Minderians

For other uses, see Minderia.
Minderians are a group of people known for using kits created by Minderia (or similar users), Minderia Chat users, Nova Chat users, far future ideas users, and/or fictional eras users. This term has been used since 2017, and has also been used to refer to characters created by Minderia themself.
== Etymology ==
The origin of the term "Minderian" is unclear, however some suggest that it came from the WNR@Discord and/or from communities/groups from the defunct Google+. A person by the username of Minderia was the person that coined this term to refer to people who supports him or uses his "update kits" (Update 5 and up).
In the beginning, people used this term to mock people who supported Minderia; this is no longer the case however.
==History==
On the 6th January 2016, MinderiaYoutuber created Windows History with Never Released Versions, which at this time was unique. As of September 2022, this video has 179k views.
On the 30th June 2016, Minderia uploaded Update 3 of his WHwNRV, before he uploaded Windows Never Released Fan Fiction, which lead to a spreading group known as "Minderianism".
In July of 2016, BW134, one of the earlier Minderians, created WHwNRV with Minderian versions created by U3.
Luigi2012SM64 was later discovered to be a Minderian, after uploading his first WNR on 2nd August 2016.
Minderia uploaded Update 4 of his WHwNRV in 9 August 2016, increasing the popularity of the Future Versions of Windows genre.
In the same year, Sonic Le Geek was discovered to also be a Minderian.
Late 2016 saw a rise of Minderians such as Aarex Tiaokhiao, who had joined WNR in 13th September 2016, Nebula in 28th September (when using non-minderian before WNR2 in October 2016) and Windows Supporter in 18th November.
Since January 2017, due to several conflicts between them and another group known as the Aeroians, Minderians have been left on their own.
In 5th February 2017, Luigi2012SM64 created his own Windows History with Never Released Versions, which meant the first pre-U5 Minderian WHwNRV, yet there was already late pre-U5 videos already existed.
At around this point, a user by the name of Aarex created the first video of the ATE format (which stands for After the Eras), which focused on fictional Windows versions beyond time, but became overused by Mid-2017.
On 14th June 2017, the video WHwNRV U5 was uploaded to YouTube, which gave a breakthrough to the Minderian community. Another boom in popularity came from The Ultimate Windows History with Never Released Versions, created by SITWGOAT.
Another Minderian well known by the community is Arsenii Ivanov, known for his quick uploads of WNR and NROS, firstly making WNR as a pilot video in 3rd September in U4, then WNR1 in 5th November. As of today, he uses WNRSEC, which is considered a popular source for Arsenians. Arsenii made his most popular WNR video in January 2019, Windows Never Released 100
Nebula is the creator of the WNR Ultramega series that was first started on May 2018, Hidden OS Startup sound (September 2018) and WHwNRV U6 .zip file owner (Jan-Feb 2018) that was popular in Late-2018. 
Relations between Arsenii fans and other Minderians became worse, and the two sides broke up once again in January 2019, and was further strengthened on February because of the Bootleg Incident, and a new logo created for Minderia, that was used by GMM before planned data.
After Spring 2019, Spyonclear retired from being a Minderian, although he still creates far future bootscreens for Sviger Kit.
In December 2019, Strangefin became a Non-Minderian, but continues to use far-future versions in his own, simpler style.
On the same month, Spyonclear revealed his text-based WNR, while text-based WNR 5 up to 35.1 being Minderian. He has been known to poke fun of his past WNR series due to having gibberish ideas, and far-future ideas. These ideas are revealed to be on .pdf files to be collected in a .zip file of WNRs. WNRSEC's prototype was also revealed.
On the 27th of June 2020, Nebula was banned from WNAS, which caused him to "leave" the OSM community and make Chromatican hate videos, reviving the conflict between Nebulians and Chromaticans.
In fact, since July until August 2020, he and his loyalists used a role of Anti-Chromatican attacker, which contradicted the "I quit WNR/NROS" hoax. It required a month for Nebula to "return" to community.
In October 2020 Arsenii released WNR 188 and 189, boosting Minderian influence. In that month Ornate used cartoon ideas for Hidden Windows Startup Sound.
During Chromatic's OSM 40 premiere, it was revealed that Chromatic quit using Minderia's style.
== Types of Minderians ==
=== Traditional Minderians ===
Also known as "True Minderians". These are the users who continue to use U5 (or occasionally U5's usability update by Strangefin) instead of many other kits.
Prominent members are WindowsNeverReleasedTLE and ImmanuelSMB, although the former also produces traditional mockups in a seperate "Traditional Mockups" series.
=== Progressivist Minderians ===
These are Minderians who try to improve on Minderianism or mix it with traditional mockups.
Prominent members are CompactStar and MNSC.
=== Arsenians ===
Arsenians are a group of Minderians, named after Arsen54800. They have been the subject of many controversies in the OSM community, due to their bad-made mockups and stolen ideas.
Prominent members are Arsen54800, Heavy Pilot, and Windows XP (user).
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