, ages 18 through 39 and above. Almost with exception, the most significant segments of the Black American voter and consumer population culturally and historically embrace FREAKNIK.COM, able to bring that support to the Presidential Election Campaign 2024, bringing every age, gender, race, economic, and educational segment having a stake in the outcome. They heard and understood why Liz and Dick Cheney, in the name of justice, pledged to support and vote for Democratic Presidential candidates Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president.
FREAKNIK.COM wants a future where people live for more than one hundred years, slowly aging, free from hunger, sickness, war, and crime. A place where public libraries and museums make accessible the cultural treasures and wisdom of the world to keep future peace on Earth. We must start now.
Almost simultaneously, the world is adopting smartphones and embracing social media. A majority uses smartphones for social media — to view and share art, music, and culture, express and share opinions, and even post strident social and political views across the ideological spectrum. Interestingly, people who use social media to post about issues are more likely to see democracy as an effective way to influence policy decisions, raise awareness, change minds, and pay attention to critical issues.
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WHO HAPPEN TO FREAKNIK?
It should be acknowledged that no matter how vivid or dramatic a story is, the average person cannot know the frisson of coming face-to-face with the combined naked power of suspects Atlanta corporate boardrooms, Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia State Legislature. FREAKNIK’s troubles were retribution for demanding inheritance rights, bringing down the raft of the new/old southern hierarchy. The descendants of the denied demanded and expected entitlement. It was their blood-soaked inheritance from long-free labor. There is a cause-and-effect link between Freaknik, segregation, Civil Rights, and the history of Atlanta. The next generation of the civil rights movement wanted FREAKNIK. Instead, they got blasted by regentrification’s sabotage and distortion “smoking gun” …
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Any correct understanding of FREAKNIK requires understanding Atlanta in terms of race, elitism, and politics. It is a subplot to a complicated, otherwise alarming, fascinating, and shameful story. What began for Atlanta University students to be a way to make the best of being stranded in town over spring break. A 1970s free picnic party in a neighborhood park in the community. After that, a different group of students each year after year, adding to what became the popular, much-anticipated Freaknic into the beginning of 1990. 1994 it became a much bigger thing: “FREAKNIK,” a phenomenon that only happens in America. That transformation, while impressive, portended a threat to long-established politically and culturally colonial institutions in Atlanta and more excellent Georgia. The blowback is ominous. …
It begins with the brutal enslavement of generations of free people until interrupted by the American Civil War. After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Period, a bloody massacre happened in Atlanta in 1915. Black people – men, women, and children — were attacked and murdered on the downtown streets of Atlanta. It was on those same streets in the 1960s the American Civil Rights Movement began. After that, Black America appointed Atlanta the “Seat of The Civil Rights Movement.” 1974 Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., Black American attorney and politician, was elected as the 54th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, holding office from 1974 to 1982 and again the city’s 56th mayor in 1990. …
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Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., a brilliant young Black man, was elected Atlanta’s first Black mayor on October 16, 1974. His term wouldn’t begin until January 1975. Jackson started building modern Atlanta, transforming the sleepy state capital in the middle of a forest into a gleaming modern metropolis and building a world-class International Airport. No other person in Georgia had, before or since, conducted all Maynard Jackson did at one time. Jackson also created one of America’s most potent voting block coalitions, Black civil rights activists, and committed white liberals. In approximately 1978, during spring break, a group of stranded Black college students organized a free picnic party in a park in the Black neighborhood over the third weekend in April, then named it “Freaknic.” …
Regentrification is the movement of elitism economics as it sweeps across urban cityscapes in the United States, including up and down the East and West coasts. Its presence in Atlanta coincided with efforts by the scions of the old southern aristocracy to retake control of metro Atlanta politics, and et al. l. Its focus merged with developing social fissures, fracturing the political coalition, and mishandling the rapidly evolving Freaknic. From 1992 to 1994, the event organically grew to be the most significant gathering of young African Americans in Atlanta since the civil rights movement. However, this mass event had no centralized coordination and no structural organization. As words of Freaknic spread from one southern HBCU campus to another, spring break attendance swelled tremendously as words went out to neighboring Black college campuses. …
