The Broccoli Company

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== Overview ==
The Broccoli Company, most commonly known as T.B.C., is a fictional corporation in the Fredditlore Multiverse. Its creation date in the real world precedes Freddit's own creation, since it was thought of in 2014 on another server named Mineverse.
Throughout the years, it's been the most recognizable group in Freddit. Not only is T.B.C. a key component of lore as the most powerful company in most Fredditlore realities, it also existed as part of Freddit's actual history, with creations such as the Great Wall of Shitposting and Fanfiction Generator impacting Freddit's course of history for the worse.
It also has a private subreddit, /r/thebroccolicompany, and a Discord, although both are mostly not used.
== T.B.C. as a group ==
=== Origins in Mineverse (2014) ===
The Broccoli Company was created in summer 2014 by Zoocanadanda, one of Freddit's long standing users. It was eventually ported over from Mineverse to Freddit Freebuild around late 2015 with the construction of the Great Wall of Shitposting and the T.B.C. Labs world.
Mineverse was a plot-based creative Minecraft server where Zoo used to play on with a few friends. He got particularly invested when he realized he could buy and collect player heads that served as decoration, as well as what was known as God Items - regular Minecraft items that had particular unobtainable enchantments.
In the summer of 2014, while playing with his friend, Zoo was told of a glitch that allowed him to duplicate items from people's inventories by a player named DefDeef.
He began going to as many advertised plots as possible, duplicating item stashes and obtaining player heads, OP and glitched items, staff books, banners, maps, potions, and stashes with all kinds of content.
The amassing of so many items prompted Zoo to create a storage facility and a corporation to sell those items. He named the company The Broccoli Company.
Zoo's exploit of the /invsee glitch that allowed him to duplicate inventories and copying stashes was so effective, without any kind of premium rank, T.B.C. became the richest plot in Mineverse, without exaggeration.
Some of those items were spawned in by admins, and consisted of non-weapon items with freaky enchantments and names, but still somehow ended up on Zoo's possession.
Eventually, the /invsee glitch was patched and Zoo's interest in the server gradually dwindled. He would then move on to join Minecraft PvE's server nerd.nu, where he retold the story to friends he made there.
On July 2015, Zoo joined Freddit.
=== Origins in Freddit (2015) ===
T.B.C. emerged in Freddit around late 2015 with the creation of the tbc world. The exact circumstances of the revival aren't truly known, as there's no record of chat of those days.
However, it's known Zoo created a group called The Broccoli Company which was essentially an elite shadowy government that operated with command blocks.
Among its members were Freddit staff members and opped people, such as Pig, Psy, Megalex, Pres, Axe, Poke, Stick and Nue. Orb was also considered part of T.B.C..
Zoo created a world sometime in the end of 2015 called tbc. It was a 3-block superflat world meant for freely testing command block contraptions.
Only those with clearance were allowed into the world, and the spawn point had a testing mechanism to kick out players that didn't belong to T.B.C., playing into the elitism and secrecy that T.B.C. would adopt.
Pig created a command block shitpost on top of a Starbucks in the T.B.C. world. As time passed, more and more shitposts were added to what would become the Wall of Shitposting.
Around the T.B.C. world were several bases made by T.B.C. members, such as Stick's crafting table base, Will's shark base, Pres' Bill Cypher base and so on.
Eventually, a new world was created to allow for more contraption testing, called tbclabs. The Wall of Shitposting was ported over and gained so many shitposts over the years, it even got a fully functional Bee Movie script tellraw which is technically a Minecraft achievement. It became the Great Wall of Shitposting, one of the most iconic oldfag monuments.
In addition to the Wall, Zoo's personal storage stash was also located in the tbclabs world. It was reminiscent of the Mineverse storage, containing hundreds of chests filled with God Items and artifacts. 
It's still one of the most valuable collection of rare items in the server to this day.
== T.B.C. as a corporation ==
In early 2016, when the FazCo MC migration (not to be mistaken with the company FazDyn which used to be called FazCo) happened, a huge influx of players flooded the server (around 34 to 41 recorded new players in one sitting).
