Relk Cehi

## Relk\_Cehi

>  "A man of exorbitant wealth and power. A man of innumerable tags and jokes. Like a Willy Wonka Wordsmith, he rarely emerges from his Dome of Comedic Thought to bestow a new tag to be read by the site. Don't let his hermit like appearance fool you, he is a capable and cunning linguist, and a master debater."
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**Relk\_Cehi**, more commonly known as **Relk**, is one of the oldest Generation 1 taggers to regularly post on the site, the Tagger who has had a consistent presence on TF2Tags for the longest period of time without any long hiatuses (2013-2019). Through most of that time, Relk had the highest number of points on the entire site, until the day before it closed and the honor was bestowed to Makin' Bacon.

Hailed as either a wise master of classic British dry wit by his fans and lambasted as a pompous posh prick by his detractors, Relk over time became one of the most polarizing presences in the site's community, making some of the highest quality tags with increasing quality, but also getting into numerous heated feuds with other major site community figures such as Ulysses and Walumancer.

## History

### The Rise of the Relkish Empire

Relk discovered TF2Tags in early November of 2013, after finding the "Shrexecutioner" in a Google search. After reading through some of the best posts of all time, Relk finally made his mark on TF2Tags on November the 10th, 2013, with his first tag, "Capotain Planet", and second tag (a *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* reference) collectively earning over 100 crits. After carefully watching the reception of his tags grow, Relk made some more tags a week later, and after that started tagging regularly through November, experimenting with different variations of comedy to see which types were the most successful. This constant activity continued on into December of that year, and then January 2014, February 2014, and so on.

By March, Relk had gained a respectable number of points on his profile and had made *several* tags that garnered over a hundred, sometimes two hundred, crits. He had largely gained the respect of the taggers of what little community existed at the time. It was also around March where Relk felt qualified to make more meta jokes relating to TF2Tags itself, as well as more general comments relating to site trends. On March 10th, 2014, on the four month anniversary of his joining TF2Tags, a trend of paint-related puns were being made (possibly the first time such a trend occurred on TF2Tags), and Relk made a tag stating that "back in my day" there were creative names being made for tags, and not crappy paint puns, which drew some minor criticism from other taggers at the time. During the Huddahing that occurred later that month, Relk attempted to stick to the sidelines, but made a joke about the situation in a tag, which made the primary belligerent, Huddah Huddah, start to attack Relk, who in turn told him "You've made a powerful enemy. I liked most of your stuff too." For the remainder of Huddah's presence on TF2Tags (which lasted less than a day), Relk would insult him in kind.

In April of 2014, the final contests of the original TF2Tags were held during April Fools' Week. During this period, Dr. Dos held five contests at once for different categories of items. These were the best April Fools item, the best item that is normally invalid/unobtainable, the best TF2 item that normally cannot be renamed, a pre-determined joke Dos himself would award to the first person who did it, and the first to make the longest possible name using the April Fools' Week custom strange filters. Relk won the first two of these contests, the first being a Ditto named "Disguise Kit (Slight Return) and the second being, well, his best tag of all time. After winning these two contests with such astoundingly successful tags, Dos crowned Relk the King and Queen of April, alongside Beelzebuzz.

On June 24th, 2014, Relk achieved the profile rank of Hale's Own, being the third tagger in history to do so, after Togekiss and anatolebahorel. The announcement was his 600th tag, putting his crit-to-tag ratio at the time at 14.16 (around the same as it wound up being 5 years later). He thanked everyone and told them that he loved them all. Yahiamice and Togekiss were the ones the congratulated him the most. However, someone would go on to miss a few of his submissions to bring him back down to the rank of Australian (NOTE: This was NOT a missbomb, at least in typical scale, as it was only a few tens of points. Missbombs as they would commonly be known would not be pioneered until the following year with Teaquin). Relk would soon hit 9000 points on July 8th, ironically through a trend that Ulysses recommended he not follow. From here, his score would experience an almost exponential growth, as by August 18th he would have over 10,000 points.

Relk would continue to post regularly and keep earning points. By December, he had posted over 1000 tags and earned over 13,000 points. He had now surpassed the two previous Hale's Own taggers and was now officially the tagger with the most points on TF2Tags, a title he would hold for over four years with a score that would only keep growing. Indeed, in the span of a little over a year, Relk had taken the tagging world by storm, effectively creating a nigh-eternal empire.

