Throughout the years, this website has undergone many transformations, name changes, server changes, and more. It's still one of the biggest juggalo sites out there, and for that, we have you to thank. This is the history of this lil' website known as JuggaloNews.com
The groundwork was laid back in 1996 with a shitty Tripod website that was run by Wicked Voodoo Master, better known as WVM to you and known to us as our mufuckin' homie Keith. After awhile, he recruited the help of a fresh ass dude named NeckCutta and they WORKED that bitch. FUN FACT!
In order to get people to visit the site, WVM and NeckCutta would go to chat rooms and message boards promoting the site and would give away shit like the Mutilation Mix album to people who visited and signed the guestbook. However, they started having problems with bandwidth due to Tripod not being able to support the number of visitors, and so in early 1998, WVM purchased the domain name "Juggalo.com" and he and NeckCutta ran it until NeckCutta later left the site due to personal issues.
Before we continue on, remember that this was one of the first ICP fansites to really exist. To demonstrate how far this shit goes back, just look at that name: "juggalo.com". This was before ICP had really began to call their fans "juggalos" on a regular basis and so the term wasn't as well known back then as it is now. Nowadays, if you took the entire Internet, erased all the domain names, and made people buy them again, "Juggalo.com" would be one of the first to get snatched up. Quite frankly, the site lucked out by snagging that name before anyone else did because the popularity of the site grew right along with the popularity of the word.
After NeckCutta left, WVM brought aboard a dude named Toxic Phreak in early 1999, partly to work on the site and partly to help promote a group he was with called Asylum. More about Toxic Phreak later though. Then along came Ekto and things were going good with 3 webmasters workin' that shit.
Over the time Juggalo.com continued to build it's fanbase, and as the juggalo world grew, so did the site's "competition." I use that word for lack of a better one, because most of the time, it wasn't a really a competition. It was just juggalos trying to help spread the word to other juggalos. But basically, Juggalo.com wasn't the only big dog on the block anymore. New sites were coming along, such as TheSixth.com, Rydas.com, and RealJuggalos.com.
It was the last one, RealJuggalos.com, that would eventually catch up with Juggalo.com in terms of hits and popularity. Owned by 2 guys named  RJ.com 1999 layout
Meanwhile, at Juggalo.com, webmasters came and went, the likes of Lords of Acid Girl, Citrik Acid, and others.
The 2 sites were neck and neck popularity-wise as juggalos suddenly had 2 awesome places to get their news from, along with many of the other new dogs on the block. This is also around the time that Psychopathic started to take notice and every few days, Violent J or somebody would be on the hotline talking about those 2 websites.
 RJ tattoo...one of many
In 2000, almost everyone was gone from Juggalo.com, with the biggest hit coming when Toxic Phreak jumped ship to RJ and changed his name to....wait for it...Delusional! Yeah, he's been around longer than you might have thought. With everyone leaving, the site falling apart, and WVM getting so frustrated with the shit that he was about to kick his computer, things weren't looking good.
It was around this time that talks between WVM and Juggalo Joe began. They spent a long time discussing a merger of the 2 sites, to  Blaze sportin' an RJ jersey -2000-
Somehow along the way, RealJuggalo Nation was dropped to just RealJuggalos and Juggalo.com amounted for only a small number of the site's total hits. To the average viewer, it looked as though RJ had just taken Juggalo.com, stole it's name, and swallowed up the site whole. It didn't matter though, because RealJuggalos.com was now a force to be reckoned with.
Webmasters came and went, from Assassin8 and Gimpie to FXCKFACE, DeadBody Girl, Toxic Juggalo, and LoKe, the list could go for days. Delusional was the breakout "star" in all of this, if  Former RJ webmaster FXCKFACE mugs for the Seeds of the Lotus website
Psychopathic took a lot of notice at this time and, realizing the power that the juggalo sites could bring, they recruited them. Yeah, that's right...time to talk about the Seeds of the Lotus.
Basically, it was a really bad idea...I mean, it COULDA been good, but...eh. Psychopathic contacted the webmasters to 6 of the biggest juggalo websites: Rydas.com, DownForLife.com, ICP4Ever.com, DarkLotus.net, TheSixth.com, and RealJuggalos.com. They took the webmasters from these sites and on Nov. 11th, 2000, flew them to Detroit, took them to a big fancy dinner, and gave them a bunch of free merchandise and even told them they'd be getting free backstage passes for life (which never happened of course). Then they had a meeting:
These webmasters were known as the Seeds of the Lotus.  RJ Hockey Jersey -2001-
But juggalos or not, people will be people. People got cocky, got attitudes, wanted the limelight, started complaining about this and that, yada yada...and the whole thing fell apart when Psychopathic took one look at the group and said "This shit won't work," which should have been obvious from the beginning, but yanno. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
So while the Seeds idea totally flopped, at least everything was still okay on the home turf, right? Well, not exactly. All of the sites involved in the Seeds fiasco were starting to catch a serious backlash of hate from people that were basically jealous. I mean, sure the idea sucked, but if YOU were on one of the websites and Psychopathic offered you a trip to Detroit, free food, and free merch just to promote their new album, wouldn't YOU have jumped at it? But a lot of people got pissed and webmasters from all the sites suffered because of it. None more than RJ.com, due to it probably being the biggest of the 6 sites. It turned into a bunch of "You guys are a bunch of dickriders! Just cuz ICP gave you free merch doesn't make you special!" and shit. It didn't really help that webmasters like HaRdCoRe MiKe and FXCKFACE FUN FACT!
