Rice

**Rice** is an active AOTY user and moderator on AOTY. He is notable for being the follower of the most people on AOTY.

On the 18th of January 2023, Rice had officially followed every single user on AOTY, being the first user to do so. Since then Rice's following count has been removed by Rob.

## History

### Previous Endeavors

Rice was a well known developer for a Minecraft server Hypixel before quitting in early 2022. Rice was first known for developing mods and making cameos in YouTube videos, although later on he was mostly known for doing "a little too much trolling" on Hypixel, where he in protest of pay 2 win features, completely destroyed the economy multiple times, crashed the entire server twice, and was responsible for over 35 dupes. In the end Rice felt he had accomplished enough and was burnt out, he had achieved the title of richest user on the server, had gotten almost 24,000 downloads on his mods, and had a combined 1.5 million views on videos discussing him. He was ready to retire and move on to greater things. Now instead of creating chaos and Minecraft cheats he spends his time working on various other projects such as Spotify Extensions, applications for a local hospital, and an automatic video creation bot.

### Discovering AOTY

Rice after starting a vinyl collection funded by money obtained from selling modifications for various video games thought it would be interesting to see which albums were rated the highest. After using AOTY for around 5 months without creating an account he created his account on October 26, 2022. His vinyl collection can be found on Discogs.

#### The Following Quest

After using the site for around 2 months Rice decided to set a challenge for himself, the challenge was to follow the most users on the site. Rice used various methods such as going through users followed/following list, going through who liked reviews, and going to profiles of people who rated certain albums. After around 2 weeks Rice achieved his goal of following the most users on the site. Rice states that his main motives behind this were boredom and wanting a more active feed.

As of the 18th of January 2023, he had followed every user on the website (245,211 individual users), thereby proving AOTY owner's (Rob) estimates wrong which were roughly half of that number.

Rice eventually realized that he could follow users who have not even created an account yet. This means that the second a user created an account they would be followed by Rice and have a notification from days before they even made their account stating that Rice had followed them. Rob was not a fan of this and then decided to delete Rice's following count and add a rate limit to following users. Rice now stands at following around 1600 people, a mere fraction of the original count. Rice states that he thinks Rob was in the right to do that and that he feels relieved since now he did not have to wait almost 30 seconds just for his feed to load.

## Profile Picture

Rice's profile picture comes from an Instagram post consisting of various MF DOOM albums stylized as a cat. He is known to swap through different MF DOOM cat albums every 1-2 months.

## "Famous" Quotes

* *"You can't trust these hoes because hoes spelled backwards is seoh and that makes no sense just like these hoes"*
* "effort"
* *":jjshock:" (See picture to view emoji)*

## Trivia

* Rice has created a 4 page list of suggestions for AOTY.
* Rice has created several plugins for AOTY such as Rice’s AOTY Add-ons
* Rice is currently working in programming and web development for a photography company.
* Rice often finds bugs in AOTY's code and reports them to Rob to improve the site's usability.

## Where to find Rice

The best way to contact Rice is via his Discord where he is most active.

Discord: Rice#0404 (riceblades)