Frapple

> *"This is a site for funny weapon renames, not a fucking message board."*
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> *~ Frapple, being all boring and logical*
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**Frapple** (originally **FrappleThwack**) is the resident old man of TF2Tags, joining the site all the way back in *2012* and sticking around until the start of 2016 or so. Though not particularly well-known among the userbase, Frapple has made some significant contributions to TF2Tags's culture and mythos, as well as being remembered as being quite crotchety in the fledgling days of the community that spawned in mid-2015. Often acting as a contrarian to the popular positions of those early day shitstorms, Frapple often drew the ire of many taggers. However, he was never quite active enough to make any of this ire manifest into a shitstorm, as there was usually a significant amount of time between his posts.

## **History**

Frapple first appeared on TF2Tags all the way back on July 24th, 2012. This makes Frapple the earliest tagger after Dr. Dos himself to have partaken in the on-site community, earlier than the likes of Relk, Ulysses, and even Acquiesce. Frapple's debut was of no particular significance (at least, there can be no track of his anonymous tags), earning a net score of 0. Following this, he would not tag again until August 8th, two weeks later. This second tag, as opposed to the first, blew up tremendously, earning a staggering 458 crits, which makes this tag the 40th most critted tag of all time. He would not tag again until October, making two tags (one on the 3rd and one on the 30th). He would make a couple tags in December, one in January 2013, followed by three in February.

April 2013 would see Frapple's activity start to pick up somewhat, and while he wasn't tagging every day the time between tags became much shorter. This behavior would last from April until mid-September 2013.

On May 20th, 2013, Frapple would unintentionally create one of the most prolific and longstanding recurring memes in TF2Tags history. Frapple invented the "Know The Difference" meme, which consists of a set contrasting two ore more items that are somewhat similar (either literally or just in the sound of their name). The original "Know The Difference" contrasted the Scrap Pack with a Scrap Sack named "Packed Scrap". It had a net score of 17 crits. It is unknown how Frapple felt about his set becoming eternally cemented in wider site culture.

On August 19th, Frapple made an early Tweet Tag, notifying the userbase that YouTube had a 3D mode, which was relatively unknown at the time.

On September 6th, Frapple would partake in a trend using the Das Hazmattenhatten item. On September 9th, Frapple would start to return to his normal level of activity, not returning to TF2Tags until October 30th, where he posted 13 tags in one day. His next tag would be made on November 21st, then December 8th, then six on December 29th. He would not post again until February 10th, 2014, where he would again post six tags.

On March 5th, Frapple would post again, though a minor tagger named Mud would accuse Frapple of stealing his joke. Frapple defended himself, and was aided by Togekiss, who pointed out that the tags, while similar, were not based on the same joke. Frapple would post again on the 17th. When April Fools' Week 2014 hit, Frapple would make 9 tags on April 1st, including a set that was so impressive Dr. Dos himself would comment on it, showing his approval. Frapple would stick around to make some more tags in April before taking another long hiatus. He would return on June 18th, and would make some tags through the 25th. His next tag would be made on July 3rd, and following that he would return to make some more tags in mid-August through September.

In October 2014, Frapple would make one tag on the 6th, and would then make a large number of tags on the 28th and 31st, including an offshoot of a recurring joke of Sensible Haircut's regarding gnomes and slapping their shit, which he acknowledged in the keywords of the tag, stating "Yes I Know This Was Done Before But This One Is Done Better". He would then take another few weeks off and return to regularly tag in the latter half of November. On November 21st, he would mock people who would make cringey sets of 6-8 items (typically dream loadouts) that were often extremely edgy, used rare items, and fetishized the Burning Flames Team Captain, specifically calling out a user named Default who was doing this a lot. He would then make one tag on December 7th and some more on and after Christmas.

2015 would prove to be a pivotal year for TF2Tags, as this was where many of the recurring taggers, such as Relk, Ulysses, and Sensible Haircut, as well as new taggers such as Blast and Crimson would become more social on the website, forming an informal community of sorts that would be forged in the fires of on-site events. As this occurred, Frapple would find himself becoming increasingly displeased with the direction the site was taking, particularly after he returned to the site following a very long hiatus. In January, Frapple would make a few tags before taking his longest hiatus yet, leaving the site until August 17th, save for one post in March and one in June.

Frapple would return to the site on the 17th of August, 2015. After noticing a particularly high amount of taggers complaining about the balance changes of the Gun Mettle Update and its subsequent patches from the previous month, he would start his return to TF2Tags by making fun of this fact, parodying a Spy voice line and saying "This is the TF2tags userbase. "TF2 updates make me cry!"" and said in the keywords "Seriously guys shut the fuck up." At the same time, Dr. Dos would implement the Mobile-Friendly Update which infamously removed the Miss Button and all downvotes from the entire history of the site. People were mostly up in arms about this, but Frapple was one of the very small number of people in favor of the removal of misses, stating that he agreed with Dos's reasoning in the news update posted alongside the update. Through the event, Frapple would repeatedly act standoffish towards others. On one post by Ulysses after Misses were restored, he stated "God you guys just need to stop bitching". However, his small amount of support for Dos's actions were drowned among a see of Bring Back Misses protests. He would later repost the tags he made during the missless times because he did not like seeing his work go unscored, as all posts made that day had their scores reset.