To prevent griefers and to capitalize on the flux of newcomers, Zoo founded the New Freddit City (/warp NFC) and told all the newbies to contribute. On it, several FNAF-themed builds and the A.S.S. 2 HQ (notoriously known for being the High Dimension castle from TFOF) as well as Zoo Bar & Hotel were constructed.
There, T.B.C. would evolve from a elitist shadowy government group to a corporate parody of capitalism that's well known today.
=== Origin ===
The beginning of T.B.C. as it's known today is marked by the construction of the T.B.C. Supermarket which purported to sell "unobtainable heads". On the entrance, the signs read:
Underneath the Supermarket was the T.B.C. Meth Lab.
This marked the start of T.B.C.'s identity and themes: the excessive propaganda, intrusive advertisements, shady dealings, lack of accountability, monopolization of market branches (including illegal ones such as meth dealing) and so on.
Zoo would frequently advertise the Supermarket, and later constructed the T.B.C. Bank next to it, featuring an underground basement with a cryogenically frozen Adolf Hitler.
With the creation of the supermarket and the bank, T.B.C. named itself as "the best company" in the server, and frequently threatened people who disagreed by sending them to the T.B.C. Asylum. The statement "You've been diagnosed with high levels of insanity." was frequently said before jailing people to the asylum, which was located in the tbc world.
The C.O.T.E. Labs (aka Center of the Earth Labs) had command blocks designed to spawn in a popcorn head into player's inventories, with the statement "Courtesy of The Broccoli Company!" on its description. The popcorn head dispenser was constructed before the T.B.C. Supermarket, making it the first T.B.C. item to be sold. 
As time went by, The Broccoli Company constructed more and more facilities and shops, as well as buying out other companies (like FiZZ INC). Some drama events occurred due to T.B.C.'s extreme advertisement (such as the beach drama caused by a sand castle spelling its name).
Some of T.B.C.'s most well known locations in Minecraft as of 2021 are:
* T.B.C. District
* T.B.C. Labs (location of the Wall)
* T.B.C. Supermarket
* T.B.C. Bank
* T.B.C. Gas Station
* T.B.C. Not a Meth Lab Under Our Hotel Hotel
* T.B.C. Hoopla Power Plant
* T.B.C. C.O.T.E. (inacessible)
* T.B.C. Asylum
* T.B.C. Mansion
* T.B.C. Court
* T.B.C. Tower
* T.B.C. Embassy
* T.B.C. Fried Chicken
* T.B.C. Aircraft Carrier (a no-lag spot used by Zoo to afk)
* T.B.C. Underground Facility
* T.B.C. P.E.E. Facility
* T.B.C. Police Department
* T.B.C. Storage
* T.B.C. Reverse & Reborn
* T.B.C. Oil Rig
* T.B.C. V.O.I.D.S. Vault (inacessible)
* T.B.C.'s St. JoJo Clinic for the Unsucked Cock
=== Conflict with other groups ===
==== SpurrCo ====
During T.B.C.'s initial aggressive expansion, Spurr contested the increasing propaganda along with another user named Soda, in a drama event later refered to as the Company Wars.
It was incited when Zoo built the letters "T.B.C." (3x3 each) using sandstone stairs and slabs on the RP City beach. Spurr thought this meant Zoo was claiming ownership of the beach, and then declared war on T.B.C..
It later escalated when Pig renamed Spurr's shop to T.B.C. Shop, and Spurr thought Zoo had done that. 
Spurr attempted to sue T.B.C., but when he realized T.B.C. also owned (and built) all the court houses in the server, he got even madder and started a rebellion against T.B.C.. 
Although there was drama attached to this event, with some refering to it as "company town wars", Spurr and Zoo would eventually make up and everything was eventually settled.
==== FazDyn ====
T.B.C. and FazDyn have always been toe-to-toe since the creation of the latter, due to Faz's opposition of T.B.C.'s aggressive expansion and intrusive propaganda.
