Collapse of Anarchy

The **collapse** or **death of Anarchy** is a term regarding the hypothetical end to the Anarchy group chat on Discord. There have been a few incidents in the past that are considered "close-calls" to the collapse of Anarchy. Furthermore, there are several potential scenarios that could lead to the death of the group chat.

## Historical close-calls

### Transferring ownership of the group chat (February 13, 2021)

Anarchy was originally created and owned by Fabian. After a few weeks of the group's existence, Fabian went inactive and was therefore unable to control its members. Because of an incident involving the unwanted addition of a member, a new group was created to replace Fabian as leader and transfer ownership to someone more active. Two members created new groups; Alex, whose group succeeded, and Salad, who created a group temporarily. Alex's replacement became the official group because they redirected Salad to the new group following the creation of Salad's group, which had been created after Alex's group. If Salad's group had become the official replacement, current Anarchy members suspect that his leadership would have been poor and therefore resulted in the death of the group chat.

### Sean's departure (February 20, 2021)

In its early weeks, Anarchy was staunchly against the administration of the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki. Many of its members had begun to plot against them, including Sean, who created a server for event planning. Later that day, however, Sean deleted the server and decided to leave the group, causing drama and a period of unrest within Anarchy. Before he left, he wrote a paragraph pleading his innocence in the anti-HHW discussions, and how he expected to the administrators to read his message. The message read the following:

> *Im out for good. I would like to clarify that I never supported any coup that this turns into and I only made the server because I was mad for 8 hours and had no plans to take over HHW. Thank you HHW admins reading this after DG4 takes place.* (sic)
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Almost immediately, members of the group became concerned with his actions and worried the staff would retaliate. This created a brief division between members, however this was soon resolved. Sean eventually rejoined Anarchy and remains an active member as of August 17, 2022.

### Alex and Caleb's temporary breakup (April 30–May 3, 2021)

Alex and Caleb, two active Anarchy members, broke up temporarily in late April 2021. During this period, Anarchy's activity was stable, however relations between the two were tense. On the day the breakup happened, both Caleb and Alex were quiet, lowering the chat activity. While not an existential threat to Anarchy, the event proved that simply losing two members of the group can cause the chat activity to decrease considerably. Caleb and Alex got back together on May 3.

### Ava's departure (January 16, 2022)

On January 16, 2022, Kiko, a member of Anarchy and an administrator of HHW at the time, proposed some changes regarding the HHW administration. The changes were controversial, and Ava, another Anarchy member, opposed the way the changes were handled. She claimed the changes were a step in the right direction, argued that the supporters of the changes were stubborn, and said that the changes were in fact a step in the wrong direction. Her paragraph was the end to a long heated argument in Anarchy, and she decided to leave afterwards. Following her departure, Ava leaked messages of Anarchy to Hypercane, the leader of HHW at the time; Ava claims she does not know why she sent the messages to Hype other than her anger and dislike of Anarchy. Ava also blocked most members of the group, including Alex, who had no part in the argument, and considered demoting them on the Hypothetical Cities and Countries Wiki, a community in which Alex was staff.

Ava's messages worried Hype. Hype began questioning users like Alex and Kiko, and serious discussion of the future of Anarchy became mainstream. Kiko considered the possibility of a complete demotion of all HHW staff members affiliated with Anarchy, which would have caused unrest in both Anarchy and HHW. Kiko confronted Ava in the HHW Discord server, and considered demoting Ava from her staff position. The event concluded once Hype called off all discussion about the incident, claiming that there was not enough evidence against Anarchy members to consider punishments like a demotion. The incident began a period of mutual distrust amongst Anarchy members, as many were worried a similar incident could occur in the future.

### "Going out with a bang" incident (January 19, 2022)

Before Kiko's demotion, she claimed to want to "go out with a bang", referring to doing something notable before her resignation on HHW. Numerous users were concerned with her statements, calling them "immature" and "unnecessary"; of these users, Alex was especially concerned. Because of their concern, Alex messaged the previously mentioned Hype about Kiko's behavior. Kiko eventually found out, and confronted Anarchy, hoping to discover who leaked her messages to Hype. Distrust among users was at an all-time high because of the drama regarding Ava's departure a few days earlier, and thus a scandal and investigation into who leaked the messages began. No users admitted their guiltiness, which created an even strongest sense of distrust; a few members considered leaving. After about an hour, Alex finally confessed their actions and admitted they leaked Kiko's messages to Hype. Kiko was upset, but forgave Alex and tensions decreased shortly thereafter.