Around the same time, Frapple would become acquainted with a shitposter that arose to prominence around the time prior to his hiatus but was still present on the site: A Fucking Idiot. Frapple did not like A Fucking Idiot, and at some point the two would establish a negative relationship. So, shortly after the restoration of misses, when AFI was reported by CP and banned, Frapple was content with the announcement of the ban. However, when drama soon took over the site again due to the circumstances of the ban, Frapple would make a post semi-ironically asking for a forum tab on the site, stating "This is a site for funny weapon renames not a fucking message board." He would then comment on that same tag: "Irony intended but I'm still serious about this shit I come here to laugh not to fucking read some autistic drama about people why think shitposting is funny in 2015." AFI would then call Frapple an "edgy bully". When AFI later made a formal apology for the way his side of the conflict treated CP, Frapple commented "THANK YOU YOU WERE NEVER FUNNY." AFI told Frapple to suck his dick. Frapple countered by revealing that AFI spammed his Steam profile page with cuck-related comments. That was the extent of Frapple's actions during the Banning of AFI. Shortly after, he would put down Blast for celebrating his 1600-point milestone. On the 31st, whilst AFI was minding his own business tagging, Frapple openly pondered how the majority of the userbase had not gotten bored with AFI's style and was glad he was banned previously. AFI said the reason was due to Frapple touching himself at night and called him a bully.

On September 8th, another shitstorm caused by the banning of a well-liked user occurred, this time being the much more explosive and consequential Banning of Sensible Haircut. Frapple did not take a side on this issue, though he was certainly angry about drama occurring yet again on TF2Tags. He would make two tags, the first expressing his frustrations that an item naming website was so full of drama while the second again advocated for his forum tab idea expressed in the prior incident. He mocked the people who left in protest of the ban, such as Legownz who returned shortly after professing to leave.

Following the Sensible Ban drama, Frapple would go on another long hiatus, not returning to TF2Tags until February 2016, just before the Attack of the Clones. When the attack occurred, Frapple had no involvement. However, he was quite active in the aftermath, where Dr. Dos permanently banned AFI for posting a page full of shitposts during the ordeal, which made Frapple overjoyed. He celebrated the ban, even going so far as to make a tag about it. This drew the ire of Makin' Bacon, who was deeply hurt by the ban due to being a big fan of AFI. Makin' made a tag directly insulting Frapple, to which he never responded, that described him as someone who "Talks shit, is always fucking angry, and is probably made of shit." Frapple, as far as can been seen, did not escalate this situation with Makin'.

Following the Attack of the Clones, Frapple would make some more tags through March, and then partake in April Fools' Week 2016. Coincidentally, AFI was unbanned early on April 2nd, and Bonkspenser informed Frapple of this, to which he replied "Oh goodie I was afraid that TF2tags wasn't being a cesspool of cancer fast enough." AFI would make some more tags as people welcomed his return, to which Frapple would have his last interaction with the revered shitposter, asking "How autistic do you have to be to still find these funny?" To which TGRobert replied "Not as autistic as you." and AFI, closing their rivalry, stated "Using autism as an insult? That's a whole new level of low for you Frapple."

Following this, Frapple would make two more tags, the latter of which was on April 29th, 2016, This would be the last tag Frapple would make, and he left the site, fed up with the direction it had irreversibly gone down. He had 3000 points.

## **Style**

Frapple's style was a more traditional tagging style, typically consisting of standard jokes and references without any memes, in-jokes, or Tweet Tags (though he did make a couple of the latter). He invented the "Know The Difference" meme, which became a staple joke that taggers continue to use to this day, though Frapple himself never made another KTD tag after the very first. He was not one to capitalize on memes and trends often, and due to his erratic posting behavior he generally wasn't hip to them anyway. He made a lot of Spongebob Squarepants references through his career.

## **Relationships**

Frapple wasn't particularly known for his interactions with others on TF2Tags, mostly because the majority of his time spent tagging was prior to 2015, where the community really began to take off. However, while he was here he wasn't particularly liked. At all. He was often quite rude and sarcastic to others, and not in a banterish, joking way either. He would often claim to make tags better than others who made similar jokes, and would often demean others celebrating certain milestones. His falling on the outside of the popular opinions during shitstorms and dramas he partook in also did not do him many favors. This included favoring the removal of misses and celebrating AFI getting banned both times. In fact, Frapple may be unique in that he doesn't just have no friends, but also several enemies. L'Étranger, at the very least, had a couple friends. Frapple had nothing but people either not caring about him or outright hostile with him, the latter of which is perfectly demonstrated with his relationship with A Fucking Idiot.

Frapple and AFI are infamously on bad terms with each-other, with the former finding the latter's shitposting to be unfunny and outspokingly insulting AFI and anyone who finds his tags funny. Whenever Frapple showed up in 2015, they often traded blows from time to time in the comments, usually with Frapple doing the antagonizing. When AFI was banned in the wake of Attack of the Clones, Frapple took the opportunity to rejoice in his demise, much to the chagrin and downvotes of other taggers. AFI didn't take too kindly to this parting shot; in fact, he was the person who first created this page, but the only text in it was: *"A 12 year old bitch who won't talk shit about someone until they're banned and can't reply to him because he's too scared of what they have to say. Nobody likes him except for his mother and even then it's only because he's her only son."* To this day, Frapple remains the only known tagger who dislikes AFI, as even previous enemies like BananaSquid have since come around to appreciating him.

Makin' Bacon also harbors a seemingly one-sided hate towards Frapple, mostly because of his attitudes towards AFI.

## **Gallery**

Frapple's first tag.Frapple's second and best tag, the 40th most critted tag of all time.The first "Know The Difference" set ever made.A set so impressive Dr. Dos gives it praise.
## **Trivia**

* Frapple has no known representative item due to not being very active during the community era of TF2Tags, but usually made tags referencing current happenings using the Ham Shank. In this sense, it can be considered his informal rep item.