Mimi

Warning: This page contains a suicide mention. Reader discretion is advised.
Mimi, or breezehawk40, was a SAMBer who supposedly killed herself, only to reveal that her suicide was faked by a cousin who hacked her account. The incident occurred shortly after the IR/SA Randomness War, which was closely linked to the suicide Emerald, of one of the IRMB's members. 
There were many parallels between Emerald and Mimi's suicide letters and how they were released to the forums. Emerald had ended her life several months before her death was announced on the IRMB by her brother, David. Similarly, Ashton—Mimi's cousin—was the one to release Mimi's suicide to the SAMB. Both relatives used a simple black font, a stark contrast to the vibrant fonts and colors that Emerald and Mimi had used before their letters were posted. Since they were using the deceased MBer's account, both boys altered the signatures and signed the end of each post to avoid any confusion (-David and /Ashton, respectively). 
Within a day of its posting, the thread containing Mimi's suicide letter and Ashton's explanation disappeared without warning. The SAMBers who hadn't seen the post were confused about what had happened to Mimi, and the MBers who had were upset to loose the last link to their friend. Thanks to the war with the IRMB and the subsequent Samurai Gang, emotions were already high on the SAMB. The loss of Mimi's letter pushed many over the edge, and they began to spam the mods in an attempt to restore the post. After a day of protesting, the moderators explained that they had not removed the letter. Instead, a glitch in the filter had randomly deleted Mimi's post. The faulty system deleted the reposted letter too, but a copy was saved on the Scholastica Wikia. The mods expressed their sadness over Mimi's death, and advised the SAMBers to talk about their grief with other forumers and people in real life. The SAMBers created memorial threads for Mimi, where they posted music, poems, memories, or discussed their emotions about her death. 
Because of the deletion glitch, many SAMBers were still confused about what happened. This confusion was amplified when, on October 2, Mimi posted one of her new poems. The thread was not signed by Ashton, but instead ended with Mimi's trademark signoff—Love mimi. Once Mimi realized everyone thought she was dead, she explained that her cousin must have hacked her account and fabricated the fake suicide story while she was on a break from the SAMB. How Ashton wrote such a convincing impersonation of Mimi is unclear—some believe that he found a suicide note in Mimi's belongings that was never used, others speculate that Ashton was a character created by Mimi herself. 
Mimi may have provided more insight on the matter, but the glitch removed her explanation thread, along with several other important posts. Confusion over the event and issues with the filter were resolved in time, and Ashton never resurfaced.
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