The Greatest Group Ever Created

The Greatest Group Ever Created, also known by its acronym TGGEC, is a chat group on the instant messaging app Kik. It was founded in 2014 by Sage Gaska.
== History ==
=== Founding ===
Sage Gaska had recently downloaded Kik, based on recommendations from his friends. He had a few individual conversations with friends and a few random chats but he wanted to make a large group. He created a group titled "Leesville" in 2014. He added a few friends and told them to add everyone they knew who went to Leesville Middle School. 
=== Renaming & Further Growth ===
In early 2015, the group had grown exponentially, but it still mostly stayed within one friend group, not the entire school. Sage decided to rename the group to The Greatest Group Ever Created, and officially opened the group to anyone.
After this, the group started growing exponentially. Sage told everyone to add whomever they like, and many now active members joined such as Matthew Howe, Matthew Lewis, and Emily. During summer 2015, the group was very active.
=== Admingate ===
Main article: Admingate
On July 30, 2015, Sage Gaska made Matthew Howe an admin. This was met with overwhelming backlash from the members of the group. Most of the active people left the group. Sage was forced to create a new group. It had the same name, but was public with the hashtag #thegreatestgroupevercreated.
=== Father Grigori is promoted to Admin ===
After the failure of Matthew as Admin, Sage promoted his friend and President of the Grigori Republic, Father Grigori. This went over with little to no resistance.
=== Increase of democracy ===
Every now and then, Sage would create polls on strawpoll.me that people would vote on. This was popular.
=== First ever admin election ===
Main article: The Greatest Group Ever Created Admin Election, 2016
On July 27, 2016, Sage announced that they were holding an election for admin. Adrian Castillo, Victoria Price, and Matthew Howe were the three who announced their candidacies. Price won with 78% of the vote and was promoted on November 13, 2016.
=== Fake accounts & corruption protests ===
In November and December of 2016, several of Adrian and Rodrigo's friends joined TGGEC. The accusations of Sage Gaska's fake accounts came back, and an impeachment vote was brought against Victoria Price. The vote ended in a tie, going to the admins to break the tie. They voted to keep Price and reinstated her as an admin on December 5, 2016.
=== Second admin election ===
Main article: The Greatest Group Ever Created Admin Election, 2017
On December 6, 2016, the day after Victoria Price was returned to admin, Sage Gaska announced that a new election would be held for admin. This was celebrated by Adrian, Rodrigo, and the others fighting against the current admins. Seven group members announced their candidacy. Matt Lewis won the election with 50% of the vote.
=== New members and Jacobgate ===
=== Decline ===
=== The Bot Era ===
Starting with the departure of Elliot Chen in late 2017, the group entered what is defined as the "Bot Era". Kik overall was becoming infested with "bots". Typically, these accounts had user photos that were attractive women and claimed that they were women looking for a partner. These users were fake and controlled by programs meant to spam groups in order to advertise sex services. More and more "bots" continued joining the group, and Sage Gaska eventually allowed them to stay in order to make it look like the group was more active. As there were no real users left (with the exception of Gaska himself) there was no one to complain. As of November 2018, the bots has largely stopped sending messages.
== Admin structure ==
See also: Admin, Chief Admin
The Greatest Group Ever Created is managed by the Admins, and led by the Chief Admin. Sage Gaska has served as the Chief Admin since the founding of the group in 2014.