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In 1994, state and local police intentionally blocked all access to Lakewood Fairground, west of downtown Atlanta. Lakewood was the premier event location: 117 square acres of open campus, a 15-acre lake, onsite parking for 10,000 cars (not counting around the outside perimeter), three main outdoor full concert stages, three exhibition halls the size of passenger airplane hangars, with four added indoor live performance stages. Lakewood Fairgrounds was where Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew), Jermain Dupri (propelling eleven singles), and other Atlanta hip-hop music luminaries came to launch their chart-topping careers. In 1994, Lakewood Fairgrounds was the first event site to follow the lead of FREAKNIK.COM and scheduled shows for the fourth weekend in April to take full advantage of its reach into FREAKNIK World. That realignment transformed a major local Black college celebration into a nationally and internationally recognized mega-destination event. …
By April 1996, forty million people visited the FREAKNIK.Com website five months before the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. This sets up the potential for a significant global impact FREAKNIK.COM would have, making FREAKNIK in Atlanta one of America’s most critical extraordinary events. FREAKNIK.COM exceeded every expectation for the internet and social media. FREAKNIK.COM featured live interviews and welcome messages from entertainment stars, prominent sports figures, politicians, and leaders of social justice causes. The message to the nation and the world: Come and enjoy all Atlanta offers. In opposition, Atlanta’s mainstream presses and electronic media stations, with the blessings of Atlanta City Hall, sent messages to the internet audience: “For people coming to Atlanta for Freaknic, there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do.” At the same time, Lakewood Fairground and more were found throughout the metro area. END.
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The Empowering Story of Atlanta’s Historical Spring Break Festival
Welcome to FREAKNIK.COM
Join me as we discover the empowering story of FREAKNIK.COM, the phenomenal spring break festival in Atlanta. As a lover of the arts and a believer in the power of information, I aim to educate, empower, and engage readers with the history and significance of this legendary music festival.
A Platform for Inspiration and Connection
FREAKNIK.COM is not just about the past; it’s about the present and the future. FREAKNIK.COM is a platform that serves as a space to express and address the social issues and political messages surrounding us. I invite you to join the conversation, feel inspired, and connect with like-minded individuals who share your thoughts and emotions.
Art That Makes You Think Twice
If you’re ready to experience art that pushes boundaries and makes you question the status quo, you’ve come to the right place. Check out my upcoming blog articles about FREAKNIK.COM to discover captivating pieces of art that challenge societal norms and ignite conversations.
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FREAKNIK, DELOITTE, AND THE GANG OF NINE
FREAKNIK was the greatest of times; it was the worst of times. It was the wage of freedom, the price of foolishness, a period of ideas, a time of fantasy, the season of anything, a fall to abandonment, a spring to release, the leap before responsibility.
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Let’s delve into the intricate narrative of FREAKNIK, a pivotal event in Atlanta’s history during the late 1990s. What initially seemed improbable, upon closer examination, unveiled a story of audacity. A small group of affluent, politically influential Atlanta businesspeople, the Gang of Nine, independently pursued and secured the 1996 Summer Olympic Games bid for Atlanta. This was initially financed privately, granting them control and marginalizing local, regional, or state government authorities. This coincided with a wave of urban revitalization efforts sweeping across America’s most significant metropolitan areas, including the Atlanta region. FREAKNIK, as a symbol of the community’s identity, would inevitably become both a target and catalyst in this struggle.
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The stage was set for a dramatic twist. City Hall and public attention were fixated on FREAKNIK. The Gang of Nine executed their strategy with precision. Then, out of the blue, an overlooked clause in the bid application process addressing vehicular traffic and public transportation posed a threat to disqualify the Atlanta bid in the final review. The local press headline blared, “THEY CAN’T EVEN HANDLE FREAKNIK TRAFFIC!” It was painfully evident that the Atlanta Olympic Games Committee had underestimated the importance of this crucial aspect of the bid process. The press reported that ACOG had to seek the assistance of Deloitte US to salvage their bid. FREAKNIK.COM recently published an independent, comprehensive report on Metro Atlanta’s full public transportation capability and more than adequate public and private parking resources.
