User:Bdb484/Akroness

The term "Akroness" is used to describe anything from, of, or relating to the city of Akron, Ohio, and is only fully understood by residents of the city. The first known use of the term "Akroness" was on January 16, 2004, on the website Cool People From Akron.com and was first used by CPFA member N8, who coined the phrase in the quote below.

''The food at El Rincon and Azteca is pretty much the same. Pretty much exactly the same. Azteca is just nicer of the inside. However, I perfer the dirty mexican "akroness" of El Rincon.''

From here, an official definition of Akroness was created by CPFA member MarquisMark.

akroness - n. 1. a state of disheveled uncleanliness or disorder. The absent minded professor could not clean up all of the akroness in his office. 2. having the ironic quality of being simultaneously marked by outward signs of neglect and frequent use. Although the akroness leads one to belive otherwise, people actually do work in that building. 3. a state of being out of date or untrendy; unfadish [OLD FASHIONED] Akroness set in and caused the club to become unpopular with young people. 4. a movement in urban planning from the 1920s and 1930s featuring tract housing, bungalows and the frequent placement of factories and chicken resturaunts [Akroness].

The term akroness, or rather, "Akron-ness," has appeared in two articles in the Akron Beacon Journal, both written by David Giffels. The first article, titled Loyalty Is Still Valued By This Customer, appeared February 26, 2006. The second article, Peril Of Quirky Akron Icon Touches Public, appeared May 19, 2006.

Popular Culture
In the spring of 2004, Akron record label scary!records released a multimedia DVD sampler under the name Akroness. Artists featured included dextrometh, zerodegreesk, October Complex, Small Object A, Illegal Pussycat, Marquis Mark and Travis Armbrust. It was intended to be an insert for local art magazine m-80, but technical difficulties prevented that from happening. El Jefe of Cool People From Akron remarked, "Akroness, indeed!!!"

In the fall of 2004, scary!records released a Flash-based CD-ROM entitled Akroness II featuring much of the same content.