Huddahing

## Belligerents

* Fear
* Jakebob-Smegheneghan
* M5A1 Stuart
* [RKE] Leeevog
* Relk\_Cehi
* Revengineer
* Sqwid
* Dr. Dos
* Pretty much the rest of TF2Tags at the time

* **Huddah Huddah**†

**The Huddahing** was one of the earliest known shitstorms TF2Tags experienced, occurring on March 28th, 2014. It involved a crooked shitposter named Huddah Huddah getting called out for unoriginal tags and going on a massive spree of anger and toxicity. The Huddahing may be attributed to being the origin of the missbomb, as well as one of the larger carpetbombings in TF2Tags history. Little information on the Huddahing is known due to Huddah having been erased from existence following his crimes (as in, all of his tags, comments, and his entire profile being deleted) and most of the witnesses having either left the community or not remembering, so much of this article is written from educated estimation and what little evidence remains, as well as a surviving votelog.

## Huddah Huddah

Huddah Huddah (usually just called Huddah, sometimes called Hudduh) was a minor tagger estimated to have joined around the middle of March 2014, though might have joined earlier. He was a decent enough tagger according to some (Relk is noted to have been a fan of Huddah prior to his downward spiral). However, he was relatively quickly criticized for his tags being blatant ripoffs or reposts of some of the top tags and other high-rated tags at the time, tags which he claimed were completely original. This quickly saw him grow unpopular among many and he did not respond very positively to this treatment.

## A Ginormous Tantrum

On March 27th, having had enough of being, in his mind, picked on, Huddah began to rant and rage against several taggers. The earliest surviving example of this occurred on a tag by Fear named "I am the walrus... mustache." Huddah said some things that have been lost to history, to which a user named Jakebob-Smegheneghan responded to by pointing out his disingenuous tagging style and the fact that people can look things up. He recommended Huddah either make posts that were actually original or just leave. Huddah, of course, would not listen. He would then start ranting and raving on a tag by M5A1 Stuart, who was taken aback and confused. Jakebob told him not to worry, and that Huddah was just having a tantrum.

Huddah would continue to throw said tantrum into the next day, starting by first insulting Dr. Dos on one of his tags, to which Jakebob warned was a bad move. He then wrote more insulting comments on a tag by [RKE] Leeevog, who in response asked what his problem was, as all he seemed to do was run around TF2Tags and hate on people for no reason whatsoever. Huddah appeared to respond to this with more low IQ nonsense, to which Fear finally responded by telling Huddah like it is, that nobody has done anything wrong other than point out where Huddah had gone astray. Fear seemed to tick Huddah off the most, given what he would do later that day.

Huddah would continue making disparaging comments and presumably tags against other users. A relatively new tagger named Relk\_Cehi would make a tag making fun of the flamewar that he seemingly did not have any interest in fighting. However, Huddah would then target Relk, who responded with "You've made a powerful enemy. I liked most of your stuff too." For the rest of the shitstorm, Relk would consistently insult Huddah right back.

At some point after this, at around 5:50 pm (but perhaps a few minutes earlier), Huddah would begin to carpetbomb the front page of the site, missing nearly every submission other than his own. He did this for around three or four minutes before shifting gears to specific targets, starting with user Revengineer for 9 points before shifting gears to Fear, whom he missnuked for every submission he had made up to that point. This missnuke lasted around 10 minutes and robbed Fear of 65 points. Huddah would then seemingly take a break after this (presumably to write more angry comments), not making any votes again until around two hours later at 7:52 pm, where he would crit a bunch of older submissions (presumably to cover his tracks from Dos) for a few minutes before taking another hour-long break.

Around this time, Dr. Dos would begin to see what was going on and would respond first with general confusion and then with annoyance. User The Big Lebowski would make a tag hypothesizing that Huddah was actually just Dr. Dos in disguise as an elaborate early April Fools prank, to which Dos himself responded by saying that he has "far better taste than that". In comments of that same tag, some like Beelzebuzz noted that they were beginning to lose faith in the TF2 community over this, while Jakebob, ever the cool head, reminded them that it was just one nitwit.

