Danjin, Master of Skelenomics

**Danjin, Master of Skelenomics** (or simply **Danjin**; originally known as **Papa Nurgle**) is a quieter Generation 1 tagger who joined TF2Tags around 2013. He is a less recognized member of the TF2Tags community, and prefers it that way. He stays out of most of the regular, drama-based shitstorms and only occasionally crawls out to add to the latest tag craze or post some movie reference or wordplay.

## History

Danjin first appeared on TF2Tags on April 21st, 2013 under the name of Papa Nurgle. This, however, was a one-off tag, and he wouldn't appear again until December 15th. He would then not tag for a little over a month before his tagging journey sporadically began on January 18th, 2014. His first majorly successful tag came on the 20th, with a set called "I know what the pyro is!" that would go on to amass 33 crits. Following a moderately successful set on the 22nd, Nurgle would reappear on February 2nd, and then made a string of tags on the 9th before vanishing again and making a single tag on March 23rd. He would stop by and make a couple tags during April Fools' Week 2014, before taking an even longer break and reappearing on June 3rd, and starting on the 14th he would begin tagging at the regular rates of other Taggers.

Nurgle was a faster learner, and soon found his place on the site making puns and wordplay, which he concluded to be the most efficient means of getting crits, while recognizing just as quickly that overdone and overused jokes were more likely to bring misses. Using this knowledge, Nurgle would attain 1000 points on his profile by August 29th. In September, like most other Generation 1 Taggers around at the time, Nurgle would get in on the trend of making tags about Ulysses and his utter disdain for Bucket Jokes. The next day, during a trend of people using their representative items and describing themselves, Nurgle would join in, introducing himself as Papa Nurgle and using his rep item for the first time. The next day, however, he would back out of the trend before Ulysses went all Brock Samson on the site.

On November 19th, Nurgle made a set calling out Bronies during a particularly heated discussion on the site about the state of *My Little Pony* tags, stating that nobody cares about their niche interests. He would love to do nothing but gush about "men grafted inside of metal suits brainwashed to protect little girls" (referencing the Big Daddies from Bioshock) and "Horrible diseases and infections and attributing them to items." (likely referencing his namesake and his dominion over disease). He advocated that people should just stop talking about such touchy subjects, make some tags, and have fun. Though he expected to get a flurry of misses from this set, it was actually received positively.

At some point between December 29th, 2014 and March 3rd, 2015, Nurgle would change his name from "Papa Nurgle" to "Danjin, Master of Economics". He would graduate and become the master of Skelenomics at some point later in the year. This name would be the one the majority of taggers would recognize him as, as he kept the name for the remainder of his time on TF2Tags. Other than the name change, the first quarter of 2015 would be business as usual for Danjin, who achieved the 2000 point milestone in February.

In May, TF2Tags was thrown into its first major shitstorm, the three week long Racist Anon Incident. As the site devolved into a chaotic war against someone with far too much time on their hands to terrorize a TF2 renaming site, Danjin grew increasingly annoyed at the way people were handling the situation. He criticized everybody for making so many tags related to the Anon, as they were all giving them the attention they clearly wanted. He advocated that the only way to beat the Anon is to not play their game. Nobody listened to him. When Sensible Haircut finally echoed Danjin's sentiment, Danjin himself agreed with frustration, as he had now become more annoyed at the fact that people continued to feed the Anon over the Anon themself. He would ardently refuse to make any tags regarding the Racist Anon (barring the one he made early on in the first days of the incident), leaving the drama only to the comments. Eventually, the Anon was defeated following a ban and the disabling of the Anonymous feature, and the site would thankfully return to normal, much to Danjin's delight.

During the Mobile-Friendly Update fiasco, Danjin did not join Bring Back Misses, but did support their efforts to bring back the Miss Button that Dr. Dos had controversially removed. He reportedly had a dream the night of the update that the Miss Button would be restored the following day. He was sadly mistaken, as misses were restored *the* *following day*.

A few days after the restoration of the Miss Button, Danjin would get critbombed by Legownz, which he was grateful for. The following day, the site would become embroiled in more drama as A Fucking Idiot was reported by CP and subsequently banned for the remainder of the year. Danjin chose not to partake in any of the drama (a position he would largely take for the remainder of his tagging career). Instead, he complained that the birthday present he got for Relk\_Cehi couldn't be delivered for another week due to Steam's at the time new escrow policy. On the day of Sensible Haircut's banning, before the infamous Bruce Jenner tag, Danjin reported a missbomb, though he didn't specify if the target was himself or someone else. During the fallout of Sensible's ban, Danjin made only one comment regarding the subsequent exodus in the form of a tag: "You can log out anytime you like. But you can never leave." This would turn out to be prophetic, as all but one of the taggers who Left and Never Came Back eventually did come back, even Sensible himself at one point. Other than that, Danjin focussed instead on the traitor in the taggers' midst: someone who was stealing tags and posting them for clout on Funnyjunk. This seemed to scare the Funnyjunker as shortly after the stolen tags were deleted off of Funnyjunk.

In November, the site would be seemingly coming to an end due to the Taggenings. Danjin, with only six tags left, decided to go out as best as he could. He made a Revolver Ocelot joke before making his final tags. However, before he could make his sixth tag, Dos came and fixed the bug that caused the first Taggening, to which Danjin instead made a tag claiming that it was a Christmas miracle. During the second Taggening, Danjin only made a single tag poking fun at Smash Z's first MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE tagging spree.

