While the initial fury has passed and unfortunately there will be several who will simply move on to a new board and The Canvas will be forgotten. I hate to imagine anyone who knows the whole story would add their screen name to The Canvas membership roles again, but alas I'm sure there will be some. I believe that The Canvas is loss, even if it is returned the demand for doing what's right and spreading the story has also damaged the image of the a place we all once felt comfortable in. I also think the 3000+ members are not all active and many are among the group that signed up but didn't stick around and just never removed their membership. I mean look at those of us who are protesting The Canvas, we might never have deleted our membership had this not happened and some of us had not been to the site in years. I think someone looked at the memberships and several thousand had never posted a single post. So the numbers are misleading.

The Canvas is now what Brooke intended, an empty shell filled with people towing the party line. What once was will never be again and I find that oddly comforting, there is no doubt that The Canvas was special to all Liason fans, but what made it special were the people and for me the fact is the heart of The Canvas has left, and what's left is only an incredibly ugly purple haze of blandness. No independent thinking person would ever stay at the current version of The Canvas and again without those types of people The Canvas is already dead.

Liason fans are more spread out and some are feeling disenfranchised by recent events and I'll admit it was nice to go on line and know were you were going to spend your time. But what I have learned over the last several weeks of cruising other boards is that I have actually enjoyed being on line again. I am no longer a lurker, I am having real conversations with people again, I'm having conversations of absolutely no value whatsoever and that's good too.

So what's a dedicated protester to do....continue to spread the word to every new Liason fan you meet, so while the outrage is not as loud as the initial shock, as the old saying goes it is a marathon not a race. And we as Liason fans are masters at going the long haul, a fact that should deeply trouble the "new" The Canvas owners.

http://thecanvastruth.yuku.com/

The Real Deal (from Casey herself)


I just wanted to clear up some misconceptions, put a timeline out there from Koko and I. I'd do it at the Canvas but you know...I lost err "gifted" my keys.

- The Canvas moved to Yuku with no issues.

- Koko's last post was in February of 2008.

- Koko was in contact with Jeweltones, via her personal email not too long ago this year. Koko explained she'd be MIA awhile for family reasons.

- We were honest we didn't have time for the day to day activities, it was why we finally got moderators after years and years of going at it alone.

- I visited the board on a fairly daily bases, mostly the spoiler thread....OKAY I only had the spoiler thread bookmarked. The Spoiler Only one too....(Woops greatest contribution EVER to The Canvas! ) But I did browse when time permitted.

- We didn't just discover the turnover, I've know since March 16. A few days after the announcement. (March 13 or 14 I believe)

- Here comes the part Koko hates....Never in a million years did I think there would be an abandonment clause, I thought Koko had "gifted" it to them, cause truthfully my new job is my life and I barely even have time to talk to the coolest person I know, so while I was hurt and shocked at that time, how else could they had gotten control right?

- I'll admit it, I couldn't deal with it. We were both pretty clear the half a dozen times that Brooke asked for the board, that we rather destroy it than give it away. I was pissed. I fucked up by not saying anything to Koko. I was afraid I'd say something I'd regret. And as saddened as I was that the Canvas was gone. Yeah I was sad, I was surprised just how sad I felt given that it rarely gave me any pleasure as of late. And by late I mean YEARS, it was still ours, and I was quite sad. Yet if I'd have to choose, the Canvas over my Koko, I'd let that bitch burn to the ground. I'd throw kindle. So I let it be……

- Koko having come home from a business trip yesterday, Sunday, text message me, wondering WTF was I thinking giving the board to Brooke et,al. Shockage ALL around. Reaction Instant.

How we believe it happened?

Candy was the one who originally created the board in 2001. It was the first time we'd ever used Ezboard, and Candy created the user canvasliason and then the community. We all then created at the local accounts with our names, candy, casey and koko. It's when we met a lot of you then, we posted ALL the time. Eventually the whole Ezboard global user became an issue and we created CANVAS only accounts, like Canvas Admin, Canvas Publisher etc, and other personal accounts because seriously who wants to post as the Canvas Admin on an OC board?

