Gobcord

**Gobcord** (Spanish: *Güebocordia*) (Portuguese: *Gobãocórdia*), formerly Loser's Club and Goon Cave, officially stylized as **gobcord**, is an international online community, supernatural anomaly, and religious organization culturally adjacent to the community surrounding the Youtuber and music artist Zalinki. The Gobcord community is chiefly centered around the semi-public Discord server of the same name, though also has other digital real estate such as a Minecraft survival multiplayer series, this wiki, an online merch store, and a subreddit. As of 9 October 2022, there were 67 members, including indie folk musician Mammalfriend and Japanese game designer and director Masahiro Sakurai.

## History

The Gobcord Discord server was founded as *Loser's Club* (briefly *The Outskirts*) by Kris Is Tired on 13 January 2021. The original name *Loser's Club* was an invention of the original owner, as the server was founded as a sort-of refuge for losers. The server was formed during the balkanization of Dad's House in late 2020 and as a successive breakaway server of The Colour Empire, one of the balkanized communities of Dad's House consisting of many active members of the server.

Originally, Loser's Club was an authoritarian state run solely by Kris Is Tired as the supreme premier of the server, with a dozen or so crony moderators who held a substantive amount of power over regular members yet ultimately held no decision-making power in the server's government. Sometime beginning in February of 2021, there was a tension between several members of the server and the way Kris ran the server. This vitriol culminated in The Goup d'Etat, in which a peaceful yet bitter transfer of power occurred from Kris unto Greem Jestay, who along with His Majesty Samuel Popculture became the server's new premiers on 8 March 2021. Shortly after the Goup, the server transitioned into a congressional constitutional monarchy with a limited moderation team re-named "Congress" (now the Gobernors' Council) as well as a more gentle and cooperative approach to administration, including the reinstatement of the poll channel and the suggestion channel.

It was during this transition that Loser's Club was voted to be changed into *Goon Cave*, and then was shortly voted on again afterward to be named to *Gobcord*, derived from a vernacular term for "goblin" constructed by Gobulite Pink. Greem, the server's king then and presently, is a goblin. Other unused, suggested alternative names for Gobcord included *Goblin Valley, Club Club Group*, *Target* (stylized as *target*), and *Sam's Club*.

Kris would be a part of Gobcord following the Goup only on-and-off. It wasn't until 5 July 2021 that Kris permanently left the community when they were banned for spam and uncooperative behavior.

On 27 October 2021, the Sam Dynasty, the administration which proceeded Loser's Club on March 8th, dissolved after the co-royal stepped down from all administrative and moderating duties. In its place, the Jestanate was established, ruled solely by Greem Jestay as the premier sultan. The Dynasty was the longest ruling administration of Gobcord, lasting 33 weeks (~7 months) and 5 days.

   On 23 December 2021, Gobcord members RainSake and Kerzid orchestrated The Inkergence, an attempted seizure of power from the Jestanate. They reigned as server owners from 11:41 PM EST until 11:44, when the Jestanate was restored.

The Great Purge, which occurred on the night of 29 January 2022, removed four members from Gobcord -- mostly Miamians associated with former owner Kris -- including Leo, Menma, Len, and Shane. It was the first time in Gobcord history since the Kris administration that people had been removed from the server for extralegal reasons. This was done as to remove members who were both inactive and had no connection with the Gobcord community who were essentially fluff members. This purge wiped out almost all of the remaining "Kris Gang" members and what was the largest regional demographic in the server.

The Royal Jestanate was eschewed by Greem Jestay on 4 May 2022 after relinquishing the position of owner to then-moderator and former server co-owner Sam.

## Government and politics

Main article: Government of Gobcord

Gobcord, with marginal accuracy, is a parliamentary dictatorship consisting of elected or appointed Gobernors who act as the server's moderation team. Since 8 March 2021 (with a brief lapse between 4 May and 25 November 2022), the server has been ruled by the Second Sam Dynasty under Greem Jestay and Samuel Pool.

The server is identified as "semi-public" on account of its stringent member policy (all incoming members must be approved by Sam) in contrast with its considerable size and partly structured management.

