Fear

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**Fear** (stylized **☣Fear☣**) was an under-the-radar Generation 1 tagger who has since returned to the community via Tags.tf.

## History

Fear first appeared on TF2Tags on August 2nd, 2013, where he made a couple of tags and then subsequently left. He would return in November, which is when he began to post tags somewhat regularly, posting first on the 19th and then more often near the end of the month. This regular activity would continue into December, where he would post at least once every two or three days. This continued up until January 4th of 2014, where he would take a month hiatus before returning in late February, where his regular tagging habits would resume. In early March, his tagging activity picked up a bit, posting multiple times most days and making a moderate amount of crits. On March 9th, he and Ulysses would begin a trend based upon the "A Distinctive Lack of Hue" black paint from TF2, which went on for multiple pages. Fear himself claims that this was the first trend of its kind (that is, multiple pages of similar jokes made by different people), but this has not been verified.

On March 27th, 2014, for reasons unknown Fear would become a target of ire of one Huddah Huddah, a shitposting tagger who has long since been erased from TF2Tags. What is known from the comments of others has shown that a tag Fear made saw 4 comments from Huddah Huddah be made in what must have been some form of angry rant about jokes. Fear himself did not comment on his post, but would later tell Huddah off in the comments of a tag by one [RKE] Leeevog, where he defended Huddah's critics by saying that they did nothing wrong and only pointed out where Huddah had gone astray. Fear may have also commented other things on tags made by Huddah himself, as for some reason Huddah wound up having a particular disdain for Fear that cannot be accurately determined from the surviving archived tags. What is known is that Huddah missnuked Fear for every submission he had at the time (which was only about 65 tags) and apparently left two comments on each and every single tag (this has been determined because all of Fear's tags up to this incident had at least 2 comments listed, and at least 2 of those comments on each tag are not visible). Eventually, Dr. Dos would step in and ban Huddah, putting an end to what later would be dubbed, "The Huddahing". It is unknown if Dos ever restored Fear's points.

Following the Huddahing, Fear would go on to partake in April Fools' Week 2014, where he made a number of tags, one of which achieved over twenty crits. This would mark a general uptick in the performance of Fear's Tags, as he would begin to consistently make tags raking in at least 15 crits. He would continue to tag regularly through April, May, and into June. On June 6th, he made a tag criticizing the common practice of taggers who would miss a submission with a score of negative one, labelling it as bandwagoning. The following day, he pulled a cheeky move where he seemingly copied one of Relk\_Cehi's tags but actually didn't. He managed to not only avoid getting Relk'd, but pulled one over on the soon-to-be king (and queen) of TF2Tags and earned a nice 29 crits to boot.

Late June 2014 would be the peak of Fear's tagging career on the original site, as he made two tags within the span of ten days that would go on to earn 150 crits each, making them his best submissions to date. It was likely these two tags that pushed him above the coveted 1000-crit milestone, cementing him as a presence on the site. On July 12th, Fear would make a set outlining various types of jokes that he and others disliked, including reposts, noting within the tag that the joke was stolen, overused jokes, emojis, bad grammer, etc. This tag would warrant Sqwid complimenting Fear as one of the best taggers alongside Relk and Ulysses, which is a high honor to be sure.

On July 17th, Fear would take another month-long hiatus from the site, not returning until August 15. From this point, Fear's activity would begin to drop again, down to his pre-February levels. He would make only the occasional appearance during August and September. By mid-October, Fear attained 1500 total crits, and his activity would somewhat start to increase again. On December 8th, Fear would make a tag parodying the shitposts of A Fucking Idiot, who had just emerged onto the site for the first time. He believed himself to be a terrible person for posting it, but Relk gave him some encouragement. Fear would go on to finish out 2014 with around 1800 crits.

2015 would see another substantial drop in activity from Fear. After a relatively active January, he would only tag 3 times during February, though these three tags were enough to push him above 2000 crits, another major milestone in any tagging career. Following this he would post only twice in March. Following a tag from March 11th, he would not appear again for another two months, returning May 11th, in the midst of the Racist Anon Incident. However, this stay would not be for long, as he only made two posts that day and did not return until June 16th, where his activity picked up for a little bit once more before some semi-regular activity in July.

When the community truly began to take off in August of 2015, Fear had, perhaps coincidentally, a habit of either disappearing just before or reappearing just after a significant community event occurred. It is unknown if he would have partook in any of them if he *had* been present, but it is generally rather humorous that things only ever seemed to happen while he was gone. For instance, in August he made a tag on the 9th, a week prior to the Mobile-Friendly Update, and didn't return until the 23rd, the day the Banning of AFI was settled. He would tag regularly until September 6th, two days before the Banning of Sensible Haircut.

