1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Um, dude, you guys have social media. Were you guys 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: like on my Space? Yeah? We had my Space. We 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: were on it all the time. And um, that's why 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: that's why we're getting showing computer class because we would 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: try to like log in while we were in class. 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: This is Alejandra, Emory's high school friend. Again. During our conversation, 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: we talked about who Emory was at home and at school. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: But one part that stuck with me was when I 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: realized that Emory also lived a life online. Were you 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,959 Speaker 1: guys on a site called techno for us? Yes, we 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: were on that too. What was your I don't remember anymore. 12 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you. Did Emory have one? Did? Yeah? 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: She did. I was hearing from people about Emory, but 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 1: I really wanted to find something from her directly. Some 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: digital trace from I Heearts, Michaels go to a a podcast network, 16 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: Vice and Elias Studios. This is Party Cruise, the untold story. 17 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm Jenisamoca. I've already taken you through what a party 18 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: was like, talked about how we were policed, and now 19 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to show you our digital reality. Because this 20 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: era in the New Millennium would change the game for 21 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: all future partying. This was when how you showed up 22 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: online started to become as important as how you showed 23 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: up in person. And though we weren't doing it on purpose, 24 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: we were showing our lives uncensored and on our own terms. 25 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: The website that I talked about with Alejandra Techno four 26 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: dot us or T four for short, because an early 27 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: two thousands social media site that was basically a giant party. 28 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: It was just a way to connect with everybody. It 29 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: was basically like a message board for party people. You 30 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: know your flyers or messaging. There was no swifting in 31 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: social media back then. There was Techno four data. It 32 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: was mostly Latin X teens living in LA messaging each 33 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: other on T four and the profiles were chaotic, filled 34 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: up with colorful funds than wacky spellings. The pages were 35 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: plastered with tons of pictures the crews holding up their 36 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: badges and girls doing que poses. It's how we chose 37 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: to stand out and get creative. I know this because 38 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: I was a member too profile name West Coast's Finest Mommy. 39 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: I think I was like fourteen when I jumped into 40 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: my first chat room. I was amazed at how far 41 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: I was able to reach people in different states. Other 42 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: than visiting my family in Peru and New Jersey, I 43 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: didn't really get to know other places, and by chatting 44 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: with different people, I was able to learn a lot. 45 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: I had a penpal, some white girl in Montana. I 46 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: also had a different penpal, a kid my age that 47 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: lived on a reservation in Arizona. I met them in 48 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: Yahoo chats. That's just to say how much I was 49 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: starting to live on the Internet, and I wonder if 50 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: for Emory it was like that too. I was curious 51 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: and I felt like there were no limits. Amazingly, T 52 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: four is still around, so last year I decided to 53 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: check it out to see what I could find. I 54 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: haven't been on there in oof sixteen years. Okay, i'm recording. 55 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: I made it to the Techno for Us homepage, which 56 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: was still active. It's still black and blue like I remember, 57 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: and I wanted to see if I could find Emory's 58 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: old profile. Okay, I'm to see you, Emory. Let's try Tears. 59 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,119 Speaker 1: Let's try it. Let's try for you. On T four, 60 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: people use their party crew nicknames, so I started with 61 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: Emory's nickname Tears, and then we can try Tears with 62 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: a z or tears tears of a clown. All right, 63 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: this is not hers. I've never worked on a story 64 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: like this that brings so many personal memories. I'll tripe 65 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: in Vicious. Oh, here's a vicious Cherry. This is Cherry. 66 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: I typed in Vicious because of Emory's crew, the Vicious Ladies, 67 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: and I found the main head, Cherry. Cherry's profile picture 68 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: has the Vicious Lady's logo on it. It's a sparkly 69 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: pink and white Louis Vitan LV logo that sits on 70 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: top of the words vicious Ladies. I read what she 71 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 1: wrote about the Vicious Ladies on her profile at nothing 72 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: but a vicious thing repping them. Also fine, vicious ladies. 73 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 1: If you were part of a crew, you wrapped it hard. 74 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: This would be the one and only fame malicious rapping 75 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: for nothing but the best vicious and then vicious ladies. 