### In the Dawn of a New Era

Come May of 2015, Relk's seat at the top remained unchallenged and his fanbase loyal. However, unknown to anyone at the time, the site was transitioning into a new era, one with a swathe of new taggers that would form the very foundations of a new and longstanding community. At this point, Relk had already encountered and had gotten along decently well with the likes of Ulysses, A Fucking Idiot, Legownz, Sensible Haircut, Crimson Blitz, and the like, and through the initial reactions to the emergence of an anonymous user, the earliest form of collective community engagement occurred.

At the time of the Racist Anon Incident, Relk was taking a week long break of contemplation, as the site's transition to its more modern style of tagging making him grow wary. He would return to explain this sudden absence, noting that it certainly wasn't Tagger's Block or any loss of his usual moxie (as Ulysses had told everyone), stating rather that he had pretty much completed all that was possible on TF2Tags. To quote, "I still have fresh ideas, but look at me. I'm TF2Tags Elite, and King of April! Where can I go from here?" Relk also cited his distaste with the creative direction of the site (especially the contemporary Original dick jokes). He nearly decided to hang up his hat, but realized that he simply could not do that because he adored the site, and so he returned to "bring glory and creativity to this site once again!" That quote is in reference to the Racist Anon and the surge of new, bad taggers coming into the site around that time. He also didn't want to leave behind his tagging friends, either. The taggers cheered for this, but soon after the Racist Anon went on another rampage, which made Relk so disgusted that he once again contemplated leaving. He also insulted Sensible Haircut for telling him to get back to work. However, Relk would remain on the site and would call out and insult the Racist Anon on occasion.

Following the Racist Anon Incident and the eventual subsequent removal of anonymous posting, Relk ultimately decided to continue tagging. However, a noticeable uptick in site toxicity followed, due to everyone being forced out into the open. This could be the potential reason why many pre-Gen 1 taggers left the site altogether, though this is unconfirmed. Nevertheless, Relk stayed, and regarding the new levels of toxicity he advised anyone who couldn't say nice things to just go to 4Chan where they belonged. As far as is known, he did not say anything about Teaquin, nor did he partake in Team Legownz.

Come August, Relk would question why Timberwoof would go and create a second wiki even though there already was one. Relk's preference for the old wiki would become a major point of contention later on with a specific user. Almost immediately following this was Dr. Dos's implementation of the Mobile-Friendly Update, which immediately sparked heavy backlash from the userbase for the removal of the Miss Button. Though initially ambivalent to the removal, Relk would take an uncharacteristically activistic approach when he realized that A Fucking Idiot's dream of Negative Hale's Own was effectively killed with the change, and so joined the Bring Back Misses movement. Through the community's collective efforts, Dos restored the Miss Button and all negative scores to the taggers, and balance was thus restored.

A few days later, during the disaster that was the Banning of AFI, Relk largely retreated to his typical "not getting involved" attitude. When CP revealed he reported AFI, Relk called him "a piece of shit and I hope you get an incurable dick infection". He also made a tag mocking CP's initial "I deserve credit" line and defended himself when Legownz shamed the community for Missbombing CP in anger. Other than this, Relk was largely uninvolved, and instead celebrated his birthday on the site, which was in the middle of all this. Many taggers wished him a happy birthday from both sides of the conflict.

However, come a few weeks later, Relk was dragged into more drama during the controversial Banning of Sensible Haircut. Relk was the only known tagger to outright favor the ban on account of having personal, one-sided animosity towards Sensible Haircut. In his mind, he couldn't stand the man before, and what he did was no laughing matter. Dr. Dos was only doing his job and everyone was overreacting. This, of course, was a flaming hot take, and in this new, especially volatile community whose emotions were already running high... well, it was like throwing a boulder of pure sodium into the middle of the ocean.

