CAN'T...BREATHE...LAUGHING...TOO HARD!!!!
BAHAHAHAHA!
I say this is the beginning of the end for LJ...no wait, it's the end of the end. Because now they won't have as many accounts. There won't be as many people signing up if they have to pay. Most LJ accounts are trolls, sockpuppets, and squatters anyway. Now that people will have to pay to open new accounts, they're going to start taking great sites like IJ a lot more seriously.
Hey, how did
squeaky know that LJ was going to create the next great migration over here? He's been working like one of Santa's elves getting the servers and the code in shape! Tweak must have predicted it...