Semaphore

Semaphore, also known as MarioFan171 is a Filipino OSM Creator that both makes traditional and Minderian mockups, and a Multifandom and Multicommunity person on the internet. MarioFan171 first joined the OSM Community in November 2023 as a reputation refugee, when his reputation is at stake by the logo-editing community. He has a style similar to SectorWire.
He is the creator of the Oganessonverse, Has a Windows FTL of his own, and the creator of many OSes such as Vectorize, Khaghalt, Samarium, Gamma, e.t.c. 
He also remakes OSes such as Sviger, Codar, Vivado and e.t.c.
He is also the creator of the Minderian Cannon named "Ethernius Gate"
He is also the creator of some miscellaneous projects not related to mockups, such as his SMBX-Powered Mario Fangame called "Super Mario Omniversis"
== Nicknames ==
Although MarioFan171 didn't change his name since 2019, Here are a list of Nicknames of MarioFan171/Semaphore:
* Unicorn Girl (2016-2018)
* Rainbow Yoshi (2018-2019)
* TheSuperGreen2008 (2019-2020)
* Ice Man (2019-2021)
* MarioFan171 (2019-Present)
* Semaphore (2022-Present)
== History ==
=== Pre-2019 ===
MarioFan171 had started as an ordinary YouTube channel by his sister and named the channel "Unicorn Girl". Later, the channel was renamed to Rainbow Yoshi with the profile of the logo of the Sigma Elevator (OTIS Elevator Korea), as this user first delved deep to the elevator enthusiast community.
=== Primitive Ages (2019-2021) ===
The Name "MarioFan171" was chosen by the user as he were a Mario Fanatic, But he had used his channel only as a commenting channel, and made playlists.
=== Early Ages (2021-2022) ===
He started by making his first video in March 27, 2021.
His channel started as an animation channel when it comes to videos, making random Flipaclip animations, And videos for a Mario Fangame called "Mari0 AE" in mobile.
By 1st May 2021, He started making Logo-Editing Content, starting with different videos with the G-Major Effect applied and later on, other G-Major Effects. Then moved on to edits of CaptainSparklez Music Video called "Revenge" a parody of DJ's Falling in Love Again. He also was involved in the phone collector drama of the UTTP Trolls.
At 5 June 2021, He had made his first mockup phone brand called "MTFone" in a pixelart animation website, assuming to be powered by Cheetah Wireless
In 27 June 2021, He had officially made an intro and outro, based off the Samsung Vortex Intro
He Opened up his secondary account in 3rd July 2021, as TurkmenistanGaming / / MarioFan171 2.0, which makes new effects, that falls under the category of Logo-Editing, and planned to have gaming videos (which renamed to aquarius2 as of November 1st, 2023).
At 11 July 2021, He got his first computer, which runs with Windows 7. which also had lead him to make new logo effects in his secondary channel
At 28 August 2021, He had now officially switched logo-editing content to the Rated SPG video from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, which gained more viewers from the Late Gen-Z and Gen Alpha viewers, from the Philippines and around the world, and still does it today.
It was October of 2021, that his Windows 7-running computer broke, due to an unknown reason, presumably overwritten MBR. This had lead MarioFan171 to make an announcement to his viewers that he cannot make videos, unless he's in PowerDirector.
=== Middle Ages (Late 2021-Mid 2022) ===
It was this Christmas of 2021, when he got a computer running Windows 10, through Gigabyte OEMs, which had led him to make videos again, which he still uses today. This also got him a new phone aswell.
By the start of a new era, MarioFan171 decided to follow the trends of the Logo-Editing Community, which are called "Logo Series" in the Logo Editor's idiolect. 
In 22 January 2022, He mad his first "Mr Incredible Becoming ____" Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjBkZFZdxY, but was eventually discontinued somewhere in late-2022 due to copyright issues, and falling under the questionable legal area for intellectual property.
In 12 February 2022, He had attempted to make a Minecraft Survival Series called "MF171Craft" which eventually was scrapped due to specification limitations, and lack of motivation.
In 5 March 2022, He had officially joined the Elevator Enthusiast Community, making his first elevator videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiaHAWgUvA, and another one in a public space. But was in pressure of decline due to running out of public spaces with elevators to film, and insufficient storage on his phone.
In 20 May 2022, He had made his first lift tour video, in Glorietta Mall, which was made in KineMaster and Alight Motion
In 28 May 2022 He had made a spinoff of his logo-editing content, to include the Spurdo Spärde Meme, with the source of Spurdo Spärde Dancing with autotuned TTS.
Since at Mid 2022, He had delved deeper to the Vyond/GA Community, eventually making similar content that fall under the community's umbrella.
He had started making Vyond-Styled Commentary videos in 2022, and aswell other types of videos such as "#Chain of X" and sometimes "I did to X user videos".
In 12 August 2022, He had made a video poking fun on Kominfo in Indonesiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJEA_R_Sut4&list=PLlXMhAaQdZkXJTdeQ7u1EZqr__en5w8CJ&index=33, claiming the management to be "morally worse than the Nazis". Which included a cast of his main rivals including MrDweller.