We never used canvasliason , never even gave it another thought. Over the seven years we've changed emails, purchased our own domains.....we reset, made changes, keep on top of our personal and Canvas accounts...except one. The main one apparently. When you read the community profile, canvasliason was the Owner and we were the Administrators. If Yuka even tried to make contact, by Brooke's prodding I'm sure, we believe canvasliason is the profile they would have contacted and truth be told, we have no clue on where those emails would go. But they didn't come to us personally.

Even if they went through "legal" loopholes with Yuku, at the end of the day, Brooke and Amy NEVER contacted us at our personal emails that we provided. They never called using the cell phone numbers we left with them to ask us our feelings on this matter.

Brooke & Amy continued to use their email addresses @thecanvas.tv. Which I still pay for monthly, clearly not abandoned. We still have the domain thecanvas.tv up and running, also not abandoned.

Even after all of this....we have yet to receive an email from Brooke or Amy. But we have no problems getting emails of support from a lot of you here so again. Big....huge...thank yous!


xoxo
Casey

PS: FTR Broke and Amy are only "financially responsible" for the Canvas because they took it from the people who were once "financially responsible" for it!

Link:http://soapzone.com/newsroom.php/gh/news

Apparently, there's some major drama brewing on The Canvas, a Liason message board that used to be owned and operated by Casey and Koko (circa 2001-2008). From what I understand in reading a few posts here and there, and viewing two YouTube clips (here and here) on the matter, Casey and Koko left the running of the board this year to two other people as moderators. Those moderators then took over, banning Casey and Koko from their own message board, and have enforced harsh, unfair rules of posting, banning or scolding posters who spoke out on behalf of the two originators, and banning posters who have made even mild criticisms of the character of Jason or continued to discuss spoilers that may not be true. What's really bizarre is, the members helped financially pay for a revamped, improved board under Casey and Koko's leadership, and now it seems that these moderators just decided to do a Mutiny on the Bounty.

The following is the most up to date list of banned Canvas members. Members that were banned when a "change" in management occured. Members that did nothing more than disagree and dare to challenge the current -- ALLEGED -- owner:

Woop
FishMoonStars
Nydso
Koko (Founder/Owner of the Canvas)
Casey (Founder/Owner of the Canvas)
Anja
Ambereen
I Love Liz Webber
Jackfan143
yanks2478
Lovelogan2
BrnBety
SSTrueLoveMarinus
WillaMax
A Minx
hjames scott
lizfan4ever99
MrsStreet
AmandaBII
LissieLove
ghfan84
ILJAE
mari508
TheTruthMustBeHeard001
MaryOliver
Emberdreamweaver
muffy001
JEluvin
DQGirl
fanofliason
ghfan614
Adri204
Hoosier83
Akron15
wwceaw1
weezie
Jen
SoapQueen89 (In The Zone radio host) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/in_the_zone
JavaPrincess
Jill
michellechasez81
Netta
steponme1
auntof3
pregoandragu

Because Brooke and Amy realize that if they banned everybody who dared to disagree with them -- especially on the topic of Brooke's fraudulent ownership of The Canvas, it would start to look a little suspicious. So, now they've started to restrict people from posting more than once a day and banning banners and avatars that dare to imply that there may be untruths to their story. This is just as bad, if not worse than banning. These people are passively trying to get the other side of the story to the masses. Brooke and Amy are clearly trying to censor those that feel Koko and Casey should be allowed to have their side of the story posted just as publically as Brooke and Amy's side was.

The list of restricted members is as follows:

JavaPrincess
tigg3000
ghfan614
jasonvschris
SonnyBrenFan
CrazyInsane
jasonscanadiangurl2002
gentlelamb
kentishad
InLoveWithDepp
SanguineApple
CrazyInsane
ghfan84
jestersqueen

You can view updated comments from other fans being censored at The Truth About The Canvas: http://thecanvastruth.yuku.com/directory