Blast

**TF2Tags**
Tags.tf

> "Everything involving Tags and the members is complicated. Literally everything. It shouldn't work. On paper, it's a disaster. Yet we somehow have a community."
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> *~ Blast describing the hellhole he calls a friend circle to a non-tagger friend.*
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**Blast** is a veteran Generation 1 tagger known primarily for mediating conflicts and a love of professional wrestling. Known by most as a friendly (if sarcastic) pal, Blast was revered for managing to keep a cool head in the sea of psychos that was TF2Tags, and remains one of the longest-running consistent presences in the community, even to this day.

## History

### Blast Off

Blast's earliest surviving tag was posted on October 16th of 2014, though it is unknown if that was the day Blast first started on the website, either anonymously or through his own tags that he has since deleted. Regardless, it was definitely within the latter half of 2014. Early on, Blast started tagging like most do when they are young and stupid: shitposting. A few of Blast's early tags (including his earliest) focus on an idiot kid he named "Jimmy", though this attempt to make a niche for himself petered out after two months or so. In terms of activity, Blast started off tagging consistently (that is, he didn't just post a few tags one or two days and then disappeared for a month), though he didn't make tags on a daily basis, sometimes waiting a week to post tags (it is important to note that this may also have come from him deleting negatively-received tags from that early period). Regardless, he was there, and would be a regular but subdued presence for the remainder of 2014, with activity steadily picking up around December 15th. His one bit of significant community interaction came on December 23rd, where Blast admitted that he found the new shitposter A Fucking Idiot's... unique tags... to be funny at times, a sentiment that would be shared by many. He ended the year quite strongly, with four tags he made in two days receiving 15 crits or more, with one even hitting 20.

In 2015, Blast's activity stabilized at making at least one tag a day, though he often made at least three. On the 12th of January, he sought the advice of other taggers in regards to deleting tags with more misses than crits, as he didn't know if such a practice was a community taboo. Luckily for him, it isn't, and a few taggers told him such, including Crimson Lombax, whom Blast would start playing games regularly with. Eight days later, he commented on Squidward Testicles's dip in activity, especially with a new tagger making an increase in his signature *Spongebob Squarepants* jokes. Naturally, he would respond to Blast with a Squidward quote. On February 11th, he would seek out Crimson, as he wanted to get him a gift, though he had no idea what in the seven hells a lombax was. The next day, the site was temporarily hijacked by an unknown hacker (or perhaps it was just Dr. Dos) who caused TF2Tags to redirect to a gay rights website for a few hours. After the natural tagging order was restored, Blast made a joke about the situation. At the end of the month, Blast would comment on those who were apparently causalities of shitposters, including himself, Relk\_Cehi, and Ulysses.

On March 7th, Blast, who since he discovered TF2Tags had been trying to do this, got his IRL friend Timberwoof to start tagging regularly. Near the end of the month, a new tagger would join under the name of Silver Scootyboo, and announced in their first tag that they were, in fact, an alt account of someone else on the site, and encouraged everybody to find out just who it was. This backfired, as barely anyone gave a shit, so Silver would constantly pester Timberwoof to guess their identity by leaving comments on his oldest tags, with Timber going on to wonder just who this person was, with Blast coming in to back him up. Timber would accuse Relk and Sensible Haircut of being Silver Scootyboo, though both denied it. Blast himself would accuse Relk, though he still denied it. This caused a decent number of people to start accusing Relk of being this alt account. The Silver Scootyboo situation would quickly loose steam from there, and a simple look at his Steam page would reveal that Silver was just Blast himself. Immediately after accusing Relk of being Silver, Blast apologized if he had upset or irritated him, especially because people began to start accusing him more and more of being Silver. Luckily, all was forgiven.

On March 31st, Blast reflected on his first five months of tagging, in the spirit of others reaching various milestones around that time. This gave him the idea to host a contest, which had not been officially hosted since April Fools' Week 2014. The idea was to repost your first tag to see how well it would fare in current day TF2Tags. People liked the idea and thus went along with it, though Blast later had to clarify that he was only doing it for fun and that there was no prize intended to be distributed. It is unknown who won this contest, as Blast never announced a winner, but many did indeed partake in this contest, such as Sensible, Crimson, Relk, and Ulysses, among others. Blast's own submission got three crits, compared to the original incarnation's six crits.

On April 8th, Blast celebrated his first milestone, having reached 800 crits on his profile. That same day, Crimson hit his 1000-crit milestone, and so the two celebrated together. At this point, the two had become quite close friends, playing TF2 often together and chatting on Steam often. Blast would compliment Crimson on April 21st, stating that TF2Tags needed more taggers like him, and on April 26th they would bond over their shared interest in *Five Nights at Freddy's* and the various fandom songs they enjoyed. Blast became increasingly convinced that they were the same person on account of how similar their interests were.

In summation, though Blast had not technically reached the 1000-crit milestone yet, he had gradually immersed himself into the Tagging community over the course of his first six months on TF2Tags, making friends and doing his part to contribute to the wider community through contests and mysteries to solve. Of course, this was only the start.

### To Defend a Friend

*Main article: Racist Anon Incident*

What really propelled Blast to prominence in the community, however, was what occurred during the first three weeks of May 2015. On May 1st, the site experienced an influx of anonymous submissions that were purposefully inflammatory and purposefully bad. These submissions had a severe case of caps lock, generously used the word "fuck", and explicitly targeted both the Anon's own mother and the mothers of everyone else. Naturally, people responded with obvious criticisms of the Anon's mental maturity and their originality. Blast, however, was particularly incensed by the behavior of this Anon, and proceeded to angrily mock the Anon in three consecutive tags. This would be the first instance of Blast's fiery passion towards things going on in the site, and since it was the first time it led to some like Squidward Testicles question if he was okay. Blast proceeded to apologize for his outburst, stating that he was merely trying to make a point that such tags did not belong on TF2Tags, and told the Anon that they needed "EXTREME. FUCKING. THERAPY." This message was echoed by Crimson, who was doing his own work in reporting every Anon tag he saw, especially when the Anon got outright racist following this. He would continue to mock the Racist Anon in various ways. This included telling others not to post for awhile to see just how long the Anon could whine about his parental issues, pointing out that the guy named "A Fucking Idiot" was much more beloved and did what the Anon was trying to do far better, and a set full of various weapons he wanted to shove up the Anon's ass. The latter example started to worry Crimson and even Qror that he was taking things too far, and Blast promised that it would be the last one.

The following day (May 3rd) would be when Blast hit his 1000-crit milestone, and made a set thanking everyone for helping him reach such a point in his tagging career. He was congratulated by Crimson and Relk. That same day, however, Timberwoof made a tag making fun of the Racist Anon, pretending that he was the Anon and "forgot to sign out", For one reason or another, this tag caught the attention of Dr. Dos, and he banned him for five years. Blast, soon after either realizing this or being told by Timber, made a set notifying Dos that Timber was, in fact, merely joking. Dos did not respond, however, most likely due to the fact that after Timber was banned the Anon appeared to disappear. This caused Blast, Crimson, and eventually Legownz to band together to raise as much awareness for Timber as possible, in an attempt to get Dos to unban him. Blast was personally and emotionally invested in this due to his friendship with Timber, and made a set expressing his rage. The next day, calmer, he made a set parodying the song *Viva la Vida* about Timber's ban, which started to get some minor taggers on board. That same day Blast also acted as the medium to enter Timber into Sensible Haircut's contest that he held during this time. On May 6th, he rallied the taggers supporting Timber, thanking them for their support.