76 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: Here we go. You got in contact with none other 77 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: than did see screaming Vicious ladies to the fullest, like 78 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: to party and have fun and just chill. Finally, I 79 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: found a picture of Emory Ry Go Destiny and Emery 80 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: Rocks all the boys all day, every day. There's a 81 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: picture of m Emery and her friend Destiny. Destiny's page 82 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: shows that she last logged on in the summer of 83 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and six, a few months after Emory's death. 84 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: All Right, Amory Mounos forever in her hearts. It's a 85 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: tight shot of Emory and Destiny's faces, so it looks 86 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: like a selfie, maybe with a phone or a digital camera. 87 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: The lights above the girls are giant luorescent rectangles, the 88 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: kind you see in an office or in school. They 89 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: probably took the picture in class. Okay, so I'm gonna 90 00:06:50,600 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: save this picture one sec Destiny t four save. We 91 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: were unable to talk to any Vicious Ladies party crew members. 92 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: We did reach out to them, they either didn't respond 93 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: or declined to be interviewed. One told us through a 94 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: friend that it wouldn't be of any use to talk 95 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: to us. They did press right after Emory's death, and 96 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: her case is still unsolved. So going through these profiles 97 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: feels like the closest I got to understanding the Vicious 98 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: Lady's dynamics, just like my crew. The Lustful Ladies. They 99 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: gave each other shout outs, posted pictures of their friends, 100 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: and wrapped their crew to the fullest. In the end, 101 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything from Emory directly, but it did 102 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: take me back to that time. That world tfor feels 103 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: like this digital ghost town, like this online version of POMPEII. 104 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: All these profiles were frozen in time, capturing this new 105 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: era of the Internet where we could express ourselves online 106 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: without supervision. And it was like that for me too, 107 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: until it wasn't. My first long term relationship was with 108 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: a high school boy I connected with online, but the 109 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: relationship wasn't exactly what I expected. Once upon a time, 110 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: I worked it in and out in the city of Industry, 111 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: and I remember one day my boyfriend and I had 112 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: gone into a fight. I don't really remember about what, 113 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: and he just showed up at my job. He wanted 114 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: to make up or something like that. But when he 115 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: walked up, I was chatting with my male coworker, and 116 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: my coworker made a joke and I laughed. It was 117 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: very normal, and my boyfriend saw me laugh, he made 118 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: a face and he just turned around and stormed out, 119 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: and I got really stressed out. From the very beginning, 120 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: my boyfriend was really possessive. He didn't really want me 121 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: to have guy friends. Or even girlfriends who he felt 122 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: got in the way. He would call me at all 123 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: times to make sure he knew what I was doing, 124 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: and if I wasn't paying attention to my phone, I'd 125 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: come back to it and have thirty missed calls. He 126 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: was controlling about everything, including money, like he asked me 127 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: to co sign his car lease. I started to get 128 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: afraid of what he would do with all the information 129 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: about me sharing the story. I find myself getting protective 130 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: over my younger self and over all the other women 131 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: that I found themselves in my position. It was really 132 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: embarrassing in the cycle I couldn't break at the time, 133 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: I was scared that he would see a compliment someone 134 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: left on my MySpace page or a photo of me 135 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: with a guy on my T four profile, and we'd 136 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: have more fights, which could lead to a full day 137 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: of crying. So one day in two thousand and six, 138 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: I sat down, holed up all my profiles, my Space, 139 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:05,479 Speaker 1: Facebook techno for us, and one by one I deleted everything, 140 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: all my photos, my posts, my friends, my party crew 141 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: years we're gone looking back now, those are the memories 142 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: I wish I had. As I was looking for traces 143 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: of Emery on Techno for Us I realized that maybe 144 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: I could also find traces of that time in my 145 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: life online. That's after the break. I do have a 146 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: few images that I printed out and stored in an album, 147 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: but otherwise the only pictures I have from that time 148 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: are with family, pictures with friends at school, and that 149 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: giant portrait my parents have of me in their living 150 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: room from my Kensaneta. It's like the good immigrant daughter 151 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: version of me has survived, enshrined at my parents place. 