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The report demonstrated that there were more than sufficient public transportation and parking resources throughout the metro Atlanta area to surpass the needs of FREAKNIK and then the Summer Olympic Games. FREAKNIK.COM shared this information with Deloitte, who in turn shared it with The Gang of Nine. The Gang of Nine then took ownership of it, included it as part of their Olympic bid, and released the report to the press. It saved their plan. The vice president of Deloitte was confronted face-to-face with a threat by The Gang of Nine, “To have absolutely nothing more to do with FREAKNIK.COM or the Deloitte contract would be terminated.”
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It’s highly likely that no record of this exists elsewhere. True history, being a complex tapestry, is never that straightforward. It would have taken years before even FREAKNIK.COM could connect the dots. Not long after, Pepsi Cola agreed to sponsor an outdoor music festival on a horse ranch in East Point City outside of Atlanta, near the international airport. Just weeks before production, in a call to FREAKNIK.COM, a Pepsi-Cola executive reported a call to Pepsi from the Office of the Mayor of Atlanta’s office. The Mayor’s office informed Pepsi that any FREAKNIK sponsorship would jeopardize the company’s ability to secure Olympic sponsorship. Eventually, even FREAKNIK. COM consultants will be asked to collaborate with ACOG on the production of extraordinary events. It’s a complex puzzle of facts that has taken years to uncover and piece together.
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There is yet more of the story of ACOG and FREAKNIK that is still untold. Impactful things happened before, during, and after the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Why Researchers should dig deep into the archives of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs), Atlanta City Hall, Georgia State Legislature, city and state regulatory agencies, archives, and the Atlanta print and media news outlets, they all, at one time or another, bowed to the authority of ACOG’s Gang of Nine. They all kept independent records that would add to the authentic story of the 1996 games. Documenting things not intended for public sight but that should be brought to light for the public good.
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THE BIRTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA
In a groundbreaking moment in February 1996, FREAKNIK.COM catapulted social media onto the global stage. As the first platform to enable internet users to share ideas and information freely, it quickly amassed a staggering thirteen million online users by April of the same year. This unprecedented move inspired an estimated one million people to flock to metro Atlanta for the FREAKNIK in 1996 and 1997, creating that pivotal moment in social media history.
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FREAKNIK.COM, in 1996, transformed an event that started in 1975 in a neighborhood park into an extraordinary, first-of-a-kind national event. The opportunity lost was re-engineering the event to mount the national stage. Never was a consortium formed to take the necessary steps to bring the event up to worldwide standard. Its emergence onto the world’s stage was considered inconceivable even in the nineteen nineties.
Read More
FREAKNIK.COM drew more than one million visitors to metro Atlanta on the fourth weekend of April 1996. People from everywhere came, even from overseas, going to concerts, clubs, and eateries, booking lodging, buying gasoline, and shopping in malls. It was estimated by Atlanta Visitors and Convention Bureau executives that nine hundred and fifty million dollars were spent alone in metro Atlanta due to FREAKNIK. Moreover, tens of thousands of visitors to Atlanta packed into vehicles. They spent their way there and back to and from every conceivable direction across the country for FREAKNIK in 1996 and 1997. That aspect of their economic impact was never reported. Neither was spending based on bus, plane, or train travel.
Read More
Into obscurity, the pivotally important role of Rev. Andrew Young in securing the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games for Atlanta also was FREAKNIK.COM’s. Initially, the group of wealthy Atlanta financers who would become known as the “Gang of Nine” put in their independent bid for the Summer Olympic Games, only then discovering they had absolutely no credentials for entry into the international Olympics voting society. The only person in all of Georgia, one of the very few in America, was the former US diplomatic representative to the United Nations, the Rev. Andrew Young, who singularly secured the needed votes to keep the Atlanta bid in play. Now began the public and press ridicule from every quarter, “The nerve of them to compete with the biggest cities in the country.”
