User:Azeem4Hadzrie/AVID

The Audiovisual Identity Database is a online database consisting of logos, testcards, bootscreens, splash screens, commercial tags and company bumpers.

The website was formerly hosted on Yahoo! TV group site, until it was moved to Wikiproject, which in turn got closed down on 1 July 2021^[1] and is currently provided on the wiki farm WikiForge. Plans to move onto WikiTide were converted on 16 June 2023. However, these plans were cancelled and were moved to WikiForge instead.

Currently, the Closing Logos Wiki name was still used for its archived website, closinglogos.com.

History

Origins, KRS and its earlier known version

Originally, its closing logos were described and were put on the archive on the Entertainment Logo Page, which was owned by Eric "McFly" Hartman, which was launched in 1999.^[2]

KRS Logos was originally put to public in the early-2000s, and was owned by Kris Starring. The wiki was known for the investigation of their very own The Incredible World of DIC "Globe in Space" variant from 2003, which was later found in April 2023, twenty years later as the "Speed Racer-thon" event on Speed Network (which the marathon aired Speed Racer) being resurfaced at the time.^[3] The KRS Wiki project was stopped around 2006, which received no updates at the time. The final page that the wiki have was the logo for CBS Paramount Television.

Closing Logos Wiki, aiming at popularity

On 24 July 2007, the CLG Wiki site was created on the Wetpaint system (now Wikifoundry). It was founded by a user named Silversword55. Its original position was to continue expanding stuff from KRS Logos. On 1 January 2008, CLG Wiki Dream Logos was launched, and was a spin-off from the main CLG Wiki that was meant to separate the growing trend of dream logos from the real content.^[5]

On 18 January 2008, the closinglogos.com domain was registered. In 2009, CLG Wiki won the Judges Choice award at the Wetpaint Golden Can awards.^[5]

During the same year, the wiki will go under its structural changes. This made the "Sectioned" structure, which will continue till this day. In 2011, CLG Wiki Live, a YouTube channel that uploads live-streams of logos and several logo-themed content was launched.^[5]

Birthdays, website changes and Cokeburst

On 24 July 2012, the CLG Wiki celebrated its 5 years. On 26 November 2012, the Company Bumpers Wiki was launched. The wiki's focus was aimed at warning screens, rating bumpers and similar content that it was accumulated from the CLG Wiki. In June 2013, Wetpaint renames itself as Wikifoundry and new management continued to take over the platform.^[5]

In 2014, the wiki was shutdown temporary to prevent trolls from heading over to the site, which reopened due to the criticism by the wiki's administrators, and this led to the first conflicts from the Wikifoundry's staff, resulting in CLG's attempt to leave the platform. In 2015, CLG Wiki attempted to move onto Wikia (now Fandom). It was cancelled to prevent criticism.^[5]

In March 2015, DLChandell resigned as a long-time administrator following the Cokeburst drama. Other administrators joined the wiki will feature Matthew Mayfield, Stephen Cesar and Coley Dixon. In 2017, the wiki was nominated for the Hobby Hounds award on the Wikifoundry's Golden Anvil awards.^[5]

Other events, move to Miraheze and the change of the Board of Directors

On 9 July 2017, CLG Wiki's Discord server was launched. On the 24 of the same month, the wiki reached its 10th anniversary. On 1 January 2018, the T.A.T. Communications Company logo was partially found, and was made the significant find in the wiki.^[5]

During the same month. CLG Wiki had to reconsider the vaildity of many rare finds, including the heavily controversial Cokeburst after Supermarty-O was exposed for a fraud. This led to a approach of many finds and a way to prevent fake finds to being added. On 11 July 2018, the CLG Wiki Live account was discontinued.^[5]

From September to October 2018, CLG Wiki, along with many wikis on Wikifoundry suffered a month of the website outage by Wikifoundry's servers, where everyone can't login. This led to several major wikis leaving the platform and CLG Wiki began to move forward. On 5 November 2018, the long-running "Cheesy Factor" and "Scary Factor" variants were removed to make way for the "Editor's Note". This led to an decision making long-term editors leave the site.^[5]

