The Spy

'The Spy' is the name given to the week-long era of distrust and general unease due to the Meme Council's worst security breach, and can be regarded as possibly one of the worst lows the Council ever faced.
== The Origin ==
It all began in Gillbuck's CWS class, at the beginning of Sophomore year. Redneck Memer and Meme Lord were fortunate to be in the same class together, but not so fortunate that Warner would also be present. (Worth noting that Zane and Lindaman were also present). At this time, Warner herself had not amassed much of a reputation within The Council, only being mildly infamous amongst the Class of 2021 for being a rather cliché angry feminist, only interacting with peers if she wanted to get into some sporadic political argument with them, typically jumping in if they said anything she disagreed with. As the year progressed, however, and Redneck Memer and Meme Lord grew to take their CWS class less and less seriously, they entertained themselves by chatting on, of course, The Meme Council, at the back of the class.
Warner, of course, was quite...active during the CWS class, which Gillbucks liked to frequently turn into a literal 'political discussion' session. Redneck Memer and Meme Lord, incapable of caring less, would give a play-by-play to The Council, often making fun of the ridiculous takes they heard from a bunch of 14-15 year old's who got to yell at each other in a classroom about politics. For Warner, this was field day. And it was her inane sayings that would become the main focus in Redneck Memer and Meme Lord's reports in The Council. Warner would often state some very outlandish stuff, such as flushing babies down toilets as an abortion alternative, and famously screaming at Lindaman over the word "retarded". Even Rion's babbling of the Matrix could not compare to her rants. As these stories were shared with The Council, more and more memebers, never having heard of Warner, were now making connections to stories they heard ab out her in their own classes. Soon most memebers grew a great distaste for Warner, and justly so. She had been a nuisance in each of their classes, even treating some of them like dirt. 
But things were taken a bit far, if you want to consider it as such. At one point the conversations in the Council about Warner led to her choice of boyfriend, who was the most vehemently racist person in the Class of 2021, and also one of the worst overall people in the grade. A stark contrast to Warner herself, hypocritical even. Besides the fact that he constantly treated her like garbage, it was ironic given the fact that he was one of the only people at Abington who said the N-word (and he said it frequently), and yet he was the boyfriend of the girl who would unironically bite your head off if you even mentioned the word "black". On this same day, there is rumor of another student making a joke about Tritch and a gun. This eventually escalated into Tritch even wanting to fight the student. This is originally discovered by Tino, and discussed by the Council. The story is later fact-adjusted by Tino. It was this conversation, that led to the week of terror...
== The Beginning ==
December 11, 2018. 8:18 AM. First mod had barely started. Memeber Taken Bacon messages the Meme Lord directly, and the news is worrying to say the least. He explains that Warner had 'told off' Taken Bacon in front of the class, where she approached him directly, insulting him and telling him that 'if you're going to listen to my conversations, listen to the whole thing before telling other people'. Taken Bacon, not having any idea what she was talking about, simply apologized after being shocked speechless. The topic she brought up was no other than the Tritch/fight conversation. Taken Bacon warns Meme Lord of a possible insider. Meme Lord vows to find who could have told Warner, and worse, blamed Taken Bacon for something he had no part in. He is unsuccessful in finding the insider, and 2nd mod begins.
9:52 PM. CWS hadn't started yet. As students file in, something even more unexpected happens. Warner not only walks right up to Meme Lord, but immediately goes into a schpiel. Meme Lord had never held a conversation with Warner previously. Warner's schpiel was quite simple: "Can you and your friends shut up about me and my boyfriend?" (Something along those lines). Meme Lord, while shocked that, somehow, Warner knew this, did not give any confirmatory answer, not letting on that he knew what she was referring to. Regardless, the event spooked him. Never before had there been a leak of information from The Council, and this, paired with Taken Bacon's report, meant there truly was an insider. The Council had remained rather private until then, and security had been seen as somewhat secure since memebers stopped letting their Chromebooks get stolen.
Immediately after Warner sat back down, Meme Lord announced to the Council what had just taken place. Throughout the day, Meme Lord explains to memebers in person what transpired, and asks for information that may help find who could have told Warner. He gets no confirmation, however. A few memebers are questioned lightly/jokingly, but no suspects are made. Meme Lord, throughout the day, thinks of all possible ways someone could have infiltrated the Council. In case the insider is revealed, a new role is created. The Memeber role. This role allows each memeber access to the Council itself. If it is removed from a user, that user can no longer read or send messages in any channel, nor can they read message history, enter the voice chat, or see the channels at all. It was like a kick function, without having to kick/ban the user. Thus, if anybody stole a Memeber's Chromebook and began messing around on the Council, the role could just be removed instead of having to remove a memeber and re-add them later with all the work attached. Additionally, if an intruder was to ever join somehow, they would not be able to do anything unless they were given the role. This change is still active to this day. The day ends with no leads, and Meme Lord trusts that eventually the situation would reveal itself. 