When SCN first joined the site in Feb. of 2001, it was to do lyrics. However, his first update fell on the same night that Eminem performed at the Grammy's with Elton John and in his very first update, SCN's main news "headline" was that Eminem had performed with Elton John, who is GAY! OMGWTF!?!? It must make Eminem gay by association!! were actually working and touring with Psychopathic. But unfortunately, a lot of people had some impression that Psychopathic hooked us up with exclusive news or paid server costs for us and shit like that. Not true. Never once, NEVER, did Psychopathic give us, or any other site we know of, a single dime, nor did they give any news. It was geniune hard work by the people on the site. I've wanted to clear that up for years...
The beginning of 2001 marked some changes for the site. Sweet Candy Nutz (SCN) jumped aboard, originally only to do Lyrics and eventually gaining full webmaster status. Also at the time, Delusional and a dude named LoKe were helping to run the low-bandwidth version of Twiztid.com. Also, a guy named Asylum joined the site and Psychopathic later asked him to go on tour with ICP to write reports from the road. He was dubbed Southern Crumpet and never returned to RJ after joining Psychopathic. He worked for the company for a long while and took his touring experience and knowledge and now he helps run Anti-Authority Records along with Delusional.
Speaking of, in 2001, Delusional pretty much quit the site to focus full time on his music. By this time, Juggalo Joe was RARELY around and HaRdCoRe MiKe had pretty much vanished. Around the end of that year, a few fresh new faces arrived. DeapClear, Eklipz, and most notably of all, Jessika.
Say what you will about Jessika, a  RealJuggalos.com merch booth @ the 2002 GOTJ
Around this time however, a new site was slowly on the rise: Faygoluvers.com (later changed to .net) was getting some attention by busting their asses and with a new staff on Juggalo.com came a bunch of new promises and ideas that never really happened. There were times when 20+ people were supposedly working on the site, yet only 1 or 2 was carrying the load. There were some good ideas, some bad ideas, some bad layouts, some site crashes, and some SERIOUS controversy with a site called RealJuggahos.com. Jessika did an interview with the webmaster of the site, Shat-Upon, that Psychopathic did NOT care for very much. While that interview generated a LOT of interest on the part of juggalos, it led to Psychopathic pretty much pulling the plug on any affliation with websites. To this day, Psychopathic will rarely affliate with websites, compared to how they used to. So to any website out there...sorry, our bad.
With popularity falling and even the most dedicated of webmasters getting lazy or leaving the site, plus a layout that wasn't exactly pretty on the eyes, RealJuggalos.com was slowly dying. It was down to 2,500 unique vistors a day at one point, which is a lot to a smaller site, but at it's prime back then, the site was getting 10,000+ a day. Juggalos were leaving in flocks to go elsewhere. Eventually, SCN got fed up and quit the site in early 2002....but even though he was gone, he still had "connections" and used those to get MK hired to the site.
MK tried his damndest to pull RJ FUN FACT!
In 2003, RJ made it's first semi-famous enemy when TrailerTrash posted an entire album by Necro in the news. Necro himself contacted the site with an impressive array of CAPITAL-LETTER!!1! threats such as "I'LL CRUSH YOUR SKULL!!!" and shit. out of the hole it was in, but there's only so much one person can do. Finally it came to a point where everyone other than MK was simply claiming to be a member of the site because of the supposed "fame" or whatever the fuck. Some people had quit, like Jessika and Eklipz, but most everyone else (there were prolly 15 others who weren't doing shit) just stayed around due to the name value.
In mid-2002, SCN rejoined the site, got in touch with Juggalo Joe and WVM, and got permission to essentially "rule" the site. Now weilding power, SCN fired EVERYONE on the site other than MK and the owners and changed all the passwords. By this point, HaRdCoRe MiKe was long gone anyway and so with everyone out of the way, SCN and MK set about rebuilding the site and bringing it back to it's former glory, a goal that has since been reached.
