Basti

"Gobyernong tapat, angat buhay lahat!"

**Basti,** also known as **LeniRobredoGaming** was the Senate President of the Nutribun Republic, from August 10, 2022, and a Senator from July 18, 2022. He also briefly served as Acting Vice President from August 30, 2022 until September 11, 2022, the tenure of Jollibee's brief departure.

## Early History

LeniRobredoGaming first discovered r/2philippines4u after the May 2022 elections. By this point, he had recovered from a lot of troubling issues, such as having his first Discord account (NotBrazilianBasti#1234) disabled, and joined many new 2x4you subreddits. He didn't speak that much and only posted comments.

## Nutribun Republic

LeniRobredoGaming joined the server on July 18, 2022, the day when the server was created. A few hours after joining, he boosted the server, thus becoming the first booster of the server; he then was appointed as Senator due to this.

### **Pre-Coup Era**

After joining, he said a lot of random stuff and also boosted the server, thus becoming the first person to boost the server. For this reason, he was promoted as Senator.

#### **Senate career**

During his tenure as Senator, he created rules and enacted policies, now the constitution, and enacted policies that were either hated or praised with the help of his fellow colleagues. However, he became paranoid that his account would be disabled and in response, a controversial law was enacted on the morning of July 21, 2022, in which ironic hate would be completely banned. This was met with severe backlash and the following day, July 22, the first ever martial law was declared. He rebelled until somebody, called Swagpino, told him that the only was his account would be disabled is if his account got reported. In response, his paranoia was mostly gone and he unbanned ironic hate, although he said that it would be kept to an acceptable level.

After the chain of events, he extended the rules to become a constitution and had to endure then-owner Dwayne's refusal to reinstate the NSFW channels, while LeniRobredoGaming insisted that NSFW not be allowed and that NSFW channels be created. He also has to endure MEH reorganizing the government two times, as part of the July 2022 Nutribun Republic political crisis, and enacted a law in which reorganizing the government would be much harder. He also made a new constitution in Google Docs to replace the text-message constitution and it came into effect on July 28, 2022. LenIRobredoGaming also partnered with TalkAsia and EOS, the latter in which all ties were broken due to continuous pro-Russian LARPing by two users.

He was nominated for Minister (now Secretary) of Justice role, along with JollibeeGaming, but he lost, only gaining 7 votes to Jollibee's 31 votes. LeniRobredoGaming also tried to run for Deputy Prime Minister (now Vice President), but lost, once again, gaining 18 votes compared to Jollibee's 27 votes. although he gained the Minister (now Secretary) of Justice role.

During the #FreeTaalGames movement, he was continuously targeted by Dwayne's cronies, most specifically salamipapiii, until the staff agreed to start a trial on August 5, 2022, which gave TaalGames a 1-month ban when a user named Chees3cakezzz stepped in, LeniRobredoGaming initially did not have any suspicions of her, despite her trying to ban ironic hate, but failing. However, that was about to change when he got invited into a group chat by MAD MAKZ on the night of August 8, 2022.

### **Role in the August 2022 Nutribun Republic coup d'état**

When LeniRobredoGaming woke up the following day, August 9, 2022, he saw that he had been lied to this whole time. Chees3cakezzz wasn't innocent and photos published by MAD MAKZ revealed that she doxxed her ex, AccomplishedTale, who is a user known for his controversial views, as he revealed that he was an ironic BBM supporter but Chees3cakezzz took it seriously and doxxed him. The screenshots also revealed that they were planning to remove him from his Senator role, which shocked him. MAD MAKZ thought that telling the truth would be a hard job and more trusted members would be invited to the group chat. Many people were debating what to do, until MAD MAKZ announced how the process would go: he would negotiate with the people involved in the doxxing to resign and a user, known as SaulGoodmanGaming, would create an alt that would post evidence on why Cheesecake, Dwayne, and all staff members involved in the doxxing resign.

On the night of the same day, MAD MAKZ demanded that Dwayne, Chees3cakezzz, MEH, Yessssssd, resign. During midnight on August 10, 2022, all four users announced their resignations, while salamipapiii and Nanachi, another user involved in the doxxing, left and also made their own statements. Dwayne also cut off the server. For over twelve hours, people were panicking and were wondering what happened, with LeniRobredoGaming trying to calm the people down to no avail. In response to this, he did not follow the order of MAD MAKZ to send the evidence later in the day and sent it before 1:00 PM, UTC+8. Contrary to MAD MAKZ's belief, the people were shocked on the evidence they saw and they began to realize Cheesecake was a liar. When MAD MAKZ saw what happened, he got upset that LeniRobredoGaming didn't follow his orders, but the latter told him that the people believe the screenshots, which relieved him. He also invented the term "Talegate," which would be a nickname for the coup d'état.

### **Post-Coup Era**

After the coup, LeniRobredoGaming took the opportunity to fill in the vacant Senate President position. He sent a request to ManuelQuezonGaming that he be Senate President, which was accepted and he became Senate President.

After becoming Senate President, LeniRobredoGaming and his colleagues reformed the government and the server. He also decided to bar all the major users involved from gaining any staff position again. Unfortunately, he would follow in the corrupt culture of the server due to the complexity of the old punishment system, which was later reformed by ManuelQuezonGaming in the end of August to be more simple. LeniRobredoGaming also got involved in many corruption scandals, such as punishing a user because he misinterpreted his statement as being an unironic BBM supporter, and appointed people as Ombudsman without the approval of JollibeeGaming. The latter scandal resulted in an impeachment trial against him, but thankfully, he was not stripped off his Senator position. He ran for President, along with KikoPangilinanGaming, who ran for Vice President during the end-of-month elections in August. However, he and Kiko lost as they both placed second, making this the third election where Leni lost.

However, JollibeeGaming unexpectedly left the server the day after the election ended, resulting in Leni being voted in as Acting Vice President. Initially, there were calls to hold a snap election as people presumed that Jollibee left the server, but it was later revealed that he was taking a break. In response, NinoyAquinoGaming cancelled the planned snap election, which was met with mixed reactions. His tenure as Acting Vice President was noted for his handing of the EoS crisis, as he has highly criticized for his handling of the crisis as he had connections with the two users who were charged with pro-Russian LARPing.

## Controversies

He is a very controversial figure in the server. On one hand, people praise him for his hard work, determination to not abandon his people, showing the dark side of Cheesecake despite MAD MAKZ telling him not to show it before he told him to do so, and having implemented decent laws. However, many people criticize him for his ban on ironic hate, involvement in corruption, and the handling of the Balkan crises.