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Total Frat Move
Type of site
Blog
Available inEnglish
OwnerGrandex
URLtotalfratmove.com
RegistrationOptional
Launched10 June 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-10)

Total Frat Move

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Total Frat Move was founded in 2010 by Madison Wickham and Ryan Young, both of whom had been Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers at Texas State University.[2] Young approached Wickham with the idea based on the catchphrase "Total Frat Move" that their fraternity brothers in college would use when referring to "ridiculous stories about girls, drinking, and college."[2] Young and Wickham purchased the domain name and began publishing "fratty" one-liners along with their acronyms, and soon began allowing readers to do the same.[2] Following its founding the site was responsible for helping popularize the use of terms such as GDI, "God Damn Independents", referring to students who are not members of greek life, and others such as "Not Frat."[2] TFM gained popularity through the use of Twitter to spread their "one-liners", whereby Wickham and Young followed numerous people who they believed fit the part of a "southern, stereotypical fraternity guy," and would then accumulate followers from those individuals.[2] Following their success with TFM, Wickham and Young created a separate company, Grandex, and created sites such as Total Sorority Move and Post Grad Problems.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "totalfratmove.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Shontell, Alyson (March 21, 2014). "Meet The Genius Frat Dudes Who Turned Bro Humor Into A Multimillion-Dollar Media Empire". Business Insider. Retrieved June 17, 2017.

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Category:Blogs Category:American blogs Category:2010 establishments in the United States Category:Organizations established in 2010 Category:Fraternities