152 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: But this other, curious and more complex person I was 153 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: growing up is mostly gone. But maybe somewhere in the 154 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: Techno for Us Digital POMPEII, there is something from my 155 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: past I can find. And if there's one person who 156 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: could help me, it would be this man. How do 157 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: you explain you know, a Facebook before there was a Facebook, 158 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: MySpace before there was a MySpace. You know, this was 159 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: very la This is just very la, very teen centering. 160 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: This is Regal Rojas. He's the actual founder of Techno 161 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: for Us. For me, this is as big as meeting 162 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 1: Tom from my space. I actually can't log on to 163 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: my old T four profile. I don't remember the password 164 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: and don't have access to the old email address, so 165 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: I was hoping Rigo could help me access it again, 166 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: but first I had so many questions for him. I 167 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: was honestly shocked when I found out that he was 168 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: Latino and from la because nowadays I feel like it's 169 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: rare that a social network be tailored to a specific 170 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: community and founded by a member of that community. The 171 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: site wasn't anything fancy. The idea was that you could 172 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: connect virtually with people you met at parties in real life. 173 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: It was just a profile with messaging. That's really it. 174 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: And the theme evolved on its own to where, you know, 175 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: she went to a party and you wanted to connect 176 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: with some of the people that were at that party 177 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: or there, or that are going to be at the 178 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: next one. Just use technical But it was never Rego's 179 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: plan to make a social media site. He kind of 180 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: stumbled on it. Oh your home is very lovely, Thank you, 181 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: a lot of effort, disorganized, there's water, anything else you 182 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: may want, it's available. Rego in a family, came from 183 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: El Salvador when he was eight years old. In the eighties, 184 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 1: he settled in the North Hollywood area. In the mid nineties, 185 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: Rego became a student at Kelsey University Northridge, not far 186 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: from where he lived. He was a kind of studies major. 187 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: I was working in music right as a hobby. And 188 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: you know, there's new software coming out, new new devices, samplers, synthesizers, 189 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: and you become very good at it, connecting to think 190 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: the machines, and you become the technical guy in new 191 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: Google Friends. This is in the late nineties, right, the 192 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: Internet bubble is it's you know, it's building up and 193 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: people are excited about things. Regal was on the Internet 194 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: in the time of dial up connection, when images took 195 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: forever to load, no tweets, none of that ease and 196 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: lightning speed were used to now. But he still found 197 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: a way to communicate message. Sports were popular, right, So 198 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: I followed one the power Tools music board. Right here 199 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: you go, Ladies and gentlemen, bad Boy Bill, Hot Mix 200 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: number fourteen, It's power Tools riding on Power six, Humpty 201 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: Vision the Rock. Like many young Angelinos at that time, 202 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: he tuned into this radio show called the power Tools 203 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: Mix Show on Power one oh six, lots of house 204 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: techno and EDMA. I'll be in the mix up next, 205 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: Humpty Vision, bad Boy Bill in the mix all night long, 206 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: riding on power Tools boys. They also had a message 207 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: board where people would discuss and learn about new music. 208 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: Was that your first time kind of seeing that interaction 209 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: with different people and not the same physical space, you know? 210 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: It showed me that people can be very passionate about something. 211 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: The audience can communicate with each other and have a 212 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: voice in how to interpret the music. So he had 213 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: an idea. He and his DJ friends realized we needed 214 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: a website to promote our music. Rigo had an interest 215 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: in music and tech, and he wanted to know if 216 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: he can make a website himself. In March of two 217 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: thousand and three, five months before my space launched, he 218 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: purchased the domain name techno four dot us. He paid 219 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: seventy five dollars for two years. Then he spent the 220 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: next three months building the site. What was your visual 221 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: design idea for the website? UM? I wanted a dark 222 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: site with a bright contrasting color. Right, so it's black 223 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: and the brighter blue, sort of like