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The city’s major daily newspaper ran a glaring front-page headline, which even appeared on the TV news: “THEY CAN’T EVEN MANAGE FREAKNIK!!!” Asserting: The Absurdity of An Atlanta Olympic Games Bid. FREAKNIK.COM self-published its independent detailed report documenting the ample Metro-Atlanta’s public transportation system: buses, rail trains, stations, stops, transfer points, and terminations, identifying contiguous parking locations, both private and public. The report was straightforward and adequate; there was already a more than adequate interface between car traffic and public transportation resources to offset FREAKNIK traffic demands. Evidence of disruptive traffic control tactics by metro authorities unwarranted political dirty tricks to undermine FREAKNIK. The report was released to Deloitte Touche Consulting (today Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited) for an end-run around City Hall’s opposition. That FREAKNIK.COM traffic resources report was released to Deloitte Touche Consulting, relabeled, and submitted to the International Olympic Committee, securing the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games bid.
TODAY’S REAL SOCIAL MEDIA IS FREANIK.COM
Today’s Internet is not like before. The world now primarily uses smartphones to access the Internet — Asia-Pacific countries, Africa, Latin America, and America to Europe — social media predominates among the under-thirty world population. Overwhelmingly, America is at the forefront of social media use, and at least 84 percent use smartphones. In emerging and developing economies, half or more of the younger adults use smartphones to access social media. Worldwide, the more educated you are, the higher your income, the more likely you are to access social media using smartphones.
Read More
Almost simultaneously, the world has adopted smartphones and embraced social media. The majority uses smartphones to view and share art, music, and culture, express and share opinions, and even post strident social and political views across the ideological spectrum. Interestingly, people who use social media to post about issues are more likely to see democracy as an effective way to influence policy decisions, raise awareness, change minds, and pay attention to critical issues.
Read More
In the past, marketing followed sheer demographics. Today, marketing is about collecting, measuring, and interpreting analytical data—attitudes, values, lifestyles, motivations, opinions, dislikes, and wants. It finds and defines macro and micro adjustments in line production, affects audience development and message strategies, delivers proof of values, and offers action options. Competitiveness requires social media listening to and interpreting algorithms -hashtags, tweets, retweets, and other insights. Understanding critical overriding importance and reporting meanings –whether clients, audiences, or producers, social algorithm reporting enables adapting and scaling programming to macro or micro responses to the performance of social profiles and posts. These algorithms can be compiled as essential data into distinct pattern reports for stakeholders or customers. Such reports can be targeted or customized to comments, visualize graphs, and emerging data charts matching individualized needs. Even generalizations to real-time competitor analyses or strategic brand mentions.
Read More
FREAKNIK.COM will be the social media platform destination for all directions: alternative new and exciting programming, Advent-guard, minimalist, guerilla, investigative, journalistic, studio, field, network, independent, stage, public, academic, and public access. It was built to address fresh, unscripted, outside-the-box interests, having all the crucial elements for making authentic, not pseudo-social media. It has the universal affinity of jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, disco, hip-hop, rap, basketball, Indigenous art, and fashion infinitely more than any other before. Its mission is to bridge cultural barriers, breach cultural divisions, and be welcomed, a multi-generational passport to communities around the globe.
HOW FREAKNIK.COM IMPACTED ATLANTA
In 1996, FREAKNIK.COM singularly lifted Atlanta’s entertainment profile, for the first time in its history, onto the worldwide stage. The platform created unprecedented new exposure to America’s Historically Black Colleges (HBCs), America’s Civil Rights legacy, and the complicated reality of being Black in America.
Read More
In February 1996, FREAKNIK.COM shared ideas, information, texts, and visuals that created communities and reached global audiences, surpassing thirteen million online. Between 1996 and 1997, FREAKNIK.COM reached over forty million users. Myspace, credited with being “the first,” took five years, from 1997 to 2001, to accomplish what FREAKNIK.COM did in one. FREAKNIK.COM is unquestionably the principal purveyor of Atlanta’s hip-hop, rap music, and media, nationally and globally. In the same way, Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video “Thriller” pulled Music Television (MTV) into the national and global spotlight.
THE STARTING LINE-UP (COMING SOON)
FREAKNIK.COM: The chef, the teacher, the writer, the author, the fighter, the star, more diverse, distinct, and accessible worldwide, with more exciting content than all the rest combined.
Exploding News and Information: Coverage of things of interest around the corner, nationwide, and worldwide, putting local communities on the map.
The Content Makers: Meet authors, filmmakers, playwriters, and creators.