### Laws

Gobcord has an official, publicly accessible constitution with nine rules, though in cases of law enforcement it is rarely cited in specificity and exists to codify a broad policy of "not being a cunt," including regulating spamming, not safe for work media, and prohibiting bigotry and harassment of any kind. The original constitution has twelve "original" policies published on 18 March 2021 and was amended twice; once the following day to include "also have fun ig" and again on 5 July 2021 to include sexual or otherwise reasonably uncomfortable topics as unsuitable behavior which should be avoided. On 19 November 2021, then-Congressman Matt published a clause in the constitution announcing stronger enforcement of the rule against unwanted general media following complaints from server members of people posting impromptu content in general chat in the middle of unrelated conversation. This was met with mixed reactions.

On 9 May 2022, five days after the dissolution of the Jestanate, the original constitution was replaced with an updated one that discarded extraneous rules and codified previous amendments into official rules, on top of a system of amendment that can add smaller rules to the constitution at will.

#### Censorship

From 1 July 2021 to 13 July 2021, Gobcord briefly banned use of the word "columbia," as it was being used by members -- regulars and staff members alike -- to intentionally misspell the name of the South American country Colombia from where Greem is from. As the policy went on, several other variations of "columbia" were also censored as to combat perversion of the ban. The ban was lifted on 13 July 2021, uncensoring "columbia" and all its variants, on the grounds that it would needlessly censor innocent usages of the word describing actual places named "Columbia," such as British Columbia in Canada and The District of Columbia in The United States.

During this, the term "1812" was briefly censored on the Fourth of July as to avoid discussion of The U.S.'s embarrassing defeat at the hands of the British during the War of 1812. This ban was only meant to last for the day, but was in place until the end of the censorship campaign.

#### Segregation of Furries

Since 16 July 2021, Gobcord has practiced the segregation of furries from public text channels and has a designated place for which furry content can be posted known officially as *The Refurgium* and colloquially as the "furry channel." Surprisingly, the server's furry community has had essentially [link article] no problems with this.

### Elections

Gobcord makes use of the its poll and suggestion channels to implement popular changes; decisions are made by a mix of popular discretion and conventions of Congress. Since the installment of the dynastic administration on 8 March 2021, Gobcord has had two significant popular elections for public offices:

* The June Congressional Election, which was held from 5 June to 7 June 2021, was to eliminate six members of the original Congress and replace it with four incumbent or newly-elected congresspeople. Members would send in an application to the royal dynasts and eight "electable" options would be chosen from the participating roster. People would then vote for 4/8 of this selected roster to be elected to Congress.
* *The Matheus Ultimatus*, an election to decide whether or not to promote then-deputy pawn Matt to a member of Congress, was held from the night of 8 October 2021 to the morning of 9 October. By the eclipse of the voting period, Matt was elected to Congress with 80% of the vote.

#### The Pawn

From 30 May 2021 to 8 October 2021, Matt (Monkey Party) was the deputy emergency moderator, or the Pawn (formerly the *Penis Pro Tempore*). In the event of a Congress member temporarily leaving or being unable to moderate the server, the pawn would step in as a temporary moderator, however this contingency did not account for moderators being permanently disbarred from their position on account of malfeasant behavior.

The pawn had only stepped in as a temporary acting moderator twice; once from 30 July 2021 - 1 September 2021, during the absence of Gobulite Bulrush, and for five minutes on 12 September 2021 when Bulrush briefly left again. Before 30 July 2021, inactive pawns had no substantive power, though following discharge on 1 September 2021, the pawn was given the permanent ability to mute people. On 8-9 October 2021, the Matheus Ultimatus, a vote to elect Matt as a member of Congress, approved Matt's ascension from deputy pawn to Gobcord's fifth member of Congress. Since 9 October, the pawn role has been obsolete.

#### Renaming

On 3 July 2022, the Congress of Gobcord was officially renamed to the Gobcord Gobernors' Council by referendum.

### Tax Exemption

Gobcord is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(b) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.

## Demographics

Although it is uncertain what the exact ethnic, racial, religious, or national makeup of Gobcord is in full, nor has it ever really been a pressing concern, the largest national group of Gobcord is Americans. The second largest national group by numbers on the server are Colombians; a part of the broader Latin American cultural group, who make up ~18% of the population. The majority of people are pansexual. Every member primarily speaks English when communicating with each other in the server.

