The Newbie Plague

The Newbie Plague was a practical joke that hit the SAMB on July 7, 2016. Four SAMBers (Icicle, Ever, Apolaka, and Bobcat) pretended to be stereotypical newbies. They changed their signatures to include bright colors, large fonts, and emojis. They also wrote with poor grammar and mentioned the Spirit Animal game a lot (WHERES THE ANAMAL ARMOR?????).
SAMBers named these forumers the "infected" and fled into bunkers. A war of epic proportions raged for all of an hour. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. A vocal minority got (disproportionately) cheesed off by the prank, and the four SAMBers stopped an hour earlier than planned.
The prank wasn't intended to specifically target or offend any newbies. At this point in the SAMB, the main group of SAMBers were older than the original intended demographic. Consequently, newbies were much younger than everyone else, and their posts reflected that. The participating SAMBers leaned into the stereotypes as a joke and tried to go so overboard that it was blatantly obvious that they weren't serious.
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