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The vast history of The WIDEVERSE encompasses all the events that led to the formation and subsequent success of BMW/WTT. Starting with the precursor Runescape clans and small groups of the early Aughts, WIDEVERSE history begins to coalesce in 2007 with the formation of the World of Warcraft guild, COMMNUISM. As such, all groups listed are considered a continuation of COMMUNISM and by extension the circle of friends that led them.

{{See also|COMMUNISM}}

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In December, months after Shelarahn was promoted to officer, Spaceballs and him faced off in what would become known as the [[1st COMMUNISM CIVIL WAR]].

After the 1ST COMMUNISM CIVIL WAR, the raiders of COMMUNISM split into [[Scholars and Gentlemen]], which was a short lived splinter guild led by the anti-Spaceballs faction. After its downfall, all members faded off or joined other raiding guilds. Shelarahn went back to his earlier guild, <[[Guns for Hire]]> and the other officers either quit or moved on. Spaceballs and his few loyalists remained in COMMUNISM but the guild was essentially dead and many officers quit, including Spaceballs eventually.,

During the diaspora, [[Prude]] had begun playing WoW in smaller meme guilds.

With Spaceballs return to the game, COMMUNISM found new breath. Shelarahn returned as an officer and Prude joined for the first time, along with [[Reckface]] and [[Jessikuh]], the latter of which was Spaceballs new e-gf (who he had phone sex with). The guild quickly returned to the raiding scene but was mostly stonewalled during The Naxxramas Incident when a 10 man COMMIE raid group tried to clear Anub'Rekhan on 25 man, failing miserably.

In April of 2010, Shelarahn would give the guild to one of his officers, bringing about The Dark Age of COMMUNISM.

The officer Shelarahn dumped the guild onto ended up solling the guild to long time COMMUNISM fan and group member, Petrus, who kept it for several years as its caretaker.

Many of the old members continued raiding. Reckface and Jessikuh would later transfer to Darkspear, joining one of their leading raiding guilds, <[[Vox Radix]]>. Prude mostly quit WoW, as did many other COMMIES.

{{See also|Friend Zone}}

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Friend Zone persisted but outside of the sphere of the WIDEVERSE.

In July of 2013, Prude returned from his exile in Texas. His new lease on life lead him and Shelarahn to revive COMMUNISM from the ashes, along with Prudes high school acquaintance, [[Pigeon]]. Several other people from Friend Zone who were also cast out, such as [[Dlight]] and [[Nuggsbunny]], transferred to Lightninghoof to begin a new COMMUNISM there. This new guild quickly gained traction and began outpacing the COMMUNISM of old under Shelarahn and Prudes leadership. Many great bits and ops took place, like trolling a cancer patient into thinking Pigeon was a girl and recording a PvP guild leader shitting himself mid-battleground.

For the remainder of 2014, COMMUNISM would fall into a slump.

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A rebrand to '''COMMIE CREW''' in early 2015 along with the exploits of The Skype Crew and The Hailey Saga would breath a new life into the group. Grand Theft Auto 5 and Rust became the groups new things, including COMMIE CREWS own relatively successful Rust server, giving us the [[House of Wolves]]. After the server died down, the group would go on to play on pubbie servers, dominating dumb pubbie groups. During this time, Shelarahn would rebrand to '''Taylor Swift'''.

In May of 2015, the COMMIES moved Rust servers to [[Goon Playground]], part of an initiative by Taylor to COMMIE CREW to leech off of bigger groups and to slowly take positions of authority in them. The group would play on the server under the clan name '''GAY''', and joined forces with the servers juggernaut clan, [[GM]]. When this server too began to die down, the Goons (Members of the internet forum, [[Something Awful]]) of the various clans joined together to create BMW.

{{See also|BMW}}

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The group shifted its focus from being specifically games oriented to politics, beginning with The SA Rapefugee Program and culminating in the rebrand to WrongThink Tank (WTT).

{{See also|WTT}}

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2018 would bring a year of turmolt as [[Clown World War I]] began with [[Taylors Banishment]]. Interpersonal relations between the admins would continue to degrade with this and especially after [[The Goose Migration]], eventually resulting in the [[3rd COMMUNISM CIVIL WAR]]. From here, Taylor began planning what would become known as BMW 3.0, a refocusing of the group back to gaming and being a social group, and his eventual abdication from leading the group.

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On March 1st, Taylor officially abdicated from leading WTT and passed on duties to [[AlexanderDeLarge]] and [[Peaches]]. This change in leadership freed up Taylor to become more combative to former enemies, leading to the [[The Skirmish Of Wonka Plains]] and [[Operation Overlard]], both of which would end with [[The Sauce Affair]] and Peaches stepping down as admin, leaving Alex the sole leader of WTT.