Hard-Knows: Hard-hitting ground-level exploration of things in and out of the headlines.
Soaps to Drama: Launched because they’re ready, and they can.
Fresh, Fly, Fabulous, Funky (FFFF): an exploration of fashion, review, and inside industry stories.
Power and Influence: How brands influence the world.
Planet Help: Exploring Cause and Effect of climatic and environmental issues for vulnerable communities.
Before Scene: The Inside Exploration of the creative and production process before
Performance or exhibition.
In Your Hand: Exploring the vote at home and elsewhere.
Lost To Oblivion: The making and erasing of your American history.
Funny is Funny: Making funny, truth, history, and comedy culture.
Roots of Success: True inspirational, fact-based stories of people who overcame disadvantages and tremendous obstacles and achieved extraordinary success.
Political Aggregator: New ideas and new approaches to solving old problems.
THE OLD SOCIAL MEDIA
In a groundbreaking moment in February 1996, FREAKNIK.COM catapulted social media onto the global stage. As the first platform to enable internet users to share ideas and information freely, it quickly amassed a staggering thirteen million online users by April of the same year. This unprecedented move inspired an estimated one million people to flock to metro Atlanta for the FREAKNIK in 1996 and 1997, creating that pivotal moment in social media history.
Read More
FREAKNIK.COM, in 1996, transformed an event that started in 1975 in a neighborhood park into an extraordinary, first-of-a-kind national event. The opportunity lost was re-engineering the event to mount the national stage. Never was a consortium formed to take the necessary steps to bring the event up to worldwide standard. Its emergence onto the world’s stage was considered inconceivable even in the nineteen nineties.
Read More
FREAKNIK.COM drew more than one million visitors to metro Atlanta on the fourth weekend of April 1996. People from everywhere came, even from overseas, going to concerts, clubs, and eateries, booking lodging, buying gasoline, and shopping in malls. It was estimated by Atlanta Visitors and Convention Bureau executives that nine hundred and fifty million dollars were spent alone in metro Atlanta due to FREAKNIK. Moreover, tens of thousands of visitors to Atlanta packed into vehicles. They spent their way there and back to and from every conceivable direction across the country for FREAKNIK in 1996 and 1997. That aspect of their economic impact was never reported. Neither was spending based on bus, plane, or train travel.
Read More
Into obscurity, the pivotally important role of Rev. Andrew Young in securing the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games for Atlanta also was FREAKNIK.COM’s. Initially, the group of wealthy Atlanta financers who would become known as the “Gang of Nine” put in their independent bid for the Summer Olympic Games, only then discovering they had absolutely no credentials for entry into the international Olympics voting society. The only person in all of Georgia, one of the very few in America, was the former US diplomatic representative to the United Nations, the Rev. Andrew Young, who singularly secured the needed votes to keep the Atlanta bid in play. Now began the public and press ridicule from every quarter, “The nerve of them to compete with the biggest cities in the country.”
Read More
The city’s major daily newspaper ran a glaring front-page headline, which even appeared on the TV news: “THEY CAN’T EVEN MANAGE FREAKNIK!!!” Asserting: The Absurdity of An Atlanta Olympic Games Bid.
FREAKNIK.COM recently self-published an independent detailed report documenting the ample Metro-Atlanta’s public transportation system: buses, rail trains, stations, stops, transfer points, terminations, identifying contiguous parking locations, both private and public. The report was straightforward and adequate; there was already a more than adequate interface between car traffic and public transportation resources to offset FREAKNIK traffic demands. Evidence of disruptive traffic control tactics by metro authorities unwarranted political dirty tricks to undermine FREAKNIK. The report was released to Deloitte Touche Consulting (today Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited) for an end-run around City Hall’s opposition. That FREAKNIK.COM traffic resources report was released to Deloitte Touche Consulting, relabeled, and given to the International Olympic Committee, securing the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games bid.
THE NEW SOCIAL MEDIA
Today, new technologies are redefining social media. The world now primarily uses smartphones to access the Internet — Asia-Pacific countries, Africa, Latin America, and America to Europe — social media predominates among the under-thirty world population. Overwhelmingly, America is at the forefront of social media use, and at least 84 percent use smartphones. In emerging and developing economies, half or more of the younger adults use smartphones to access social media. Worldwide, the more educated you are, the higher your income, the more likely you are to access social media using smartphones.
