The Meggy Uprising

## Overview

On April 2020, a group of users started something on the r/SMG4 discord server that would become known as "The Meggy Uprising". It is to date the biggest event that has ever happened on the server. To have an overview of the event, it consisted of people on the server impersonating Meggy and changing their profile picture to Meggy. 6 different impersonator accounts existed at one point, and NathanOS, Swordstealer101 and WaterWizard3214 discussed how it would be quite comedic if everybody in the server were to become these Meggy Impersonators. The idea was started, and many people joined in, with it even reaching 1000+ impersonators at one point. The Meggy Uprising begun, but it soon ended and died down. After a while, the original creator eventually decided to spark another uprising, but it also died quite quickly.

## Background

### **The Character**

Meggy is a character within the SMG4 series who was introduced to the channel in 2017 in the episode "If Mario was in... Splatoon".

### **The Original Impersonators**

The r/SMG4 server has had its fair share of character impersonation accounts, but no character has been impersonated as much as Meggy. At the start of April 2020, there were a total of 6 users named Meggy and with a Meggy profile picture.

## The Uprising

### **How it started**

On 5th April, 2020, the users NathanOS, Swordstealer101 and WaterWizard3214 were talking in the server about the ridiculous number of Meggy Impersonation Accounts there were on the server, which was getting confusing as the chat would say "**Meggy and Meggy are typing...**" It got to the point where Nathan proposed the interesting idea of getting everyone to change their names to Meggy, and it was also suggested that people change their profile pictures aswell. Even some of the mods decided to join in. Thus, the Meggy Uprising was born.

### **The Growth & The Server**

Over the next month, the number of Meggies grew alarmingly fast, with a user creating a seperate server specifically for the Meggy Uprising. At the height of this uprising there were approximately ***1000 meggies*.** To put that into perspective, the Vatican City, a real-life country, has a population of 200 less than that. The uprising was even spread to the subreddit, confusing many non-discord users and making an even funnier scene.

### **Death, Revival and Death Again**

As the original members migrated over to The Meggy Server and the r/SMG4 server got bored of the meme, the once massive uprising began to die down. Explaining it to new members was quite a tedious activity, and it had to be done so many times that on 26/06/2020, the original creator initiated another *meggy uprising* by changing his name to Meggy by surprise. This grew even bigger as a result of the increased amount of members, as well as The Meggy Server being notified. This became known as "The Meggy Uprising 2" or "The Meggy Revival". However, naturally, this meme died as quickly as it started.

## Legacy

The Meggy Uprising was to date the biggest event to ever happen on the r/SMG4 server, and it paved the way for many uprisings to come (e.g.The Cheese Uprising). It may be over, but no-one will ever forget the day when a whole discord server was taken over by orange squid clones.