Back in the days, RealJuggalos would just hire people who emailed and asked and people they didn't really know, etc. No more. This time, they hit up their home turf, the RJ Message Board, and selected people they KNEW they could trust and had a work ethic. First up was KayZew, who came aboard to do news and technical work. Around this time came TrailerTrash. He had been a message board regular for years but didn't really seem like he had a big work ethic or anything. Boy did that turn out to be wrong.
While SCN and MK kept RJ updated, all 3 of them worked behind the scenes, building a brand new layout and totally updated website. Around this time, TrailerTrash was fuckin' VOLUNTEERING and  Tech N9ne with an RJ shirt after being interviewed for the site by MK
On November 1st, 2002, the "NEW" version of RealJuggalos.com opened. It wasn't the best layout ever but it beat the shit out of what was there before. It also featured artwork by TrailerTrash, updates to EVERY section, and webmasters dedicated to running that shit.
Eventually, MK left to focus on his music career (he's now known as Claas and is getting pretty big), leaving only 3 people. Our homie Gregg (drive-bY) joined the site for a few months, but had a job and shit, so couldn't really dedicate the time to it and voluntarily stepped down. He's still a close homie and helps out with the site every now and then.
2003 was mostly just a building stage. When the site re-opened in 2002, it was getting around 3000 hits a day. By the END of 2003, it was sometimes getting over 9,000. Within a year, 6,000 new people started visiting the site daily.
Unfortunately, the end of 2003 did bring some tragedy with it when former site webmaster Jessika was killed in a car accident. She was 21 years old and leaves behind a beautiful daughter named Destiny.
 Funny RJ flyer passed out at 2003 GOTJ
Unknown to ANYONE, Juggalo Joe had SOLD the RealJuggalos.com domain name to a guy named Rob back in 2002. NO ONE KNEW IT!!! We all thought Joe was still paying for the site, and none of us ever talked to him, so hell, we didn't know. But nope. This guy named Rob owned it and suddenly, he emailed us wanting money to help run the shit.
Now...I understand that running that server was pretty expensive and I can understand the guy wanting help...but he had done it for the last 2 years and never asked for any money. Suddenly the site started getting 9000 hits a day instead of 3000 and server bills went up. Fair enough.
Only problem is he was asking for $150 a month, claiming that would cover HALF of the bills. Ain't no fucking WAY that shit was costing him $300 a month. So basically, he came at us with a straight up bullshit LIE, so we weren't about to pay him shit. We couldn't afford $150 a month anyway and so he told us he was going to shut the site down.
So we offered to buy the domain name from him and just put the site on a cheaper server and at least we'd own the name so we wouldn't lose the hits. His asking price?
$10,000 dollars.
That's not a typo.
So with that in mind, Rob got told to fuck off and changes were aplenty. While TrailerTrash again shouldered the burden of the news, SCN, RANDOM STORY
At the 2004 GOTJ, SCN and TrailerTrash were out around 2am kicking it with some juggalettes on the beach when Syn from Zug Izland approached and asked if he could buy SCN's flashlight (it was actually KayZew's flashlight, but hey, who's keeping up, right?). Syn was drunk as fuck and pulled out a FAT wad of cash and straight up offered $100 bucks for it. While TrailerTrash was telling him to sell it, SCN bitched out like a chump and gave it to him for free. KayZew, and WVM busted their asses to keep the site alive. Meanwhile, NO ONE ELSE had a clue this was going on. They decided the best thing to do would be to switch everything over to the original Juggalo.com server and just go back to using the old school late-90's domain name. So there were layout changes, image changes, server upgrades, and then the massive task of switching everything from RealJuggalos.com on to a different server...all within a week before Rob said he was going to shut down the server.
Magically, it got done and a huge promotion for the name change took place. When the site re-opened as Juggalo.com in August of 2004, things went MUCH better than expected. After another quick upgrade, the server held out just fine and having RJ.com redirect to Juggalo.com made sure the site didn't lose any visitors. After a month or so, hits were up more than ever, between 10,000-11,000 a day.
FUN FACT!
At the 2004 Gathering, KayZew continued the RJ trend of pissing off famous people. Everyone was sloshed and wrestler Zach Gowan GROPED KayZew's girlfriend! KayZew, drunk out of his mind, turned to him and threatened to put him in a figure-four. Now, a lot of people make this joke nowadays after hearing Violent J say it on "Free Studio", but how many can say that they actually said it to Zach Gowan himself? Back on topic though, Gowan was not amused...
Also, in September, ICP.com held a layout contest for the Hell's Pit era, which kicked ass because we had already done a new layout for the name switch anyway. All we had to do was toss up some new images and shit and voila, Juggalo.com won 3rd place in that bitch, receiving 5 Hallowicked tickets.
