AdZU Cheating Incident

The AdZU Cheating Incident was a conflict between AdZU students that suddenly caused the rapid decrease of AteneoCord's AdZU members. It occurred on February 4, 2022, and became one of the main reasons why AteneoCord members dislike AdZU. It rose in popularity due to the Palig Crisis, which directly affected itai, the only active AdZU member at the time, causing them to get suspended and leave the AteneoCord permanently.
== Background==
On February 2-4, 2022, AdZU Grade 10 students cheated on their 3rd Quarter Exams, talking in AdZU Voice Chat and sharing screenshots of their answers in #📚 | school-chat. An AdZU student named itai took this as an opportunity to promote AdZU activity in AteneoCord since most AteneoCord members still considered AdZU members as robots. itai started sharing screenshots of the AdZU Voice Chat in #💬 | general-chat with the caption "ADZU STRONG" below it, and some members noticed. They also posted an invite link to the server on their club's announcements page, causing more AdZU students to join the server, which some AteneoCord members assumed was due to the cheating.
== Conflict between AdZU members==
On February 4, a Facebook Messenger group named "Jet's mf basement" was simultaneously cheating in the exams. One of the AdZU Voice Chat members named Ito was getting answers from the Messenger group and sending them to #📚 | school-chat. The Messenger group saw this and reacted against it, so they confronted the students in the AdZU Voice Chat. A total of 11 members were in the AdZU Voice Chat, six of which were the ones who were already in the voice chat, and the other five were from the Messenger group. At first, one of the members of the Messenger group called itai out for streaming the exam in the voice chat but shortly revealed that they were kidding. However, once they saw the #📚 | school-chat, things started getting worse as they assumed that cheating wasn't allowed in the server, citing Milktea's question to earthworMGD, a server admin. 
After seeing that itai's been sending screenshots of the voice chat, they panicked and left the server. After which, itai received death threats from one member of the Messenger group because of it and got advised to lay low from a few of their friends who had relations with the group. 
=== Rapid decrease of AdZU members ===
AteneoCord's AdZU population rapidly decreased due to a false rumor that AdZU teachers planned on investigating the server, which directly prompted AteneoCord's admins to delete #📚 | school-chat and #🏫 | adzu-chat, and lock the server down for three days.
After the lockdown, u2, a server admin, posted the story on the #📖 | lore channel, which put both itai and all AdZU students in a bad light. Members of AteneoCord started countering opinions from any AdZU member by referencing the cheating incident to make their statements invalid while also degrading them. The server implemented a new rule to stop other students from cheating on the server again.
At this time, itai proposed to create a wiki page for the AteneoCord after getting interested in the infoboxes u2 posted on #📊 | campaign-feb-2022. After u2 agreed with the proposal, itai founded the AteneoCord Wiki and promoted it in #💬 | general-chat. People started adding pages about themselves and different events on the server, which inspired itai to create a page of themselves. On February 20, 2022, itai added the cheating incident to their wiki page.
==Harassment from AdMU students==
On February 22, 2022, two AdMU Grade 10 students, namely CRAZYgoggalcon and THRASHER, were repeatedly joining Open Voice 2, the voice chat that both itai and Perry were in, shouting insults then immediately leaving. itai immediately reported the incident to ModMail, but the staff who responded, earthworMGD, didn't seem to treat it as a severe issue because of lack of evidence.
While itai was reporting the incident, CRAZYgoggalcon attempted voice calling itai and addressing them by their real name. They obtained their real name because itai displayed their Facebook account in their profile. itai blocked CRAZYgoggalcon, which prompted them to repeatedly send DMs to Perry, who was in Open Voice 2 together with itai. CRAZYgoggalcon then started blackmailing itai through Perry's private messages by threatening to get them expelled if they didn't unblock them. Perry then interrogated CRAZYgoggalcon why they wanted itai to unblock them, but they kept dodging questions and continued blackmailing. cold feet, who was also in Open Voice 2, was also DMed by THRASHER, who did the same as CRAZYgoggalcon.