On May 7th, Timberwoof was able to return to the site through Anonymous posting, and he sincerely thanked Blast everyone for doing everything they could to get him unbanned. As complaints continued to rise, even among the most well-regarded taggers, Dr. Dos eventually got into contact with Timber and unbanned him on the 10th. Blast thusly informed the Racist Anon that he was Timberwoof's bitch. Through his efforts, the site rallied around his best friend, and got his account reinstated. However, the Racist Anon was not done yet. But in the meantime, there was an emo war going on, and Blast joined Sensible's side that emos are a cancer.

The Anon continued his antics for yet another week, and Blast was once again getting fed up, to the point where on May 18th, Blast exploded in his most visceral, angry rant yet, calling the Anon the "worst kind of slime" and wishing the Anon hadn't been born. He expressed his hatred for the Anon, and that *everyone* hated the Anon. He called the Anon an "unfunny, uncreative, horrid, lame, joke-worthy, inhuman, unintelligent FAILURE." He called his tags garbage, and as a person a disgrace, and demanded that he leave and never come back. This rant went against the steadily popular view put forth by Sensible and Danjin that the only way to defeat the Anon was to ignore the Anon and deprive him of the attention he clearly craved. Nobody seemed to respond to Blast's rant despite this going against their tactics. That same day, people started to leave the site en masse due to the Racist Anon. While Blast dipped in activity during this time, he did not actually leave the site. Eventually, Dr. Dos would finally be stirred to action and disabled the Anonymous function of TF2Tags on May 21st, defeating the Anon permanently. Blast, the object of his utter disdain finally being defeated, did not gloat nor did he lament the disabling of the Anonymous function. He merely kissed everybody goodnight.

### Birth of a Mediator

Following the defeat of the Racist Anon, Blast continued to post through the rest of the month, and then into June until the 9th, where he disappeared from the site for 9 days. He returned on the 18th, and revealed that his computer has been broken ever since he started tagging back in October, and has been using TF2Tags through the Internet Browser on his Wii U this entire time. What caused this 9-day absence was the charger for said Wii U "crapping out". He returned using his mother's Kindle, but notified the community that he would not be tagging as often until he sorted things out with his Wii U. He more or less returned to posting once per day following this, however.

Blast started a bit of controversy on June 28th when he posted a set listing off various taggers and the representative items he used to identify them in his own posts. This led to numerous taggers complaining about either not being included in the set or getting their item wrong. This led to a small little shitstorm where people started talking about rep items, claiming some for themselves, etc. Blast tried to clarify that it was simply how *he* represented taggers in tags, not how they should identify themselves. Nobody listened. He looked upon what he unintentionally caused and shouted "OH DEAR LORD WHAT HAVE I STARTED". Thankfully, the drama subsided by the end of the day.

When the Gun Mettle Update dropped in July, many taggers were, as they always did, complaining about balance changes and, in addition, the new weapon skins carried to TF2 from CS:GO. Blast simply told them to find different weapons if they hated the changes and to stop complaining about the skins because it was promoting CS:GO. A few days later, Blast responded to a set made by Legownz, where he noticed many people, such as Blast, leaving the site entirely or stopped tagging. Blast refuted this, saying that he wasn't going anywhere, and that people generally take breaks so it wasn't like they actually left.

Blast was present during Team Legownz, though did not get particularly involved. During the initial announcement of Satoru Iwata's death, Blast was critical of Legownz's and Sensible Haircut's harshly apathetic comments. On the 18th, he made a post where he noticed a significant amount of animosity between Legz and Player 1 + Player 2, and after other taggers explained it to him, he stated that P1P2 was being a douche. That was the extent of his known involvement. The remainder of July 2015 continued on as normal, with Blast tagging regularly, with the only community-related tag of note being an homage to AFI. In August, Blast took a week off of TF2Tags due to school starting up once more. Coincidentally, this week was when two major community events happened back-to-back: the Mobile-Friendly Update and the Banning of AFI. Though Blast made a single comment agreeing with Ulysses and Sensible regarding the removal of misses, he did not take part in either event beyond this, however, and when he returned on August 23rd he walked back into TF2Tags with some pizza while everything was on fire. Three days later, he celebrated hitting 1600 crits, which was responded with a ":D" from Fancytag and a "WOW WHO GIVES A SHIT" from Frapple. Daily reminder that Frapple is a prick. The next day, he pointed out the wiki (this one, to be exact) still existed, and that a lot of taggers still had yet to get pages on there. Timberwoof, who made this wiki, worked hard on it, and Blast wanted it to get the attention he felt it deserved.

Because of school and thus an inability to access his Wii U for most of the day, Blast's activity started to slow starting in the latter half of August, though he was very much still present. On September 8th, Sensible Haircut, a highly-regarded pillar of the TF2Tags community, was banned for posting an edgy tag that massively triggered a minor tagger by the name Yuurg, who whined to Dr. Dos about it. Blast wasn't present for the initial wave of drama, and he expressed that he felt hurt that nobody ever informed him of these things. When Blast was informed of what happened and the exodus that many taggers were taking, he expressed sorrow at the state of the community over this incident. What nearly brought him to tears, however, was the bitter rift in the friendship of Relk and Ulysses, which he personally decided to go out of his way and mediate. He would talk to both men on Steam to get their individual sides of the story, and try to present them to the other in hopes of repairing their friendship. This happened over the course of a few days, and while he was unsuccessful, he at least convinced them to take the toxicity off the site, at least for now. He also told everyone to stop giving Relk so much shit for his unpopular opinion regarding Sensible's ban, claiming that they were all better than that. These acts, followed by similar acts in the future, would quickly garner Blast a reputation of being the site mediator, who always acted as the middleman to try and remedy various dramas. In the midst of all this, many taggers who left the site in protest of Sensible's ban came back with calmer heads, and Blast encouraged everyone to forget about the past and look towards a brighter future.

### Hey buddy, ever heard of CAH?

In the aftermath of Sensible's ban, Blast decided to lighten the mood by proposing a sitewide game of Cards Against Humanity. Everyone largely seemed to be in agreement that it was a great idea, so Blast made a follow-up set stating that, when his laptop got fixed, he would notify everyone interested of when the game was happening. He also made a Steam Group to more easily host games in the future. On September 16th, Blast would host the first ever game of Taggers Against Humanity, which was a great success. Cards Against Humanity would quickly rise to become the favored method of community interaction on TF2Tags, and the second favorite game among taggers (behind TF2, of course). Two days later, Blast would announce that anyone on the Taggers Against Humanity Steam Group was allowed to make an announcement for CAH games.

In the middle of all this, Blast would receive his first missbomb by an unknown user, where he was brought from 1700 to 1500 crits. This made him join the call for the creation of site moderators. A tagger recommended he report the bombing to Dr. Dos, which Blast pointed out he could not do due to Dos's Steam profile being private. By September 18th, he was down to 1300 points, and growing angrier. The bomber also seemed to be targeting Ulysses as well, as pointed out by Le Tryhard Hunter. Though the bomber was never identified, the fact that Ulysses's points shot back up to over 9000, it can be assumed they were caught and banned. Blast's points, however, were not restored for whatever reason.