There are some more serious drama events that occurred, such as the Jarab Takeover of early 2019, and some more joking conflicts like the Multiversal Debate of early 2020.
Some of these events would start out as non-serious, but would escalate into real drama due to either party. For example, when Faz surrounded the T.B.C. Embassy with tanks and intentionally griefed its northern wall, or when Zoo would poke fun at the name change from FazCo to FazDyn and it would anger Faz.
While some other events are just completely weird, for instance when Faz spammed Zoo's dms with futa porn and got insta banned for three days.
Nowadays, the conflicts between FazDyn and T.B.C. are only lore-based, such as the Purple Smog Type-C Multiversal Event that is currently on-going.
== T.B.C. in lore ==
=== T.B.C. in Mainlore ===
==== Survival Era ====
In the Mainlore Universe (or timeline), T.B.C. is first established not as The Broccoli Company but rather as the Turtle Breeding Company by Zoo Man's father, Nham Nham, in the Survival Era of Mainlore.
T.B.C. had ownership of the Shroom Island resort hundreds of years before the Cataclysm, and is classified as the oldest T.B.C. in the Multiverse by the A.N.A.L. Council.
Shroom Island was marked by its luxurious and elitist presence on Mainlore. Rich beings such as New Iron Age inhabitants came frequently to Shroom Island to gamble away their riches.
T.B.C. Securitrons were created not through engineering or mechanics, but rather by enchanting iron blocks with a heart of the sea. These iron golems protected the Island from wrong doers.
Eventually, the Great Cataclysm occurred which caused the creation of Death Chunks throughout the Multiverse, destabilizing planets and galaxies all across Fredditlore.
Mainlore was affected by the Cataclysm, and it brought on the destruction (or disappearance) of Shroom Island, marking the end of the Survival Era and the end of T.B.C., for now.
Nham's son, Zoo Man, fell into one of those Death Chunks and survived the tsunamis and earthquakes that wrecked the planet during the cataclysmic event.
==== Modern Era ====
Zoo Man eventually returned in the 60s to what was called Freddit City, and eventually founded The Broccoli Company in memory of Shroom Island.
In 1983, an over-reliance on Dogecoin caused a market collapse known as the Crash of '83 (not to be mistaken with the Crash of '87). This allowed small companies like T.B.C. and OrbCorp to get their entry point into the market as the big corporations fell under.
The creation of the T.B.C. Underground Facility allowed T.B.C. to develop T.B.C. Securitrons and Hoopla weaponry which would prove vital to stopping the Spurrian Invasion of 1988.
Once the alien Spurrian invaders were fought off by its Securitrons in 1988, public trust in T.B.C. skyrocketed. They founded the New Freddit City for survivors and rebuilt the destroyed city with help from OrbCorp and some other companies.
In 1990, the rebuilt city is renamed to RP City. T.B.C.'s networth grows exponentially each year, until the 2000s where a new currency (Zoo Testicles) is needed to keep up with inflation. In 2016, T.B.C.'s networth is simply not able to be represented by a real number, and a new branch of mathematics is created to represent its immeasurable value.
From 2016-2018, the Multiverse is discovered. Mainlore T.B.C. realizes their Universe is not the only one - and in fact, there is one gigantic network of T.B.C.s owned by a gigantic corporate megaconglomerate called the T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council, which oversees the Multiverse and owns most of T.B.C.s from alternate realities.
=== T.B.C. in the Multiverse ===
(Main article: the T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council)
Throughout the Fredditlore Multiverse, there are hundreds of thousands of T.B.C.s from alternate timelines that are assimilated into one larger T.B.C. called the T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council.
The Council, aka the T.B.C. Analysis and Neutralization of Abnormal Lores Council, is responsible for the stability of the Multiverse, and making sure T.B.C.s (or other companies) don't threaten the safety of Fredditlore.