that Dodger Blue. 224 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: Members didn't have to put any information except asl age, sex, 225 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: location my favorite thing though, So that's where a lot 226 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: of them could customize their their profiles. Again, a very 227 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: amateur mistake was I didn't take away their ability to 228 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: inject code. So it was a mistake that worked out 229 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: in my favor because now people wanted to change their code. 230 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: We could customize our profiles any way we wanted. Imagine 231 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: if you can change the colors of your profile page 232 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: on Instagram or have your favorite songue play when someone 233 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: visits your profile. That's what T four was like. So 234 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: I'm creating this site by myself writing code, but there's 235 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: no point to it. There's no audience to it. By 236 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 1: the summer of two thousand and three, the site is live, 237 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: but it still didn't have an audience. Rego was trying 238 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: to figure out how to promote it and seeing you 239 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: know the power Tools message board, is like, well can 240 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: I be that? Can I create that? Oh? Can I 241 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: make it better? One promotion idea he had, and this 242 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: is how you know it was early Internet, was to 243 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: tell people about the website at a party in person. 244 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: He had a friend that printed flyers like party flyers, 245 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: and he put t four on one of them as 246 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: a favorite Arigo. So in July of two thousand and three, 247 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: Rigo attended the party and it wasn't like the parties 248 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: that played house music that he was used to. This 249 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: is in south central LA. It's a backyard party on 250 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: a Friday night, summer night, and then gets hot. You know, 251 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: and people who are listening to loud New right, they're teenagers, 252 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,719 Speaker 1: they're high school kids. Rego was new to this generation 253 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: of flyer parties. We know they're wearing these these tags, 254 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: these these laminated tags with their crew name and their name. 255 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: You know, kids stands into right and hip hop. But 256 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 1: I'm here trying to promote a techno site, right, So 257 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 1: I'm like, like, is this gonna work? Maybe at the 258 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: end of the party, the DJ would play a little 259 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: house music, a little electronic music, but it wasn't about that. 260 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: It was definitely just hip hop were dominant. The fact 261 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: that Rigo bought I'm promoted your al called techno for us, 262 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: just for it to become the social media site for 263 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: kids like me who liked hip hop, and it's just 264 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: so funny to me and also such a marker and 265 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: time for me as an Angelino and the millennial, a 266 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: time when the popular music among the youth shifted and 267 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: a time when our world became more digital and interconnected. Slowly, 268 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 1: T four started to spread in the party crew scene. 269 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: You see the logos on flyers, and people were curious. 270 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: So it drove some traffic to the site, but the 271 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: site would really get attention when Rigo began attending the 272 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: parties with his camera. People are happy to post for 273 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,959 Speaker 1: their pictures and they started asking you, hey, take my picture. 274 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: He'd select around fifty pictures from the party and post 275 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: them on the site a few days later. Girls wearing 276 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: matching outfits, guys showing off their badges. People start asking, hey, 277 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 1: where are the pictures. I'm like, okay, hold on, let 278 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: me let me work on them. So, you know, you 279 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: pick out the best ones, you edit them, and you 280 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: put them up and the pictures start being shared everywhere, right, 281 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: and the membership starts going up. People were always looking 282 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: for a good picture, whether it was to upgrade their 283 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: profile pictures or just save them at an album. And 284 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: Rio could see who wanted to see those pictures. So 285 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: you start seeing, you know, different plots on the map 286 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: and it's red hot in La, right, and it's like, wow, 287 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: this isn't La thing. But wait, there's a group in Texas. 288 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: How did that happen? Right? So well, people from California 289 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: have friends in Texas, right, and they share it, they 290 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: see group of people, they join, and now they start 291 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: building community. I was logging on all the time, even 292 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,239 Speaker 1: at the school library during lunch or last period, just 293 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: to get onto four and message with my friends online. 