On 20 April 2020, a decision was made about its concerns about Flash and Wikifoundry's reliances on several key features. This and the owner's response led to the start of the move.^[5] On 4 May 2020, the wiki's Miraheze site was opened, which made the move of CLG Wiki and the Company Bumpers Wiki, following the closure of Wikifoundry, the overreliance of Wikifoundry's animation software Adobe Flash, and its then-ongoing disputes of Travis, the Wikifoundry owner of the time. The Dream Logos wiki was unofficially retired due to inactivity, lack of adminship and apathy from its userbase remaining from Wikifoundry.^[5]

On 18 September 2020, the last remaining pages from the old wiki were converted.^[5] On May 2021, the CLG Wiki made its very first plan on being an multilanguage wiki, with the launch of the translation extension.^[6]^[5] On 1 June 2021, Wikifoundry was closed down. As of the result, original copies of CLG Wiki will shutdown outside its archived. It's old elements were preserved on closinglogos.com, which had most of their pages ready for export, while some of them were not in action.^[1]

On 11 October 2021, the wiki's 10,000th article was created. On 13 February 2022, the early version of the THX "Cimarron" trailer was officially found were a video was posted on the Discord server. The variant was known as it breaks speakers and the search of it reached intensity and notoriety similar to the T.A.T. logo.^[5]

AVID

2022 logo with the current slogan "The Motion Graphics Museum"

On 27 September 2022, CLG Wiki was rebranded as AVID, due to its overwhelming consensus on support.^[7]^[8] During the same month, Company Bumpers Wiki merged back into this wiki due to being inactive and the proposal passing.^[9]

On 2 April 2023, the logo was once again changed, adding a purple gradient onto the AVID wordmark.^[10]

On 16 June 2023, Miraheze was announced to shutter its operations on 31 August,^[11] which resulted in the move to WikiTide.^[12] Later that time, Miraheze cancelled its plans to shutdown.^[13]

On 11 July 2023, the wiki was fully moved to WikiForge.

Branding

Main article: Draft:Audiovisual Identity Database

Controversies

Cokeburst

In March 2015, the Cokeburst drama happened. Before the event, many people saw the film-taped Columbia Pictures Television logo from 1975 with the Coca-Cola company byline in 1985 reruns of What's Happening!!!, few mid-1980's episodes of Days of Our Lives and spring 1982 episodes of The Young and The Restless. During that time when the event came, Supermarty-O presented videos with the Cokeburst variant, claiming to be from the making-of featurette of the Hong Kong blu-ray release of The Deep, with the music was being the one from Columbia Pictures Television Distribution 1993 logo.

In May 2015, two months after the drama started, Supermarty-O also stated that the logo was from the bootleg DVD copy of the black-and-white 1957 movie 20 Million Miles to Earth, and also in colour on the 1982 movie The Hunchback of Notre Dune.^[14] This became the biggest event in AVID's history. By January 2018, Supermarty-O was banned on the CLG Wiki for his finds, which was considered fraudulent.

"9/9" incident

On 9 September 2022, a incident (unofficially called the "9/9" incident) was happened following the Board of Directors, which included an "surprise" demotion of several admins, the discontinuation of the Discord server and a temporary removal of the Requests for Adminiship page.^[15]^[16]

After the incident, several admins left to form a CLG Wiki.^[5] It was happened again but it was very small, with CuriousGeorge60 (who thinks that it would be a wheel war) blocking two administrators, and unblocking MatthewLMayfield. It was reverted later by Agent Isai.^[17] Both led to the thread where users submit their own imagination of the new AVID brand.

Gallery

Logo used from July to December 2008
Logo used from 2011 to 2014
Logo used from 2016 to 2017, and also includes to logos for its Yahoo groups and CLG Wiki Live
Logo used from 2017 to 2018
Logo used from 2018 to 2020
Logo used from early or mid 2022 until the rebrand in September
Print version of the logo used from 2022 to the present
Print version of the AVID wordmark used from 2022 to the present
Logo used from 4 October 2022 to 31 March 2023
Icon used from 4 October 2022 to 31 March 2023