The most spoken language in Gobcord is English, which is spoken fluently by everyone in the server, followed by Spanish (15%) and Brazilian Portuguese (5%). Being an international server, Gobcord has many languages spoken by one or two members of the server each, including but not limited to Malay, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Polish, French, German, and Italian.

## Culture

### Religion

Gobulites worship a trinity of divine spirits; The Gob, The Jope, and The Holy Amabo. The Gob, the namesake of the server, is the guardian of the mortal realm; the Prime Trinite. The Jope, the father of Gob, is the eldest spirit of the Trinity and acts as the Mentor to Gob. Jope is also an auxiliary word for any kind of guffawing, relaxing, vibing, or other such rituals, and originates from a misspelling of the word "joke." The Holy Amabo, or just The Amabo, is the student of Gob and gatekeeper of the postmortem worlds; the Pupil. The word originates from spelling "Obama" backwards.

### Sports

Main article: Counting

The national sport of Gobcord is counting.

### Art

* Art by Quack
* Art by Quack
* Art by Quack
* Art by Quack
* Art by Acool
* Art by Nudel
* Art by Summer (created when Gobcord was known as 'Loser's Club')
* Group drawing began by Ker, collaborated on by many members. Featured in the wiki's background
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The most prevalent pass time of Gobcord is undoubtedly drawn art, a very integral part of the community's culture. Hailing from Dad's House, a community of mostly artists, many gobs create digital, traditional, or animated art as a passionate hobby or pursue work in it through commissions. Characteristic of Gobcord's art community is the creation of group drawings, or drawings which depict an array of members or representative characters of members in a single piece, usually in commemoration of these members and the community in all.

Also due in part to Dad's House less-dominant yet nevertheless significant musical presence, Gobcord also possesses a musicality of similar degree in relation to drawn art. Among Gobcord's handful of hobbyist or occupational musical artists include most popularly Snosm, followed by Oniomn, Bulrush, Nicky (who makes non-musical audio compilations), Xavi, Sketchy, Greem, and Sam.

Aside from creating music, Gobcord also partakes in the creation of seasonal playlists of individually selected songs called Gobcord Rewind.

Several Gobulites participated in the production of the 2021 collaborative indie album Lickety Split released by Bewildered Vagrant.

### Mythos

Main article: Mythos of Gobcord

Gobcord has not existed long enough to develop a truly expansive mythos, though there are legends of an elusive, secret Nsfw channel hidden within the dark underbelly of the server, and a tale of a couple who stored spermatozoic ejecta in an ice tray and froze it in a freezer.

### Philosophy

Main article: The Gobcord Experiment

Gobcord was founded on one major philosophical principle, "The Gobcord Experiment," a belief which emphasizes the need for transparent communication, communal posterity, and also defines the fundamental, philosophical rationale of the community's founding.

## Members

There were 67 human members of Gobcord as of 9 October 2022.

In (basically) alphabetical order:

* Acool
* Al
* Am Vyan Vya
* Bean
* Ben Aisance
* Blume
* Blaze
* Gavin
* Bulrush
* Catmom
* Cool Neutral
* Cubeoidal
* Durr-Memey
* Eli
* Fisheryboi
* FlamingNachos/Nachos
* Fr3aki
* Gabe/Unusederas
* Xavi
* Horror Child Shnarps
* Isosceles
* Inco
* Jupyter
* Jam Bun/Revi
* Joe Schmo
* Joeydagoat
* Sheen
* Kaysie
* Laine
* Tristan/Honkus
* Lizard
* Lolisus
* Mammalfriend
* Matt
* Moonfabrie
* Nicky64
* Nudel
* Nxed
* Olive
* Over/Leo
* Rainyy
* Pepper/Pepsi
* Pink
* Player01Ready
* Sam
* Quack
* Lena/RainSake
* Eliza
* Reb
* Red
* Masahiro Sakurai
* Skidd
* Thanos Goose
* Snosm
* ZachEggsalad/Zacharie Mosar
* Kerzid
* Summer
* Tommy
* Emy/Chrys
* Twig/Lydia
* Sketchy
* Alex/Lexi/Canadian Catboy
* Oniomn
* Greem
* Wilam
* Hirundinea/Sophie
* Fuqme

I'm not updating this anymore because I'm sick of all you fuckers leaving and rejoining

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