December 12, 2018. Without leads, but still very much wanting to find the culprit, Meme Lord makes a second announcement, this time using the new @Memeber role, and explaining the punishment if anybody is found leaking information to others outside the Council. A permanent ban, no second chances. The announcement is a big harsh, Meme Lord being quite upset that Warner caused as much trouble as she did, stewing up mistrust in the Council and publicly berating/shaming Taken Bacon for nothing. 
After this announcement, many who were not present for the Warner play-by-plays infer to who Warner actually is (If it hasn't become clear, not many Class of 2021 students even knew who Warner was, like stated above, she only really interacted with you if you dared say anything that she didn't agree with). Everybody present is caught up to the situation, but no leads are found and no suspects made. The Tritch/Fight scenario only gets juicier, as Tino gives more details. It is even discussed by some that perhaps the possible fight is worse enough to report to the Vice Principal. 
December 13, 2018, 8:14 AM. The student comes clean to the Vice Principal after a member reported them, Tritch getting royally shrekt for his involvement in this drama. This situation in itself worsens to its max, and both students involved pay the price and get shrekt by the administration. (Can't quite remember what they got besides suspensions, but it was one of the more severe punishments during the Co2021's time at Abington). Regardless, this is the end of this small drama saga involving Tritch...but that doesn't stop Warren.
9:09 AM. Warner says something that changes everything. A threat to Taken Bacon. She says "I'm going to beat up (Taken Bacon), he wont stop talking about <Tritch/Fight>..." This immediately sets Meme Lord into a rage, never before has someone threatened a Memeber, and Taken Bacon was the last person who deserved this. It goes without saying, but Taken Bacon had not brought up the Tritch/Fight situation at all, not even in The Council. Which means, someone is relaying info to Warner, and framing Taken Bacon. 
== Everybody's a suspect ==
Immediately after this, suspects are discussed and listed, and one by one, through DM's, in person, and in other chats, suspects are ruled off as whether they can possibly have anything to do with this situation. It is easy at first, as a good handful can be marked off from the beginning as not being suspects. The situation within the Council escalates heavily, many memebers genuinely accusing each other and listing inactive members that can be banned. FASATAK001 is a victim of this. Due to his unresponsiveness, and nobody knowing pretty much anything about him, it is deemed safer to remove him than take the risk. (He is added back a bit after this event).
This was THE most active day of 'The Spy' situation, as everybody is made fully educated on The Spy and everything that has happened so far. It is made clear that nobody has any sort of lead as to who The Spy is and thus, everybody is a suspect except for the cleared names in the original announcement. Eventually things are simplified down. To help find The Spy, some rules are made, and used rather unwieldly. If the user knows who Warner is, and knows who Taken Bacon is in real life, those are the two confirming factors that make you a suspect. Quite a broad rule, it would seem, but not particularly. Even during Sophomore year, the Meme Council at this time has a good portion of its users as consistently inactive. While most of the Ancients and Veterans are active, newer Memebers, and even Grumpy Cat, are not active for most of, if not, this entire ordeal. Thus it is up to others, both on Discord and in person, to determine whether these offline users can even be suspects.
This continues for the rest of the day, the announcement message being updated and reposted 4 times to remind every Memeber who is no longer a suspect. In a private chat, Sly Frog Fry and Meme Lord whittle down the list of suspects, and re-evaluate who isn't a suspect. The two talk to many in person to get more details on who could possibly even be friends with Warner. When a suspect is shown to have no possible chance of even associating with Warner, they are 'cleared' by Meme Lord. 
11:04 AM. Warner, surprisingly, honestly answers Meme Lord when he simply asks her why she thinks they're discussing the topics in question. Her statement: "Because I have friends who are friends with (Taken Bacon) who tell me." So that was it. It was, unfortunately, an insider in the Council. Not someone who had stolen a Chromebook, not someone who stole a password. This confirmation set the hunt for The Spy in stone. While there was no doubt that there was an insider before, this statement confirmed it for every memeber. Her answer, in fact, only infuriated the Council even more towards her. 