Blast didn't tag much in October of 2015. He had been on the site for a whole year at this point, but couldn't really celebrate it due to school. He did seem to have a premonition on October 24th, however, of a future shitstorm between him and Ulysses against Player 1 + Player 2. Crimson offered to back the both of them up in such a scenario. Such a storm appeared to manifest that same day, though it was mostly between Ulysses and P1P2. It didn't seem to amount to much, either, for it ended quickly. In early November, he noticed a lot of negativity and anger stirring around, so he decided to give some love back, complementing various taggers for their good qualities, as well as (shockingly) admitting to *not* hating L'Étranger. Then, the very next day, Tag #100,000 disappeared. This made Dos return, people launch theories, and Blast to wonder what the hell was going on. Blast notably demanded answers from Expand, who in a secret binary message left in the keywords of an episode of the TF2Tags Nightly News Network claimed to know who stole the tag. Unfortunately, Blast never got his desired answer.

Following the fallout from the disappearance of TF2Tags's greatest milestone, Blast got together with Marmot to create an unofficial TF2 Highlander match consisting of taggers, with Blast captaining the BLU team. He named his initial team as (in class order): himself, CP, Acquiesce, Tryhard, Sensible, P1P2, and Timberwoof, without a Sniper or Spy, to compete against Marmot's team of Legownz, Marmot, Ulysses, TheOnlyGuyEver, AFI, TGRobert, Bonkspenser, Expand, and Mr. Copycat. After people complained about not being put in the right classes (with Walumancer being especially salty about not being picked for either team despite being the only active Engineer main in the community), he revised the team to consist of himself, Relk, P1P2, Tryhard, Sensible, Walumancer, Timber, Acquiesce, and CP. He proposed that these hypothetical teams actually come together and do a real highlander match, but people still complained about their classes, and the other team captain pointed out how awful it would be to host due to regional differences. P1P2 in particular seemed to get especially salty, to the point where Blast apologized in advance in case a shitstorm between the two of them occurred. Then, a future version of Blast went back in time to warn present Blast that everyone was taking the Highlander thing way too far. Things eventually settled.

Later that month, the site experienced its first major bug-turned shitstorm, where the submission limits went on strike and refused to reset at the end of the day on November 11th. Shortly beforehand, CP was going on a spree of time travel related tags. Blast and others started to jump onto this trend with their own time travel tags, which Mr. Copycat theorized broke the site. With the first Taggening in full swing and taggers devolving into apocalyptic panic, Blast quickly claimed that he would be the last tagger, and that everyone's lives would be in his hands. Other taggers quickly began to challenge him for this, like TGRobert and Player 1 + Player 2. Unfortunately, Dr. Dos came in to fix the bug the following day, ending the chaotic first Taggening, to Blast's disappointment.

On the 14th, Blast advertised a CAH game to the site featuring the first custom TF2Tags deck, where many taggers joined him. On November 15th, Blast deleted some of his bad tags and found himself critbombed by an unknown user, finally returning to the 1700 points he had originally hit back in September prior to his missbomb. On the 16th, he hosted another game of CAH. When the second Taggening hit on the 17th, Blast missed the infamous debut of Smash Z's signature MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE spree. He made a set reflecting that he always seemed to miss major shitstorms, and even though he was late he simply said "Damn it, Smash." He hosted another game of CAH on the night of the third Taggening, November 20th, but he had to leave before it ended on account of needing to wash dishes, which greatly pissed him off. To compensate, he held another game the next day, as well as another on the 29th, then the 2nd of December.

Early December brought in a fun little sitewide event where a minor tagger named Yackitori introduced the TF2Tags Hunger Games Simulator. It was a fun couple of days where taggers through themselves into the arena and let their lives be controlled by the rng of the simulator. When it ended on the 6th, Blast decided to steal the idea and start up a second round of Hunger Games. The tributes were announced on the 8th, followed shortly thereafter by the bloodbath. Unfortunately, Internet problems prevented him from posting any more, so he handed it over to Bonkspenser. He kept up with the round, and was pleased with the results (despite Fancytag betraying him halfway through).

On December 18th, Blast announced that he would try to buy some stuff for everyone. People, seeing a freebee, immediately started telling Blast what they did and did not want. Blast stated that he would try to please everybody, but it may be difficult. He hosted yet another game of CAH on the 20th, and then again on the 21st. On Christmas, Blast got some Steam gift cards, and started to buy gifts for as many people as possible. Unfortunately, he forgot about the newly implemented Steam Escrow, and had to wait to deliver them until the middle of January.

On the 7th of January, Blast missed various conversations people had over concerns of the increasing inactivity of Dos, and later Bonkspenser advertising the site on Reddit. Blast found himself happy to join the ensuing New Tagger Riots, adopting the persona of "Macho Man" Randy Savage, declaring he would "ELBOW DROP THEM ALL." As the efforts to expel the new taggers continued on for a few days, Blast kept the persona up, talking like the Macho Man on various tags both from new and old taggers. As animosity towards Bonkspenser increased, however, Blast decided to provide the moderate (some say the mediator) point of view. He believed that the community was so adverse to new taggers because there hadn't been any for months, which caused an expectation of site activity, so when a bunch of new taggers suddenly joined it threw the status quo for a loop. He advocated people wait and let the new taggers adjust, and to only keep acting against those who refused to assimilate and only shitpost. People largely favored this idea and the riots died down soon after. Of course, this was mostly due to the Great Comment Crash, where on the 11th a quartet of taggers crashed the site by making so many comments within so short a time. Blast was among those wondering what the hell was happening with the site randomly crashing and comments now counting as tags in the submission limits.

On January 16th, Blast had a bit of a scare where he saw the submission limits not reset. Fearing another Taggening, he expressed his concerns but were ultimately dismissed with facts and logic. The same day he hosted a game of CAH. Not a lot of people evidently showed up, as he made two tags under an hour later encouraging people to join. On the 17th, Meta Breakers made a post calling bronies autistic (note: Meta Breakers is an autistic brony), and Blast and Relk took great offense to this. In response, Ulysses made a couple of sets telling people to toughen up and stop being pansies. Blast later apologized for jumping the gun, making a set explaining the problems he had personally experienced in life on account of his disability and agreed that Ulysses was on the right track in terms of making such jokes. That same day he hosted another CAH round. He hosted another on January 28th, and the next day he made his first contribution to the TF2Tags Nightly News Network, hosting a CAH Highlights segment. The same day, he proposed an idea of an SFM poster with all the taggers, telling everyone to comment their class and loadout and he would contact someone about putting it together. People gave their loadouts and various ideas for what they could all be doing, and eventually Blast commissioned an SFM poster from an artist named ESHAP to make it. That poster remains the profile picture for the Taggers Against Humanity Steam Group and can be found on this wiki's about page.