At around 9:11 pm, Huddah would continue a spree of insulting comments, this time against Squidward Testicles, telling him to "grow a pair", seemingly missing the irony. Huddah would then go on another massive spree of hurling insults in the comments of other users' tags, before then at around 10 pm resuming his missbombing campaign, this time briefly targeting Relk before stopping at some point again to rant on more tags. At 10:43, Ulysses made a post titled "Only 90's Kids Remember Huddah", which was likely a prediction that Huddah was going to be banned very soon. Due to both users' comments being erased for separate reasons, it is unknown is Ulysses was one of the people who repeatedly criticized and/or insulted Huddah. Given that the votelog did not display a missbomb against Ulysses, however, it is likely it was only a passing comment. Huddah would continue throwing tantrums in comment sections before launching another large missbomb around midnight, this time against Squidward. whom he missbombed for over 30 points.

Following this missbomb, Huddah would then proceed to start carpetbombing tags once more, though this time it seemed to be of a random nature, targeting neither specific pages nor specific taggers. It was likely that Huddah was using the site's Random feature, which yielded 10 random submissions in a single page, and simply missed whatever came up. This went on for until 12:11, with Huddah's making a few final misses sparsely during the night, his last misses occurring on March 29th, 2014 at 1:35 am. It was at this time where Dr. Dos finally realized what was going on and banned Huddah from TF2Tags, presumably permanently.

## Aftermath and Legacy

Unlike the shitstorms that would occur later on, Huddah's defeat was neither loud nor dramatic. He simply disappeared from the site, and nobody seemed to notice or care, despite the chaos of the previous day. This could have been for a number of reasons. First and most likely was that the community of TF2Tags had not yet formed and Dr. Dos was still a very regular presence on the site, and thus the banning of someone like Huddah was expected and nothing to celebrate about. Second, mere hours after banning Huddah, Dos updated the site's News section announcing 2nd Tip of the Hats Charity Event. Taggers presumably quickly shifted their focus from Huddah to this charity event. Third, taggers potentially did respond to Huddah's banning but had their tags deleted (evidence for such being included in the same news announcement mentioned previously).

In terms of legacy, however, the Huddahing can be known as the first high-profile missbombing on TF2Tags, and potentially the first missbomb ever. Any missbombs and missbombers that may have occurred prior to the Huddahing are not currently known, and this may be because of the fact that the Huddahing was the first instance of taggers belonging to the community (those being Relk, Ulysses, Sqwid, and Fear) being there to experience it, and thus their tales kept the knowledge of Huddah alive. However, the event left little impact on the community itself due to only four people other than Dos being there to experience it, half of whom would leave the community at some point while the other half went on to have several of their own shitstorms. However, every so often Huddah's name would be brought up, and his existence would be acknowledged.

To showcase the power of passing tales of previous users in this community, Huddah was nowhere near as well-known among taggers than Teaquin, despite having done far more damage and having far more interactions. This was simply due to more taggers being present during Teaquin's appearance, such as Sensible Haircut and Legownz.

## Gallery

Note: Huddah Huddah was completely erased from the site following this incident, and so all tags and comments by this user no longer exist.

The earliest surviving instance of Huddah Huddah making inflammatory comments on another user's tag.The second instance of Huddah ranting on others' tags.Huddah insults Dos.Users start to react to Huddah.Huddah antagonizes Relk.But what if Huddah was Dos?Another tag where Huddah ranted.Huddah antagonizes Sqwid.All of these tags are adjacent to each other on the archive, listing comments that were mostly done by Huddah. The surviving comments do not hold much significance so the tags are shown instead.Ulysses makes a potshot at Huddah.Dr. Dos announces the Tip of the Hats Charity Event, and mentions what to do when users like Huddah Huddah arise.Some tags related to the Charity Event, with no mention of Huddah in sight.The partially archived votelog of Huddah Huddah during this period of time. It is unknown if Huddah was missbombing prior to the earliest timestamp due to earlier votes not being archived.
## Trivia

* Huddah Huddah has no representative item, as he was part of TF2Tags before the concept of rep items even existed. On one occasion, Sqwid represented Huddah with a Voodoo-Cursed Pyro Soul. So use that, I guess.
* Most of the tags involving Huddah were deleted by Dos. This was proven in the news entry he posted right after banning Huddah, where he urged users to either report offending tags or contact Dos directly about problematic users. He did not want users making more items to respond to such problematic individuals, and would delete them alongside the offending posts.
	+ Thanks Dos, you robbed this wiki that didn't even exist at the time this happened of valuable information regarding a pathetic man who caused some chaos on the site for like a day. >:(