By the end of the day, still, no confirming leads are made. During this time, the hatred for Warner increases to a near maximum. This entire ordeal is none other than her fault. While The Spy is of course, also at fault for betraying his/her memebers, and framing Taken Bacon, Warner still had no right to intrude on private conversations, and certainly no right to threaten an innocent memer such as Taken Bacon. As the Council learns more about Warren throughout their experience they learn to dislike her more, as more and more connections are made and they recall her past actions in their very own classes. In a way, this united the Council.
December 14, 2018. Most of this day for the Council is simply clearing suspects. Many are cleared in the early morning, and soon there is a scarce list of the possible suspects left. Meme Lord worries that they may not find the culprit. Some memebers, not active since before the drama, join in and infer onto whats going on. While a few suspects are flip-flopped back and forth as uncertainties arise, there is still no clear answer.
The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder, inactive for a good portion of The Spy drama, joins in and immediately asks for the old 'code' system, where each user would have to send a code in order to prove their account/Chromebook wasn't stolen. However, this hasn't been in use or efficient since the early Discord / Hangout Days. It also doesn't help that a good amount of new users have never heard of the code before. It is right after this, after further confirmation, that there is not someone stealing a code/account/password, but a traitor. It is out of this conversation when it is inferred by Taken Bacon perhaps this entire traitor ordeal is Warner's friend group's plan to destroy the Council from the inside. While it is true that more than one of Warner's friends had heard of The Council and said they wanted to destroy it, Its clear they weren't this intelligent. Nor is it likely this was their intention. Going back to that though, it is comical to mention Warner's friend, A., is quoted for saying "Death to the Meme Lord". 
At this point, it is rather at a calm as Memebers try to piece together who is left and what inferences can be made to find The Spy. Dat Hedgehog Boi is left as one of the prime suspects, but is later cleared. The day ends with Harley Quinn being cleared. 
== Fading anxiety ==
December 15, 2018. For once, a quiet day. As the weekend begins, Warner's name is not even brought up in the council, no suspects are made. While it would be false to say nobody is tense that The Spy is going to be revealed, or if Meme Lord would make another announcement stating something else had slipped through and Warner got more information, no news is made. Things are almost like they're back to normal.
December 16, 2018. Ditto. Another quiet day. As school resumes though, the drama is far from over:
December 17, 2018, 9:08 AM. Finally. CONFIRMATION! Warner, shockingly, reveals her informant, and also, one last spout of leaked information. She explains how she knows everything about 'The Spy', how Meme Lord is suspecting and accusing memebers, and, still, (this is the highest crime in her opinion) talking about her. She makes a rather empty claim that she'd 'report them to the principal', which never comes to fruition. She even accuses the Council of being the ones spreading rumors about her in the first place. 
She then reveals something that, to this day, I'm not quite sure why she revealed. She reveals that Pickle Rick is her informant. You may be thinking this case is solved but, no, Pickle Rick is not The Spy. While finding that he was the direct informant to Warner, what was not found was who Pickle Rick's informant was. Pickle Rick has not been in the Council for over a year, and its not known who can be his informant. If anything, the question of who The Spy is does not change. The process would repeated itself. Who knows Pickle Rick? Who can be informing him, who is in a group chat with him? Does he somehow know Taken Bacon's discord account? While some of these questions do repeat themselves, and some people are once again put under slight suspicion, the fear and anxiety of The Spy drama was rapidly coming to a close.
Sly Frog Fry and Meme Lord meet once again in a private chat and delegate on how the chain of information was reaching Warner, and who could possibly be feeding Pickle Rick information. It is also questioned if Pickle Rick even meant any ill intent, and was possibly just hearing rumors and giving his 'friend', Warner, the updates.
Soon into the day, Meme Lord gives his last announcement on The Spy. Weary from the week of drama that ensued, and realizing that while Warner most definitely never had any plan to 'take down the Council', or if she did, this wasn't her way of doing so, Meme Lord saw that if this continued any longer, The Council would slowly tear itself apart The amount of distrust for each other was getting ridiculous, and the hunt for The Spy was concluding. While no Spy had been found, Meme Lord, and pretty much every other Memeber did not care much at this point. The weekend had somewhat set aside fears of The Spy.
December 18, 2018. Peace. For the first day since December 11, Warner does not engage in conversation with the Meme Lord or any other memeber, perhaps the end of the era of The Spy?
Tino, still wanting to know who the culprit is, makes two strawpolls. The first one listed every memeber in the Council. The poll received a surprising amount of participation, getting 12 votes. Meme Lord however, didn't see the polls as exact confirmation, disregards them and re-affirms that some of the Memebers who got voted on for being The Spy were cleared previously. 
