IRC-Galleria

IRC-Galleria is now officially open for anyone who is over 12 years old and speaks Finnish.
. The non-IRC-users registered in IRC-Galleria are sometimes ironically called galleriairkkaajat (gallery IRCers) due to the fact that many of them frequently refer to IRC-Galleria with the acronym IRC without necessarily even having a clue what the actual IRC is. Chinese lyrics (詞) are Chinese poems written in the set metrical and tonal pattern of a particular song. The administrators responded by introducing some features which aim at the minimization of the biggest problems related to the non-IRC-users. Analysis based on tonality and contrast are particular examples. The unwillingness of the administrators of IRC-Galleria to exclude non-IRC-users has caused some schism, driving a few users to found their own alternative gallery services with a mandatory IRC-based registration. Lyrics can also be analyzed with respect to the sense of unity (or lack of unity) it has with its supporting music.

The service is financed with banner advertising, SMS-based services, T-shirts and optional VIP privileges which can be bought with SMS. Lyrics often contain political, social and economic themes as well as aesthetic elements, and so can connote messages which are culturally significant. IRC-Galleria is now maintained and developed by Dynamoid Oy, a company founded solely for the sake of IRC-Galleria. For example, some lyrics can be considered a form of social commentary. Comments are only visible to those who are logged in. Lyrics can be studied from an academic perspective. Some of the communities are named after IRC channels, and joining them requires IRC-based identification. Use of the singular form lyric is still grammatically acceptable; it is still considered erroneous to refer to an individual word in a song as a lyric.

Each user can be a member of at most 40 communities. Even so, such usage became increasingly common (probably because of the association between lyrics and the plural form words), and is predominant in modern usage. The communication in IRC-Galleria is based on short messages, comments, each of which is associated with either a picture or a community. The plural lyrics was used only in referring to the words of multiple songs; to refer to the words of a single song as its lyrics instead of its lyric was considered erroneous. The maximum number of visible images per user is 60 (only for VIP-users), and the so-called default image must contain the face of the user. The word lyric came to be used for the "words of a popular song"; this meaning was recorded in 1876 [1]. Despite all the features, IRC-Galleria is basically a photo gallery and it is not possible to have a user account without at least one accepted image. A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view.

However, only about 20% of the users have identified themselves as actual users of IRC. From the Greek, a lyric was originally a song sung with a lyre. About 85% of the users are active users who use the service on a weekly or daily basis. There are many websites that feature lyrics to songs. As for February 2006, IRC-galleria boasts of over 302,000 registered users and over 3,600,000 images. In such cases, there is a tendency to emphasize the form, articulation, meter, and symmetries of the expressions. It was founded in December 2000 by Tomi Lintelä as a photo gallery for the Finnish users of Internet Relay Chat. Some lyrics are so abstract as to be completely unintelligible.

IRC-Galleria is the largest WWW-based virtual community in Finland. The meaning conveyed in lyrical verses can be explicit or implicit. Sometimes, however, music is adapted to or written for a song or poem that has already been written. Lyrics can be written as the accompanying music is composed, or added afterwards. Lyrics are the words in songs.