The heavy amounts of criticism against Relk started with Ulysses, where in what was supposed to be his goodbye set, ended with him calling out Relk, stating that "Nobody cares for what your pissy ass has to say." Relk responded to this by saying he was glad he was gone, and that he regretted ever giving him any sort of hope or encouragement in his early days of tagging. This, however, was not the end of their conflict. Ulysses would remain on the site, and over the next few days of the fallout the two would get into an *extremely* heated flamewar. Though all the tags relating to Ulysses and Relk's arguments have since been deleted and thus the full context and content of the argument has been lost, what is known is that Relk eventually reported Ulysses to Dr. Dos, for what is assumed to be under the reason of harassment, and so Dos banned Ulysses as well, albeit temporarily. The site almost universally sided with Ulysses in this flamewar, and those who didn't simply did not want to be involved with the conflict whatsoever. Many insults and angry criticisms were hurled Relk's way, though after the heat died down many, such as Fancytag, apologized for what they had said to him. However, Ulysses was not one of these people, and for over a year the two would remain deadlocked in one of the most heated and longstanding feuds in TF2Tags history.

During the Weeaboo War between TGRobert and L'Étranger, he told them both to cut the shit out and watch actually good shows like Gravity Falls and Rick and Morty instead of arguing over anime. They did not listen. Later on in the month, Relk would mock Legownz's desperate plea for donations so that he could get his unusual Co-Pilot. During the Ulyssesstorm in mid-October, Relk was self-described as speechless at the very weird shitstorm.

In November, Relk had the plan of awarding himself a Saxxy should get be the one to get the prestigious 100,000th tag on the site. However, it wasn't that important to him really, so when the 100,000th tag was stolen and deleted by the Scout, he didn't lose sleep over it. In fact, he went back to bed after walking in on the chaos of the community. On the 11th, he later would award himself a Saxxy anyway for being the first tagger in history to reach 20,000 points on his profile, further lengthening the gap between himself and everyone else. Allegedly, some taggers challenged him to a duel for these points, which Relk did not accept. He did not appear to comment on any of the Taggenings and he actively desired not to be included in the TF2Tags Hunger Games Simulator in December, due to preferring the 4chan-based Hunger Games Simulator that had been taking up most of his time since March 2015.

### A Year of Controversy

On top of his feud with Ulysses, Relk would get into numerous more controversies throughout 2016 that ultimately drove the community's opinion of him down. Starting on January 7th, Relk made fun of everyone who was complaining about the lack of new unusual effects and the idea that Dr. Dos had abandoned the site and didn't care about it anymore (which was later revealed to be demonstrably true).

In February, Relk would get into the first of two dramas related to this wiki. During that time, the new wiki admin TGRobert had introduced the tagger infoboxes (those boxes at the top of the page with their profile pics and site stats) and was implementing them into every tagger page on the wiki, including Relk's. Relk protested against his page getting an infobox, stating that it shouldn't be forced upon him and that Robert put his full name in it (which, in Robert's defense, was public information on his Steam profile at the time). An edit war ensued between the two, with Relk removing the infobox and Robert re-adding it. Eventually, Robert protected the page to prevent Relk from editing it anymore. Salty about losing, Relk took his original TF2Tags Lore Wiki page and put it onto the original TF2Tags Wiki as a separate page from the one that was already there. Acquiesce, the other wiki admin at the time, unprotected the page in hopes of getting the two edit warriors to come to some sort of compromise. This did not work, and another edit war ensued, ultimately culminating in TGR banning Relk from editing the wiki for a week. People largely sided with TGR in this war and criticized Relk as being childish. Eventually, Relk just let the infobox be, though eventually his last name was removed as he requested.

That same month, Relk and Ulysses would get into another visceral, heated argument for an unknown reason, though unlike last time the community was largely neutral. Through February and March, Relk would get into two angry confrontations with Digi and Acquiesce, who accused Relk of stealing tags. During the Attack of the Clones, Relk was suspected of being the one behind the clone accounts, but he presented a valid alibi.

