Tom's again! Upcoming documentary to revisit MySpace's glory days

They say Facebook is the social media platform for antique people, but if you really want to expose your age, there's not anything like nostalgically reminiscing about the honour days of MySpace. Those lucky enough to have grown up for the duration of the internet's earlier years can relive the ones times via an upcoming documentary about the social network.

Following its release in 2003, there was a time while pretty an awful lot anybody online had a MySpace account. Top eight friends, Tom, terrible usernames and profile pix, track, and forcing people to research coding, the platform stays fondly remembered as the precursor to Facebook. It additionally helped release the careers of several famous musicians.

When you've got too many friends

Deadline reports that Gunpowder & Sky, the organization behind docs inclusive of 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez and Everybody's Everything, is working on a MySpace documentary. It is partnering with The Documentary Group, that's behind series inclusive of Netflix's Amend: The Fight for America and Freeform's The Deep End.

The documentary will reunite founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, function among the original crew, and communicate to some of the celebrities who used MySpace to help launch their careers. It's a listing that consists of Adele, Lily Allen, Panic! On the Disco, My Chemical Romance, and Katy Perry.

Tommy Avallone (I Love You, You Hate Me; The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man), who will helm the documentary, stated, "I keep in mind being on Myspace within the beginning. In fact, Myspace is in which I first started out speaking to my now-wife. It turned into an high-quality time – earlier than our telephones took over our lives, the internet changed into a laugh, not a duty."

"Myspace turned into a celebration you could handiest join through sitting at a laptop and I'm very excited to inform the starting place tale of who we've got grow to be through social media. I've already prepare my Myspace playlist of bangers."

MySpace changed into bought by using News Corporation in 2005 for $580 million. By 2007, it had grow to be the maximum visited internet site within the US. But it become best a 12 months later while Facebook exceeded MySpace in terms of traffic and customers. News Corporation formally put the site up for sale in 2011, promoting MySpace for a fee said to be as little as $35 million. It nevertheless lives on today as a social network with a focus on song.

No word on a capability release date and whether or not the documentary may be given a theatrical release or only seem on streaming platforms, even though the latter seems like a safe wager. It sounds just like the assignment is at a totally early stage proper now, so it may be a while earlier than we get to relive those heady days of the early to mid-2000s.