Meme Council Ranking System

The Meme Council's ranking system is complex, and Memebers have quite a large variety of roles to earn, or purchase, to give themselves fake bragging points. Its kind of like the most ironic jacket of medals of all time, as nobody takes it seriously.
== History ==
Ranks have been around in the Meme Council mythos since the Hangout era, when the "Ranks for Meme Council" chat was set up to organize everybody's role. The chat was made on February 16, 2018, and chat was prohibited, only updated by The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder and Meme Lord. The list was to help connect everybody's real name to their username so new memebers wouldn't get confused, as well as list their Level, Class, Rank, and, if necessary, Title.
I will explain in a moment what each of these are and how they are ordered eventually; but it must be understood that the base core of the Meme Council is its theming around The Lord of the Rings. Just a week after Meme Lord joined the chat, he began officially writing down the rank system, and thus, the Class system was made. The Classes were based around the races of Middle Earth and those who received the Rings of Power; ("3 rings for the elven-kings, 7 rings for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, 9 rings for mortal men, doomed to die, and one for the dark lord, to rule them all"). Thus, everyone was divided into these ranks, Meme Lord becoming the "Lord of the Memes", Sly Frog Fry and The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder becoming essentially the 2nd in command, Sly Frog Fry as the Nazgul Khamûl, and Cinder became The Witch-King of Angmar. A "Gollumn" role was also added as a joke, where Taken Bacon originally took its spot, though Tritch held the spot for the rest of its existence. 
In the beginning there were not enough Memebers to fill every spot so the system worked fine, and would not become irrelevant until the Memeber count exceeded the Class count.
== Original Rank System ==
The first ever meme-based Ranking system was written by Meme Lord on a google doc sometime around January 30, 2018. This system was based on internet knowledge and/or the amount of memes made by the memer. The doc was copy-pasted into the hangouts Rank chat and thus served as the first system. The rank was usually followed by a meme count, to help set a goal for how many memes had to be made to fit in the role. Here is that exact list:
* Uncultured Swine: Knows nothing of memes 
* Meme Peasant: Knows what memes are, doesnt make them 
* Meme Miner: Finds memes on the internet, knows a small deal of memes 
* Meme Spelunker: Knows a very decent about memes, finds good ones on the internet, but doesn't make them 
* Meme Squire: Knows a ton about memes, have made at least 1 meme (1) 
* Junior Memer: Begins making memes (1-10) 
* Meme Understudy: A rare form of memer that takes meme advice from a Meme Lord themself and uses their advice to create memes. (5-15) 
* Senior Memer: Has made memes over a period of 3 weeks (10-30) 
* Memer: Makes memes at a regular rate (50-75) Meme Smith: Makes memes constantly, has a meme account on a meme generator (75-100) 
* Cat Memer: Rare form of memer that does nothing else but make decent cat memes. (50-100) 
* Meme Blacksmith: Makes memes constantly, has an account on a meme generator, knows a great deal about memes, occasionally edits memes found on the internet (100-125) 
* Meme Forger: Has made over 150 memes, started at least 1 meme fad (150-175) 
* Meme Warrior: Has made over 175 memes, has started at least 1 meme war (175-200) 
* Meme Knight: Has made over 200 memes, started at least 3 meme wars, known by a decent amount of people for your memes on the internet (200-225) 
* Meme Wizard: Has made over 250 memes, started a decent amount of meme wars, a decent amount of memes are well known for being dank, or professionally good, and also is known by a very decent amount of people on the internet for their memes. (250-275) 
* Meme Mage: Has made over 275 memes, known for starting meme wars, has over 150 memes saved on pc, well known for memes, makes profesional memes and also has converted a small part of their speech to “memese”, or communicating with memes in perfect memes. (275-299)
* Meme Lord: Highest in the meme order, super-rare, known for making over 500 memes, starts meme wars all the time, makes profesional memes constantly, has over 300 memes saved on pc, has converted half their speech using only memes, tends to have converted other parts of their lifestyle with memes such as clothing or other physical objects. (500-5000) 
* Meme Overlord: Ultra-rare, meme-obsessed freak of nature. Extremely rare and hard to find since they have officially converted their lives into memes. They know no other means of speech besides memes and miscellaneous swear words. Are known to be alone in damp basements with powerful computers with over 9000 memes. They have little authority over Meme Lords since they are extremely obnoxious and don’t have any common sense left.(9001-12000) 
* Meme: As of right now, Meme is not even a human being. They are acts of fiction where a human beings soul turns into a meme of their choice and becomes trapped into the computer. Only 1 recorded “Meme” to exist: Dabbing Squidward.(Infinity)
This system isn't regarded very much at all today, let alone at all. However it was carried over to the Council Discord and each member did receive their appropriate rank role, often with custom emojis to give it a theme. The ranks are still around to this day and forged the construct of what each Memeber's skill was based off of, Mike Kachowski still dubbed as a "rare memer" for instance. To date, only one other Memeber had reached the "Meme Lord" rank before this system was more or less disregarded, and this was none other than The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder, who still carries the role. 
== Levelling System ==
The Levelling system was also present in the hangout days and went hand-in-hand with the ranks. The number would be increased based on activity, meme quality and quantity, and other random things Meme Lord thought worthy. Originally, Meme Lord considered that the level should go up to 50, but ended up thinking of shortening it to 45 as he drastically made it more difficult to level up as a good handful of loyal memebers were already in the 30's. Despite this, a few memebers were soon already at the low 40's and thus, Meme Lord, partially out of spite and not wanting 4 memebers to be at max level alongside him as he made the system, set the cap at 44. And thus it remains to this day.