During April Fools' Week 2016, Relk would get almost entirely fed up with the site. Walumancer proposed the idea of an NTF2Tags invasion during this week, which everyone else largely thought was a neat little roleplay idea. Relk refused to partake, and when it finally occurred, he got very, very annoyed. After Smash Z went on another one of his MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE sprees following the April Fools festivities, Relk had all but had enough. He announced an indefinite hiatus, seeing no other option. Ultimately, however, he decided to stay. To quote:

> The site has been experiencing some shit. Rather than leave and wait for it to sort itself up, I am now determined to expunge it, even if it involves wiping it up with my bare fucking hands.
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However, Relk would ultimately wind up leaving after May 7th, for what would later be revealed as a time-consuming retail job. He would, however, return four months later on September 10th. During his time away, Relk missed the onset of the Third Generation of Taggers, and upon his return was met with a LOT of new faces, and the absence of a lot of old faces, including his old enemy Ulysses, who would get banned from the site permanently the following day for carpetbombing the site. Of course, Ulysses wouldn't stay gone for long, returning covertly to the site under the female alias of Systemic Circuit Breaker, which Relk, among others, realized all-too quickly was just Ulysses in drag. Ulysses himself would return under his normal account on October 2nd. However, at this point their rivalry had pretty much began to dissipate...

...only to be replaced in a few weeks. On October 14th, Walumancer made a heavily controversial set calling out Relk for a variety of grievances that he felt nobody else had the stones to do, which included: being pretentious and arrogant, anti-fun (relating to his fervent distaste of trends and memes), copyright abusive (referring to getting Relk'd), psuedo-Missbombing (referring to his voting record, where he often missed certain users' tags as soon as they were posted for personal reasons, including Walumancer). Walumancer was met with overwhelming negative response despite reasonable comments on the set. Relk himself, however, was largely silent and did not respond to Walumancer's call out, though he did praise Makin' Bacon's Epic Rap Battle of TF2Tags between himself and Walumancer. Walumancer's message would eventually become well-respected and agreed upon by the new Gen 3 taggers, who had very similar sentiments due to Relk's proving him right over the first few months of interactions with him. They even critbombed him to Hale's Own over it in December. Over the course of a single year, Relk had gone from the beloved champion of TF2Tags to a disliked elitist among the new blood and an increasingly contentious person among the old blood.

### Slowing Down

Relk's activity on TF2Tags during 2017 slowed down considerably after the first few months, posting only once or twice every few days. In early February, Relk would join the community Discord server, where he would speak every so often. On the very first day, he got into a heated argument with Ouill, who accused him of being a serial missbomber and hating TF2Tags, the former of which being apparently backed up by a report from Fancy. Relk's internet supposedly died during the encounter, but Ouill did not believe him and reported him to Dr. Dos through email. This did nothing as Dos had long since abandoned the site. Apparently, they made up later.

Later that month, Relk would be a catalyst to the drama that resulted in the Removal of Misses (2017). Bloo Kirby had stated that she didn't get it one of his tags, a tag which, in the keywords, Relk had said that if anyone commented that they didn't get it, he was legally allowed to missbomb them. And thus, Relk missbombed Bloo Kirby. The next day, several other people were missbombed, including Relk himself. Later that day, Dos was called to resolve the issue (which he claimed was a bug), and he removed the Miss Button once again. This launched a second Bring Back Misses movement which ultimately resulted in Misses being restored once again and Fancytag being made the site moderator.

In March, Relk would be Missbombed by an unknown Tagger and critbombed himself to compensate, which was pointed out by Propizio but otherwise accepted by the community. He would continue semi-regular tagging into April, where he would partake in the site's final April Fools' Week. Following this, Relk would make a tag every few days throughout April and May, before taking a month off from tagging between May 26th and June 21st. From here, he would continue his semi-regular tagging through July and August.

Come September, Relk bore returned to the site in the middle of what would later be known as The Greatest Event in History. Confused, he was quickly illuminated on the situation by the other taggers, and while he didn't join in himself, he had a good laugh at the thing. Near the end, he proposed a TF2Tags-style Purge event, where for 12 hours (or until Dr. Dos's return), all tags would be made legal. Nobody really went along with the idea, however. At the same time, he reached 27,000 points.

In October, Relk set about the ambitious goal of not just being the number one tagger on the site, but to have more crits than even the Anonymous account, which was frozen at around 89,600 crits. Ulysses called him cocky for it, though considering what was to come hadn't been known yet, he can be forgiven for thinking it was possible. He continued his (at this point) normal tagging frequency through the rest of the year.