### Pressure Building

After a brief dip of inactivity in the beginning of February, Blast made a tag on the 7th where he admitted feeling that he made more tags just talking and not actual jokes (or rather, that he made more Tweet Tags than actual tags), and resolved to change that. The following day, Blast was once again thrust into the position of mediator between Relk and Ulysses. Relk was getting into a spat with TGRobert over the implementation of infoboxes on this wiki, and Ulysses came to TGR's defense and called Relk out for acting like a raging autist. Like with the Meta Breakers situation before, Relk took great offense to this and two volatile personalities clashed once more. Blast stepped in, telling Ulysses to accept that Relk is just wired differently than a normal person, but also telling Relk to stop getting so upset at the idea of "autistic" being used as an insult, as people will always use it as an insult and always letting it bother him would only bring him misery, with Blast speaking from personal experience. Though whether or not he actually helped the situation is dubious, Blast received much acclaim for being willing to step up like that from the likes of Bonkspenser, Makin' Bacon, Meta Breakers, and TheOnlyGuyEver, who famously called Blast "one of the like 4 people here who are actually living in reality." The next day, Fancytag held a game of CAH without telling Blast, and he got salty over it.

On February 13th, the site was visited by a new tagger by the name of Krazy Weegee. This was quickly noticed by Walumancer, a tagger Blast had been bonding with for several months over their shared knowledge of professional wrestling and both being autistic (it's almost like TF2Tags attracts autists, says the autist writing this article). Walumancer, being Walumancer, of course declared Weegee to be his mortal enemy. Blast made a bold decision shortly after his friend made this declaration: ""I have decided to submit myself to the power of the Wahfia."

This decision did two things. First, Blast became the second person to join the Wahfia, after L'Étranger, and was soon appointed by Walumancer as the Wahfia's Wahmbassador to the rest of TF2Tags (which Blast himself requested), a position he would hold in the faction for multiple years. Secondly, it caused a snowballing effect where a great many taggers decided to join the Wahfia as well. Player 1 + Player 2 soon joined and immediately after so did SaturnCaine. Makin' Bacon, Legownz, BEAT, Le Tryhard Hunter, Egg-Z, and Fancytag (albeit unintentionally) did as well. Others would join in later, including Crimson Blitz, Bonkspenser, and Ashton Doovis. The Wahfia had gone from a small recurring bit about one tagger's on-site persona to the largest and most influential faction in TF2Tags history, and it was pretty much thanks to Blast's decision. Walu thanked Blast and everyone else for joining, and for initiation ordered that they use purple variants of their representative items to show they were now in the Wahfia. Blast, despite using such an item in his joining set, refused to have his hat touched. The following day, he pointed out that Bonkspenser joined the Wahfia, but Marmot didn't, despite the fact that they were dating at the time. Marmot simply said that the two of them had their differences like every couple and this was just one of them.

On February 20th, the site was visited by a shitposter who thought it would be funny to create dozens of alt accounts and impersonate other taggers. In what was dubbed the Attack of the Clones, Blast was one of many who had a clone made of him. Blast's clone was one of the first ones made, and quickly drew confusion from taggers wondering why he had lost his mind. He called out his impersonator alongside Makin', but advised his Canadian friend against fighting fire with fire by implementing their own clone accounts. Instead, Blast joined the likes of Smash Z and Ulysses in combatting the so-called Shitposter of 2016 through mockery. Blast did not comment on Dos's actions against S16, nor his rant against the community and the subsequent fallout. He did tell people to cut Digi some slack when he pulled a Leave And Never Come Back, but otherwise said nothing (likely on account of not being there to actively witness it). Blast posted some CAH highlights on the 25th.

On the 1st of March, Blast came to the site to witness yet more drama, this time concerning Meta Breakers against Ulysses. In what some call "The Edge Incident", Ulysses had rudely debunked a claim Meta made about "debunking the Colorless Times" by displaying strange botkiller weapons. This quickly spiraled into a Steam chat that got way out of hand (like, *really* out of hand) and the site proceeded to pile on Meta after Ulysses publicized the chat in a set. At some point, Makin' got thrown into the mix as well. Blast, arriving late to the party uninformed but nonetheless determined, once again tried to diffuse the situation as a mediator, but expressed his frustrations about always trying to diffuse a situation or respond to ones that he missed, stating the he needed a career change. In the end, he believed that everyone was going too harsh on Meta, a sentiment only really shared by Bonkspenser.

He hosted a CAH game on March 4th. On the 11th, he celebrated the end of the Colorless Times, using his signature Hellfire Backwards Ballcap for the first time in weeks and telling Dos he appreciated him. He later made a tag that may or may not have been related to holding in ejaculate once the site started flooding with Unusual tags again. The following day, he decided to celebrate the return of Unusuals with a CAH game. Unfortunately, not a lot of people joined, so he desperately pled for people to join, even offering to perform unclean acts. He hosted another game on the 17th.

On March 27th, Blast teased the return of an old tagger, and offered a refined metal to anyone who could correctly guess who it was. As it turned out, it was Timberwoof, who seemingly returned to actively tagging after not doing so for nearly a year. Unfortunately, the return was short-lived, as Timber left again at the end of April Fools' Week. Still, nice of Blast to help a friend.

### Kaboom

On March 29th, Blast made a tag on behalf of Makin', who requested he make an Osama Bin Laden joke about his current situation, which involved getting Missbombed out the ass. The tag was moderately successful and Blast jokingly told Makin' that he would reimburse him for the idea with a Golden Frying Pan, but in tag form. He logged off the site that night in good spirits. When he came back, the site was on fire. The missbombings were making Makin' go insane, and he was rabidly accusing Ulysses and TGR of being behind them, with the site being dominated by the shitstorm. Blast once again decided to mediate the situation, but the all the anger and frustrations that had been building within him during his mediating tenure finally burst. He angrily called out all sides for their hypocrisy, especially Ulysses who was constantly reminding everyone of Dos's angry rant following the Attack of the Clones. He lambasted everyone for ruining Timber's comeback with such nonsense, and angrily critbombed Makin' to try and reduce the pain inflicted by the bomber. After this, he made an extremely aggressive set stating that he tried his damnedest to keep the community in check, only to get zero satisfaction because his efforts always go to waste. It made him sick how often he was asked to step in, only to never getting any results in return. He stated he was done playing the mediator, and would take a few days off from the site to chill out. Acquiesce, Legownz, TOGE, and Tryhard wished him well, and Crimson offered to stand in for him during his absence.

This break never manifested, however, as the next day brought with it April Fools' Week 2016, the first Blast would ever participate in despite being on the site since 2014. The community had decided to treat this event like a special holiday, and for the first day everyone transformed into their NTF2Tags personas, including Blast, who became the outwardly-aggressive murder machine Implodes. He would also hit his 2500-crit milestone that day, and "thanked" everyone for it under the NTagger persona. This, of course, prompted Ulysses to missbomb him for 100 crits because god forbid anyone celebrate reaching a milestone under his watch. Ashton Doovis helped mitigate the losses with a small critbomb. "Implodes" held a "Cards Supporting Humanity" game that same night, where many NTaggers came and had fun. On top of all that, he also displayed his first two attempts at making SFM posters, though both have since been deleted. The rest of April Fools' Week was spent with the simple wacky fun as per usual, with Blast making a good amount of jokes related to the Wahfia and the Spaghetto.

