Boom Brigade

Boom Brigade is a 2022-2023 calendar project featuring the Bakusquad, a fan-dubbed name for a group of characters from Boku no Hero Academia consisting of Katsuki Bakugou, Eijiro Kirishima, Mina Ashido, Denki Kaminari, and Hanta Sero. This project, among other projects, was involved in a case of moderator misconduct.
==About==
The project was announced on March 21, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1373795066372894722. Its interest check went live on April 5, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1379219312016261122. The project would be for-profit and contributors would be required to be over 18 yearshttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1383465726678245378. Interest checks closed on April 28, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1387409535917297666. A reported 172 responses were receivedhttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1388890646740709378.
Contributor applications ran from May 10 to May 31, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1391749452889739270. The project reported 95 applications submittedhttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1399709954852986883.
Preorders opened on September 1, 2021, with the following pricing tiershttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1433084220667318273:
* Pink Acid ($15 USD) - PDF Calendar, Discord Emoji Pack, Wallpapers, Icon Pack
* Rock Solid ($25 USD) - Print Calendar, Stretch Goals
* Tape Escape ($35 USD) - Print Calendar, Sticker Sheet, Postcards, Die Cut Stickers, Prints, Stretch Goals
* Zap Pack ($40 USD) - Postcards, Sticker Sheet, Prints, Calendar Magnet, Die cut Stickers, Charm, Buttons, Stretch Goals
* Big Boom ($50 USD) - Print Calendar, Postcards, Sticker Sheet, Prints, Calendar Magnet, Die cut Stickers, Charm, Buttons, Stretch Goals
Buyers could include the digital bundle to physical orders for an additional fee. Stretch goals included a star button at 50 orders, washi tape at 75 orders, a shaker charm at 100 orders, and an enamel pin at 125 ordershttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1434256246631280643.
A giveaway for a full bundle was run from October 5 to October 8, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1445401328730222598. The winner was Twitter user FallynWriterhttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1446545775715143680. The project also ran sales in honor of events such as Eijirou Kirishima's birthday on October 11 https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1447539357615804423. Preorders closed on October 17, 2021 with a reported 208 ordershttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1449722659059687426. Digital bundles continued to be sold during the production periodhttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1450462426764304394.
After a controversy involving moderator misconduct and a subsequent cancelling of preorders, the project reopened preorders on November 25 and ended on November 30, 2021https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1463827063467651073. Additional merchandise was included in this round, including some prints of calendar illustrations, a polaroid charm, and more sticker sheetshttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1464606998247485441.
Orders were shipped out starting on February 8, 2022https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1491177437765709825. Digital orders were sent out on March 3, 2022https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1499437378393493509. Leftover sales ran from March 20 to April 20, 2022https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1505653211495120896. The project was concluded on July 11, 2022https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1546545555098173440.
 Project Schedule
 	Start 	End
Interest Check 	April 5, 2021 	April 28, 2021
Contributor Applications	May 10, 2021 	May 31, 2021
Preorders 	September 1, 2021	October 17, 2021
Second Preorders 	November 27, 2021	November 30, 2021
Shipping 	February 8, 2022 	March 3, 2022
Leftover Sales 	March 20, 2022 	April 20, 2022
==Moderator Misconduct==
On November 12, 2021, the project's social media account reported that Silver, their finance moderator, engaged in unprofessional behavior, resulting in the jeopardy of this project along with multiple projects, including Thunderstruck, Underdogs, Creati's Craft Compendium, and Plain to Famehttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1459206240744222725. Customers were encouraged to request refunds and cancel their preorders. The project's social media account released a statement on Google Documents and an outline on Silver's behavior. The document included lengthy screenshots of multiple project's Discord servers.
While the project was undergoing its interest check, Seeress, the project's initial finance moderator, announced on Boom Brigade's Discord server that they could not continue serving on the project, citing health and personal reasons. Boom Brigade's moderator team would then bring in Silver, who had reached out to an open call for a new finance role. Months into planning if the project could support making a magnet calendar, Silver began to not respond to queries they were tagged in. Instead, they changed the subject when they were online or quibbled over whether or not other members of the mod team were excluding them. Following this, Silver failing to keep the mod team updated on their contact with a manufacturer.
Another incident included Silver misinforming a merch artist into changing a design for an charm. After another mod discovered a discrepancy about the changed design on the project server, investigation by other moderators revealed that Silver had decided on a new charm design without consulting the rest of the team and confirming the pricing. After much delay in response from Silver, the team discovered the new design of the charm was too costly to support and the merch artist had to return to their original design.
As the project approached its preorders phase, Silver had more unannounced absences and could not answer finance questions from the rest of the team. Despite their failure to maintain reliable connection with the rest of the mods, Silver affirmed that they would still work on the project. Silver also refused to provide finance logins, citing potential exposure of personal information. After preorders ended, the mod team struggled to confirm with Silver that merchandise was in production, despite the fact that Silver was certainly active online on Tumblr and Discord, both of which the other mod team members used to contact them. The mod team released the statement on November 12, 2021, after Silver would not respond to their calls to release the funds. The situation was resolved on November 13, 2021, when Silver agreed to transfer all zine funds to the other moderatorshttps://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1459552130419810306.
The Google Documents statement also included accounts from other projects who faced a similar situation with this particular mod.
==Contributors==
The following names were taken from the project's social media account.
===Page Artists===
* 1Alchemistart
* Arcyn (arcynnamon)
* Ari (yallstari) - Guest
* Danni (dmochii_)
* Dee (bkkrhoes) - Guest
* Ericah Brillina
* forloveofnerd
* Gabelew - Cover Artist
* Kazoo (krazieka2)
* NinjaDuelist
* Nox (nox_pff)
* PatPaige
* Sora5005 (Dirushka050)
* Sorethpid
* SpiceTimeQuant
* Vox Regina (vox_ex_machina) - Guest
===Merch Artists===
* Alina Wahab (cowgirlongirl)
* Dominic (FanDomiAlex) - Guest
* Gabelew
* Hero (berryheroic) - Guest
* Hvalross
* Mer (mer_meladas)
* Nicomyrna
* Respite (quietrespite)
===Mods===
* Baku/Blaque - Social Media
* Kami/Gabi (GabiFalcaoArt) - Art Mod
* Mina/Ver (CharaofStrength) - Graphics, Formatting
* Kiri/Ginger (theGingerTrekie) - Shipping
===Former Contributors===
* Sero/Silverstring000 - Finance
* Mina/Seeress (iamseeress) - Finance
* Sero/jeeejaee - Graphics, Formatting
==Gallery==
File:Boom brigade calendar banner.png|Social Media Banner
File:Boom brigade calendar cover.png|Front and Back View of Calendar
File:Boom brigade calendar full bundle.png|Full Bundle Listing
File:Boom brigade calendar stretch goals.png|Stretch Goals Listing
File:Boom brigade calendar additional merch.png|Additional Merch Listing for Second Preorders
== References ==
Category:Boku no Hero Academia Zines
Category:Calendars