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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]].

Shelarahn would later go on to be a major raider in one of Gorgonnashs top raiding guilds, <[[Damage Done]]>, along with former Guns for Hire raider [[Petrus]] and former COMMIE [[Secondary]].

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.

Shelarahn spent the next few years away at college.

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}}

In April of 2012, Jessikuh contacted many of the COMMIES on Facebook to come play World of Warcraft again with them on Darkspear. They had recently quit Vox Radix and had formed with Prude a new guild, <Friend Zone>. A good many of the old COMMIES would return and soon Friend Zone was a full fledged raiding guild.

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

With the release of Wildstar however, the group would move on from World of Warcraft into the new game. The boys quickly made their presence known on the Wildstar server Pergo forums, and collected many new COMMIES such as [[Succ]], [[Solgnir]], [[Dianic]], and [[Gauze]], just to name a few. The game never really took off however, and by the time the new WoW expansion, Warlords of Draenor launched, Wildstar was dead and the COMMIES transferred to Emerald Dream to create yet another COMMUNISM, in search of a larger player base.

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

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}}

BMW formed when the 4 larger clans ([[GM]], [[FORD]], [[WUTANG]], and [[GAY]]) joined into one group and moved to a pubbie server. [[Capitaler]] led the group in the early days, before the September 2015 hiatus. During that time, BMW ran roughshod over [[Rusty Bottoms]], becoming the most dominant clan on the server, only raided a handful of times and never completely beat except for the infamous [[SPEED Assault]]. Towards the end, both Capitaler and Taylor Swift became admins of the server, and BMW as the defacto rulers of the server, save for the other admin clan, [[TSBS]] who experienced a resurgence just around the time BMW was set to go into its Fall hiatus. A few stragglers stayed behind to play, but 90% of BMWS fighting force took September through November off from the game.

The Rust clan returned in early November and feuded unsuccessfully (due to admin favoritism) with [[NAMBLA]]. The group took another two weeks off from the game due to the release of [[Fallout 4]] and returned again to the same server, only for NAMBLA and their admin friends to ruin the whole thing. Capitaler chose not to return to the group fully after the hiatus, so leadership of the group fell to Taylor. A few months into 2016, the group move from Woofingtons Discord to a dedicated BMW discord.

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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Wrong Think Tanks era began with an expanding of political chat into more nuance categories such as discussion about the "clown world" and internet drama. Many rapefugees were coerced into joining the group, increasing chat activity by volumes.

In November, WTT came hot on the tracks of an Conservative internet radio host named [[Jim Lockwood]]. He was blind and got real angry when the Bimmers would call in and troll him about STATE MANDATED ANIME viewing and the N-word

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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In May, Prude and DilbertAsFuck met in Tokyo for [[Bimmers Do Japan]]. They also met up with infamous Chinaman bullier, [[Vrath]]. Prude would also lose his phone and get abducted, briefly, by the [[w:Yakuza]].

With Alex at the helm alone and the return of Jack, voice chat began to boom. As well, Alex returned the tradition of monthly calendars for events, and WTT entered a new golden age.

June would see [[Jack]] travel to the New Arabia that is the Netherlands for a good old fashioned Meet N' Beat. Jacks tour of meeting Bimmers continued in late August when him and Prude went and saw Iron Maiden live in LA.

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{{See also|Wideboys}}

The success of the 7th Golden Age continued with [[BEEFYTV]] being revived and a brand new group game being introduced, Vintage Story. The server for Vintage Story enjoyed several months of success, before it was retired in favor of the return of Gorzhakcraft and because of a very slow dev cycle.

March 2020 brought the COVID-19 outbreak and the increasing of Stay At Home orders in most states. As a result, many game companies offered incentives in game for people to stay home and play games, specifically Blizzard and their massively successful MMO, World of Warcraft, who offered a 100% XP boost for a month. This led to a massive surge in popularity for WoW among the Wideboys, eventually leading to Capri Sun Tzu to reveal that he was still a part time leader of a moderately sized raiding guild on Thrall, which in turn led to [[Operation: Thralls Deep]].

Summer 2021 saw a strange turn of events, as Biggers developed a months long obsessions with [[Apex Legends]], a long derided game within the community. The obsession began after Taylor had watched several hours of Vtubers, specifically Kureiji Ollie, playing Apex, and on seeing that the game had made many changes and updates since its launch in early 2019, redownloaded the game and goaded a few others into playing. At the same time, Prude began reviving the Guild Wars 2 community, and with the help of DrCoathanger, recreating the ingame guild after being unable to reclaim the original guild from [[Future]].

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