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== Early Days & BMW == | == Early Days & BMW == | ||
Mostly independently, many of the COMMUNISM Revival members were somewhat active on SA. Prude was mostly a lurker while Taylor was active in the Late Night Show thread, as well as some Minecraft servers. | |||
There were several plans during 2013 and even into early 2015 to use the "Private Game Servers" subforum to advertise COMMUNISM Minecraft and Rust servers, though never realized. | |||
COMMUNISM's first real interaction with SA came in May of 2015 when Prude began playing on the primary SomethingAwful Rust server, [[Goon Playground]], founding the clan [GAY]. Taylor too soon joined, as did [[Tony]]. COMMUNISM was central to the founding of [[BMW]] some weeks later when the major clans of the Goon server merged to go wreck havok on pubbies. COMMUNISM eventually began using BMW and the SA Rust thread (and later the dedicated BMW thread) to recruit directly into COMMUNISM, at least until COMMUNISM was dissolved and merged into BMW itself. | |||
== Clown World War I == | == Clown World War I == | ||
In 2018, when it became clear that BMW was a sizeable and influential force on SA, many separate groups, though mainly [[Serious Overchill]] and [[Starfleet Dental]], conspired to get Taylor banned from SA. This was largely successful, though later on the Bimmers would begin speaking directly to Lowtax in his own server during the [[Siege of Lowtaxia]], though this too later failed when TT turned Lowtax against them. | |||
== Troon Uprisings == | |||
The WIDEVERSE's last dance with SA came in January of 2020, when [[PartyPlaneJones]] was outed as a member of BMW in the infamous [[Troon Uprisings]]. The few Biggers who were still active on SA either left BMW or were banned from SA, marking the end of SomethingAwful's involvement with The WIDEVERSE. | |||
= Legacy = | |||
It cannot be understated, despite the later events, how instrumental SomethingAwful was in not only reshaping, but saving The WIDEVERSE. The 2015 change in philosophy set forth by Taylor changed COMMUNISM's outlook from trying to create its own groups to leeching off of bigger groups, eventually creating BMW and leading to the current WIDEVERSE as it is known. | |||
{{Template:Groups}} | The downfall of SA and its relation to The WIDEVERSE is seen as a tragedy, a long list of "What Ifs...", and countless broken friendships.{{Template:Groups}} | ||