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== The Troon Uprisings & Wars End == | == The Troon Uprisings & Wars End == | ||
{{See also|The Troon Uprisings}} | |||
In early December, the legions of Troons now completely in control of SomethingAwful began a massive campaign to get rid of FYAD, an ironic and absurdist comedy subforum of SA. This put Lowtax back firmly in the spotlight of the Clown War, as he initially refused to remove the subforum. BMW saw this as an opportunity to stir the shit, and hoped into the QCS thread with burners to inflame the situation and advertise the Discord. The same was done on NYE, during Lowtaxes stream where he began probing a bunch of Tankies, who believed he did it at the "Nazis" behest. | |||
This led to a full scale troon rebellion, who began their own Discord to plan their exodus. MOTHER agents happened to be on the scene when the Discord was founded, and snuck in and ingratiated themselves before any actual vetting began. Because of his flaw in security, MOTHER was able to begin directing the narrative in the direction it wanted, specifically in inflaming relations among the SA staff. [[PartyPlaneJones]] was the useful scapegoat here, as it had been known to MOTHER and BMW leaders for a long time that he was a member of the BMW Discord while also being an SA Mod. This carefully leaked revelation spread like wildfire among the troons, who used it as their primary ammunition against Lowtax and his style of leading SA. | |||
In the end, PPJ was run off and Lowtax was forced the sell the forums. The tankies would form their own offshoot forums, but nothing ever came of it and they mostly gravitated back to SA. | |||
Also caught in the crossfire of this exchange was Tempus Thales and his GDN bot, who were labelled largely as Nazi co-conspirators. This enraged TT who used it as an opportunity to virtue signal and mass ban any remaining Bimmers from his platform. This move caused a small brief exodus from BMW, but was beneficial in the long term as it served to fully sever BMW from SA, and also served as a recruiting point for them. | |||
With all former alliances and rivalries settled and severed, the Clown World War drew to a close. | |||
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