### The Fall of the Relkish Empire

Come January of 2018, Relk was contemplating going on yet another hiatus, but admitted that he was unable to due to getting constant bursts of inspiration. Just a few days later, however, the site's domain expired, and Dr. Dos seemed to have finally pulled the plug. However, when it was revealed to have been renewed on an expired credit card, the taggers, including Relk, rejoiced at TF2Tags not dying once again. However, when Dos announced the site's impending doom, the Tagpocalypse, Relk... didn't really have anything to say at all, really. Little was he aware, however, that someone was planning something big.

In February, Relk wished Blast a happy birthday. He also posted a really neat ARG tag. He would tag once in March, before returning to tagging in April, where to everyone's disappointment April Fools' Week was not there waiting. His tagging would begin to wane ever more at this point.

In May, Relk and Walumancer's feud would reignite in Relk's second wiki war. Walumancer had become a main contributor to the wiki over the years, and while he wasn't posting much on the site anymore he was very active on Discord and the wiki. During this time, Walumancer finally formalized category pages for the generations of taggers, and like Robert with the infoboxes so long ago, put every tagger into their proper category. Relk, once again, got overly defensive of his page and initiated another edit war with Walumancer, placing him in and out of Generation 1. Relk insisted that he was not Generation 1 because he did not personally identify with the label. This is not how the concept of generations works, and Walu told him so. This edit war went on for almost ***three fucking weeks***, and ultimately ended in a move that was ***extremely*** dickish. Relk had gone above the head of the wiki's administration and contacted the Wikia staff themselves to be made a bureaucrat of the wiki, which comes with all the permissions of the wiki owner (who was now TGRobert). Relk thus protected his page, preventing Walumancer from editing it any more, and kept it protected. Walumancer confronted Relk about taking such a drastic move on one of the Discord servers, which got heated very fast, and ultimately ended with everyone just not wanting to hear about it anymore.

Walumancer would again butt heads with Relk later that same month over a completely different issue, for it was finally revealed after all this time why Relk "had no bad tags". Relk *had* made a bad tag, but after a few days, when it was far from the front page, he edited the tag, which reset its score and erased all the negative votes, allowing him to crit it himself along with a few others over time. Walumancer called him out on this, which sparked another argument that nobody wanted to hear. Pudis eventually intervened on Relk's behalf, calling Walumancer childish and immature. Walumancer told Pudis to stay out of it, and the Turk responded by missbombing Walumancer for 2000 points, out of Hale's Own, which Relk approved of. This was largely seen as too far and unnecessary, even among some taggers that called Relk a friend, such as Proto Kirby, who helped critbomb Walumancer back to Hale's Own. A month later, Pudis was banned from all the Discord servers, and Relk willingly left with him.

Relk would continue to tag through the rest of the year. Finally, however, in January of 2019, the site's time was nearly up. In the final week of the site, the community came together to form the final series of TF2Tags, titled The Final Week. However, because Walumancer was the one behind it, Relk wanted no part. He even disliked the final story of Hon-Hon and Sneky, which Relk was a huge fan of. On the final day, Walumancer led the Wahfia in one final raid on the site, a raid so big that even taggers outside the Wahfia took part. Relk found the display to be despicable, and was of the opinion that everyone who took part should have been ashamed of themselves.

However, the Wahfia was not done yet, and Relk's past behaviors and attitudes would come back to haunt him. One year prior, Walumancer formulated a plan that would knock Relk down a peg. Throughout the year, the Wahfiosos critbombed Makin' Bacon, the third-highest critted tagger on the site behind Twelve Hour Respawn and Relk himself. On the final day, following the raid, the Wahfia took action and mass critbombed Makin' to the top, dethroning Relk as the highest-scoring tagger. Fred Fuchs attempted to reverse this by tying them back up through critbombing Relk, but in the end it was Walumancer himself who broke the tie again and cemented Makin' as the undisputed champion of the original TF2Tags, destroying the 4 year dynasty of the Relkish Empire.

Following the site's closure, Relk had rejoined the Discord, and said nothing of his usurpers. However, when Ulysses and TGR revealed that the site would be revived as Tags.tf and revealed that Walumancer was one of the administrators, Relk vocally opposed, as his three biggest enemies on the site would be running the new site. However, it was set in stone at that point, and eventually Relk decided to leave the community behind for good. People largely did not miss him.