In August 2022 to May 2023, MarioFan171 was involved in the Adolf Ogi [OGISM] Conflict, which had lead their members to voluntarily harass him with insults such as "Gay, Kid, Raged, Serb, Bot, Alt, and e.t.c.) See Controversies.
By August 2022, An Elevator Enthusiast by the name of "AFilipinoLiftEnthusiast2022" harassed and manipulated MarioFan171, which had led him to delete his old Discord Server
By the same month, MarioFan171 was involved in the ProGamer77776YT Fiasco alongside with other users, with his alter-ego to harass other users by spamming the N-Word in MarioFan171's Discord DMs
=== The Graphic Design Revolution (Late 2022-Late 2023) ===
In 20 September 2022, He had opened his music channel, to upload soundtracks for lost games, and post microtonal music in there with his album named "Goldenrod Rain"
In the same date above He had opened his archives channel, not much activity going on other than being used as an emergency channel whenever the main channel recives a community guideline strike. 
In 10 October 2022, He had officially delved deep to the Megaman Fandom, uploading his first Mega Man video
In 21 October 2022, He officially revealed a new logo, which is a flower with 6 colored petals (Blue, Green, Purple, Pink, Teal, Yellow and Azure Blue in the center), which contemplates with the new branding.
In 24 October 2022, He made his first gameplay video onto Java Mobile Games, which was a gameplay of Bobby Carrot 5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7puZ4FffSY.
It was since December of 2022, that he joined the TV Archivist Community (also known as the TV Broadcast Fandom), which eventually made videos about TV Idents and Branding.
In 17 February 2023, He had revealed his contemplative introhttps://youtu.be/Xzx6tDm-Ulk?si=M9A162oV2fwQWODI, made in Blender, and later his outro in 18 February 2023
In 2 March 2023, He had made his first YTP video with Klasky Csupo
In 10 March 2023, He had started development for a SMBX-Powered Mario Fangame called "A Periodic Adventure" but it was later scrappedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfZyP_HfoQ
In 9 April 2023, a day after his birthday, He had made a SMW Custom Level, for a scrapped project.
By 19 April 2023, He now expands his Mario-Related Videos to SMBX, here.
It was by early 2023, That he had joined the PSA/PIFs Community, and was involved in the Setiga Farma Controversy, which Holocraft were rivals with. This led him deep to the Indonesian-speaking spheres. This had lead his 4th channel "Semasis" to make Indonesian-Language Commercials to troll Setiga Farmahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfXNIryNXzE.
In 9 May 2023, He had made his first PSA/PIF Compilation, which later the algorithm had gave the videos over 1K Views with many PSA/PIF Community Members coming in.
In 13 May 2023, His main channel got a community guidelines strike, which had back-uped all his activity to the Semasis Channel.
=== Prime/OSM Era (2023-Present) ===
He first discovered OSM institutionally in June 2023, Which he'll comment on WNR/NROS Videos.
In 20 July 2023, He had posted his first Roblox Mining Game Video in his 2nd YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjBkZFZdxY
In 24 July 2023, He had made a series of random video editing experiments with a dedicated podcast on YouTube.
It was by July of 2023, When many Logo-Editors had turned against him for his so called "effects" and so as many logo-editors agree. A user by the name of "ElevatorFilmingPhilippines" would now make a statement that he would cut ties with MarioFan171 because of the style he makes effects, but not only that, for the continuing controversy within Mariogate. This had led MarioFan171 to escape the Logo-Editing Community and make a response video in September 16, due to harassment from an elevator enthusiast named "Idjdjdj1397". At this point, MarioFan171 was seeking refuge, and asylum to the Operating System Mockups Community, and decided to start OSM himself.
MarioFan171 Joined the OSM Community since November 2023, with his first NROS mockup made in Paint.NET called "Toi Duman OS", and 2 Windows Mockups named "Windows Jeremejevite" and "Windows Lepidolite" which had him learn graphic design entirely by learning to use Inkscape, Powerpoint and eventually Figma.
Starting by 1st October 2023, a new logo change was announced with the new logo being 7 Triangles to form a lowercase "T Shape" with the logo having flat colors (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple and Pink) in it. A series of idents were made for the rebrand, to serve as the intro and an outro and so as a channel trailer.
At 1st November 2023, His new rebrand was revealed to the public, alongside with the other channel being rebranded aswell. 
In 27th November 2023, The first OSM-Relelated Video was uploaded to his 2nd YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2nGC_Xrrw, But the name wasn't decided yet until he came up with the codename for his first OSM Episode "Stellaris Aurorae"
On 4th January 2024, MarioFan171 had decided to start a gaming series for Gravity Circuithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDrCv6niB-o, which he bought on Steam alongside with Geometry Dash.
In 23 January 2024, His 2nd Channel debuted "Gammaray Games", which focuses on Roblox, Minecraft and in the future "Progressbar 95". Similar editing and style to SectorWire CyberZone.
