Clown World War I
| Clown World War I | ||||||||
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 BMW soldiers preparing to invade during The Siege of Lowtaxia | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 BMW WTT |
 Lowtaxes Discord SA Discord |
 Serious Overchill | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Taylor SwiftPrudeThe Incels (Pre-Split) |
LowtaxTT The Incels (post-split) The Sauce(Post-Sauce Affair) |
FAT32Ben Smash | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| A few hundred Bimmers & shitposts | 1000s of members but nobody fighting lol | 2000 SJWs | ||||||
Clown World War I is an ongoing conflict between the shitposters of BMW/WTT and the Goons of SomethingAwful in general but specifically Serious Overchill. The conflict is a clashing of cultures between the laid back anti-PC anti-censorship views of WTT and the groupthink multiculti "Cult of Chill" perpetuated by Goons. The latter half of the war was characterized by betrayal by BMW admins and TTs ongoing ineptitude and feud with Taylor Swift. The war officially ended with The Sauce Affair, resulting in the banning of longtime COMMIE The Sauce and personal threats made against Taylor Swift. The war caused untold destruction and butthurt across many discords and created countless splinter groups and feuds among the factions. Its widely regarded as a mostly hilarious affair.
History and Causes
Conflict between BMW and Goons existed as long as BMW itself. There was a long and rich history of certain Goons getting butthurt over this or that and gagging at gnats, most notably when Spacedad joined the Rust crew for all of one day and noped out within 12 hours. One of the most notable clashes between BMW and Something Awful was when Cal Worthingtons "Wanted Posters" caused the mods of the forum to lock the years old griefing thread permanently for "doxxing". The main Rust thread was also lock temporarily as FactsAreUseless bumbled about trying to involve himself in it. The event blew over but left a reputation for BMW among the Goons. One of BMWs most vocal opponents was a forums poster named Cheen aka McCain Av Faggot, who had long hated BMW because they wouldn't play on Vanilla servers. No really, that's the basis of his entire butthurt campaign, its because BMW wouldnt grind for hours on Vanilla servers with him.
BMW Moves to Post-Goon
Relations would be made worse after the 2016 Election when Something Awful as a whole lost its god damn mind, and during the Conan Expedition of 2017, began wholesale slandering BMW of being "Alt-Right". Goons tenuous grasp on reality was one of the primary causes for Taylor and admins to eventually stop recruiting on the forums all together. Prude would later coin the term for the move as "post-goon". Some in the SA community saw this as a signal that BMW as a whole should no longer be welcomed among Goons, as they don't tolerate dissent.
Beginning
The roots of the war formed when Serious Overchill and Cheen began harassing SA Discord admin Tempus Thales about Taylors twitter account, featuring such hateful tweets as "Potato chips are banned in the ethnostate". Their campaign culminated in the Fornite thread, where a chorus of Goons cried about all the hateful Nazi alt right mods in SA Discord, and encouraged people to detour from there and instead join Serious Overchill. TT, at the time, shrugged it off but remained ignorant of the true intents of the campaign which were to bolster Serious Overchill and take away from SA Discords presence. FAT32, an admin in SA Discord and Serious Overchill, tried to downplay that last point, while also being in TTs ear about Taylor being a Nazi.
At the same time, TT and his assistant, IAmKale, had begun to harbor resentment about Taylor and BMW, as the latter was seeing massive success while the formers discord withered and stagnated.
Taylors Banishment and The SA Discord Incident
The first turn in the war began with Taylors banning from the Something Awful forums, because of the earlier mentioned innocuous tweets. With this and the concept that BMW was post-Goon, TT officially began preparations to remove Taylor from his admin position and the discord. The latter part wouldnt be revealed until years later during Operation Overlard, and at the time, TT played ignorant and that the discord was simply "trying to go in a different direction".