Read More
Almost simultaneously, the world has adopted smartphones and embraced social media. The majority uses smartphones to view and share art, music, and culture, express and share opinions, and even post strident social and political views across the ideological spectrum. Interestingly, people who use social media to post about issues are more likely to see democracy as an effective way to influence policy decisions, raise awareness, change minds, and pay attention to critical issues.
Read More
In the past, marketing followed sheer demographics. Today, marketing is about collecting, measuring, and interpreting analytical data—attitudes, values, lifestyles, motivations, opinions, dislikes, and wants. It finds and defines macro and micro adjustments in line production, affects audience development and message strategies, delivers proof of values, and offers action options. Competitiveness requires social media listening to and interpreting algorithms -hashtags, tweets, retweets, and other insights. Understanding critical overriding importance and reporting meanings –whether clients, audiences, or producers, social algorithm reporting enables adapting and scaling programming to macro or micro responses to the performance of social profiles and posts. These algorithms can be compiled as essential data into distinct pattern reports for stakeholders or customers. Such reports can be targeted or customized to comments, visualize graphs, and emerging data charts matching individualized needs. Even generalizations to real-time competitor analyses or strategic brand mentions.
Read More
FREAKNIK.COM will be the social media platform destination for all directions: alternative new and exciting programming, Advent-guard, minimalist, guerilla, investigative, journalistic, studio, field, network, independent, stage, public, academic, and public access. It was built to address fresh, unscripted, outside-the-box interests, having all the crucial elements for making authentic, not pseudo-social media. It has the universal affinity of jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, disco, hip-hop, rap, basketball, Indigenous art, and fashion infinitely more than any other before. Its mission is to bridge cultural barriers, breach cultural divisions, and be welcomed, a multi-generational passport to communities around the globe.
HOW FREAKNIK.COM IMPACTED ATLANTA
In 1996, FREAKNIK.COM singularly lifted Atlanta’s entertainment profile, for the first time in its history, onto the worldwide stage. The platform created unprecedented new exposure to America’s Historically Black Colleges (HBCs), America’s Civil Rights legacy, and the exciting reality of being Black in America.
Read More
In February 1996, FREAKNIK.COM shared ideas, information, texts, and visuals that created communities and reached global audiences, surpassing thirteen million online. Between 1996 and 1997, FREAKNIK.COM reached over forty million users. Myspace, credited with being “the first,” took five years, from 1997 to 2001, to conduct what FREAKNIK.COM did in one. FREAKNIK.COM is unquestionably the principal purveyor of Atlanta’s hip-hop, rap music, and media, nationally and globally. In the same way, Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video “Thriller” pulled Music Television (MTV) into the national and global spotlight.
“FREAKNIK was the best of times; was the worst of times. The time for freedom, a time for foolishness, an epoch of fantasy, a release of reason, the exhale of the academic year.”
FREAKNIK.COM INTRODUCES THE FUTURE
THE NEW HORIZON
Today, the Internet is quite different from before. Everyone uses smartphones virtually worldwide to access the Internet — Asia-Pacific countries, Africa, Latin America, and America to Europe. Social media predominates among the under-thirty world population. Overwhelmingly, America is at the forefront of social media use, and at least 84 percent use smartphones. In emerging and developing economies, half or more of the younger adults use smartphones to access social media. Worldwide, the more educated you are, the higher your income, the more likely you are to access social media using smartphones.
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Almost simultaneously, the world is adopting smartphones and embracing social media. A majority uses smartphones for social media — to view and share art, music, and culture, express and share opinions, and even post strident social and political views across the ideological spectrum. Interestingly, people who use social media to post about issues are more likely to see democracy as an effective way to influence policy decisions, raise awareness, change minds, and pay attention to critical issues.