Following the conclusion of April Fools', Blast was unfortunately thrust into the mediator position *once again* between a spat between Player 1 + Player 2 and Arceus. This was a lot more one-sided, as P1P2 was blatantly in the wrong, creating a wiki page for Arceus and filling it only with an incredibly cursed Steam chat log of Arceus wanting to sensually fornicate with a Reshiram (a chat that P1P2 later admitted he had wrote himself). This caused Arceus's reputation to take a hit and P1P2 later attempted to bully him through Steam, causing the younger tagger to fall into a bit of depression. Blast, backed up by TOGE, confronted P1P2 about this, but he refused to apologize, changing his name to "A Fucking Lunatic" at the behest of Makin'. Blast then tried to help Arceus reclaim his reputation by making the base of an actual wiki page for him, though nothing was ever really added on it, and TGR later deleted it.

Speaking of TGR, it was shortly after revealed that he was Endiome, the man missnuking Makin', TOGE, and other taggers. When he was subsequently banned, Blast said he would genuinely miss that "cancerous fuck", but did not condone his actions or call for his unbanning like Ulysses.

On April 16th, Blast made another tag of self-reflection, mentioning that he had been reduced to "puns and dead memes", and "needed to think of something", like an image change. Other veteran Gen 1 taggers consoled him in the comments, lamenting how the site had transformed from a legitimate naming site to a faux social media platform. Blast pondered maybe playing more to the strengths of the site by becoming more aggressive. On April 20th, Blast hit another snag with Steam chats, in that a Wii U update made it so that you could not Steam chat through its web browser anymore. While he has other means of using it, he warned people it may take a bit of time to get a reply.

On April 26th, discussion was being made among the community as to whether or not reaching the rank of Hale's Own even mattered anymore, due to so many attaining the rank through critbombs and not genuine hard work. Blast intercut this discussion by stating the fact that he, who had been on the site and constantly active for a year and a half, had only attained around 2700 crits or so, and was working his ass off to climb up the latter, and that the only time he's ever been critbombed was in response to missbombs levied against him. Other taggers who were in similar situations agreed that people should stop bitching about it. He would call out the community's pettiness again on May 1st, when people were dogpiling a minor tagger named Blitzkrieg who was infamous for having particularly bad grasp on the English language. He pointed out their hypocrisy in giving P1P2 a pass despite never using any punctuation while this guy got all the flack. Others, however, pointed out that Blitzkrieg's earlier submissions were perfectly coherent and believed he was thus playing an annoying character. That same day, he hosted a CAH game.

On May 2nd, Blast entered his name into Walumancer's new TF2Tags Survivor series, all throughout saying he was not going to win but looked forward to what his friend did with it anyway. On May 6th, Blast unveiled his biggest SFM poster yet, featuring himself, Legownz, Makin', Timber, and Fancy. On the 13th, he stood in for Expand, hosting his first full-length segment of the TF2NNN. On May 22nd, Blast pointed out that, eventually, Ulysses would get banned or run out of people to missbomb. Somewhat prophetically, Ulysses left the site the next day. Blast was naturally skeptical of this, and predicted he would be back within 10 days. He was back in 5. On May 28th, Blast was eliminated from Survivor, and he made a tag referencing the humor of his own lack of coordination doing him in.

After a mostly-quiet June, Blast took a two-day break. He once again returned to find the site in chaos over Dr. Dos choosing to permanently ban Floro Sapiens over a tag making fun of feminism. He called himself cursed, for his absence always seemed to spark such occurrences. He was, naturally, completely against the ban, and partook in Floro's contest consisting of only feminism tags to protest against Dos. Blast acknowledged that he deserved to get banned as well due to posting similar jokes himself, and highlighted Dos's hypocrisy by copying verbatim a tag in Dos's backpack that can be interpreted as a joke at the expense of homosexuals. Alas, as with Sensible, Dos would not undo his decision, and Floro was lost.

### Stabilizing

Not long after Floro was erased from the site, Blast highlighted and encouraged the first real new blood TF2Tags had seen in months: vuluture\_prime. He publicly stated that he had great potential, more than any other "new" tagger that came in off some Reddit advert as attempted earlier in the year. Vulture thanked him for the shoutout.

When the Meet Your Match update dropped, Heavy mains across the site began to unify and rally to support their favored class. Not wanting to take that lying down, Blast set up his own rally for all the TF2Tags Pyro mains and supporters, and claimed that win or lose the Pyros will walk away the bigger class, as they are not aided by Valve's bias. Much to his happiness, Pyro won in the end.

On July 17th, in an inverse of the Taggenings of last November, the site submissions limits broke again, but this time it made it so that everyone had *unlimited* submissions. Since there was a joke exactly five months earlier about such an event happening in the NTF2Tags dimension, many taggers dug up their NTagger personas temporarily until Dos fixed the issue, including Blast who emerged as Implodes once more, before quickly and decisively getting superkicked back to her own universe by the real Blast. Two days later, he hosted another CAH game for the umpteenth time. However, this was new in that it would be the first sitewide introduction to the game for the new Generation 3 taggers that came to the site following vulture\_prime.

On August 5th, following a small trend that was some cross between the Ulyssesstorm and Attack of the Clones where several taggers impersonated each other for fun, TF2Tags mysteriously shut down, being replaced with a blank white HTML page that stated "Minisentry" in the default font in the top left corner. Blast and others quickly began to panic that their previous shenanigans ticked Dos off to the point of shutting down the site, but soon enough Dos restored it in only 45 minutes, stating that he had accidentally broke the site without realizing it while trying to implement the new unusual effects. When the site returned, Blast was the first to comment, speaking for everyone when he said that it "felt like time froze for a good 45 minutes or so." He soon after heeded Makin's request for a big celebratory game of CAH, hosting it later that night and calling for Ulysses to break out the booze. Later, Blast made several tags anticipating the new effects, which were taking quite some time to get added. When they finally got added, however, he achieved his dream and evolved his representative item from a simple Backwards Ballcap to an Unusual Backwards Ballcap with the Atomic effect.

Starting in late August, Blast would become employed, which caused his activity on-site to dip in September. This caused him to miss Ulysses's carpetbombing of the site that got the legendary tagger permanently banned. Blast decided to honor the loss anyway on the 18th, making a song set about Jesse using the song "I Did My Time," an alternate entrance theme for professional wrestler Stuart Bennett. The same day, he commented on the new tagger, Systemic Circuit Breaker (who was, in all reality, Ulysses himself) and how her being creeped out by vulture\_prime made her the only other sane person on the site (though questioned if he himself was too far gone). On September 23rd, he hosted a CAH game.

The beginning of October saw a couple of empty threats and promises that Blast commented on but ultimately went nowhere, such as someone getting unbanned and Bonk threatening to once again advertise the site to bring in more people (a move more unneeded than ever with the advent of Generation 3). Blast himself was forcing himself to spend less and less time on the site in order to focus on things like his job and school life. This did not prevent him from coming in anyway, however. When the Dosciples faction attempted to go to war with the Wahfia on the 15th, Blast naturally sided with one of his closest tagging friends. When said friend attempted to call off his forces and not give the Dosciples the dignity of even going to war with them, however, he was banished by Dos for 24 hours, for the crime of daring to use the word "bitch" on TF2Tags. Blast, quickly tending to his Wahmbassador role in the organization, thus attempted to speak for him and end the conflict. Thankfully, the war never took place, and the Dosciples eventually faded away as Walumancer had predicted. On the 22nd, Blast would make his last tags for the month and not return again until November.

