Forum Apocalypse

The Forum Apocalypse was when the forums were hacked on January 31, 2017 by a user known as CandyDragon318, later nicknamed Candy or CandyDragon.
During the Forum Apocalypse, the Urgent Missives (sticky posts made exclusively by the mods) were un-stickied for about a day. Candy replaced them with their own Urgent Missives. These posts were cryptic, talking about how it was not necessarily hacking (and how the feat itself was easy), how they would moderate from then on, and how the Spirit Animals forum needed to be more independent of the mods.
In their signature, CandyDragon implied they were a SAMBer themselves. (Whether or not they were a then-active MBer remains unknown) They also hinted that they had all the powers of a mod: deleting posts, locking threads, creating urgent missives, banning MBers, etc. The SAMB panicked somewhat, and sketchy plans for evacuation to outside websites (Discord, Fandom.com, Wattpad, etc.) were created. They were never used in this event but became relevant again in the decision to replace the MBs with Home Base.
Following the chaos, Admin Jen informed the forums that Candy had been permabanned. SAMBers speculate that CandyDragon could unban themselves, but the hacker account was never seen again. Candy became a conspiracy theory joke, with odd events on the SAMB being attributed to them.
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