After what happened, itai decided to rant in the #🤬 | vent-or-rant-here channel and exclaimed why they didn't deserve harassment for what they did, further clarifying that no one should receive harassment at all. An AdMU Grade 10 student named kristov, who pretended to be from AdZU, haphazardly argued that what CRAZYgoggalcon did was moralized in this situation because of how "stupid" itai was, and itai, from the heat of the moment, repeatedly insulted kristov, mentioning how they formed their argument was going off-topic. Others were siding with itai due to how confusing, unrelated, and targeted kristov's statements were when they read it from the beginning.
A day later, CRAZYgoggalcon and THRASHER proceeded to post a warning on itai's talk page on the AteneoCord Wiki. itai got worried, seeing as both CRAZYgoggalcon and THRASHER discovered the wiki page and threatened them, so itai deleted the page. u2 and earthworMGD later banned both CRAZYgoggalcon and THRASHER because of their harmful behavior in AteneoCord.
===Involvement in the Palig Crisis===
On February 24, 2022, Del Castillo led the raiding of an unlisted AdMU Palig live stream, using fake accounts that had the real names of three AteneoCord members. Those impersonated include u2, Remmacaronie, and itai, using their real names to expose the AteneoCord server's existence and making those affected responsible for what happened. During the raid, many AdMU members started panicking as they tried to find out who was leading it. A member named Peron mentioned itai's real name in #💬 | general-chat and asked if he could stop the raid, but itai wasn't involved with it since the live stream was unlisted. 
AteneoCord eventually realized that the person leading it was CRAZYgoggalcon because there was a commenter in the live stream named "DEC41 GOGGAL, Connor Kresy," which was an anagram of his username having a profile picture that matched his Discord profile picture. earthworMGD also got a comment from the same person on one of his videos on his YouTube channel and addressed him by his real name.
thumb|AteneoCord members spamming in retaliation against the AdMU investigation.
After the rest of AteneoCord heard about this incident, a few members started leaving the server or changed their usernames and profile pictures. In retaliation, most of those who decided to stay in AteneoCord spammed phrases created by itai, such as "GLORY TO THE ATENEOCORD! REVOLUTION OF OUR TIMES!" or the Glory to Hong Kong anthem lyrics with "Hong Kong" being replaced to "AteneoCord." Others also spammed the AdDU Blue Knight song lyrics.
====Martial law is enacted====
Due to the incident, the AdMU administration started an investigation to identify the individuals or the group who did the raid, which they assumed was AteneoCord because it was mentioned repeatedly during the live stream. The AdDU administration later joined the investigation because AdDU students were reportedly involved in the raid. The AteneoCord Staff Team imposed Martial Law on the server, temporarily stopping new AdMU members from verifying. As of March 28, 2022, the AdMU investigation has concluded, but the AdDU investigation is still ongoing.
===itai gets suspended===
On March 1, 2022, itai was called to the Office of the Prefect of Discipline (OPD), suggesting he was "allegedly involved in a cheating incident," and the AteneoCord Staff Team suspected that CRAZYgoggalcon composed the report because of the threats and blackmail itai received before this. The prefect mentioned that the AdZU JHS Principal received an email regarding the cheating incident, and evidence provided to them cited the AteneoCord in every screenshot. The first screenshot showed itai's linked profiles, which had their Facebook profile name. It convinced the prefect that itai was involved in the incident and all the other evidence they had. It also included screenshots from the rant, arguments against kristov, the #📖 | lore channel, and itai's wiki page. The reporter also described each photo without full context, such as itai "being put in a questionable position due to them deleting their wiki page." Not one single screenshot of the cheating itself was ever mentioned or included in the evidence.
The prefect tasked itai to write a letter explaining how the incident happened, explaining how they needed to hear both sides of the story. However, it did not help him defend himself because he couldn't without showing evidence; all of what he provided was on a piece of paper. 
After the AteneoCord heard that itai got called to the OPD, some members, mostly AdMU, started gaslighting itai, repeating phrases like "It's your fault" or "You deserved it." After which, itai couldn't handle the stress from AteneoCord and felt that he was no longer welcome on the server, so he left AteneoCord and deactivated his Discord account.
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