In 2nd February 2024, He announced to his fanbase that he'll ditch many Logo-Editing Trends, in favor of graphic design with Figma, and editing with Adobe After Effects.https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0NvR7yQoiiH-PjiRaEyeZp3hs7kFVMr4
In 13th February 2024, MarioFan171 announced to remake Sviger from Spyonclear, so he made a thread in the Chromaverse.
In 18th February 2024, He announced to make a Windows FTL of his own, named "The Zenith Horizon"
In 21st February 2024, MarioFan171 decided to contribute to Mockupedia, by making it's first page
== In terms of OSM ==
=== List of Episodes ===
Operating System Mockups (Mainline)
Episode	Codename 	Publish Date 	Themes 	Note
1 	Stellaris Aurorae	Yet to be released	Style Similar to SectorWire	
2 	Crusted Coquette 	 	 	
3 	The Kernel Bakery	 	 	
4 	Archversis 	 	 	
5 	Vectorscape 	 	 	
6 	Neolinage 	 	 	
7 	Orionoid 	 	 	
8 	The Mockup Wars 	 	 	
9 	Blissmate 	 	 	
10 	Vectorscape II 	 	 	
== Controversies ==
=== Pre-OSM ===
==== 08.25.2022 Situation ====
By August 25, 2022, MarioFan171 had raided the CS Catherine Shift Server, which had said slurs out loud in the chats, and an attempt to glorify 9/11. At the same date, MarioFan171 had claimed himself to be mentally ill, as he called his sister "Mikan" a "Whore". He had made a shock video against a random Anime YouTube, that was automatically deleted by the YouTube Report Algorithm. Another Video about a user named "Alice" was harassed by MarioFan171 by making a series of cyberbullying videos on her. This wasn't issued resolved until 16 September 2023.
==== Raids in the Sebs World Of Fun Server ====
In 15 August 2022, MarioFan171 had made attempts to mock Sebs World Of Fun in Roblox, By placing his character in Roblox Studio with some elevators. At September 3rd 2022, The Sebs World of Fun Discord was raided by MarioFan171 with shock content, before the server was deleted
==== Adolf Ogi and Mariogate ====
During with the Adolf Ogi [OGISM] Fiasco, MarioFan171 would usually say the N-Word to them, which had lead the Elevator Enthusiast Community to turn against him entirely. It was only since 16 September 2023, when he made an apology video to respond about the allegations and the hate he's receiving from the Elevator Enthusiast Community. He has been so apologetic for that situation, and tries to forget it in time.
==== Photo Manipulation Controvesy ====
In 22 August, 2022, A User by the name of "Bot" had edited MarioFan171's Comment to include the N-Word in it. This had led MarioFan171 to respond to the allegations.
==== Ban from the SMBX Discord Server ====
It was since June 2022 in the SMBX Discord Server, that he got muted for calling Main Pro a "Nazi" which had lead to his ban from the server.
=== OSM ===
==== Conflict with DSF and Jxnn ====
Since he joined the Chromaverse, He had started a drama between Derek Silver Francis, for a Windows FTL that was scrapped. Another drama was ignited between Jxnn about a Naughty List GIF, Which had made Jorc involved in the conflict, which he got a warning. He was also apologetic for that, and tried to forget that drama.
==== Harassment against Spyonclear ====
In 20 February 2024, MarioFan171 had spammed hate messages to Spyonclear's DMs on Discord, linking to an explicit music video. This was posted on eSpyzem to be mocked at. But later, he had blocked Spyonclear in Discord, never to be seen again, since he was confronted by RDesign in the Chromaverse, not to do it. He had stated "I think I took my hatred on Spyonclear a bit too far".
==== Generation Bashing and Generational Bias ====
In 23 February 2024, MarioFan171 on DenviantArt had made a post against Boomershttps://www.deviantart.com/mariofan171/status-update/Boomers-are-fucking-morons-that-1023972267, the specific generation with the age range of the 1950s to the 1960s. This controversy didn't receive attention yet, as it is still fresh.
== Fonts ==
* Mario-Styled (2019-2021)
* Tw Cen MT (2021-2023)
* Dexa Pro (2022-2023)
* Moula (2023-2024)
* TT Hoves Pro (2024-Present)
* Lexend Mega (2024-Present)
== Trivia ==
* The Name "Semaphore" was taken from a microtonal scale
* He is one of the few OS Mockup Creators to know anything about microtonality, alongside with CompactStar
* He has a sister named "Mikan"
* The demonym for his fans are "Sephyllians"
* He is one of the few OS Mockup Creators to have a rivalry with an Albanian Ultranationalist Group named "OGISM", alongside with RDesign
* He is the only OS Mockup Creator to be involved with the "Troy Taganas" and the "Gelo Singson" fiasco with potential trolls in the PHTV Community
* He is the one of the OS Mockup Creator, to be obsessed with Finnish Memes, making a parody video on the Semasis Channel, poking fun on Spyonclear with the Spurdo Spärde Meme
== References ==
== External Links ==
* Main YouTube Channel
* 2nd YouTube Channel
* Music YouTube Channel
* Archives YouTube Channel
* Discord Server
* DenviantArt Account 
* Github Account
* SMWCentral Account
* SMBX Forums Account
* MarioFan171 Website
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