Tino makes another poll after getting these results, this time with the narrowed down most-voted possible Spy memebers from the last poll. This second poll does not receive as many votes, only 7, and is less conclusive if anything. The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder and Tino get into a small debate, but other than that, The Spy situation was more or less dead. As Christmas Break approaches, many happily forget Warner for more important things.
== So who was "The Spy"? ==
Ah yes, the question everybody wants to know. There is no doubt, none whatsoever, that someone in The Council was indeed the insider, or, The Spy. However, the answer I, (Meme Lord), will give you may not be as satisfying as you may like.
After this event, nobody took this situation very lightly at all, especially Meme Lord. Constantly vigilant for clues and trying to see who talks to Warner/Pickle Rick for not only this dramatic week, but every week following the original leak, has revealed significantly more evidence. Pickle Rick was indeed the one passing the information along to Warner, as previously stated. But what the new question was, was HIS informant giving him information with ill intent? Or was this just passerby conversation/small talk that Pickle Rick decided to tell his 'friend' at the time, Warner?
This is where I must reveal that I did indeed come to a conclusion as to who 'The Spy' was, and too bad, I'm not telling you who it was. I have not and don't plan to confront The Spy about it, as it has become clear that The Spy never had any ill intent to harming the Council. They were simply keeping their friend, Pickle Rick, up to date with the news and drama of The Council, a group that had some of Pickle Rick's old friends, and a group he was once apart of back when it was a Hangout. To confirm my theory, on the same day that Warner revealed her informant, I witnessed my suspect retelling the same events to Pickle Rick, a little more frustrated than usual, near my locker on my way out of school. The Spy was, most likely, unaware that Pickle Rick was passing the info along to Warner, at least until Warner made the mistake of announcing her informant to me. Notice how the drama of the Spy ended after Warner did this. Perhaps The Spy put the dots together, and decided that things said in the Council stay in the Council. 
And, no, I do not blame Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick has always been loyal to me, and a few others in The Council. While at the time he did indeed see The Council as "cringe" as he called it, and even at one point was 'hired' by Rabb to attempt to invade it, Pickle Rick had no intent to frame Taken Bacon. What he was doing was simply taking the version of events he heard, and passing them along to his 'friend'. He most likely didn't even know Warner was confronting people based on what she was told, or even what the exact details were. Nowadays he does not even engage in conversation with Warner, and has not mentioned her since Sophomore year. While he no doubt caused quite a lot of drama in the Council, its clear he wasn't aiming to defame it or cause issues. 
To put it simply, if you got a blab of information that you knew so-and-so was saying this-and-that about so-and-so and a gun and so on, how would you react exactly? More than likely better than Warner did. Regardless, nowadays, when looking at all of this laid out, there was damage to all parties involved, but what's done is done. 
It probably didn't help that I stated The Spy would be banned permanently. If I were in The Spy's position on that last day, I'm not sure if I would have immediately confessed. I believe if The Spy did confess, I would have explained the situation to The Council to prove there wasn't ill intent to clear their name, and The Council would have returned to normal. Hearing that this informant was framing one of the most innocent members of the Council, and then Warner threatening that member, didn't exactly make me too happy. As if it was any of her business in the first place. It's a bit late for that now, though. 
== Lasting effect on The Council ==
'The Spy' has become one of the most famous Council events of all time, still being referenced by many to this day. It was one of the few events where nearly every Memeber was involved, and can be considered the Council's lowest point by some. What it did for the Council, though, is better than worse. Not only did it greatly increase the security of The Council, but it unified the Council's anger for Warner, and cemented her as one of the first true enemies of The Council. While she was deemed an Enemy of The Council back in October that year, this event more or less set it in stone for everyone involved. 'The Spy' situation would not have happened if it weren't for her meddling, eavesdropping, and threats. Its safe to say no memeber would not want another one of these scenarios happening, despite the "excitement" involved. Having everybody in your group instantly distrust each other, and discussing who to vote out based on how inactive they were was depressing to say the least.
Warner never really did become much more of a threat to The Council after this, nor did many others. This event reinforced the way information was spread outside the Council, kept from prying eyes/ears. If anything, it made The Council more secret than ever, which was, to be fair, its original purpose. (Or at least secret enough that good enough new memebers could stumble upon it). 
Oh yeah, also, during this event, Meme Lord unknowingly said "There is no Impostor among us". Keep in mind this was during late 2018. While Among Us had been released earlier this year, Meme Lord did not, nor did any other current Memebers, know the game existed. Astounding. Shame it had to be used to describe an actual rather disheartening situation, though.
== If Warner herself or her associates are to ever find this page: ==
You lost, you bunch of cringe Neanderthals. Meme Council's still alive, healthy and retarded as ever.
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