## Style

Relk's style is, for lack of a better term, a King (and Queen) of all trades. Mastering the art of references, visual gags, puns, and more, Relk is largely seen as the Avatar of tagging. Though he has no particular style like many others, his mastery of the so-called "Generic Style" propelled him to the top of the original site's leaderboards very quickly. However, he does seem to have a love of Yo Mama jokes.

According to Relk himself, his method of tagging is similar to the Beggar's Bazooka, in that he loads up a bunch of tags at once and fires them all in rapid unison. This was mostly done in the early days, however, when TF2 updates were more regular.

Relk always put the word "Relk" in the keywords of all his tags, that way he may easily search them up using the site's search feature. Sometimes he also put the term "C4d" in as well, which stands for "Candidate for deletion". Tags marked in such a way were often mediocre tags Relk may have deleted later. Considering how many of his tags are marked this, however, he didn't do it often.

Relk would also usually comment on his hundred milestone tags, stating that x was his y00th submission.

Relk also popularized Emoji Tags, a site meme where taggers made emotes out of the item used in question.

### "Getting Relk'd"

Definition: When you try to post something, but Relk already posted it.

Relk is perhaps the only user on the site to have had a tagging term named after them. The process of **Getting Relk'd**, or **Getting Relked** (coined by Legownz on May 5th of 2015) occurs when a user creates a tag that they think is original... only to be told (usually by Relk himself posting the link to the *original* tag) that Relk did it first, often years prior. Other taggers sometimes use a similar phrase with their names in place of Relk's when this has happened to them, but the colloquial term is named after the eponymous tagger because "95% of the time, it's motherfucking Relk."

However, this should not be conflated with the idea that Relk himself is wholly original. While most of his stuff should be assumed to be original, he has on numerous occasions been accused of (even by figures such as Yahiamice, Fear, and Lt. Col. Problem) and admitted to stealing tags, like everyone does at some point (this isn't a *bad* thing, it's just contrary to Relk's popular community image of being the most original person on the first site). On one occasion, he admitted to viewing the Steam inventories of new taggers for "interesting names", to gain inspiration for new tag ideas and to evaluate the creativity of the new blood. He's also been "Relk'd" in the sense of it happening to him on some occasions, such as with Qror and Danjin in the early days. However, the community has, for better or worse, given Relk the Midas Touch, as almost any tag he stole often wound up getting many, *many* more crits than the original (which may have even received a *negative* score), often to the original poster's chagrin (ironically, when this happened to Relk himself, he complained about it).

Relk would "get Relk'd" by other taggers more frequently with time, especially in 2016, and would get called out for it more and more by the taggers. Relk would get increasingly defensive and rude to his accusers (which include Digi, Acquiesce, Crimson Blitz, and Makin' Bacon, as well as Bloo Kirby in February of 2017), which may have led to his overall approval in 2016 lowering substantially among the older generations of taggers.

### Trends and Memes

Relk's view on site trends and memes is... inconsistent, even as far back as March and April of 2014. Relk has been known to dislike any and all site trends, and he would make this known to everyone else that he does not approve. The earliest example of this was the "crappy paint puns" opinion. In a similar vein, he dislikes it when people start to make variations of his tags, thereby turning them into trends, such as his Yo Mama Jokes that started in late April of 2014, as well as the typical Bucket Jokes and Original Dick jokes. He also isn't a fan of Smash Z's signature MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE meme. He even came up with the idea of "Meme Extinguishers", where he would follow a trend explicitly to make a bad tag that he hoped would stop others from following the meme, though he himself admitted that it was probably a fruitless endeavor. He has been criticized numerous times by members of the Lost Generation of Taggers for being quick to call everything and anything a meme, which he admits was a weak point of his. When the more unconventional site memes and in-jokes began to come around, like different series and celebrations, as well as Tweet Tags and NTF2Tags, Relk continued to outspokenly express his distaste.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, HOWEVER... there is evidence of the opposite. Once again, as early as March of 2014, there is evidence of Relk getting in on site trends, such as a trend of Back to the Future jokes, and variations of Kurt Cobain's Microphone, to name a few early examples. He even countered one of Legownz's famous "Item sets exist for a reason" comments when he went along with a trend of puns regarding FunnyJunk, which had been stealing tags without credit for some time. His reputation for having a rampant hatred for series is a bit inaccurate, for of the eight known series on TF2Tags, he is actually quite the fan of half of them (those being Epic Rap Battles of TF2, the TF2Tags Nightly News Network, Taggers in the Wild, and is perhaps one of the biggest fans of Hon-Hon and Sneky). His hatred for Tweet Tags and NTF2Tags, however, is entirely accurate, as he believes such things belong on the dead Steam Group and the pits of hell, respectively (though he's made a few Tweet Tags himself).

