AteneoCord

AteneoCord is a community run by the students of the various branches of Ateneo universities across the Philippines. Here, members can communicate with past and present students from all 7 Ateneo Universities. Originally, it began as a server dedicated to students from Ateneo de Davao. But soon, all branches were allowed in. Famous for it's drama and randomness, there is always something new for you in AteneoCord! 
==History==
===Beginning===
"Grade 8 and Friends" (4 July - 30 July 2021) 
It was in the month of July in 2021, Theo and the Founders had an idea of making a Discord server for his batch, the Grade 8 students of Ateneo de Davao. He turned it into a reality on July 4, 2021. The server, at that time known as “Grade 8 and Friends”, was created. It started to grow slow and steady, more and more Ateneans joined, and invited their friends, and repeat. Until one day on July 12, 2021. The server skyrocketed with new members, this date is considered to be the first major growth of AteneoCord and was the first stepping stone to what the server is today. If it wasn’t for the member spike during this date, the server today would be much less popular with less members.
===The First Growth===
"AdDU JHS Friends" (July - September 2021)
With u2 now the Administrator, he began a series of reforms that made the server look more official and appealing to more members. Such as the first official rules of the server, reaction roles, a verification system, staff applications, most of what it has today was made by him at this time. The Server also experienced its second major growth at around July 20 - July 30 due to the server’s opening to Grade 9 students. Nnitro, Oven, Lara, Blooky, and Earth were one of the prominent members that joined at this time. The server was also renamed to “AdDU JHS Friends''.
====The Week of Blood====
===Calm before the Storm===
"AdDUCord" (September - October 2021) 
After the narrow escape from death, the server decided to open to all AdDU students, not just Grade 8 or 9. Every single AdDU student could now enter the server. Thus the server name was changed to “AdDUCord”. Nothing happened from here, the server was in relative peace, the member count grew again, to a whopping number of 270 members. 
===The non-AdDU refugee crisis===
Theo knew a cousin from Ateneo de Manila University. And he proposed to the members that he is planning on adding them to AdDUCord. The members were against the decision at first, but after a short time they agreed, Nobody knew that this would change the course of AdDUCord. The first members entered; members from both schools were introducing themselves, and exchanging words, such as the difference of each others' schools. The next few days would really be the same. Everyone was acting normal, no beef, everything and everyone is chill, without the knowledge of what this event leads them to.
===AteneoCord today===
"AteneoCord" (October 2021 - present) 
In October 6, 2021, Theo opened the server to Ateneo de Manila University and to other schools. The server became more popular with 1,000 members and the chat became more active than before. Then, the Ateneo Student League was formed. It is an organization to revolt against the staff team. 
====The Lara incident====
The Lara incident occurred on October 14, 2021. She was looking at random images at google and then she cam across with 2 African-American men. She joked about it and she said "They look the same." She was accused of racism but she did nothing wrong. There were members that are mass leaving the server because of fear and the server got locked down. Her father overheard it and she got in trouble. One of the admins did a podcast or a mock trial to determine if she is racist. 
====The Rapeman incident ====
A week after the Lara incident, the Rapeman incident happened. This time, NoName made a poll if Rapeman deserves VIP without consent from the staff team. u2 was very disappointed after seeing Rapeman getting the VIP role. So u2 proposed a bill whether to about reforming the VIP to the staff. Then, Blooky leaked it to the members. The admins decided whether to demote Blooky because he had gone to far. u2 then resigned from the head staff and Tsukki got the position. 
=====The October 22nd Revolution=====
====Micoist raids====
On November 10, 2021, A server raid was initiated by the Micoists against the server, and the staff members panicked. 
The Micoists raided the AteneoCord again and their goal was to get Tsukki_Man banned from the server; they failed due to unknown reasons. 
There were chaos once again and it was with the guy named Keyaru. He is hated in this server because he is down-bad and toxic. The Parliament with other kinds of parties like FDP, Communist, and many more was then established by u2. 
In 2022, Ateneo students became partners with Miriam students. 
====The AdDU Crisis====
There was a female member, well lets name her Kay out of privacy. So Kay was interacting with other AteneoCord members on general like every other normal member, except when she said a message that was taken out of context by the members, so they kept making fun of her out of irony. You know the usual AteneoCordian humor where they screenshot a message, remove a word in it and make it sound innapropriate or offensive, here is an example: 
So something similar happened to this Kay person, and the members called her out for it. Well this sounds like a harmless joke right? Apparently it wasnt for her. She reported it to her parents and then her parents were considering on reporting this server to AdDU. 