This gigantic Multiversal T.B.C. is owned by a version of Zoo Man, simply referred to as the Multiversal CEO Zoo Man (or MCEO for short), the most powerful mortal man in the Multiverse. It's unknown which timeline this Zoo Man came from.
The T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council used to work with Jeff the Securitron, the most powerful being in the history of the Multiverse. Jeff is hyper-aware and breaks every single metaphysical law of the Multiverse. He's traveled beyond Fredditlore and "is responsible for his own creation", as he once stated.
However, Jeff went missing on October 19th, 2019, and since then, the stability of the Multiverse has been seriously compromised. The rise of Purple Smog attacks has risen, as well as other rogue Universes wrecking more havoc than before.
== Themes ==
=== Themes of T.B.C. ===
The Broccoli Company, in its essence, is an extreme parody of real life corporations. The themes behind it are mostly apparent, and have been described by Zoo several times in the past:
"It's when you stop and think about real-life corporations and take them to their logical conclusion. They always advertise their products as the only - the best - solution to the particular problem you have. Well, if that's true, then what if one company sold all the products, wouldn't they be the solution to all the problems? Like if Amazon sold the cure for cancer? That's where T.B.C. comes from. It purports to sell the solution to all your problems, with a happy-go-lucky attitude to it just like Amazon ads. But you and I know there's nothing more terrifying than imagining Amazon being the ones selling the cure for cancer." 
T.B.C.'s underground businesses, like the Meth Lab under the Supermarket, is representative of the ugly side of the corporate world. Beneath a wide array of products and services, hides an ugly truth built on shady dealings and explored workers.
Sometimes, this ugly side isn't even hard to find - and is sometimes even publicly known. Amazon's sweat shops or Nike's child labor is a matter of public record. Likewise, T.B.C.'s underground dealings are intentionally not hard to find either - like the easily accessible meth lab under the Supermarket.
However, people choose to ignore it and still consume products created by these companies because it is convenient. One of T.B.C.'s taglines is "Think less, buy more!", telling people not to think about where the product comes from and just buy it.
T.B.C. also represents the lack of accountability present in most real-life corporations. T.B.C. owns the government and the justice system, so it's impossible to even try to hold them responsible.
They frequently commit clearly questionable acts, but they've grown so big it's impossible to hold them accountable, highlighting the dangers of monopolization and corporate conglomerates. When one corporation sells all available products of a certain branch, it's increasingly harder to fight against it. Even harder when lobbying and interference in politics occurs.
The lesson to take away from T.B.C.'s themes is to not comply - contrary to one of its mottos of "We supply, you comply!". To not be eluded by the flashy words of "The BEST for LESS!" and think for yourself.
Note: not all T.B.C.s in the Multiverse are dystopic representations of capitalism. Mainlore's T.B.C., although worryingly gigantic, is mostly seen with a positive, if at times mixed, reputation.
=== Themes of the Multiversal CEO Zoo Man ===
The CEO of the A.N.A.L. conglomerate is described as a disconnected, cynical individual. Exposed to thousands and thousands of timelines, he's seen almost every outcome of everyone's life.
Even though he's the most powerful individual, he's been described as feeling powerless and insignificant due to the sheer vastness of the Multiverse.
The T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council represents a conglomerate so impossibly gigantic, one even feels fear just thinking about what that would look like in real life. Its CEO is responsible for thousands of timelines, each with its own T.B.C. responsible for an entire planet. 
The sheer scale of this corporate loop of the top 1% of the top 1% highlights how easy it is for its leaders to get disconnected from humanity as a corporation gets bigger and bigger. 
However, even in the face of all the existential terror he feels, the MCEO still manages to pull a happy-go-lucky businessman persona when talking with other people, even if sometimes that facade slips away.
== Gallery ==
File:TBC Logo.png|The T.B.C. Logo
File:ANALsmaller.png|The T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Logo
File:HOOPLAPP.png|The RP City T.B.C. Hoopla Power Plant
File:CockboySchematic.png|The schematics for the T.B.C. Cock-Boy, one of its most famous sold goods.
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