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Due to its large size and competition with other large Pokémon sites, a budding rivalry with the [[Universal Pokémon Network]] grew between the respective sites' message board communities. While sometimes volatile, the sites demonstrated the strong following of both the Pokémon franchise and the Pokémon web communities. | Due to its large size and competition with other large Pokémon sites, a budding rivalry with the [[Universal Pokémon Network]] grew between the respective sites' message board communities. While sometimes volatile, the sites demonstrated the strong following of both the Pokémon franchise and the Pokémon web communities. | ||
The site created a few | The site created a few spin-off sites as subdomains, notably Laughing OnLine, which created the infamous "WAZZUP" Budweiser parody video featuring Pokémon characters, and AbodeWorks Games which featured two Windows-based Pokémon fan games programmed by PokeAbode Man. | ||
By the middle of the dot-com-bomb of 2000/2001, IGN's parent company Snowball had IPO'd and crashed; ad revenue from IGN's affiliate network dropped sharply to the point that costs for the servers exceeded income for the site, and PokeAbode Man was forced to shutter the site around the end of 2001. | By the middle of the dot-com-bomb of 2000/2001, IGN's parent company Snowball had IPO'd and crashed; ad revenue from IGN's affiliate network dropped sharply to the point that costs for the servers exceeded income for the site, and PokeAbode Man was forced to shutter the site around the end of 2001. | ||