He would take another monthlong hiatus from TF2Tags following this, returning on October 15th, where he would tag frequently until the end of the month, before leaving again on the first of November (missing out on the myriad of events that occurred in that month, such as the Taggenings and the Disappearance of Item 100,000), and returning December 7th, where he tagged sparsely through the remainder of the month. By the end of 2015, Fear has surpassed 2500 points.

In January of 2016, Fear tagged on the 5th and would not return until the 26th (missing the New Tagger Riots and Great Comment Crash in the process). He would then take February and most of March off, returning once more on the 24th of the latter month. This means that Fear missed the *entirety* of the Colorless Times and all the events that happened in between. Seriously, the man has a talent for missing out, it seems. Or was he merely an omen of things to come? A blessing marking the end of conflicts? A saint whose presence was required for stability? Who even knows?

His activity would pick up once more in late March, where he would post several tags over the following five days. He actually would be present on the site for the Endiome Incident, but did not appear to partake in it. Instead, he made a set parodying Hon-Hon and Sneky, a narrative series created by Tanner that had emerged during that month. Fear, having been around to witness it, was a fan, and made a set parodying it called "A series of unfortunate plagiarism" where stereotypically Mexican detective Ho-Ho and his plastic partner Sneka attempts to solve a crime in downtown LA. Between the low budget jokes and an absurdist ending, it made Tanner laugh very much.

He would be gone for another month, from April 16th to May 16th, and after the latter date would not appear again until June. Though he tagged sparsely, he would eventually surpass 3000 crits. He would tag three times on July 11th, before leaving the site again until September 23rd. Around this time, Fear would have his final semi-regular stretch of on-site activity, tagging a few times a week from then until November 14th.

Fear would only make 17 tags in 2017 (ha). Specifically, twice in January, once in February, thrice in March, once in April, twice in May, twice in June, and, finally, six times in July. It is unknown how many times, if any, Fear tagged in 2018 and just prior to the Tagpocalypse.

In summation, Fear would serve as a mostly under the radar tagger for over five years, gaining a respectable score of 3300 by the end. He was known well enough to be recognized when he appeared by taggers such as Legownz and Fancytag, though his sporadic activity and near-comedic levels of missing community events often saw him forgotten during his time on the original site. However, his story did not end with the original TF2Tags, as eventually he would return to the community on February 26th, 2019, about a month following the Tagpocalypse. There, he would finally get to interact with other site veterans and eventually newcomers. He would see the beginning of the successor site, and now acts as the chief sponsor for the yearly September Contests. For more information, see the adjacent page (at least, when it gets written).

## Style

Aside from the typical tags that everyone makes, Fear had a distinct flare for music-related tags. These tags could range anywhere from simple references, song lyrics, song parody lyrics, and even using song lyrics to tell creative jokes. These would encompass a very large number of his tags. Fear also had a knack for telling subversive jokes, particularly towards those that are "done to death" so to speak, often setting up for the overdone punchline but delivering an entirely different one instead. He also had a habit of of typing the month and name of a tag's creation in the keywords, likely for ease of finding later through the search function. Specifically in the format of monthyear, or, for instance, "March2015".

## Relationships

During his time on the original site, Fear hardly interacted with anybody. However, unlike Qror (the apex asocial) Fear actually did friend two people on Steam. One was an unknown tagger who shipped off for boot camp and dropped his steam account. The other one was Ulysses, which he quickly came to regret, as he later would refer to him as a nutjob. Allegedly, he would send Fear "steam messages ranting about how shit life was/suicide baiting" and the only thing Fear could think to do was to seek professional help because he simply was not that. It is unknown if these two negative experiences directly influenced Fear away from interacting with the community, or was simply a coincidence.

Nowadays, he is familiar with a lot more taggers, and likewise many more are familiar with him.

## Gallery

Fear's first tag.Fear's second best tag.A parody set of Hon-Hon and Sneky Fear made.Fear's best tag.
## Trivia

* In late September 2014, Fear made an item set listing various things he hated. These include workshoppers who submit ugly cosmetics, people who wear ugly unusuals to appear rich when they aren't, pocket Medics, Engineers who build sentries right next to other sentries, Engineers who build sentries on Hightower, WM1 Pyros, people who think Pootis is funny, Meatshot 8) Scatterguns, the Darwin's Danger Shield, kids trying to be trolls, people who don't learn and complain instead of bettering themselves, bangwagoners, and bad grammar.
* Fear has a special disdain for one TF2 player who deleted his Golden Frying Pan because he was sick of all the attention he was getting. Specifically for the reason that he deleted it instead of giving it away, and made an angsty music video of him deleting it on YouTube.
	+ We of the TF2Tags Lore Wiki would also like to say, fuck that guy.
* Fear is a fan of *Kill la Kill*. The character Uzu Sanageyama has been his profile picture since March of 2015, and remains so even on Tags.tf. Prior to Uzu, his profile picture was of Ryūko Matoi, the main protagonist of *Kill la Kill*.
* If it wasn't obvious from his tagging style, Fear has a love of music.