Flairblaze

Flairblaze was an erstwhile social medium/forum created by two computer science majors, now programmers, named Tristan Oceane and Reeve Mardman on June 20th 1998 at the age of 21. It is primarily featured in Life and Death.

## Foundation

In his highschool years, the founder Tristan Oceane never had any friends and was severely bullied for liking anime and video games, he was basically a social outcast. He thought he was all alone and thought that no one ever experienced the torment he was going through until he saw someone recieving the same treatment as his; after the bullies left he approached the young girl and she introduced herself as Reeve Mardman. They hung out and hit it off through common interests. When they were in college, they finally decided to program and create a website for like-minded people and social outcasts, whih they named "Flairblaze". Neither of them were good at drawing though and at the time of creating the logo, they didn't take into consideration that the background of this page would be black so thats why it visibly just has the orange flame mascot.

## Navigation

This platform were divided into many categories of threads that "geeks" would take interest in:

-Gthread-: Used for talking about video games in which there are walkthroughs, easter egg hunters and people who wanted to just talk about their favorite games. (Matthew Barron's favorite board)

-Mthread-: Threads for any movies, the most popularly and unanimously talked about genres are horror.

-Athread-: A thread used for talking about anime, though people use it to rate fictional drawn "waifus" in it.

-Ithread-: The users utilize this thread for talking about the general world wide web.

-Hthread-: A horror thread for internet mysterys, creepypastas, urban legends and real life scary experiences.

-Jthread-: A thread made for humor. It's barely used and was deleted in 2003.

-Pthread-: A thread for turbo virgins and psychopaths alike, a lot of porn and gore is posted here and is deemed as the second worst thread of all time

-Rthread-: The worst thread. Take the activity of Pthread and multiply it by a factor of 100, you get Rthread. Initially intended for miscellaneous content, a lot of criminal activity take place here such as doxxing, harassment, hacking, assassinations, any cyber crime you can think of, followed by any and all violent crimes. The lack of, if not, abscent moderation of the forum does not help.

Just to name a few.

## Userbase

As you might expect, the userbase of Flairblaze is incredibly toxic, since its infacy to its demise, it surpasses early 4chan and even modern Twitter in toxicity and hypocrisy, this was especially due to the fact that there was no moderation and the founders didnt place any particular attention to the website after a couple of years after they founded it. At its peak in the early to mid 2000s, it had a userbase of over 50 million "blazers" (nickname given to Flairblaze users). The mean-spirited behavior users weren't limited to Rthread and Pthread but it even existed in the generic threads such as Mthread and Gthread who were prone to being toxic.

In 2006, a particular member, named Xx\_TrappedSoul\_xX, widely known as his real name Matthew Barron, tried to spread positivity and optimism in the dark and cruel world of Flairblaze. At first it didnt work and they hated him for being naive and not condemning his father's actions (hypocrites lmao) but as time went on, he garnered a decently-sized following up until his unfortunate death in 2008 where his followers make tributes and salutes to him.

## The End of Flairblaze

However, unlike the wishes of Matthew Barron, Flairblaze became a toxic cesspool again shortly after its death. A small minority of users were making claims hoping that Matthew would be "burning in hell for ruining their sanctuary". In April of 2010, just like an amputation of a severely infected limb, the original founders decided to pull the plug on Flairblaze and delete it from the face of the internet, never to be seen again, since "it wasn't worth keeping up".

A dedicated team of people who get no bitches are still working to this day to archive every single thread, comment, posts and replies of Flairblaze when it was still alive. Good luck with that.

## Trivia

* The name of Tristan Oceane was inspired by that of the founder of 4Chan: Christopher Poole; and Reeve Mardman by Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, because its a hyperbolical parody of both websites
* Despite it being deleted over a decade, it is still widely talked about negatively today
* Some people joke that Flairblaze is better than TikTok
* Michael Oxmaul occasionally used Flairblaze with the username of "987ScrotumEviscerator789" which is his username he uses in everything
* This website left a lot of its users traumatized for life
* Flairblaze is the origin of many memes such as Matthew's copypasta
* Flairblaze users and 4chan users hated each other and had a rival dynamic
* If you even comment "Hi." on any board, you get bombarded with hate comments