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| == Signoff Notice ==
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| THE WEEKLY PEEK
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| This folder has every issue of post peeker's [s4s] newspaper, The Weekly Peek.
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| The newspaper came out almost every week (usually on Fridays or Saturdays)
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| from January 3, 2015 to June 25, 2017. Therefore, there are 130 issues in
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| total, plus one extra issue (104B). The "extras" subfolder has GIF versions
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| of issues 41-43 that were originally released as WebMs and OP images for
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| release threads of issues 95 and 96. These special OP pictures had to be made
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| and the issues had to be posted elsewhere because [s4s] did not support audio
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| WebMs.
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| The Weekly Peek started originally as namefig Kektacular News Guy's idea, as
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| he suggested post peeker could start a daily newspaper of his adventures,
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| the Daily Peek. Post peeker replied he would not be able to make one paper
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| every day, so Kektacular News Guy said it could be a weekly paper. Thus,
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| The Weekly Peek was born.
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| Ever since the beginning, The Weekly Peek had a section for news on other
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| boards. This was unusual for an [s4s] newspaper -- the papers that did
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| feature other boards focused on upcoming or stolen GETs in those sections.
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| The Weekly Peek had actual peeks at discussions and events, in addition to
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| stolen GETs, outside [s4s]. Another novelty was a section for peeking-related
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| OC, usually [s4s]-made remixes of post peeker or The Weekly Peek. The third
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| thing that separated the "Peek" from other [s4s] papers was the fact it was
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| free. All the funding came from advertisements. Lastly, there was a lot of
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| focus on peeking in the articles, which was also something newspapers
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| on [s4s] did not do much. This was done to stay close to the original idea.
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| It also gave the paper a "theme". Of course, the paper itself also was a
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| "peek" at weekly life on [s4s] (and other boards).
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| The Weekly Peek had some "firsts" in the [s4s] newspaper industry. In
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| addition to the aforementioned "On Other Boards" and peeking OC sections,
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| the paper was also the first to have issues in WebM format, an audio track,
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| and an issue with both animation and audio. The Weekly Peek was also the
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| first (and as of June 2017 the only) [s4s] newspaper to reach the milestone
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| of 100 issues.
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| Another special was top-10 lists of the best and the underrated new [s4s]
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| memes of the year. These lists were released at the end of 2015 and 2016.
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| To make the content more diverse, there was a coloring activity for adults in
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| issue 70, much like some other newspapers had crossword puzzles and
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| word-finding activities. One reader even submitted the result of their
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| coloring! One fairly unique feature in [s4s] newspapers was the Aged Post,
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| which was a staple of The Weekly Peek since issue 8. This section included a
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| selected post from the time the previous issue had come out, usually from the
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| release thread of the newspaper.
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| Despite the "Peek"'s success, the paper started to experience some problems
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| in early 2017. It was no longer received by readers as well as it used to.
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| Post peeker also started to get too busy to work on the paper, especially as
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| summer came, and also lose motivation. In the end, it was not certain whether
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| it would be possible to keep making a paper every week, so at 130 issues and
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| shortly before June 25, 2017, post peeker finally decided it was time to stop.
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| The last issue of The Weekly Peek got a surprisingly good yet sad reception.
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| The release thread was stickied, which had never happened to any of post
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| peeker's threads before.
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| Thank you again for reading and supporting The Weekly Peek! It was a mostly
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| fun experience to create and publish a newspaper for [s4s].
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| - post peeker
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