DON'T MENTION THE SPLIT!!
I was around during the split, but I was young and incredibly immature, so this is kinda like a kids view of a war - I'm aware of the events, but I dont have much understanding as to why they happened.
Basically, the then admin of Brickfilms.com employed an owner of a series of websites: the aptly named 'Thick as a Brick' (TaaB). However, after coating the site with ads, the admin (I cant spell his name) was unhappy, and created a new website called 'I Love Brickfilms'. TaaB, however, read about this by looking at the admins private messages, and sacked him - replacing him with one of her employees, so technically she now runs the site. Meanwhile, I Love Brickfilms, after some legal bullcrap, changed its name to 'Bricks In Motion' - since apparently TaaB holds a patent on the word 'Brickfilm' or some crap like that. Eventually, after around 6 months in 'The Refugee Camp', the new site design is released, the admin then resigned and gave the power to already prolific Smeagol, and that's pretty much how we got here today.
Oh, and Aled created a mod-free site called 'teh lolums', but it was closed after a short while due to a certain young Brickfilmer taking advantage of the 'no-moderation' clause. It was basically like the Cafe Corner, only with swearing, Rick Rolls, forum games, and very rude pictures/videos of women. Yeah, I miss it too....
Either somehow Brickfilms.com and Bricks In Motion.com will join together again (unlikely), Brickfilms will just die (I hope), or these sites will keep going their separate ways until the end of time (most likely)
EDIT: Bugger! You beat me to it!!
Last edited by Max Butcher (October 12, 2010 (08:59am))