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Article Evaluation

I evaluated "Friday (Rebecca Black Song)." It seems that this article represents both the positive and negative effects that this song caused. However, it largely focuses on the negative due to the controversy the song stirred up. The article does claim that some of the extras were Black's friend, but there is not a proper citation. I researched Benni Cinkle, Amanda Cooper and Hayley Grodt and did not find a solid source to verify this claim. Benni Cinkle has her own Wikipedia page, but beyond that, i could not seem to find any reputable sources that discussed Cinkle's music career. As for Cooper and Grodt, I found nothing. Thus, I believe this comment to be distracting. It makes it sound as though those girls have all started music careers and gained fame, which doesn't seem to be entirely accurate. This is the only major issue that I had with this article, and I do think this article does a good job of balancing the negative with positive instances, such as Simon Cowell's comment on the song.

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I added a citation to an article about Tetsuya Ishida. I added a citation to the quote about his death by the train.

I am going to develop this article more fully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awkward_Family_Photos

• Wow, I'm actually really, really surprised that Awkward Family Photos doesn't already have a Wikipedia page... it's been around for so long, and it's published several books and a board game. There's currently an art gallery displaying AFPs in El Segundo, at a show called The Awkward Experience, and a bunch of recent news articles have described the history of the site. site. I've found an interview with the founder. There are references to it everywhere from GQ to ABC. But one warning: The link you took from the InternetCultureture page is misspelled and has an extra space! The real link should be https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awkward_Family_Photos Otherwise, though, this looks great. Full speed ahead. Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 23:15, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Awkward Family Photos

Awkward Family Photos originated as a website in 2009 that glorified photographs that captured embarrassing yet humorous moments among family members and friends. Mike Bender, the founder of the company, and his writing partner, Doug Chernack, launched the site early that year, which asked people to submit any awkward photos that they had in their family photo albums. From then on, the site gained much momentum and various products were developed, such as books and games, and some of their pieces are even on display in different galleries.

Origin

The idea for Awkward Family Photos was started in 2009 when Mike Bender saw one of his own family photos framed and hung in his parents’ house. He mentioned this photo to Doug Chernack, his childhood friend and writing partner, who also acknowledged that he had family photos that were similar. Therefore, they decided to develop a simple webpage for people to share these photos, which rapidly spread across the Internet due to it being shared on the website of a radio station. They received submissions instantly and journalists took note of them for both the New York Times and Time Magazine. Awkward Family Photos swiftly became a franchise.

Books and Games

Bender and Chernack published their first book in 2010, titled Awkward Family Photos. After this first publication, they continued with several other books, including Awkward Family Pet Photos in 2011, Awkward Family Holiday Photos in 2013, Born to Be Awkward: Celebrating Those Imperfect Moments of Babyhood in 2015, and Everything is Awkward in 2016. Soon after publishing their first book, they began developing board games, such as Awkward Family Photos and The Awkward Family Photos Move Line Caption Game.aption Game. Among their standard books and board games, they also have two different postcard books, a coloring book for adults, and a day to day calendar for 2018.