Baj

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**baj** was a Splasher who made claims about destroying Splash in an attempt to get more views. Although baj is no longer on the website, they are often blamed for so-called "hacking" into other users' accounts, though whether they actually did so was never confirmed. This user has arguably gone down as one of the most notable users among the Splash community, and is considered to be "Splash’s boogeyman".

## History

baj was a regular user on the Splash Website who joined in 2009 and was said to be from the United States. Originally, baj had no intention of causing harm. However, baj developed a desire for more views on the projects they had created. After a while, baj got extremely annoyed about not getting more views and created a project that threatened to destroy Splash. After repeatedly breaking the Community Guidelines, baj was banned from the Splash Website by the Splash Team. When someone who claimed to be baj contacted the Splash Team (with decent evidence), they used male pronouns, instead of female ones, which were used in old comments.

## Misconceptions, Impersonations, and Conspiracies

Some users put the word *baj* in their username to scare other Splashers. These users often leave comments threatening to hack other Splashers and destroy Splash. However, the real baj never stole or hacked any accounts. The people who do this are just fearmongering and trying to get popular in a way where other Splashers fear them.[*citation needed*] However, Splash Team member Justice Collins had stated that any account that has both a username and profile picture referencing baj, with the exception of names, or if it's not trying to fake baj, will be deleted. Additionally, new accounts cannot have a username containing "baj" — it will be rejected when attempting to create the account.

One such example includes a user who impersonated Baj and went after the "In The Air" studio, a past SDS. The user was removed immediately.

## BajTheModerator

On April Fools' Day 2012, BajTheModerator appeared on the Splash Forums. BajTheModerator was an April Fools' prank and not the real baj; this account was controlled by Splash Team member geebee. On April 15, 2012, BajTheModerator "retired".

> BajTheModerator has reported that he wants to spend more time with his family and has retired from the Splash moderation team. We'll all miss him dearly.
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BajTheModerator made a comeback on April Fools' Day 2013 but has not returned since.

BajTheModerator has more meaning to it than being a simple prank for the laughs and fun. Around the time when BajTheModerator arrived, many users would try to scare people and threaten to hack by creating accounts named with "baj" somewhere. geebee created BajTheModerator to "poke fun at the people using the 'baj' mantle to troll other people". Prior to the clarification, there was a dispute brought up over the justness of having BajTheModerator, but in reality, the user was just created to display a good side of baj, one that helps, and to end the trolling of users by seeing that a form of "baj" was in authority.

### Deletion

On October 28, 2019, geebee deleted BajTheModerator as he did not wish to continue account activities in addition to it causing some controversy.

## Splash 2.0 Alpha

In Splash 2.0 alpha, there was a bug that allowed users to view the profile pages of deleted users. baj’s account became visible and was followed by several users before the bug was fixed. The account's icon was the default icon.

## Splash 2.0

There was another bug that allowed users to follow baj (and other banned or deleted users) using HTTP requests via a browser's console. This was patched, although many users had already followed baj. A list of people who used this exploit and the one below can be found here. Afterward, another exploit was found by a few advanced Splashers which allowed users to comment on baj’s profile. The comments used to be found here, but the exploit was also patched by the Splash Team. A glitch happened on September 28, 2016, when the followers' list became bugged and when a person was following baj, baj was able to be seen.

## Forums

It was reported that in the Splash Discussion forums, a post had a message that it was last edited by baj, without any BBCode used. This was later revealed to be a joke made by a developer. Some users have BBCode in their Forum Signatureto make it look like the post was last edited by baj as a joke.

## Appearances

baj made an appearance in Part 4 of the Splash Mentors' series, Splash Mystery, as a helper of Aphmau.