Blast returned to regular activity on November 1st, where he asked for a quick update on site lore before going back to making tags. He also discovered that War Paints had been added to the site, and felt dumb about not realizing it sooner. November 2016 was pretty quiet all things considered, with Blast keeping up with everything and making multiple tags daily. On the 18th, he hosted another CAH game after Pepe the Boi tried and failed to do so. The following day, his Wii U once again hit a snag in the ability to use the Steam chat feature, but this time the Desktop function wasn't working either. He thus warned people he would be late to reply to anything, and advised them to try and contact him by commenting on any of his posts.

Blast's activity would drop again in December, making appearances only a couple of days out of each week. He made a parody of Walumancer's 2016 meme awards event he was doing to drop another one of his infamous John Cena tags. His activity picked up more in the latter half of the month, especially on the 22nd when he revealed that he was getting his wisdom teeth removed, and was terrified. Taggers wished him well, He gave updates following the surgery, and people gave their support. On Christmas Eve, he tagged more than he ever had previously in a single day, making several quality tags and even a set parodying "Frosty the Snowman" using John Cena. He made a single set on Christmas Day, and gave out fictional gifts to his friends, and started a party. He then reached out to Meta Breakers, who at the time was going through another spat with depression, and told him that he appreciated him. Others echoed this sentiment in the comments, such as vulture.

A few days later, Blast came upon the site and found the Wahfia in euphoric celebration, and after asking what was going on he discovered that the Wahfather had been ascended to the rank of Hale's Own that very night, Fred Fuchs acting quite bitter over it, and Crimson wanting to get down with someone. Blast regretted missing the ascension and the subsequent celebration, and congratulated Walu on his achievement. Blast finished 2016 off by giving his New Year Resolutions. He resolved to tag more often, stop relying on one joke (John Cena), and help his fellow taggers out more. He then admitted that this would probably be the last tag he made for a week, would hardly ever comment, and then ended the set with a John Cena joke (do do do dooooo).

### Simmering down

In 2017, Blast's activity would largely drop off on the site itself, and while he was still quite active on Discord servers he decided to largely step back and let the new generations take the spotlight. Regardless, he did still do some things on the site. He started 2017 off by hitting his 4000-crit milestone, and joked that he only had 1000 more to go before escaping the purgatory known as Server-Clearing. Crimson warned him that Epic wasn't much better.

After a quiet start to January, the site would experience a rapid-fire threesome of events, wherein Kokogumi returned and subsequently was banned for shitposting, Pepe the Boi was banned for an entire month for making a "triggered" joke, and a small minor shitposter got on a lot of people's nerves. Blast lamented the loss of the good streak the site had been on and asked who the fuck broke it. Discussion spilled into that comment section as different people expressed differing views.

In February, Blast hosted a CAH game on the 6th. On the 11th, he started a series about assassinating Dos for the Wahfia. People were interested, and he posted the second entry on the 20th, where he reported the act to Walumancer and was about to be accosted by what could only have been Ulysses. Sadly, the series ended here, and he never got around to doing anything more with it.

On February 17th, Blast did something he rarely did: call out another tagger. For context, Meta Breakers posted a tag that day revealed he had been dumped by his girlfriend. He was clearly taking it hard, and with Meta's history of emotional breakdowns his lashing out towards the community people largely expected such a reaction. Most taggers, including The Lazygineer, Walumancer, Propizio, Crimson, Proto Kirby, among others, showed emotional support for Meta and hoped he got better. Others, like Ouill, advised him to keep this off the site and turn to real life support, as some taggers would likely react negatively. Propizio event went as far as to critbomb him. Bonkspenser accused Meta of emotionally manipulating the taggers to get an undeserved critbomb, a sentiment that was backed up by Makin'. While Makin' would go on to mock Meta's outburst in a tag, Blast specifically called out Bonk as callous, and when Bonk merely responded with a snide remark, Blast stated what most were feeling towards that particular tagger at the time, asking just what had happened to him, going from a decent person with great tags to a complete jerk. Blast was backed up by Proto Kirby in this regard, supporting Meta and condemning those who continued to bully one of the nicest people she knew.

In others news, on February 22nd, people were mocking Dos by posting tags of items that were actually in his inventory. These tags were particularly, well, cringe. Really, really cringe. Blast questioned whether doing this was a good idea given Dos's well-known opinion on the community at this point (it had been a year since Attack of the Clones). People continued, and nothing happened, at least not for a few days.

On February 27th, the Miss button was once again, for disputed reasons, removed from TF2Tags. Dos claims it was a bug, other wonder if making fun of Dos on the 22nd had a hand in it, others thought it had to do with the large amount of missbombing occurring that day. Nobody really knows for sure. Blast didn't take much part in this event, similarly to the original removal of misses, but in the aftermath, when Fancytag was elevated to the site's first and only moderator, he made a tag stating that he was out of a job, and congratulating the site on *finally* getting a moderator after so long. He later wondered how Dos perceives the community's collective consciousness, but quickly retracted the question when Crimson reminded him that this community does not think.

Following an eventful February, Blast continued to tag through March and April. Both months were relatively quiet for him with not much going on. This would continue on into May, until the 15th when he took a hiatus from the site, returning on June 9th. Within a few days of this return, he attained his 5000-crit milestone, which he expressed with more tepid enthusiasm than what people came to expect from such milestones. After hitting 5000 crits, he took another hiatus, returning on July 7th. Coincidentally, this was the same day that Tag #200,000 disappeared. Having actually been present for a big shitstorm as it happened for once, Blast left the following comment on the matter: "Oh hey, a milestone was ruined. Big whoop, so were the last ones. Not everything is about you." He followed this tag up with another: "On the bright side, we have new items. Play around with those instead of wondering about a number." People largely disagreed with these sentiments, especially considering this was the last big milestone TF2Tags would ever reach.

Following this, Blast tagged for a couple more days before taking a severe dip in activity, tagging only twice more for the rest of the month. He tagged only once in August, and only twice in September on the same day (one of those tags being a joke at his own irrelevancy). In October, he tagged frequently, especially after the release of the Jungle Inferno update and its items. He would make 3 tags in November, and would not appear again for the rest of the year.

### See you on the flipside

Blast's activity actually began to pick up again in January of 2018. During that time, he asked everyone to pray for Bloo Kirby, who was going through a bout of suicidal depression at the time. Blast changed his name to add "Pray for Bloo," alongside other taggers such as Proto Kirby and Crimson.

And then the site went down. The site's domain had expired, and Dos had it automatically renewed on an expired credit card. As such, he renewed it one final time on a new card, and after two weeks announced the Tagpocalypse: the end of TF2Tags in one year's time. Blast did not comment on the situation, and decided after his birthday to bow out honorably following his 19th birthday on February 3rd, 2018.

Blast would visit the site again on some occasions, however. In 2018, he would return on July 21st to partake in the Purple Raid, the first of three raids the Wahfia launched on TF2Tags to inject as much chaotic Waluigi energy as possible. Blast would be the highest-contributing raider, posting the full 25 tags his submission limits allowed. He would also partake in the second, the Raid of Age, on October 15th, where he would contribute 12 tags.

