What happens when you put 100 webmasters on a beach in Mexico with no Internet access?
Confusion—a happy companion to booze.
It’s YP Mexico. It’s a big invite-only party. People come to party.
That, and recount stories about how enormous YNOTBob’s balls are.
Despite hearing stories from no less than 20 people about the prominence of the YP founder’s testicles, which have made several appearances in the raw at YP events, this observer did not witness the spectacle. The boys did, however, make an appearance.
“It wouldn’t be YP otherwise,” says YP organizer Jay “LAJ” Kopita.
Debauchery wasn’t the only name of this game though. Not when gluttony and sloth were also invited to the party.
Pornographers rolled in in droves Thursday afternoon, Sept. 22. They were 100 strong and they parked their busses, vans, and cars at the Baja Seasons resort in between Rosarito and Ensenada, just outside of the grisly shadow of Tijuana.
They piled into beachside hotel rooms and villas and were greeted warmly by the locals, who happily took their gringo money. They were treated to buffets of free food and wheelbarrows full of cheap Mexican beer. Throw in no-prescription-necessary pharmacies and locals whispering taunts of “Hey gringo, want some marijuana?” and you’ve got one hell of a cocktail.
The locals weren’t only peddling drugs. No, they were peddling fashion miscues from hats to parkas that, stunned by their cheapness, this bunch was more than happy to pick up.
Sound foolish? Then don’t apply.
“YP is truly for those webmasters who get ‘it,’” says YNOTBob.
It stands for YNOT Party
YP started off in 2001, the brainchild of YNOTBob, with 13 guys getting together for a weekend of cheap, dirty fun in Mexico. This, the fifth concoction, has swelled to 100-plus webmasters—past, present, and future business associates of YNOT.
Do people do business at the event? They talk about it from time to time, but it’s more about recounting stories, gambling, getting drunk, and that term that would make most of these pornographers squirm—bonding.
As YNOTBob says, YP is a place “where webmasters large and small all meet on an even playing field to discover the person behind the persona.”
“We make every effort to treat everyone who attends as if they are family, which is why we feel it truly is a one-of-a-kind industry gathering,” Kopita says.
One-of-a-kind it is. It’s also hard to remember everything that transpired.
Be that as it may, one point of this year’s festivities that no one will soon forget is the amazing, uh … performance by the band Rockfish on Saturday.
Midway through the set the band’s guitarist wheeled around and smashed his guitar against the concrete at his feet. The instrument splintered wildly into eight pieces and the heretofore musician stomped off, saluting his bandmates with the only finger that seemed to mean anything at the time.
Now that’s rock ’n’ roll, baby! Rock ’n’ roll!
