Great Boycott

The **Great Boycott** took place after the formation of the Revolutionary Front, during their war to liberate Bujan from Wannaenid and Terran rule.

## Events

The Great Boycott targeted Terrans in Bujan and various online offenders, as many people started to associate online misconduct with the terrorist attacks that the online users supposedly encouraged in real life.

Three kinds of people were shunned by the natives of Bujan: the bloka, the muvannik, and the troll. A "bloka" was a fanatical online user who had a habit of blocking people over petty issues; a "muvannik" was any Internet user who kept forcing people to "move on" and forget about their own pain, however trivial; and the "troll" was a more violent troublemaker who relished in threatening others or committing violent or deadly attacks against the embittered locals. Still, they were all collectively known as "bloky", as an easy catch-all term to help others hunt them down.

As more people in Bujan started to hate the "bloky", people suspected of online misbehaviour were shunned from public life. In both occupied and rebel-held areas, people started to shun bloky, avoiding them and refusing to interact with them, but instead sympathising with people whom the bloky had hurt. Though many of the "victims" of the bloky were simply shunned by bans, blocks, or even avoidance, the vengeful locals still considered any grudge to be a cause for war.

In areas under colonial and Wannaenid rule, the Great Boycott was more dangerous. Aside from people refusing to allow "bloky" to be near them, and even suspending bloky's online accounts or arresting them, they were also targets of violence by armed fanatics. If not for violence, bloky might end up being reduced to poverty, banned from workplaces, schools, and public transport in some towns. Even in some towns ruled by fellow Terrans, they became designated targets by sadistic leaders for bullying.

Before the Great Boycott, the central Bujanski provinces were seized by a rebel group. This group began the war on bloky, beginning with the murder of Herellia Minvori. Very few Terrans lived there due to the risk of being murdered by angry mobs and fanatics.

Because many fans of the show Broken Plates were among the most notorious bloky, therefore, fans of that show were also collectively punished. They were more likely to be targeted by militants and terrorists, and shunned by their own peers as possible frauds and traitors. In local Bujanski culture, people who denounce, shun, and simply move on for new friends over small mistakes were seen as cheaters and liars, hated by society for their worsened reputation.

### In rebel-held areas

The realms of Dostagir's alliance were more disciplined. While people still hated bloky and shunned them, most of Dostagir's subjects refused to go as far as murder bloky. They instead banned bloky from attending public transport. They were banned from various venues but otherwise allowed to work in existing jobs, attend school, and buy necessities; for example, a cinema and a shopping mall banned bloky from entering, identifying them by the blinking lights and beeps on their ID cards.

Many rebels often used the names of notorious and infamous bloky as curse words. Herellia had the dishonour of being the first bloky to be killed, so her username "thespiancane" was used as a curse. They also associated living bloky and criminals with various war crimes and mob attacks, declaring them as responsible for the violence by angering the natives.

King Dostagir had pity on the bloky, and instituted a penance system to allow them to earn forgiveness from his people. Still, some Bujanski hated their own monarch for refusing to accept their calls to kill bloky.

## Legacy

The Great Boycott led to the spread of a collectivist attitude in modern Bujanski society. People wanted to keep proving to others that they had no intention to attack society or be seen as terrorists.

One tradition that emerged during the Great Boycott was a ceremony where someone wanted to declare his offender to be forgiven. Both parties meet in public to prove that they were not a threat to society, and apologise. They also brought along their loved ones and friends as witnesses.

## See also

* Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta
* Deucalion Amnesty
* Curse of 400
* Penance