The Staff heard of this news, and quickly began negotiations with Kay. From January 28 to 29 the Staff attempted to calm Kay down, apparently she was ready to forgive the members but her parents were still insisting on reporting AteneoCord, so u2 decided to contact her parents and negotiate things out. Their parents finally reconsidered reporting and the server was saved from another investigation. 
==== AdZU Cheating Incident====
A group of Ateneo de Zamboanga students decided that it was a good idea to use AteneoCord to cheat on their exams. They first started by joining AteneoCord VC's during exam hours and sharing their answers, and then it spread into channels such as 📚┃school-chat and 📚┃homework-help. At first nobody didn't really mind and left them alone, but a few other AdZU students saw what they were doing, and some of them took things seriously, suddenly there was a rumor that someone reported these members to the AdZU teachers and AteneoCord was placed under investigation by them. 
Suddenly, the population of AdZU students fell, like very. The AdZU population of AteneoCord was cut nearly into half. The Staff Team had to ban AdZU members from entering AteneoCord from February 5th to February 7th of 2022 out of fear of the teachers joining the server to investigate/infiltrate. The Incident gradually died down as these members who cheated kept a low profile so the rumor stopped spreading and eventually died down. 
==== AdDU Student Council Election Scandal====
There were 2 political parties called the AMDG and the Magis Party, both were the dominant factions of the AdDU Student Council until the Magis Party collapsed in 2020 after their massive defeat in the elections. So now the AMDG party holds a one-party hegemony over the political spectrum of AdDU aside from some independent candidates. Blooky and u2, seeing this. Wanted to change things, they wanted to see the rise of the opposition in order to defeat the hegemony. They started using AteneoCord to promote and support several Independent candidates which were running against the AMDG Party candidates. 
While discussing plans for the elections. u2, Blooky and several other members made negative statements against the AMDG Party, calling them bad names such as "Teachers pets" or "Honors class nerds" and comparing them to the Hitler and the Nazis. But like how most AteneoCord dramas began, these were merely jokes and some people had to take it seriously. Several AMDG supporters who saw these messages, decided to spread rumors that AteneoCord was spreading hate and misinformation on the AMDG candidates. This rumor spread like wildfire, and it eventually reached the current AdDU Student Council and the AMDG Party themselves. Blooky and u2 had to apologize and said that those statements were not made in a serious intent, fortunately the AMDG party acknowledged their apology and forgave them.
Due to this incident, Blooky resigned from the Staff Team on February 11, 2022 and eventually left AteneoCord on February 14, 2022.
===The Lost Month ===
On February 24, 2022, several unknown suspects (presumably banned AteneoCord members who got salty) raided an unlisted AdMU official live stream, using fake accounts that had the real names of AteneoCord members, including notable users such as Remmacaronie and u2. Eventually exposing the AteneoCord server's existence to the AdMU teachers. AdMU launched an official investigation as they assumed the the one who led the raid was AteneoCord. Even though they did not, there was no way to inform them of that. The Staff Team immediately did countermeasures such as locking down verification to prevent investigators from joining the server, but fear was already spreading among members. Especially AdMU students who were most at risk. Even though the Staff tried reassuring the members that necessary countermeasures were made and the server is safe, that did not stop the members from leaving. With rumors, fake news and other factors contributing to the members fear made them leave.
The effect was massive, AteneoCord lost 200 members in a span of a week. The Investigation still continues to this day (as of March 25, 2022), but has largely died out and the majority of the server has moved on. AteneoCord is hoping for a quick recovery, but with the teachers knowledge of the server, many people are still hesitent to join back.
==Politics==
===Ateneo Server League===
The Ateneo Server League, founded by Blooky in the midst of the October 6th Revolution, was a major contribution to server democracy and overall server stability. Since the Revolution, the ASL with its wide network of members have worked on monitoring staff activities to ensure that Server Democracy is protected, they held several rallies, protests and other political events, most notably the protest against the Staff Team's decision to remove embed perms from members, which was lifted due to the pressure from the members and the ASL. But there was a problem, the ASL started to lose its original purpose day by day, members were joining not because to defend Server Democracy, but because for bragging rights and for clout. People have started to notice this, and a few decided to take action. 
