Great Tong War

## The Great Tong War

Artists recreation of the Exploding Point

The Great Tong War was a significant conflict happening in September-November 2023 AD. Mainly fought between Ryan T and Will T, the conflict was about the use of 'Tong' jokes and eventually incorporated over a dozen goons recorded in the goon files. Will T will be referred to as Will and Ryan T as Tong throughout this page.

## Background

Sometime in September 2023, Tong emailed Will's mom with images of Will saying that he had her son hostage. This was the start of friction between Will and Tong which lead to the Tong war. Later that month Will came up with and started making 'Tong' jokes, jokes which incorporated Tong's name into them which for the first few days did not produce large reactions from Tong.

## Tong War

Eventually Tong started getting really mad whenever someone made a 'Tong' joke, and would start to violently outburst at people who made them, which made people want to make them more. Will one of the primary user of 'Tong' jokes, Tong would get very mad at and used techniques such as the shin-kick on. Soon as people were making more Tong jokes more often, Tong would get even madder and started using violence to shut people up. Even though it never worked because it was too mild, and made people want to make more Tong jokes. He employed techniques such as the Shin-kick, the Shuriphone, and the water bottle throw. Tong would only get angrier each time someone made one, especially Will. Everyday there was some drama between Tong and Will or another 'Tong' joke user, which usually was Tong looking for the man who did it.

## The Exploding Point

Eventually the Tong jokes would cool down and less people made them, but occasionally someone would, which created a severe reaction from Tong. In the week leading up to the Exploding point, Tong jokes almost completely stopped. With Will making almost none. The first of the three strikes leading up to the Exploding Point, was when Will during break said 'I am not afraid of you' to Tong in some infuriating context to Tong. Tong threw a metal water bottle full force at Will's head which only narrowly missed and made a dent in the wall. The second strike was another day when Will made a Tong joke during break, and Tong started punching him in the head, though stopped after 3 punches. These punches did not land in any non-hard areas of the head.

### The Exploding Exploding Point

Eventually Will and Tong were having a 'peace talk' in the halls of the school after lunch one day. Will said, "lets put this into tongtext" after building up some friction between the two. Tong responded by repeatedly punching Will in the head and trying to slam his head into the elevator door. During this Will said, "Calm the Tong down!" which only made Tong madder. The teachers caught them and both of them got suspended. Now there is friction between the two, but not nearly as much as during the Great Tong War.

## Who was in the Right?

No one was in the right during this conflict. Will made jokes that very much infuriating Tong, and even after dozens of real attempts to tell him to stop, he kept going. These really reached within Tong and obviously made him feel dehumanized or bullied in some way. Tong was neither in the right, he used excessive violent force, and was the physical aggressor in this conflict. The moral of the story is: "Go with the golden rule"