Steve Brown delete the CLYW blog when they “rebrand” with 2 decade of history, yoyo release quantity, release dates, limited peak colorway, photos that were only available on the blog, team history - all gone forever it’s like. He seem surprised when people on YYE had a problem with it, but 1 year later it is still gone and it makes me sad.
Well documented image and photograph of rare colorways from Chris - along with many great images of rare Levi painted peak. So many non-CLYW channel videos that were brand-adjacent (team videos self-uploaded etc) are now hard to find too since that was only place where it consolidated.
Is this coming back? When I am deep in collecting / trade yoyos I would refer to CLYW blog pretty often. Sometimes I go to find an old Pali Vimeo video or something.. So much brand identity / history deleted, feels like revisionist history like they don’t want us to remember golden age for the brand or something.. chief, peak, bvm, cliff, GE, WM, bassalope, canvas, galactic goose, gnarwal, Jensen Kimmitt, Levi, etc.
I understand how it is now “Caribou Lodge” by Steve Brown, but the CLYW history for the brand is still important for people like me who own every model of CLYW from 1st run BvM up to Leaf. I own 3-5 of every model CLYW ever made and I still collect every brand new yoyo they produce so don’t get all grumpy and call me “rose tinted glasses” or “nostalgic only”.
Waybackmachine can only load a few pages.. If I knew it was going to delete I would have had my brother archive this with software or something.
People who seriously very love the brand and care about the culture and history of the brand (true life-long CLYW enthusiasts) I think would appreciate an effort to reinstall this important part of the yoyo community.
If you think I am being overreacting, reverse-image-search this photograph of the BTNC Wolly Marmot. This yoyo no longer exists on the internet. Not one single photograph anywhere online because the only place was on the CLYW blog. I bet many of you reading don’t even know this yoyo exist. But I know, because I used the CLYW blog so often!
Now take this problem and multiply it by many dozens with how much history was lost.
It is ok if you don’t care, you can just move on and say nothing. I just speak as a super fan, my family has support CLYW for 15+ years with over $5k in purchase
thankyou for reading
