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After POTA, Ozine Events Goes Dark 📵

Local artist merchants reported to Kuhaku Media that they have lost all communication with prominent Philippine convention organizer Ozine Events this October.

Kuhaku Media independently verified these claims, discovering that official media relations channels for Ozine were also unreachable due to an email domain expiration.

According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) database, the Ozine Events web domain, hosted via GoDaddy, officially expired on Sept. 3.

The ongoing radio silence has sparked growing anxiety within the local artist community, following the abrupt suspension of the organizer's Idol Fest event in September.

...if it is a time-bound prohibition, maybe in the order of a few weeks, so society can rethink about their consumption habits.

Indefinite prohibition, of the kind that was amended in the US constitution, denies the human desire to consume alcohol and pretend it can be legislated away. A cursory reading of the Wikipedia article on the capital-P Prohibition showed lasting effects in alcohol consumption (I guess, good in the sense that there's changes in domestic abuse patterns, for example?) and organized crime (bad, with Al Capone and people like him)

From Wikipedia

Soulja Boy—real name DeAndre Way—was raised in Batesville, Mississippi. As a teenager, his uncle gifted him a demo copy of FL Studio. In 2005, he registered an account on the online music service SoundClick, and began sharing his songs on the site.[10] Primarily by means of trickery and false advertisement, he executed various schemes to increase his brand name recognition, and soon expanded his artistic reach to MySpace and blogs. He misled users on the peer-to-peer platform LimeWire by changing his songs' metadata to whichever songs were popular at the time, in an attempt to reach out to more listeners.[11][12] Within time, the rapper began to garner a significant number of streams and shares.[13] His songs stylistically emulate the sound of Atlanta hip hop in the mid-aughts, particularly the briefly popular snap music fad that occurred in the Atlanta hip hop scene during the late 2000s.

In 2006, the phrase "crank dat"—a lyrical invitation to dance—became a small phenomenon in mainly online hip-hop circles; users uploaded videos of different dance routines set to an increasing number of songs with the title phrase. An early version of the song, titled "Crank Dat Dance Remix", was uploaded June 14, 2006 to SoundClick;[14] another iteration, titled "Crank Dat Jump Rope", debuted a month later.[15] "Crank That"—as publicly titled upon major-label release—was self-produced by Way in the unregistered demo copy of FL Studio, utilizing only the software's most basic library of sounds.[16] The song is musically repetitive and sparse, incorporating snaps, a steel drum pattern, centered around a meaningless chant: "Yoooouuuulll!"[17] Way reportedly wrote and recorded the song in ten minutes.[18] The original recording of the song was made at Way's home,[19] and subsequently revised and updated for its final release. Way first posted the song, along with an instructional how-to, to his MySpace on February 25, 2007.[20]

The song grew in popularity steadily, attracting the attention of music producer Mr. Collipark, who initially balked at its unexpected recognition.[21] The song led Soulja Boy to sign with Collipark's imprint on Interscope Records, who released the final, professionally-recorded song on May 2, 2007 in the U.S.; a global release followed on June 27.

For some personal history, this is the first version of Crank That that I heard while I was in school, and the one that I prefer to this day.

Their personalities are poles apart but Lissa (Sunshine Dizon) Cecille (Kim delos Santos) and Jenny (Antoinette Taus) are the best of friends. Traumatized by their experiences with boys they form man-haters' club and pledge never to look at guys. But everything changes when they meet Gardy (Polo Ravales) Jigs (Dino Guevarra) and Paco (Dingdong Dantes). Sparks soon fly and the three girls find themselves breaking the vows they made. But even the sweetest of young loves has its glitches. Gardy's snooty mom rejects Lissa; Cecille suffocates Jigs with her possessiveness; and Jenny discovers that Paco courted her out of a bet.