Also, in the middle of the year, the webmasters had a plan to start a site called RJExtras.com. It was supposed to open in August, but then the name change hit and that had to be dealt with first and then the server that RJExtras was on pretty much went out of business and shit has been at a standstill on that ever since.
Near the end of 2004, Juggalo.com hired a new face to the site. A longtime homie from the message board and a guy who spent a lot of time volunteering on the side anyway, doing hotlines and such for the site just cuz he felt like. At Hallowicked in 2004, MyxMastrMike was hired on to become the newest fulltime Juggalo.com webmaster and contribute to the site.
As 2004 turned into 2005, Juggalo.com was doing better than ever. Hits were up to 17,000+ unique a day sometimes, even more than the site ever had in it's prime during 1999-2000. Unfortunately, in June of 2005, it all came crashing down. Hard.
 The JN Staff as of GOTJ '05, from L to R: SCN, Mike, TT, KayZew, and drive-By (former staff member, but still a homie). We're ALL drunk in this pic.
So here we go again: KayZew and SCN took on the task of rebuilding the website while TrailerTrash reshouldered the burden of running the news by himself. With Juggalo.com gone, they needed a new name. They purchased JuggaloNews.com, which wasn't bad because it was still the initials JN. The sun shines sometimes...
The name change hit the site a lot harder than the last one did, but having gone thru it before, the staff knew how to handle it a lot better also. That's the best thing about this staff: when shit hits the fan, there's nobody who can school shit harder than SCN, KayZew, and that loveable drunk TrailerTrash. They're like the fuckin' Justice League, that team is unstoppable.
 Party Central! The JN Booth at GOTJ '05. Note the porn on the computer screen.
At the Gathering, the staff sold JN shirts, broadcast live porn, gave away free hamburgers and vodka shots, and somewhere between that, they updated the site with the occassional bit of news. Part of the time, the internet wasn't working and we couldn't update news. Enter Dickeye Dave
With no way to update the site and with big news happening all around, they wanted a way to get the news out to juggalos who weren't at the Gathering. SCN used his cell phone to text message his homie David in Memphis about news. Using only short abbreviated text messages, David logged in and updated about GOTJ news on JN. And he schooled it. So well, in fact, that after the Gathering was over, he was hired onto the site as a full time news ninja.
In late 2005, a change was needed. The staff didn't want to go with just a new layout...they wanted to change the whole way the news was done. Thus, the website was redesigned with a "click-the-headline" type of layout, much like wrestling news sites or CNN.com or something. It debuted in January of 2006, along with the newest member of the site, Redeye Jedi....except he didn't work out so well. A series of unfortunate real-life events left him unable to devote any time to the website, or to the internet in general. He's still down with us though, and hey, he made one update!
2006 also brought on a major change in the site's history...around the same time as a new member joined and the whole shebang was redesigned, an old face left. Keith, better known as WVM, had owned the site for YEARS. He was the last remaining true day-one member. In January of 2006, he sold the server to KayZew and SCN for (an estimated) $900 million dollars and stepped down as the owner of JuggaloNews.com.
The new year also saw indy-wrestler and webmaster Dickeye Dave challenge Rude Boy to a wrestling match, which Rudy later accepted after being called a bitch for 2 months. In May of 2006, JuggaloNews hired another person, who jumped on board and began schooling the news from day one. Straight from WCJ.com came Hitchcock, the newest, latest, and greatest member of the JN.com Action News Team
One of the biggest times in the website's history came in July when JN announced a merger with PsychopathicTraders.com and Mr. Pete was brought aboard the site to help the trasfer but it never went down. After almost 6 years, SCN decided in late 2006 to leave the site and Mr. Pete decided to hold on to PT himself due to that reason.
At this time, the site consists of 4 people: KayZew, TrailerTrash, Dickeye Dave, and Hitchcock.
ALL-TIME BRAINBUSTER/RJ/JUGGALO.COM/JUGGALONEWS.COM STAFF
(SORTA IN ORDER...)
NAMES IN BOLD CONTRIBUTED TO THE WRITING OF THIS SITE HISTORY
• WVM
• NeckCutta
• Toxic Phreak/Delusional
• Ekto
• Lords of Acid Girl
• Citrik Acid
• Juggalo Joe
• HaRdCoRe MiKe
• Assassin8
• SkitZo
• Gimpie
• DeadBodyGirl
• Insane Ninja
• LoKe
• Toxic Juggalo
• FXCKFACE
• Asylum/Southern Crumpet
• Sweet Candy Nutz
• DeapClear
• Eklipz
• Jessika
• Spot
• MK
• KayZew
• TrailerTrash
• drive-bY
• monacelli
• Brujah
• J-Dawg
• 151
• MyxMastrMike
• Dickeye Dave
• Redeye Jedi
• Hitchcock
• Mr. Pete
Anyone I forgot, email Hitchcock
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