Type of site | Entertainment website |
|---|---|
| Owner | Steven Lerner |
| Created by | Steven Lerner |
| URL | AlbinoBlacksheep.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | January 4, 1999[1][non-primary source needed] |
| Current status | Active |
Albino Blacksheep (ABS) is an animation website made by Steven Lerner in Toronto, Ontario on January 4, 1999. It publishes member submitted digital media made with Adobe Flash. The website also features image galleries, audio files, and text files, along with a mobile section that provided ring tones, screensavers, and wallpaper for mobile phones.
Albino Blacksheep was founded on January 4, 1999,[1] by Steven Lerner, to promote his band of the same name, which was started in 1996. Very little information on the band Albino Blacksheep exists. In 2000, Steven took a web design course and redesigned the website. This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera.
Perhaps Lerner's first famous work was in 2003, with his site's Google bomb for French military victories.[citation needed] Between then and 2006, the site had been growing in popularity, receiving about 1.50 million pageviews per day.[2][non-primary source needed]
Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animation and animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The popular Web game Musical Lantern can be found on this site.[3] The website also helped the band Tally Hall achieve some notability after posting their music video Banana Man.[4]
On April 1, 2007, Lerner changed the homepage to a joke homepage as an April fool, designed to make people think that the site had been bought and turned into "Google Animations".[5]