Some naughty Ouran High School Host Club communities have been deleted, leading fans to fear that LJ has moved out of the Harry Potter fandom to target anime communities. It looks like at least two of them were deleted by their owners, but the status of two others’ is unclear: ouran_papas and ootoricest both offer “this journal has been deleted and purged” messages, NOT “this journal has been suspended” messages.

However, given that in their last attempt to rid themselves of “kiddy porn” LJ changed from using their many-years-old tradition of striking through the deleted account names and bolded them instead, it’s not hard for me to fathom that they might change the message on the deleted account to prevent yet another uprising. Sorry if that sounds a little conspiracy theory-ish. By the way, the communities’ names are bolded, not struck through. But again, with LJ changing little things like that now, it’s unclear whether that means the journals were deleted by LJ or by their owners.

After hearing about this, a number of Weiß Kreuz communities moved to Insane Journal.

After the jump, a quick catch-up on what’s been going on at LJ, for those unaware:
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