The levelling system is still used, based almost solely on activity and meme count these days, and randomly updated by Meme Lord. It is displayed as a Role for easier use and changes in color as the number increases. Over the years a good handful of Memebers reached max level, and as of this writing, 7 memebers have reached level 44. 
== Title System ==
As previously mentioned, Khamûl and the Witch-King were roles used to indicate top-of-class, so in this case, the two most infamous Nazgul were the top of the 9 Men. Other roles were made, Mike Kachowski being the top of the Dwarves, Thrain, and Grumpy Cat the Elf being Celebrimbor. However this proved to be basically pointless at this point, and was disregarded as the roles began to appear quite congested. The original titles of Man, Dwarf, Elf, and Meme Lord are still kept to this day, however now there is an inaccurate amount of certain classes due to more and more memebers joining. The only roles that still exist are the Khamûl and Witch-King roles, still on their respective owners, out of their respect for the old ways and Lord of the Rings.
== Order System ==
The Meme Council Order system is something else entirely, also invented during the Hangout days, started on 2/15/2018. They are explained and listed in detail on its respective page, but the idea, taking inspiration from the "Order of Merlin, (x)st class" system from Harry Potter, was to more or less allow memebers to earn a "Badge of Honor" for creating a high amount of quality memes based on a certain category. They were based on 3 classes, the higher number of memes made in the category, the higher the class. Today, 8 orders exist, 7 memebers possessing at least one Order. (Paddington 2 Woodenscottish's exit from the Council leaves the Order of the Spughet with no owners).
The Orders remain one of the hardest roles to achieve, and its not too surprising that they have more or less fallen into mystery, almost no memebers noticing them or aiming to collect their own.
== BitMeme Ranking System ==
Ranks are also given to those who have an excess amount of BitMemes, to show off their BitMeme wealth. Starting at Steve Jobs (300 BitMemes) and ranking all the way up to Smaug the Golden (5000 BitMemes), these are also rare to see in the Meme Council, but far more easily earnable, as levelling up, and getting memes archived/messages pinned allows for an easy flow of BitMemes.
== Custom Roles ==
Originally having to be paid for in BitMemes, but no longer, Meme Lord offered custom roles to ever memeber in order to give them a unique username color. Nearly each Memeber has their own that they dubbed. Additionally, some roles have been given out as accolades, and some examples are as follows:
* Certified Furry Slayer
** Given to Dat Hedgehog Boi for his several raids on furry discord servers...the consequences proved disasterous, unfortunately
* The E King
** Given to The Booper for a comical amount of "E" memes
* The Dancing Memer
** Given to The Booper for being the best dancer Abington Heights had ever seen and becoming more or less a celebrity and royally destroying the competition of every talent show
* Sly Frog
** Given to Sly Frog Fry for being, well, the Slyest Frog of course.
* Rythm Ringo
** Given to Ringo for his obsession with Muse and music in general
* Florida Man
** Given to Paddington 2 Woodenscottish for literally being Florida Man
* Dankest Redneck
** Given to Redneck Memer for being, you guessed it, the dankest redneck and sending a massive quantity of based dank memes over his many years of service
* Cursed Image Moderator
** Given to Dat Hedgehog Boi for recognition of the large amount of cursed images he has sent to the Council
* Among Us Veteran
** Given to Tactician for playing Among Us since its release in 2018, far, far before it became a meme. (One of the 20-30 people in existence to do so)
* Wordplay Wizard 101
** Given to Tactician for being an absolute wizard at wordplay
* A role MondayMan is yet to choose
** Self explanatory
* No u King
** Given to Spooderman the No U King for being an expert at the use of "No u" and never failing to use it in basically every argument up until this day
* *Celestial*
** Given to Tino for exemplary meme service and recognition of his server
* Fella in the Back
** Given to WMD for his dedication to Rep and ancient memes
* Devourer of Croissants
** Given to Carl Wheezer for his dedication to Carl and his priceless impression of the character
* Floyd Follower
** Given to The Snazzmaster for his loyalty and dedication to Chase Floyd
*Thanowlands Heart
**Given to Sly Frog Fry and Tino for suffering through She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (they like Daredevil)
* Ultimate Being of Pure Power
** Given to Megamind for being what the title of the badge suggests.
== Historical Roles ==
A number of historical roles have been given over time, to original members and those even older:
* Veteran
** Given to memebers who were part of the original Meme Council Hangout
* Ancient
** Given to the members part of Spooderman's group chat before Meme Lord reformatted it into the Meme Council.
*Primeval
**Given to Spooderman the No U King and Sly Frog Fry for being the very first memebers. If Tritch was still present he would also get this role.
=== Other ===
* Nation States
** Now-deleted role given to memebers who were currently playing Nation States and were part of the now-deleted Meme Council Region
== Legacy ==
While the Meme Council's ranking system is more of a joke than anything, a fake list of accolades for meme-based achievements that memebers can earn, some memebers take it quite seriously, and there are one or two examples where things got a little heated when classes were switched around. While this dedication is to be commended, its worth remembering that it is just a meme server at the end of the day. 
Also you're lame if you don't have 7+ roles its a full on competition you gotta beat everyone, get those Orders and reach level 44 do it become a hero
Category:Meme Council Lore
Category:2018