Danjin would spend the remainder of 2016 tagging like normal, ending the year with a respectable 4700 points. He would continue tagging regularly through January, but his activity would start to greatly slow in February, making only a handful of tags every week. When Bonkspenser asked why Danjin was never on the site anymore (which was a bit of an exaggeration considering he never left), Danjin replied that he had simply couldn't think of any good tag ideas anymore, that he had lost his edge. Ashton Doovis and Meta Breakers would encourage Danjin to keep going, saying that he was still as funny as ever. Other taggers commented on this. Everybody inserted a bone pun somewhere.

Danjin's activity would pick up again in the latter half of March, during which time he would learn just what NTF2Tags was, and decided to embrace his community-created inverted self, Puri-San, Fleshitics Amateur, fully for the April Fools 2016 NTF2Tags takeover. His activity as Puri-San would increase immediately during April Fools' Week. This was most likely to stay in-character, as following the conclusion of April Fools his activity dropped once again. When the site's submission limits broke in the inverse if the Taggenings (that is, *unlimited* tags) on July 17th of 2016, many taggers returned to their NTags personas, with many new Generation 3 Taggers gaining their own NTF2Tags versions from this event. Danjin, unlike last time, did not participate, and celebrated the return of the submission limits later that day as a "victory for crotchety old men everywhere" which seemingly included him and TGRobert.

Danjin's activity dropped more and more over time, until eventually on September 15th he left for almost a month. He returned on October 10th and stated that he genuinely missed everyone on the site and that there was some top-notch tags being made. He would seemingly return to his normal tagging rate until October 23rd, when he left once more. He returned on January 6th of 2017 and posted two tags. When Ass Ketchup welcomed Danjin back, Danjin admitted that he simply couldn't stay away from the site and would continue to lurk around. He wouldn't post again until May 10th. His final tag was posted on July 11th, 2017, and following this he seemingly left the TF2Tags community. Danjin ended his epic career strong, with 6600 points and 709 tags.

## Style

Danjin's style was mostly consistent of puns and wordplay, though he would also go into your typical movie reference tags and trends every now and then. Puns were always Danjin's go-to from the very beginning, and most of his most successful tags are puns. Jokes about skeletons and bones were, thematically, common with him as well. He would also sometimes make jokes regarding Jews, including Nazi and Holocaust jokes. Before you get your pitchforks, this is in the style of Mel Brooks (that is, a Jew making jokes about Jews).

Danjin usually tries to use the search function to ensure his tags aren't reposts, but he is also known to shamelessly steal jokes like everybody else. He also claims to post tags he thinks of if nobody else has done them yet, even if they are terribly received.

## Relationships

Danjin was known for being under the radar in terms of community interaction (a running joke was just how inactive he became in the latter part of his time on TF2Tags). He was no Qror, however, and did have some meaningful interactions with the site's community.

While he was still around, he and Sensible seemed to get along quite well (which is EXTREMELY ironic considering Sensible... well, has some interesting opinions on Jews). Both men had similar opinions on the community's behavior during the Racist Anon Incident, and while Danjin didn't join in the uproar of protest following Sensible's ban, he would make a tag similar to "The Bruce Jenner Experience" later on in January of 2016. Danjin also seemed to get along with Legownz, as the latter critbombed him on at least one occassion for unknown reasons. He also seemed to get along well enough with Relk, as he got him a birthday present in 2015.

On the other side of things, Danjin seemed to dislike L'Étranger, as the former claimed the following about a tag of his that Tranger found humorous: "This is the worst submission I've ever made. Your approval fills me with shame." However, it is unknown if this is genuine dislike towards Tranger or the fact that he is ashamed that someone openly approved of the tag (it was a 9/11 Muslim joke).

## Gallery

Danjin's first tag.Danjin's first successful tag.Walumancer actually liked this tag so much he used it on his own Back Scatter.Danjin learning how TF2Tags works.One of Danjin's many skeleton-related tags.Danjin's best tag.This was made in immediate response to Smash Z's first MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE spree.Danjin gets philosophical.Danjin had clearly gotten into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure around this time, as there were many more JoJo tags he made.Danjin's final tag.
## Trivia

* Danjin's name references a character in the Korean MMO *Dungeon Fighter Online*. The character Danjin is a jarheaded merchant found at the entrance of one dungeon, selling pots that apparently hold ancient treasures.
	+ His original name Papa Nurgle references the Chaos God of Disease, Decay, Death and Destruction from Warhammer 40k.
* Like many, Danjin absolutely despised the End of the Line Update. He also didn't like the Meet Your Match Update.
* Danjin believes missbombing is the laziest form of trolling someone.
* Danjin seems to have the uncanny magical ability of predicting the future.
	+ He predicted that the Miss Button would be restored shortly after its removal during the Mobile-Friendly Update.
	+ He correctly predicted that people never truly leave TF2Tags during the exodus of Sensible Haircut's banning.
	+ In November of 2015, with help from his knowledge of Skelenomics, he was able to predict when ear buds would stop falling in price for the TF2 economy. This was reported on in the TF2Tags Nightly News Network.
		- On January 30th of 2016, Danjin stated that Skelenomics is essentially tossing a bunch of bones onto the ground and using their properties to predict the economy.
	+ He predicted Pyro would receive a jetpack weapon on December 5th, 2015.
* Danjin is a fan of Epic Rap Battles of TF2.
* Danjin was featured as a supporting character in the first arc of Hon-Hon and Sneky, where he sheltered the titular duo after they had been framed for A Fucking Idiot's murder.
* Danjin reportedly only gets 10 FPS while playing TF2. Myeh.
* Danjin's fetish is having a wiki page. Hopefully this is good enough wank material for him.
* Danjin is the only known Jewish tagger.