In the past, marketing followed demographic numbers. Today, marketing collects, measures, and interprets analytical data—attitudes, values, lifestyles, motivations, opinions, dislikes, and wants. The findings define macro and micro adjustments in line production, affect audience development and message strategies, deliver proof of values, and offer action options. Today, being competitive requires social media listening and interpreting social algorithms –hashtags, tweets, retweets, and other insights — to understand critical overriding importance and report meaning. Whether for clients, audiences, or producers, social algorithm reporting enables adapting and scaling programming in macro or micro responses to the performance of social profiles and posts. These algorithms can be compiled as essential data into distinct pattern reports for stakeholders or customers. Such reports can be targeted or customized to comments, visualize graphs, and emerging data charts matching individualized needs. Even generalization can show real-time competitor analysis or strategic brand mentions.
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For Content, FREAKNIK.COM is a new and different social media plateau. For the content creator, FREAKNIK.COM creates new advertising revenue and invests in providing access to quality production facilities and qualified technical support personnel for new programming — Advent-guard, minimalist, guerilla, investigative, journalistic, studio, field, network, independent, stage, public, academic, and public access – addresses fresh, unscripted, outside-the-box interests—the crucial elements are authenticity and originality, not the same old canned social media. This is a universal affinity with jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, disco, hip-hop, rap, basketball, Indigenous art, world fashion, and art. The goal is to inspire and be inspired to become familiar with differences. It’s pointed toward wanting to experience differences, bridge cultural gaps, defy social barriers, breach cultural divisions, and be rewarded.
FREAKNIK.COM is a fantastic new dimension for professional development, arts, information, education, and entertainment media. The benefits to independent producers:
- Lower costs: Access to professional production systems based on volume and scale is a fraction of the price of a dedicated production and studio facility for rehearsal, installation, maintenance, and distribution.
- Better production quality: FREAKNIK.COM services offer high-definition standard features and high-speed internet distribution.
- Greater mobility and flexibility: VoIP lines reach even remote users anywhere they have smartphones.
- Advanced connectivity: Automated production and distribution of programming using VoIP connections.
- Scalability: Continually expanding affordable upgrade of programming distribution as the system grows.
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FREAKNIK.COM will provide small and mid-sized content producers with the production and promotional communications features available to enterprises, enabling them to gain a competitive advantage. Features to help get out of their productions are the elements that make content outstanding. It is necessary to be competitive over the internet over smartphones. Production qualities that audiences archive and review endlessly.
Will provide interactive automated prompts connecting users to providers. Users can also manage responses and requests without speaking to an agent.
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Demographic Collection vs Analytical Analysis
Demographics Collection, measuring group characteristics about population—age, gender, income—informative but not nearly as important as Analytical Analysis, which examines methodically, in detail, the constitution and structure of audiences’ interpretations and decision-making factors—attitudes, values, lifestyles, motivations, opinions, dislikes, and likes—for perspective on influence making, audience messaging and deliverable value strategies in predetermining outcomes.
FREAKNIK.COM uses AI to examine the details of connection interactions to harvest valuable feedback and track team performance. This helps with perfect efficiency and customer engagement, connects business productivity to business performance, and reduces the time spent correcting errors.
Program "Find Me"
Users do not have to be on a specific device to receive programming. “Find Me” forwards programming to the user’s different devices without missing a call, playing device tag, or missing connection – delivering seamless audience experiences.
FREAKNIK.COM Cost To User
Better than cost-efficient, essential services are at no cost. Other factors influencing the ultimate cost include pay-per-view programming and program-specific subscription fees. Essential system support will help users enjoy the full benefit of programming.
What Characteristics To Look Forward To With FREAKNIK.COM Programming:
- Strong Commitment To Service Building A Strong Commitment To Service.
- Reliability To Provide Support To Staying Functional At All Times.
- Regulatory Compliance To Protect The Sensitive Data Of Clients And Users.
- Seamless Transference Between Providers With No Interruption Of Use.
- Round-the-clock technical Support For The Sake Of Success.
What Equipment Will Users Require?
Users can start using equipment they already have. However, location—or regional-specific circumstances might make acquiring updates or added devices advisable. Users may also need a suitable modem, router, or high-speed internet connection. You should not need anything added if you connect using your smartphone for essential services. Users can check with their VoIP provider. Smartphones are plug-and-play user-friendly devices that do not require being tech-savvy