At some point between the Raid of Age and the end of 2018, Walumancer and Proto Kirby would team up to critbomb Blast all the way from the 6143 crits he achieved to Hale's Own, making Blast the very last tagger to ever achieve the rank on the original TF2Tags. Blast was kind of ambivalent to this given how he had pretty much altogether left the site bar the raids, but appreciated the gesture from his friends nonetheless.

Finally, January 2019 came, and the Tagpocalypse loomed. Blast would return to the site to partake in some of its final events. First, he created an arc in Walumancer's final collaborative series known as The Final Week, where in his story titled "Stormout" he had gone unhinged after Walu yelled at him in anger and went on a mass murdering spree in the final weeks of Tag York City's life. Blast would contribute 4 entries to the series, and all were positively received. Next, he would partake in the Final Raid on the site, which was the most chaotic and crazy yet. He would not take part in the Wahfia's critnuking of Makin' to surpass Relk, as unlike the Wahfather Blast never held any ill will towards Relk. He spent the final day chilling until the site's inevitable demise.

Following the Tagpocalypse, Blast would remain a constant presence in the community through the various Discord servers. After spending four years and three months on TF2Tags, Blast had gradually transformed from a starry-eyed, happy-go-lucky teenager to a laid-back, cynical young adult, with the same consistent short fuse. Some roadbumps would follow between then and the opening of the site's successor, and while he has long since left his mediator days behind, he remains a widely-respected and valued member of the TF2Tags community.

## Style

Blast usually relies on jokes about geek culture, such as video games and the like, as well as puns. So basically, pretty much what everybody else does. Blast, however, is able to have himself stand out through tags related to professional wrestling. These tags quickly became his signature, and overtime it would converge with the contemporary meme culture to form his longest-running joke (see below). Other than wrestling tags, he also made many tags related to YouTubers.

Blast was also one of the most frequent users of Tweet Tags, or tags that act more as a social media post than an actual tag. Blast made so many Tweet Tags, in fact, that going through all his tags is a great snapshot of TF2Tags history as a whole. These tags also gave some insight into his own life, such as revealing that he tagged pretty much exclusively on his Wii U.

### John Cena

Later in Blast's career, he would grab ahold of one joke in particular that he would quickly become known for. These jokes would almost always take the form of sets, often with some form of bait and switch that would lead to Blast yelling "JOHN CENA" followed by said wrestler's theme song in the same vein as the Unexpected John Cena memes of 2015. The final item would always be a Community-quality Superfan hat. Sometimes it was the default hat, other times it was painted lime or black (to reflect John Cena's hat color at the time).

These sets started to grow in prevalence from Blast in June of 2016, and would become a staple part of his tagging arsenal until he left the site in 2018 (which he also re-employed in his Tags.tf arsenal). While some complained about the joke already being old and getting even older the more Blast used them, others absolutely loved the jokes and what lengths Blast would go to for the inevitable bait and switch. No matter what anyone's individual thoughts on the meme, however, they all could agree on one thing: nobody could ever trust a set from Blast again.

## Relationships

> "I Like to think of TF2TAGS as a family. A dysfunctional family, but a family nonetheless."
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Blast is pretty much universally appreciated by everyone in the community, with TheOnlyGuyEver famously calling him "one of the like 4 people here who are actually living in reality." Often seen as a pillar of rationality and reasonability, many often turned to Blast to solve disputes as a mediator (a role he would eventually come to resent and distance himself from).

### Crimson Blitz

Crimson and Blast joined TF2Tags within two months of each other (Blast in October 2014 and Crimson in December 2014). They would quickly start to play TF2 regularly with each other and talk over Steam often. Both taggers came to prominence through their roles in the Racist Anon Incident, where they teamed up to fight the Racist Anon and try and get Timberwoof unbanned. Many times, Crimson would offer to stand in as mediator when Blast took a break from the role or just couldn't handle the problem. The two would remain good friends throughout the remainder of both their careers, which extended to the end of the original site's lifespan and into the Tags.tf era. They remain good friends to this day.

### Relk\_Cehi

Blast had a relatively unusually positive relationship with Relk over the four and a half years they coexisted on the site. Blast naturally respected the highest-rated tagger for the majority of TF2Tags's lifespan, and Relk in turn respected Blast for his sense of humor and willingness to mediate conflicts. Both also were able to bond over a shared affliction of autism and their experiences dealing with bullying they received because of it. Even as Relk's reputation gradually declined among the community over time, Blast always maintained friendly relations with the King (and Queen) of TF2Tags. Even when the entirety of the Wahfia came together to usurp Relk's throne, Blast refused to participate.

### Ulysses

Ulysses and Blast had a rocky start to their “friendship” and it’s pretty much been that way ever since. There were several occasions in which they were on the same side of an issue (such as Bring Back Misses and agreeing with the use of autism jokes), and just as many where they were on opposing sides (like Ulysses starting the brigade against Meta Breakers and hypocritically starting drama despite telling others not to because of Dos's warnings). They tolerated each other more often than not, with Blast liking Ulysses more than the reverse (which can be said for most relationships involving Ulysses), but the two could put aside their differences if the times or topics required it.

### Legownz

Another tagger that Blast would play TF2 with on occasion, Legownz and Blast got along swimmingly until the former's departure from the community. The highlight of the friendship came during a random game of MVM Bootcamp where Legownz became so distraught at the team composition (half the team consisted of Spies and a Sniper), that he very nearly just gave Blast his Australium flamethrower and quit TF2 altogether. Of course, it was a joke, as Blast is still poor as shit.

### Timberwoof

An IRL friend of Blast’s, he would introduce Timberwoof to the site over a discussion during a school day. They enjoyed a few antics on the site before Timberwoof was unceremoniously banned for pretending to be the Racist Anon. Blast ended up doing a song parody tag set in honor of Timberwoof, before cooler heads prevailed and Timber was unbanned. Even after Timber left the site, they remained very close, with Blast often sharing Timber's musical talents with the rest of the community. They remain friends to this day.

### Player 1 + Player 2

The relationship between Blast and Player 1 + Player 2 is, perhaps, the most rocky either of them has. Blast found himself on opposing sides of P1P2's antics and often frowned upon his aloof, somewhat-malicious behavior. At the same time, Blast has friended P1P2 on Steam and on more than one occasion has posted chat logs from various Steam chats they had, indicating that they were at least friendly with each other on some level. By the end of the original site's lifespan, Blast grew to really dislike P1P2 for the internet persona he would craft for himself, seeing him as an annoying asshole who hardly ever contributed anything to the wider community other than snide comments. This perspective was cemented after an incident where P1P2 sent an email to Blast's mother, which a line no other tagger has crossed with anyone. Will their relationship bounce back again? Who knows.

### A Fucking Idiot

Blast and AFI’s friendship is...odd, to say the least. At first, when AFI came to the site, Blast (like most) wasn’t keen on his sense of humor, thinking he was just some random one-and-done shitposter. He soon understood the humor and the point behind AFI’s tagging, and soon warmed up to him. The two have shared odd DMs over Steam, including a few times where AFI would initiate a voice call unprompted, before shouting nonsequiteurs in a voice that can be best described as Steve-O and the slug lady from Monsters Inc. had a bastard child that smoked daily since birth.