ChunChunMaru, WasteofSpace and Klums formed the #OustASL movement on October 14, 2021. The Staff Team recognized the #OustASL organization as legitimate and granted them roles, the reason behind this is most likely because of the Staff Team's hatred for the ASL, and they were willing to support an organization that would help diminish them, but it is not proven. When Blooky found knowledge of the movement, he negotiated with his counterparts, and agreed to purge the majority of the ASL membership, and only keep the ones that were truly dedicated to fighting for Server Democracy.
On October 20, 2021. A sudden announcement was made, Blooky announced that the ASL would disband, due to them being satisfied with the system of Server Democracy in the server. And thus a major chapter of AteneoCord politics has ended.
===Era of Political Instability and civil war===
With Tsukki now the Head Staff, u2 and his allies are now effectively in the opposition. Accusing the Tsukki administration of corruption and personal bias on Moderation, especially with an incident, where a Moderator named Milktea, banned a user out of personal grudges and made up reasons. u2 made contact with prominent reformist and pro-democracy activists such as ChunChunMaru, WasteofSpace and keyaru, and established the AteneoCord Democratic Coalition. The group actively calls for the reformation of the Staff Team to erase their negative reputation among members as being biased, corrupt and incompetent.
The political instability reached its peak on November 18, 2021. When the Staff Team agreed to purge u2 from the Staff Team, they accused him for many reasons but many believe that he was ousted for his involvement with the AteneoCord Democratic Coalition. 
The Staff Team then established effective dictatorship when u2 was gone, they made new rules and regulations without the approval from the rest of the server, then proceeds to threaten any opposition with brutal suppression. u2 called for a revolution and for the members to revolt. Numerous members and organizations stood with him, until 2 days later on November 20, 2021. The owner of the server, Theo. Finally decided that it was time to intervene. He has been long inactive in this server for this entire time due to personal reasons, and this was considered as the main reason for the instability. With Theo gone, the Staff were fighting to fill in the power vacuum, which resulted to the situation right now.
Theo's intervention effectively ended the instability. He made it clear that Server Democracy was to be followed, he made several polls. Such as asking the members if they wanted u2 back as Administrator or not, should the Head Staff position be abolished, and many more.
With his intervention, u2 was restored as Administrator on November 21, 2021. And the Head Staff position was officially abolished and Tsukki demoted to Administrator, peace was finally here for the first time in weeks.
=== AteneoCord Parliament===
The AteneoCord Parliament was introduced by u2 and Blooky to further empower the members of the server and give them equal representation alongside the Staff Team, a referendum was held in December 12, 2021 and it was approved by the majority of the members. And elections were announced to be held in December 20th. Each of the parties campaigned hard, there was competitions, debates, and arguments, but it was the voters that decided. On election day, the FDP won a landslide victory of 7 seats, securing a majority in the Parliament's 13 seats, while the Communists and the McGuckets won 3 seats each, and the National Rebirth League won none.
With the December 2021 elections over. The Parliament began their work, But was met with many problems. The PDP-Laban government in Parliament was seen as weak, ineffective and incompetent, and sometimes even corrupt. And since the Administrator positions were occupied by pro PDP-Laban people, the opposition parties could barely pass any bills that would be unfavorable to the staff.
In February 2022, the second election season began. PDP-Laban campaigned a yet again pro-status quo platform, promising to maintain the current growth and progress of AteneoCord, but rival parties such as the McGucket Party and the Popular Party formed a coalition against PDP-Laban and campaigned on a platform where they would defeat the status quo and advocate for major reforms. On election day, PDP-Laban was defeated, losing 2 seats and only being able to gain 37% of the 505 total votes counted. The McGucket party, who was able to win 7 seats formed a government coalition with PDP-Laban effectively in the opposition for the first time in the party's history.
====PDP-Laban====
PDP-Laban is a new party as a result of a merge between the Free Democrats and the Communists.
=====The Free Democrats=====
Formed by Naomie and u2, the FDP is the Official successor of the AteneoCord Democratic Coalition and its main priority is to protect the Freedom and rights of all AteneoCord members.
=====Communists=====
Formed by Blooky, the Party believes in a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Ideology, pushes for AteneoCord to be ran under the Socialist system.
====National Rebirth League====
Formed by Peron, the Party advocates for a far-right Conservative and Technocrat system and believes that it is the best system for AteneoCord.
==== McGuckets====
Formed by Remmacaroni, it is the neutral party of the server, and is the party that simply just want a decent server for every Ateneans to engage in.
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