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= GAY Crew & Founding of BMW = | = GAY Crew & Founding of BMW = | ||
The first venture with this new philosophy was on [[Goon Playground]] in the game [[Rust]], where the group re-branded itself as GAY Crew. Within a few days, they had allied themselves with one of the larger clans on the server, [[GM]]. The partnership proved beneficial for both as time went on, in giving GAY the manpower it wanted while allowing GM to further tighten its choke hold on the server. This oppressive pairing had an unintended but beneficial consequence: Killing off the server and forcing the larger community to band together and fight against common enemies elsewhere. The result was the megaclan of [[BMW]], which merged GAY, GM, as well as their rival, FORD. The influx of players was exactly what Taylor had desired, a massive force of people who were available to further the groups goals. | The first venture with this new philosophy was on [[Goon Playground]] in the game [[Rust]], where the group re-branded itself as GAY Crew. Within a few days, they had allied themselves with one of the larger clans on the server, [[GM]]. The partnership proved beneficial for both as time went on, in giving GAY the manpower it wanted while allowing GM to further tighten its choke hold on the server. This oppressive pairing had an unintended but beneficial consequence: Killing off the server and forcing the larger community to band together and fight against common enemies elsewhere. The result was the megaclan of [[BMW]], which merged GAY, GM, as well as their rival, FORD. The influx of players was exactly what Taylor had desired, a massive force of people who were available to further the groups goals. In the early days, however, many different factions were vying for control of BMWs resources. Aside from COMMUNISM, the leader of GM, [[Kimsemus]], was also a contender for leader of the group, but with his EAC ban very early on, he was removed from the mix. It fell mostly to the relative unknown [[Capitaler]] to lead the group. | ||
With the Autumn 2015 Hiatus, Capitaler mostly left the group and with Kimsemus not returning, leadership fell solely to Taylor when the group returned in early 2016. | |||
= A Useful Idiot = | = A Useful Idiot = | ||
Even with leadership firmly secured by Taylor, complete control wasnt realistic yet, as the group still relied on a third party platform for its communication. The Mumble, then Discord server of Reticulated Splines was owned by a [[Goon]] named [[Woofington]] who was a known hostile to Taylor specifically, but also to BMW in a broader sense. A change of platform was needed but there was no way to bring about that change until when during one of BMWs many Rust server changes, they came upon an old rival player named [[Hef]]. Somehow or another, Hef came upon the groups Discord and began sitting in on voice conversations and freely reading chats. Woofingtons unwillingness to not only remove Hef but also to not appoint any new mods led Taylor to create the BMW Discord, and move the entirety of the members there. | |||
With this move, Taylor secured leadership of BMW. However, his rule would be questioned for the next two years, finally culminating in [[The Incel Uprising]]. | |||
= References = | = References = | ||