### Walumancer

If not for the existence of Timberwoof, Blast would consider Walumancer his best friend on TF2Tags. The two share an avid interest in a scary amount of things, such as various Nintendo IPs, TF2, and professional wrestling. Both are also on the Autistic spectrum, so some stars must have aligned. Blast and Walumancer had originally gotten friendly with each other not long after the latter joined TF2Tags, and later on Blast became the second ever recruit of the Wahfia, and his joining caused a host of others to join as well. The two have remained close ever since.

### Meta Breakers

Blast has been consistently on the side of Meta Breakers in all the drama the latter was involved in. In many ways, Meta's well-known emotional issues reflect a much more bombastic variant of Blast's own, and through that empathy Blast has a unique perspective most other taggers do not have regarding Meta. Blast was only one of two people who believed everyone (especially Ulysses) was going too far in their treatment of Meta during his "Edge Incident," and again was only one of a few who supported Meta following his post-breakup depression. Blast has even gone so far as to extend a formal hand to Meta in some sets, telling him that he was appreciated and valued in this community. While the two are not especially close, it is important to highlight just how often Blast had been in Meta's corner.

### Twelve Hour Respawn

Blast and Respawn shared a mild friendship, mostly trading good natured barbs and fake threats in DMs. Among the highlights include Blast paraphrasing the Johnny B. Goode joke from standup comedian John Mulaney, and Respawn threatening to drive to Blast’s state and commit acts of violence against him. Blast was one of the first taggers to be notified of Respawn's tragic passing, being notified over an announcement in Makin’s Discord server, joining the voice call later that night in memoriam to him.

### Proto Kirby

Proto Kirby and Blast consider each other best friends ever since truly getting to know each other over Discord. The two trouble children bonded over their shared love of TF2, Sonic, and Smash Bros, and often backed each other up in various occurrences in the later years of TF2Tags, both on and off site. When Cammie initially came out as transgender, Blast assumed a protective pseudo big brother role over her.

### Others

Blast is largely friendly with everybody else, and other than maybe P1P2 has no real enemies. Blast and Sensible played TF2 together on occasion, and Blast found Sensible’s tendency to suddenly go into a random tangent regarding something non-American as, at the time, absolutely hilarious. Blast has an amicable relationship with TGRobert, and usually just takes Robert’s antics in stride, finding him mostly hilarious, if not blunt. He gets along well with Marmot, and the two even had a gag romantic relationship with each other early on. Blast also has an exceedingly long list of other taggers friended on Steam, including but not limited to: Acquiesce, L'Étranger, TheOnlyGuyEver, Egg-Z,, Fancytag, Makin' Bacon, The Lazygineer, Ass Ketchup, and Toastclaimer, among many others. In fact, Blast very well might have the most amount of taggers friended on Steam.

## Gallery

### Profile Pictures and Tag Highlights

A profile picture Blast made for himself during his Undertale phase. He made a matching Papyrus profile picture for Timberwoof.A profile picture of Blast made by a friend of Walumancer's. Blast used this profile picture during the final days of the site.Blast's earliest surviving tag.The comment on this tag was made early in Blast's career, and has since been matched and overtaken multiple times.Blast's best tag.Another Cena tag.A double whammy, combining NTF2Tags with John Cena.This was in reference to Blast getting his wisdom teeth removed.This is also in reference to said wisdom teeth removal.A well-received milestone tag.A set of "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant. Note the insertion of Walumancer into the song.

## Trivia

* Blast is confirmed to be Autistic.
* In July of 2015, Blast called for the addition of a leaderboard system that would allow for taggers to easily see site rankings. Though Dr. Dos never added one on TF2Tags, leaderboards did get added in Tags.tf.
* Blast would often change his name on TF2Tags frequently. These were usually parodies of the names of various professional wrestlers, among other things The most well-known nicknames are:
	+ Blast the Brinespawn (his original TF2Tags name)
	+ Macho Blast (parody of Macho Man Randy Savage)
	+ Broski Blast (A play on the Broski Boot, signature move of Zack Ryder, his favorite wrestler. This is more or less his default nickname now.)
	+ The Rare Broskius Explodius (Scientific name)
	+ Semi-Retired Blast (His name during his large spans of inactivity in 2017)
	+ See you on the flipside (His name after he semi-permanently left the site in February of 2018)
* Blast received his first unusual on January 11th, 2016. It was an Australium Gold Engineer's Cap with the Nuts and Bolts effect. It cost him 15 keys.
* While not amazing, Blast has made quite a few SFM posters starring him and his friends as their main class.
* Blast once pulled a Leave And Never Come Back, only to reveal it was a Rick Roll. Absolute madlad.
* Before the former discovered he was bisexual and the latter came out as trans, Blast and Marmot had a short-lived gag homosexual relationship with each other. This was prior to Marmot's well-known and legitimate relationship with Bonkspenser.
* He has claimed Marina from *Splatoon* as his wife.
	+ This stems from an oddly specific thing Blast has for black girls with exposed midriffs. See also: Nessa from Pokemon and Rinka from Fire Emblem Fates.
		- He is also heavily into muscular women.
* On February 14th, 2016, Blast and Makin' Bacon went on a 10-hour marathon of doing nothing but listening to Undertale's Bontrousle. This was a prelude to the initiation of Makin' and Le Tryhard Hunter's own faction, the Spaghetto, though Blast did not seem to qualify to join, for whatever reason.
* Blast is the Head Honcho of the (now inactive) Steam Group "Taggers Against Humanity", even going so far as to create his own tagger-themed cardpack for the game, along with Fancytag's pack. The two later merged their packs into one giant heap of injokes. The group is now unfortunately dead. Cardcast has also shut down, so every TAH pack has unfortunately been lost to history.
* Blast's computer is infamous for having the processing power of a potato chip, and so his ability to play TF2 over the years has ranged from impossible to possible but dear *god* the lag.
	+ This is most likely why he hosted so many games of Cards Against Humanity over the years.
* While his representative item is Unique quality, he often adds Unusual effects and paints to reflect whatever the situation or his mood is. Hellfire was the most common effect until the Minisentry incident, where the Atomic effect became his preferred effect of choice.
* Blast is a huge fan of TF2, obviously, but he's also a huge Nintendo fan, enjoying Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Smash Bros., Pokemon, Splatoon, and many others.
* Despite being a huge fan of Undertale, especially at the game's peak popularity on the site, Blast did not buy or play it until April 28th, 2016.
* TGR once misspoke Blast's real name of Zach as "Sazh" in a bit of sleeplessness in a Skype call, and has refused to call him anything else ever since.
	+ TGR also misremembered Blast's first name to be Alex at first, which is why "Alex" was originally in his infobox.
* Blast's other interests include:
	+ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
	+ DOOM
	+ The Flash (TV show)
	+ Marvel movies and comics
	+ Sonic the Hedgehog
	+ The Binding of Isaac
	+ Undertale
	+ Minecraft
	+ Ben 10
* Blast enjoys every version of *Ben 10*, with *Omniverse* being his favorite, and *Alien Force* being his least favorite, though he doesn't think it's bad by any means.
* Blast is a big fan of rock and metal music. He is especially known to love the band *Skillet*.
	+ Blast is also known connect different songs he likes to different taggers, and sometimes shares what he believes to be someone's theme song.