Retecool
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Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. According to themselves the weblog is mainly visited by public aged between 24 and 44 years old. Retecool is a shock blog, similar to Geenstijl.
Overview
Retecool made a breakthrough in the media on June 19, 2001 with an article related to webcam abuse by teenagers.Retecool made the national press often through its regular "Foto Fuck Friday" event, the modifying of photos related to a current event. An example of this relates to the new Dutch television channel Talpa. Many photo modifications with the new channel as topic were sent in. Talpa representative Maarten van Rooijen told De Telegraaf
De Telegraaf
De Telegraaf is the largest Dutch daily morning newspaper, with a daily circulation of approximately . De Telegraaf is based in Amsterdam...
: "Sometimes it is funny, but there are references to terrorism and the Holocaust. We absolutely don't want to be associated with that." Talpa demanded that Retecool removed the photos within 24 hours of the website, which eventually happened.
Another picture showed the face of the Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Camiel Eurlings
Camiel Eurlings
Camiel Eurlings is a former Dutch politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He was the minister at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 22 February 2007 to 14 October 2010...
morphing into that of Prime-Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende is a Dutch politician of the party Christian Democratic Appeal .He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 until 14 October 2010, having led four coalition governments, cabinets Balkenende I, II, III and IV, none of which served a full...
. Eurlings claimed in an interview that he was shocked by the picture: "Those glasses make me look like my brother."
Following the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005...
, the Foto Fuck Friday involved "using historic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad endorsing everyday commercial products.
As of 2007 Retecool has tens of thousands of visitors a day, and is now more than just a linkblog. The section "Luister" (Listen) provided a couple of years new obscure available music with description. Urban Desing (no typing-mistake) (sic)displays photos and pictures of remarkable graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
from the street.
In December 2006, Retecool won the award for Best Weblog of Europe outside the United Kingdom, taking 30 percent of the votes. A year later Retecool successfully defended that award.
Vocabulary
The editors and commentators on Retecool have taken up their own kind of language, taking clues from "street language," local dialects and other jargon. The Retecool Wiki has an overview to help visitors unfamiliar with the used language. Some examples:- lutser - contamination of loser and prutser (faulty and unhandy)
- heersen' -, rules.
- je weet toch - derived from "know what I'm saying" and refers to bad rap talent or low language skills.
- zuigen, sucks badly, does not rule at all.