Akaland

The Akamos community Discord server, Akaland, was created in 2017. As of 12/20/2021, the server has 255 members. The server is run by the Akaland Staff Team, comprised of three moderators, two admins, and the server owners, Akamos and Greenlit.

## **History**

### Early History

Akaland was created January 6th, 2018 under the simple name "Akamos". The only members at the inception of the server were Akamos, Greenlit, and various other early members whose initial join dates are difficult to determine. Others among the earliest members are BlueMarker, Map, shenn, Awkward Aiden, spacegreninja, Tenn0n, 3ys4an5, and Rimu.

The early days of the server (generally considered to be 2018-2019) are difficult to track, but Akamos recounts many of the early days with embarrassment at his young age and self-described lack of maturity. The earliest existing message in the server saved my Discord has since been edited by Akamos to read "if you came back here to check out my oldest messages, continue at the risk of your own sanity." Many of Akamos's early videos can also be found in the oldest messages of the server, but most have since been privated.

Early on in its life, the server was also filled to the brim with Discord bots, several fulfilling similar purposes. Most of these bots have since been removed.

### The Golden Age

The Golden Age of Akaland is generally considered to have taken place from late 2019 to early 2020, and brought the first activity boom of the server. Akamos's viral "The E N H A N C E D Mario Maker 2 Direct" had released in May 2019, bringing with it a larger community.

Users such as Trendonamo and Deuce joined during this time period due to personal invitations from Akamos, while users such as iiJxkez, caelyn, and π-thon joined from Greenlit's server. A mix of these two, Molten and Rimu were members of Blazekin's server personally invited by Akamos. Finally, members such as Mr Murphy and Freezie joined from Akamos's YouTube channel.

The Golden Age saw a large boost in server activity and the first real community growth the server had ever seen. This was also the time period in which the current server name "Akaland" originated. The top three most active members during this time period, as ranked by Discord bot Tatsu, were Akamos, Rimu, and Trendonamo, in that order.

### The Renaissance

The Akaland Renaissance was the second major jump in activity. It started with Akamos's major jump in YouTube popularity around April-May 2020 and ended around January 2021.

More members have joined in the Renaissance than either of the other two time periods in the server, most from Greenlit's server, Trendonamo's server, or from Akamos's YouTube channel. Among new members during this time period are Deedge, NicoDee, Exi, Flame, Gavin, Citro, Raiha, LukeWarm, Splanes, Cib3r, and Doorknob. Rimu also returned in late 2020.

The top three on the Tatsu leaderboard during this era were Trendonamo, Akamos, and Molten, in that order.

### The Boom

The current time period, the Boom is considered to have started around when the Renaissance ended in January 2021. It was spurred by increased joins from IRL friends of the owners as well as a second rise in activity on the Akamos channel.

New members during the Boom include Spectro, Mello, cherrypopdink, wrecc, BlueBolt, Griimbles, Raiden, MacTheAvenger, Delta, Neon, OrangeYosh, Silvergame25, WahluigiKing, ana, Zaid, and others.

The current top three on the leaderboard are Molten, Akamos, and Flame, in that order.

## **Staff**

Tables are rough estimates. Staff members will be listed at their highest rank during that time period. *Italics* indicate a user who is no longer a part of the staff team. There is a fourth staff role, entitled Helper. However, since Helper exists to serve as a trial mod, it will not be included.

### The Boom

 Greenlit

no you're not getting an invite link you buffoon go to akamos' channel for it you ding-dong.