ACBIC

**ACBIC** is a proposed U.S. business and Elarian business with a website along with it, created by Charles Madgett. The owners were Charles Madgett and Brandon Jacobs, however Brandon passed away in 2020, leaving Charles alone with the business. It's main goal has been described as a media sharing website, where users go around posting videos, such as YouTube and other social media platforms. It also features a forum where users can post and share with each other.

## Site Timeline

The website initially launched in August of 2019 with an offline page that warned would-be users of creating an account without authorization.

On August 6th, 2019 the website went officially live and it featured a simplistic design. It held 4 buttons, one being a link to their now-defunct discord server, a button linking to a page to view other members, one for memberships and prices, and one linking to community forums. It featured a small "Members Chat" area as well.

On August 7th, the website got a major redesign, as the team decided the site should be more of a sand-box in-browser experience. All previous buttons stayed but they became orange, two green buttons with different designs appeared, being "Shop" and "Change Log" the front page also featured a YouTube video titled "Main Theme for AcidLine" by iiToxicAcid, which featured a beat made on Google's Song Maker.

On August 9th, the website got another redesign, with a merge featuring another site "Plasmatio", which was at the time just in testing. ACBIC featured all major pages on a header where users could click and find themselves on different pages. The front page also featured 3 buttons, 2 of which being links to the ACBIC and Plasmatio discord servers respectively. The other, which was the most sizeable being to Sign Up or Log in. 4 hours later, the website now featured an animated background and removed the third button.

August 13th, 2019 the site went offline until the next day.

August 14th's update featured a major overhaul of the design. It featured a header with 7 buttons, 4 of which going to the site's main areas. One going to a proposed shop, one going to ACBIC's discord server, the other going to their "Memberships / Pricing" page. Later that day, the site went back offline. It is assumed that the reason the site went back live was to test it for a few hours.

The site went back online by August 17th, by this point, the site's audience had been growing due to the Plasmatio merge and they added a button to the front page encouraging users to download their .apk file, advertising it as an app that could be used to browse the site.

On the 19th, a button was introduced that seemingly did nothing. It was later revealed that it was meant to be used as a light to dark theme slider but it didn't end up working out. The button was removed on the 21st.

On the 31st, a search bar was added to the site for the first time, where users could search for pages even if they were unintended for use.

On September 5th, the site went offline until the 8th, where it featured an ACBIC Games button that linked users to a separate discord server, which allowed for users to go play text-based games and games hosted on Scratch as games made by ACBIC.

On September 12th, a blue egg button was introduced. It was an effort to advertise "EggWorld", a separate entity that was hoping to become a sandbox hit. Clicking on the button would bring users to a page where they saw a logo that was made by the Owner of ACBIC and a default avatar.

On September 13th, the site added a side-bar menu for a limited time.

On September 28th, the egg was removed and the button that advertised ACBIC .apk file for "a limited time!" now no longer featured the "limited time!" as it was now advertised as being available to download whenever.

On October 5th, the site went offline and featured a page that advertised the now absorbed Plasmatio's "going away party" of sorts. Advertised as an e-fest that would feature songs from bands that would live stream themselves performing online for the users of ACBIC and Plasmatio.

From October 5th to the 31st, numerous changes were made behind the scenes and on October 31st, the site went live again. It now featured a Halloween ACBIC logo on the right and buttons on the header were now updated.

On November 9th, the Halloween logo was removed and ACBIC now advertised itself as "the future of file sharing."

On November 16th, the logo went back to the left and the profile menu went back to the right.

On November 17th, the site went offline until the 19th.

On November 24th, the site got it's latest major design overhaul. It was more simplistic and featured videos made by users on the front page and all buttons were removed from the top menu.

On December 7th, the site featured a trending icon for videos that seemed to be doing well.

On December 14th, the site was momentarily hacked, as a previous team member removed all pages other than the forums page without authorization.

December 23rd was the final update of 2019, despite claims that it would be on the 24th where it was explained that the terms of service would be updated.

On January 5th, 2020 the site got some behind the scenes updates and the page stayed generally the same until August 2nd, where it featured instead of videos, two thumbnails featured a discord server and twitch channel of the creator. On September 21st, another one was added to promote the owner's new E-Sports Team, ACID.

On October 22nd, 2020 the site changed it's background to a darker theme and on the 25th it began to show it's Halloween logo again.

## Promotional Marketing

ACBIC has promoted multiple sites and other creators. With the most notable being Plasmatio, which the site had "acquired" around early to late October of 2019. They also promoted EggWorld, a failed attempt at a sandbox site, which went defunct sometime after ACBIC advertised it. It's also advertised ACID which appears to be growing in fans, yet is still generally unknown to the public. It has also made a deal with Survive! an upcoming game by the founder of ACBIC.

## Rebrand Attempts

ACBIC has gone through major rebrand attempts in the year it has gone through. However, most have gone down to attempts to figure out what the site will be used for as it was initially meant to a media file sharing service, then a sandbox, then a social media platform and sandbox. It seems now it is a forum site and file-sharing site. It doesn't feature a slogan, but it has featured a few before. It has featured "ACBIC - General Discussions", "ACBIC - Social Media Services", "ACBIC - The Future of File Sharing", and "ACBIC - Video Hosting Service."

## Statistics

The site currently has around 75 members. It has 26 pages available to non-members. It has 40 pages available to members and 41 for admins.

## References

https://www.acbic.club

https://discord.me/acbic

https://twitter.com/acbicofficial?lang=en