## Relationships

Relk is a very polarizing Tagger in the eyes of the community, to say the absolute least.

### Pre-Community Taggers

During Relk's fledgling years on TF2Tags, he became a respected tagger by those of the Lost Generation and early Gen 1 Taggers such as Yahiamice. However, as time went on he became criticized for two things. First, stealing jokes, which while a common thing to do later on, was widely disapproved of back then. Second was for being over-opinionated and overly-outspoken for the things he disapproved of. His known and outspoken hatred of trends and memes was known to get on many a tagger's nerves. However, this was largely a vocal minority, as the vast majority followed and heavily respected Relk and all he did, and hoped to learn and follow his example. One Tagger even said he might as well be the site overlord and administrator instead of Dr. Dos due to how loyal people were to him, to which Relk (jokingly) agreed.

However, this cult of personality among the Gen 0 and early Gen 1 taggers very well might have given Relk an inflated ego. People constantly praised Relk for the quality of his tags, which is deserved mind you, but did it in a manner that was almost religious. People claimed that Relk was an absolute genius, that everything he touched turned to gold, and that he "had no bad submissions" (Legownz was perhaps one of the most regular examples of this, for all his own accomplishments he fellated Relk constantly). This may have either created or exasperated the personality and character that later taggers would grow to dislike him for. At the very least, he began to believe he did indeed have the Midas Touch. To quote one tagger named minestuck:

> "fear, its because relk has brand loyalty. his fans know he posts the good shit and thus upvote without even knowing. its a tf2tags monopoly"
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He did have one particular enemy in the Pre-Community era, known as Blades, a tagger who ended with 6200 points. However, this was overall minor, and nothing like the rivalries he would have in the future.

### Community Taggers in General

At the onset of the community, Relk was largely viewed the same as during his earlier days of Tagging, that being a freakin' genius who could do no wrong, even when he did. For example, when Bloo Kirby first joined the site in late 2015, she had a visibly similar style to Relk, who in turn called her a thief. This made Bloo a staunch enemy of Relk from the very beginning. When Relk defended Sensible's ban in September, the community largely turned against him, but forgave him after a few days due to his reputation.

However, in 2016 the community largely began to feel differently about Relk. Through all his drama with the wiki, his liberal use of his "Get Relk'd" catchphrase while being extremely defensive when people accused him of doing the same thing, his open and loud distaste for anything unconventional, people grew largely sick of his attitude, but did not really say anything because he was one of the most prestigious taggers on the site. By the end of the year, however, after Walumancer's callout, many veteran taggers began to change their minds about Relk, and the Third Generation almost collectively despised him after his return a few months after they started joining.

Relk remains a divisive figure among the community. Many still do not care for him and are glad to see him gone, while others miss him and continue to respect him for all his accomplishments on the original site.

### Dr. Dos

Relk was perhaps one of Dr. Dos's greatest loyalists, defending his actions in nearly every single shitstorm that centered around Dos and his administrative actions. He infamously defended Dr. Dos's decision to permanently ban Sensible Haircut from the site, for example, and ultimately supported his decision to shut down TF2Tags for good. He mocked the taggers on numerous occasion for thinking Dr. Dos had abandoned them, and has made several enemies among Dos's critics.

### A Fucking Idiot

Relk was one of the biggest fans A Fucking Idiot had. Though, like everyone else when he first emerged, Relk made fun of how bad of a tagger AFI was, when it became clear that AFI was doing it all on purpose, his brand of comedy grew on Relk, who eventually became one of his biggest fans. He always disapproved when Dos banned AFI (which happened a lot). Relk's final contribution to the community was to archive all of AFI's tags on the wiki, which the community remains grateful for. AFI is listed as the only Tagger Relk holds absolutely nothing against.

