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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:33, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
... that Gurl.com was created as a Master's Thesis project by three graduate students and provided non-mainstream content for teenage girls? Source: Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007): The co-creators, Esther Drill, Rebecca Odes, and Heather McDonald, recognized that young girls respond to popular magazines about beauty, style, and pop culture, and they sought to create a girl-positive space for these concerns online with www.gURL.com, the product of a master's thesis project at New York University.
ALT1:... that the website Gurl.com also had a free website hosting service owned by Lycos called "Gurlpages"? Source: Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (2001): "gURLpages" (http://www.gurlpages.com), a web domain owned by the search engine Lycos and sponsored by dELIA'S clothing catalogue, contained a listing called "Browse gURLpages,", which yielded many helpful sites.
ALT2:... that Gurl.com's name is a wordplay on the acronym URL? Source: Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007): The name "gURL" takes the idea of location on the Web (URL and feminizes it by playing a "g" in front of it.
ALT3:... that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image? Source: The Cut (article): "Part of the directive was to not use photographs, because we wanted girls to be able to insert themselves and not compare themselves," Odes explains; in place of photos, gURL tended toward zine-inspired illustration.
AGF on all hooks. Good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:02, 25 July 2021 (UTC)