294 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: You get to the point where lau is d blocks 295 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: the site because the students they're going into the library, 296 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: they're going into the computer lab, and they're just on 297 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: the site talking to each other, and we get blocked. Okay, 298 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: do you know what high school still thought? Every every 299 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: school high school, we were blocked at the district level. 300 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: We can't confirm this, but I remember my Space was 301 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: blocked at my school by the end of my senior year. 302 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: What was the moment where you were like, oh shit, 303 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: this is getting bigger than I thought. Um, when the 304 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: servers begin to crash because there's just so many people 305 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: trying to log in. In two thousand and three, the 306 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 1: membership went up from fifty to over six hundred. In 307 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, the year I joined, an average 308 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: there were sixteen hundred members online at the same time. 309 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: In December two thousand and five, around the time that 310 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: Emery would have been a member, there was on average 311 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: over three thousand members online at the same time before 312 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: peaked at about two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. 313 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about maybe twenty five thousand people 314 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,719 Speaker 1: a day, you know, four to five thousand people at 315 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: any moment, and Rigo was making a pretty good living 316 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: off T four. I never went into my college career 317 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: because of T four. Right, so the work I did 318 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: on T four derailed anything to do with Chicano studies. 319 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: I was going to be an activist. I thought, let 320 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: me change the system from within, you know, let me 321 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: let me go work in immigration services, let me go 322 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: work in social services. I took one interview in that 323 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: and I didn't even respond to anything any follow up 324 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: on that because I was already working on T four. 325 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: I mean, in a way, you still like maintain the 326 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: community aspect of like activists. I mean, I understood what 327 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: was going on, and I understood, you know, the way 328 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: that these kids wanted to express themselves and have fun. 329 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: Rego still keeps Tea for running. He says it costs 330 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a month to keep it going. He 331 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: keeps it running for himself and for the handful of 332 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: people that continue to log on. I have a very 333 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: tiny platform that has an incredible loyal following. Right, I mean, 334 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: you go in there now and there's forty five people 335 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: on I went in there last night there was forty four. 336 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: There you go, I'm exaggerating. I'm exaggerating, right, I was 337 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: just I was a little shocked, to be right, you 338 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: have people that we're at that first party. I can 339 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: think of one person that was that that first party 340 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: that's on there actively. It provides a very basic service, 341 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 1: which is people connecting. Right. People will always need to 342 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: connect to people, and that's why all these social media 343 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: sites are successful. Our digital footprint will last as long 344 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: as we wanted to. Our digital footprint will last as 345 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: long as we want it to. I chose to delete 346 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: mine in two thousand and six when I did that 347 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: whole purge I mentioned because of that controlling ex boyfriend. 348 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: And as I continue getting older, it's hard to reconcile 349 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: that a lot of us may never get it back. 350 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: It feels like such a loss that I can't access 351 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: my old profile to see if it's even still around. 352 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: But after talking to Rigo, he does me a favor. 353 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: He resent my password so I can lug in. So 354 00:24:44,920 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: let me lug in let sech. That's after the break. Okay, 355 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: I found my profile. I recorded myself going through my 356 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: profile for the first time, and it instantly brought me 357 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: back to two thousand and four. It's a picture of me. 358 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I was not eighteen, but I made 359 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: myself eighteen at the time. My profile picture was not 360 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: one of me at a party. It's a picture I 361 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: have printed out somewhere, but it was still wild to 362 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: see it online. I'm in high school. This was taken 363 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: I was probably like seventeen. I think I'm wearing like 364 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: a sparkly pink rhinestone heart necklace and then wearing Hiphuger 365 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: pants with a hip Hoger belt that's like a silver 366 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: chain with another pink rhinestone to heart. I know I 367 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: should have kept that belt because apparently I could probably 368 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: sell it to urban outfitters for like one hundred dollars. 