### Sensible Haircut

Relk was largely ahead of the curb when it came to Sensible. While most taggers now almost universally disavow him for his brand of politics, Relk had greatly disliked him seemingly from the start, though this dislike was not mutual. Relk's animosity for Sensible can be seen as starting around the time of the Racist Anon Incident, where he hurled several insults towards Sensible for either telling him to get back to work or correcting one of his tags's anti-grammar. When Sensible was banned in September of 2015, Relk was glad to see him go, a position that didn't go over well with the rest of the taggers. This ultimately led to...

### Ulysses

Ulysses and Relk's rivalry is one of the most infamous on TF2Tags. Ulysses joined TF2Tags only a month after Relk did, and until Sensible's ban they had a decent friendship. Ulysses himself had built up his own empire and cult of personality, and Relk had even given Ulysses some encouragement to keep tagging during this initial period. Though they had gotten into some arguments before (such as in May 2015), they largely were friendly. However, Sensible's Ban divided them hard, and after their infamous argument and the site almost entirely siding with Ulysses, the two became staunch enemies throughout the rest of 2015 and 2016, regularly making insults and jabs about the other and getting into more and more heated arguments. However, as of 2017 they have managed to simmer down and learn to live with each other, though by no means are they considered friends.

### Walumancer

Walumancer remains a staunch opponent of Relk, and still harbors massive grudges against him. This dislike started when Walumancer noticed that every time something new and interesting was happening on the site, such as a series, NTF2Tags, or a trend, Relk would vocally express how stupid he thought it was, including Walu's own Wahfia. Relk also missed the overwhelming majority of Walumancer's tags after a certain point, with Relk stating that it was because his brand of tagging belonged on the Steam group. Walumancer would eventually express his anger in October of 2016, and from then onwards the two autists were open enemies and everyone knew it. It was Walumancer who formulated the plan to remove Relk as the top tagger by having the Wahfia mass critbomb Makin' Bacon. It seemed as thought these two would never settle their differences, but midway through January 2021, Relk returned to the wiki and left an apology for her behavior during her tagger days. She also came out as a transgender woman. Walu also apologized for holding on to his hatred for her for so long, and two have finally seemed to bury the hatchet.

## Trivia

* To avoid spamming his representative item over and over, Relk used it sparingly.
* In late October of 2016, Relk attempted to change his representative item from the classic pot with purple confetti to his new dream unusual, an Aged-Mustache Grey Officer's Ushanka with the Blizzardy Storm effect. However, like most people who attempt to change their rep item, this was largely not adhered to.
* According to Relk, "Cehi" is pronounced "Keh-Hee", though many prefer to say "Seh-Hee", "See-High", and "Sae-High". Considering how this community is almost entirely text-based, it doesn't really matter.
* Relk\_Cehi's name spelt backwards is "iheC\_kleR", in reference to the Hecklers from *Rayman 3*. iHeckler9 was Relk's very first forum name, and chose "Relk\_Cehi" as he couldn't think of anything better to use. His profile picture is of a Heckler, too.
* Coincidentally, Relk's birthday is the same as TF2's birthday.
* One of Relk's catchphrases is "Bah!" However, he was unable to effectively use it around anyone from TF2Tags, as taggers consistently made fun of it.
* Relk's preferred TF2 class used to be the Spy. He later changed it to the Soldier, before finally settling on the Heavy.
	+ Nowadays, she doesn't play TF2 anymore.
* Relk always puts "Relk" in the keywords of each of his tags so he can search through them quickly later. This may have inspired other users to do the same.
* Relk made the first bucket joke on the site, shortly after the release of the TF2 SFM movie Expiration Date, where he simply copied the joke from the movie onto a tag of the Brain Bucket.
* Relk has an older sister who is around 18 years older than him. For his 18th birthday in 2014, he asked her for a Balloonicorn toy, which she said she would get him. However, come his birthday, his sister presented him with a purple balloon, with some sweetcorn tied to the end. In short, he got absolutely pranked.
	+ Relk also has a younger brother.
* Relk made an anonymous tag exactly one time. It was by complete accident.
* Relk's tag were often stolen by users on FunnyJunk, and whenever he saw this he put the links to them in the comments of said stolen tags.
* Relk is a brony. Despite this, the taggers tolerate him.
* Relk does not celebrate Halloween. Instead, he prefers Walpurgis Night.