23/7

The **23rd of July**, also known as the **Third Democracy Night**, **The Day of Cock and Balls** or **23/7**, was an anarchy night (arguably the worst one in Sunsetian history) that eventually resulted in the temporary banning of Majestaz and Saurie, the Speech of 23/7, the demotion of SKM and the double demotion of NaZa.

## Background

Prior to the anarchy beginning, tensions were increasing between the admins and several members, notably WESTZ, Jeesh and Majestaz. The First Democracy Night, which occurred on the 2nd of July, involved a massive argument between almost all active members on whether the server should reform its staff system, with the reformers being backed specifically by WESTZ. On 19th of July, this repeated, this time with the democrats being more defined and more prominent advocators of this democratic movement, specifically Jeesh. These arguments came back three days later, more violent.

## Events

### Precursors

The first event was Ocros's message in #polls at 11:41, which asked which timezones people lived in. He sent this in order to calculate when to host multiplayer EU4 games, which were being planned around the time. The thing that made this prominent was the fact that he used the Irish Tricolour to represent GMT rather than the Union Jack, which caused a short burst of controversy and brought several people online.

The second event was what kept everyone online, and caused a long, powerful burst of activity in #general. A new user at the time, Duchyii, hosted an RP-like game, titled the 'ironic tile game', exclusively in that channel, and it was extremely successful due to the circumstances in which he began the game. The game commenced at 15:50, and the burst of activity never really ended but instead grew like a snowball rolling down a mountain, accumulating more and more messages per minute until it descended into absolute chaos. The game eventually had to stop due to Duchyii becoming overwhelmed, but the snowball couldn't be stopped. An anarchy night had started.

### Chaos

The first hour of the demnight functioned exactly the same as a normal anarchy night rather than a democracy night. The anarchy night was declared by user Marselo at 19:10. There was a chain to add one thing to Boris Johnson's face and pass it on. By about 20:00, fights concerning democracy began breaking out. A user by the name of Winston Churchil (with the last letter omitted) joined, followed later on by approximately thirty more famous leaders, either historical or contemporary. The majority of the later ones ended up being locked up in Unverified. Fights between Ocros and the unverified users began breaking out, due to him putting a rule in place stating all verification will be halted until the chaos elsewhere subsides. Even Unverified ceased to be a safe place to be. The chaos was immense, specifically in #general but also elsewhere. NaZa, angry due to democratic protests along with several unknown causes of stress, left every server he was in, and rejoined several minutes later. After his return, his administrator role had not been replaced, and the staff later voted to have it remain that way. SKM, who had been spamming emojis the whole time, was also demoted.