369 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,719 Speaker 1: So it turns out I still have my profile picture, 370 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: but I must have deleted my layout when I deleted 371 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: all my other social media coming my profile was pretty bare. 372 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: It was just the basic black background with that Dodger 373 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: blue lettering. But my profile did offer some information. It 374 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: says asked for your gender. I have female city. I 375 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: put role in Heights a member since and it says 376 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: June twenty seventh, two thousand and four profile hits. I've 377 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: had twelve thousand, forty eight profile hits and my last 378 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: log in was July tenth, two thousand and six, at 379 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: one twenty seven am. The last time I logged in 380 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: was when I deleted all my other social media profiles. 381 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: I clicked around the page to see if there was 382 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: anything else, and I found my journal section. Did I 383 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: ever use a journal? Oh my god? How embarrassing. Um, 384 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. There were three 385 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 1: whole entries. Okay, so it's here. The first journal mentry 386 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: I wrote was July seventeenth, two thousand and four, at 387 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: five seventeen am. Gosh, and I wrote, m well, it's 388 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: about five o eight am and I'm up exclamation points tool. 389 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about stuff lately. But yeah, damn, it's 390 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: five to eleven now. Lol. I better get in bed 391 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 1: so my mama doesn't get all mad and shish. For now, 392 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: I'm out show was. I ended up writing more in 393 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: that same entry. Damn the drama, Fuck the haters. We 394 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: gotta just live life, but sometimes you know, I wish 395 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: there was someone I could come home because the game 396 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: gets old after a long while. Lol, trust me, then 397 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: there done that all right? For real? I'm outros. I 398 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: have no idea what I was, who I was writing about. 399 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: The game gets hold after a long while, embarrassing. There 400 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: was another journal from July twenty eighth, two thousand and four. Okay, 401 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: I wrote, ah, I finished making the tags and I'm 402 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: freaking board la la la la, will let's see um nothing. 403 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: I'm out, lessful ladies leaving this mofo. I think a 404 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: lot about how easy it is to delete our memories 405 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: my mask. Clicking or highlighting an entire page of code 406 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: and pressing one key delete it felt less ceremonial than 407 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: burning physical images or tossing an entire album with pictures away. 408 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: I guess that's why it felt painless at the time. 409 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: But what I didn't realize was how permanent one click 410 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: can be. It's more than old photos. Looking through it. 411 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: T four is really an archive. It's not organized or 412 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: easily searchable, but you can see firsthand accounts of how 413 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: we lived. It seems like Emory's profile is gone. She 414 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: didn't leave a digital footprint behind, at least one that 415 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: I could find, but I can't help. But wonder did 416 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: she delete it herself? What was her reason? Was it 417 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: a way of protecting herself like I had to, and 418 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: losing her profile? It isn't just a loss of her 419 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: photos or her words. It's another missing layer of who 420 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: she was, what her world looked like, what she felt. 421 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: Now it's up to other people to fill in the blanks, 422 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: and I feel an obligation to try because when it 423 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: comes to subcultures or to communities of color, especially young 424 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: women of color, historically, it's often up to us to 425 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: remind the world that we exist. While I couldn't find 426 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: anything online that hinted at what happened to Emory, a 427 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: few months into looking at her case, we met someone 428 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: who thought he could help Emory's family after hearing them 429 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: speak and giving me some insights as to what happened. 430 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: I do believe there's additional investigation that needs to be conducted, 431 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: and for the first time we hear from Emory's parents, 432 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: like I said, I was, I wasn't there, you know, 433 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: like to where I rich I would I was, And 434 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: you know she was? She was. She was a happy child, 435 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: and I know she would cry and saying Where's my dad, 436 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: Where's my dad? But because I wasn't there, that's next time. 437 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: This episode was written, reported, and hosted by me Janasamoka. 438 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: Our show is produced and reported by Sofia Pelissa car 439 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: Victoria Lejandro, and Kyle Chang and edited by Antonio Seihilo. 440 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: Additional editing by Carlina Dalbo and Annie Ablis, fact checking 441 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:31,239 Speaker 1: by Nadia Bautista, Sound design and original music composition by 442 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: Kyle Murdoch. Our supervising producer is Janet Lee. Art by 443 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: Julie Ruiz and Victuakllon. 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