The Blackers Clan

## Overview

The Blackers Clan is the current reigning group on Simply Vanilla. Created in January 2022, and lead by Cdawg8042, the group has 16 total members, including prominent players such as Ultio, Gnome, Poptarts84, Oat1, and Logical\_Leo. The group has a reputation for selectivity in its members, and it is extremely difficult to join, even as an experienced player. The clan runs the Blackers Banking Clan (BBC shop) and has traders in many other prominent shops.

## History

The history of Blackers can be separated into 2 parts: pre-sale and post-sale of the server. The Blackers Clan, at the time simply known as "Blackers" was founded by Cdawg8042 and was made up of his IRL friends GG\_the\_Goat, Monka\_in\_thesnow, manahydra7, Dusty\_Snake, I\_luvcatgirls, and a few other forgotten members. Blackers was cofounded by GG\_the\_Goat and Cdawg when they got bored of playing Hypixel. Cdawg rejoined the Simply Vanilla that had been sitting dormant in his tab list for almost a year. Cdawg had already gathered some diamond gear prior to quitting, so after collecting GG\_the\_Goat from spawn, they started their first starter base. After the rendezvousing with everyone and gathering basic diamond sets the group left and took the nether roof to the new base, The Black Cave (play on words of The Bat Cave) was established on January 22nd, 2022. While Cdawg was getting fucked by withers at a griefed base he wanted to investigate, the new base was very quickly established. After the base was set up, a vote was taken for the name of the group, the options being Praetors, Imperium, La Famiglia, The Blackers, and other. The Blackers won the vote with 6, to Imperium's 4. Not much later, the selling of Simply Vanilla took place, and many members became disenfranchised and bored and so left, leaving only manahydra7 and Cdawg8042. Manahydra7 would soon become inactive as well, leaving only Cdawg at the base. Bored of playing by himself, Cdawg started talking with other server members and making friends. Trying to reignite Blackers, he would join several bases such as iTimbit, Noobs inc. base, and Takoyaki's spawn base but none of these avenues would pan out. It wouldn't be for another 4 months before Blackers returned.

Cdawg spent months by himself building The Black Cave base more, hoping his basemates would return. However he quickly realized this would never happen with the server "dead" state, and so sought to try and help the server by helping out noobs and making friends with the remaining simply players. He would meet several established players such as Jakersfal, Pan\_ka, Implord33, Logical\_Leo and Takoyaki. He attempted to recruit these players for an end obsidian farm, but only Logical\_Leo would end up showing up to help. These relationships developed would help to form the basis of who he wanted to recruit and base with. While he split basing at his solo base and iTimbit's base, he would recruit Takoyaki and OGjidiab, better known as FreddyFrogg. However due to details that will be saved for later, FreddyFrogg was removed from the discord and the group never took off. It would not be until summertime 2022 that Blackers would come back in any official capacity. Cdawg was still trying to start Blackers after the stealing incident had led iTImbit's base to no longer be considered safe, leaving Noob inc. for the most part dead. He reached out to Gnome to see if he was willing to join. At first Gnome turned him down, however not before contacting Ultio and getting the 2 acquainted. Ultio would invite Cdawg to bring himself and friends to the base to build cool stuff. Cdawg would accept this offer, bringing his former basemates at iTImbit's base, Takoyaki and Bbear2004, as well as Gnome, who had agreed to join them. These 5 would form the basis of Blackers moving forward and true starting point of what the group would become today.

## Symbols

The Blackers Clan logo:

A 2x1 mapart was created of the image by Logical\_Leo at one of the Blackers bases.

Banner: an image is not available at this time

## Members

* Cdawg8042
* Manahydra7
* Poptarts84
* Gnome
* Angvard21
* Ultio
* Oat1
* Flexx\_MC
* Logical\_Leo
* Takoyaki
* King\_Kunta
* Takoyaki