Subway

Current Subway icon, implemented on 1/30/22

A discord server with a long and convoluted history, sporting many stages throughout its 14 month lifespan.

The original name for Subway was "Canopus's Pussy" (which unknowingly started the infamous canopussy jokes), this name, as crude as it was — was obviously a placeholder, as an official name had yet to be thought of. It was while thinking of server icon ideas that Mechanical suggested an image from r/SubwayHentai (a subreddit that censors hentai with Subway sandwiches and/or other Subway menu items). This proposal stood out from the other ideas proposed and was subsequently set as the server's icon, bringing along the name Subway with it. The icon in question stood firmly as the face of Subway for over a year, until the unfortunate fall of the server.

## The Olden Days

### Early Life

Founded on 9/7/20 by Arie and Mechanical with the intention of setting it up as a dating server to troll its members — Subway quickly outgrew its initial purpose after inviting a few people, turning into a small server with a Disboard setup for whoever was unlucky enough to discover it.

The early days of Subway were not very eventful. Conversations didn't last for longer than three minutes and you could easily scroll up to see messages from a week ago. There wasn't really an established member base as everyone in there was sort of invited on a whim. Without a reason for people to talk, or anyone to engage, it's clear why Subway failed in the beginning.

As time went on, Subway kept piling up dust. There was no catch for members to get hooked on, every person who joined from Disboard the left within five minutes. This wasn't to say the server was dead, though — a small but somewhat consistent cast of members checked and chatted on the server every so often, giving it reason to still go on, even despite its worthlessness. Life in Subway wasn't looking so bleak after all.

### The Conquest of Patagonia

The Conquest of Patagonia marked a turn in Subway's history — it was the arrival of Batz and the merging of Patagonia (at least what was left of it) into Subway. It brought in around 20 members (most notably, Lyrith) from the server of Patagonia, and somewhat revitalized Subway.

Patagonia, despite its high member count (500+) and funnily enough 15 fucking boosts at its peak, was as dry as the desert it was named after. Its activity was even worse than Subway's early life, with all of its membercount consisting of 95% alt accounts (from a member growth ploy, which horribly backfired) and rest being Batz's friends, who probably all joined out of not wanting to look mean (besides a few kindred souls)

After an hour or so of joining, Batz was given admin as to help manage the server after the Conquest of Patagonia, as solo moderating a now 50 member server would be a tight job (not really). With his activity, he quickly became an established presence within the server. Impacting how the server was structured and managed. With his help, the Subway #admin channel became a place of intelligent discourse, often planning edits to the server. This channel also featured the lovely Mechanical and Dim, who weren't as enthusiastic to run Subway, but were more than glad to be there.

This is also around the time when the Disboard page started being a bit more successful, with a few people staying. Most notable of these was Iya, who had an interesting upbringing within the Subway server, and would become a key player in the later chapters of Subway.

### The Golden Age

At this time in history. Subway had around 100 members with a peak of 110. The server had always something being done on it, with a pretty sizable cast of honorable members. This period in Subway's history was mainly categorized by its server events, which mostly included "shitty movie nights", where its users could indulge themselves into the shittier side of film.

Conversations within Subway during the golden age were very common and people often came in to check how other users were doing. With a good member base and relatively lenient rules, Subway was a very good server to be part of.

### The Fall

After the surplus of the golden age, subway had dried out completely. People got tired, and that resulted in drastic actions. Notable members who had once been part of the server’s upbringing were leaving. The server of Subway was looking sadder by the day.

The interest and community that kept everyone talking and coming back had been lost. Subway was returning back to what it first was — a wasteland. Melancholy had once set it again, and this time, it was for good. Everyone knew what was happening, and there was nothing that could have been done to aid or prevent it.

Conversations during the fall never went past mere greetings and small talk, arguably even worse than the old days. The memories of the golden age were a reminder of how good we had it — but like all good things, they must come to an end.

Despite its status, no one could have guess the events that were about to transpire.

### The Purge

At the end of the fall on 8/11/2021, it was decided by Arie that Subway was to be archived for the greater good, as it had served its purpose as a server. The decision was prompted to Batz before being enacted. This, however, turned out to be the greatest mistake in the archival plan, as Batz then promptly deleted #general. Reasons are mostly disputed, but the most agreed upon one is that Batz didn't understand the "archive" part of the plan, and decided to clear the server instead. Batz has been known to clear messages and chat logs, thought the deletion of the whole Subway #general channel was definitely uncalled for. This is the main reason why there is little to no picture documentation of the Olden Days of Subway.

With months of talk and history gone from Subway in mere seconds, the worth of the server tanked. The plan quickly went from archiving to deleting. People were banned, channels were purged, and roles were deleted. It came down to the last four members of the server — Arie, Mechanical, Batz, and Night. The final moments of subway weren't really that memorable, with a few farewells here and there.

When the countdown came to end, in true arie fashion — the server wasn’t deleted, It was just closed off. Because Batz was the one to delete the server’s most important channel, it was decided that he would be banned from the server. Though he isn’t aware of this — for all he knows the server was deleted on 8/11/2021. Any attempts by Batz to doubt the server wasn’t deleted were quickly shut down.

Batz's presence from discord soon depleted after the events of the purge. Some ideas to create a new server were sprung up by him, but those really never went anywhere. The legacy of Subway had been tarnished. What was left of Old Subway remains in the form of rare screenshots and the ironic #vent channel, of which became infamous within the Subway server.