Alternate Universes and the Reality of Fandom Politics

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***Alternate Universes and the Reality of Fandom Politics*** is a book by PatriotMapperOMSBand about the history of the Alternate Territories Wiki and it's politics.

## Prologue

2021 has hit the world. It's the third month of the horrid new year. March, 2021. If 2021, did humanity loose? The COVID-19 Pandemic is still ongoing over a year a later. The Alternate Territories Wiki, seeing an age of inactivity, is about to see a revival in creativity. PatriotMapperOMSBand, known by the community as Patriot, has now joined the community as it is now March 17, 2021.

## Chapter I: Manchu Communard Politics

What a time! March 2021 and the Manchu Commune. This is start of my, Patriot's, politicalised Fandom. Fandom has long had political wikis, most actively the Polcompball Wiki, but I was dedicated to a new emphasis of a political aspect of the Alternate Territories Wiki's countries. I dedicated much of the early time on the page to creating political parties and political systems.

The Manchu Commune was granted independence on 1 January 1946 and quickly held it's first election. Joseph Stalin's son, Vasily Stalin, would become the founder of the Soviet-Manchu Union Front. This Stalinist political party was controversial among the people of the Manchu Commune. On the contrary, there was Zhou Baozhong and the Manchu Agrarian Front. This two-party system would only be around in the 1946 Manchu Election, with there being four parties in the 1950 Manchu Election.

This new emphasis on the political aspects of fictional countries would later be adapted onto other pages by fellow editors. Examples include Cynetia by Freecoder, the Greater British Empire by Liuan, and Cascadia by Poxy.

## Chapter II: Socialist April Revolution and Leo's Fascism

Then April came. March had been mostly peaceful and people had been happy with the revival of editting on the wiki that I had accidently kicked off. But April was different, much different. You see, up until this point, Finolian had been the President of the Alternate Territories Wiki. However, Alpha, the former owner and the founder of the wiki, decided he wanted to come back to the community on 7 April 2021. Finolian thought differently.

Alpha held a poll asking whether or not he should return to the wiki. 83% of the wiki voted in favor of this, this group becoming called the Pro-Alphaists. On the other side, 17% voted no, this group being the Finolian Loyalists. Finolian suppressed the vote, declaring it invalid. Leonidas, Freecoder, and me all spoke out against this Authoritarianism. While Leo and Freecoder protested on Discord, I declared an April Revolution on the wiki. I thought of this as a Socialist revolution by the workers/editors against a dictator, hoping to make a more Council Communist wiki. This led to me founding the ATC Jacobin Club to further the goal.

By 9 April 2021, the final battle had begun. Freecoder and Leo had cornered Finolian on Discord, whilst Liuan and I had secured the liberation of the wiki. On Alpha's request, we banned Finolian and finished the revolution. Alpha, now unbanned, would declare Leo the new President of the Alternate Territories Wiki.

Following the April Revolution and the rise of Socialist movement such as the ATC Jacobin Club, Leo decided to take action against me. Leo banned my political party, declaring a state of emergency that gave himself dictorial power over the wiki. Leo's Fascism was opposed by, well, everyone. After I contested this act, Leo attempted to man for treason, but Liuan overthrew Leo first.

Leo decided to do something unprecedented. Leo, out of pure Fascism and hatred, decided to vandalize three pages on the Alternate Territories Wiki and reported the wiki to COPPA. This got Leo a permanent ban from Liuan, ending the first era of Leo's Fascism.

## Chapter III: Politicalisation of the Alternate Territories Wiki

Following the downfall of Leo, the ATC Jacobin Club (AJC), Popular Constitutionalist Party (PCP), Alphadonian Party (AP), and the Peoples' Party (PPP) came to dominate the Alternate Territories Wiki and Alternate Territories Commmunity (ATC). This began a political age in the ATC, with new election electing Liuan's PCP into the presidency and my AJC into the vice presidency. However, the AP and the PCP would unite into the AP-PCP Union. The AP-PCP Union and the new Freedom, Democracy and Vodka Party (FD&VP) would clash with the Peoples' Party in the PPP-Freecoder War in an escalating argument. Me and the AJC stayed out of the PPP-Freedcoder War, as I thought of it as a stupid battle. However, the FD&VP and the PPP united into the PPP-FD&V Coalition after the war, sticking together to vattle the AP-PCP Union. I had established close relations with both groups, being friends with all of the people at the time.

## Chapter IV: Political Crisis of 4/28 and Leo's Return

On 26 April 2021, word came out that Alpha and Liuan (the leaders of the AP-PCP Union) had attempted to spy on the PPP. This angered Freecoder and Hi (the leaders of the PPP-FD&V Coalition) as well as myself. After much arguing on 27 April 2021, Alpha and Liuan officially declared war on the PPP on 28 April 2021. Shortly after, I declared war on Alpha. After much arguing on Discord and internal fighting on all sides, Alpha and I made peace. Shortly after, Alpha, the PPP, and I all agreed to the Treaty of New Adom that ended this Second ATC Civil War.

Following the end of the Second ATC Civil War, Finolian unbanned themself from the wiki and banned everyone who had participated in the April Revolution, including me. The entire Alternate Territories Wiki united following this Finolian Comeback and more fighting began on Discord. Hi managed to unban himself, then unbanning Alpha. Though, Finolian rebanned Alpha. Sikyo, after being inactive on the wiki for a long time, unbanned Liuan only to be banned by Finolian. I was then banned by Finolian at this moment. Sria secretly helped Finn in this conflict, which we discovered after the war. A few hours after the chaos on Discord started, Finolian conceded and unbanned everyone, then rebanning themself.

The day after the Finolian Comeback (29 April 2021), Alpha unbanned Leo despite the previous Leo Conflict. Leo was remade the President of the Alternate Territories Wiki once more and then proceeded to ban me and several people from both the Discord and wiki. I responded by alerting Freecoder, who then told Alpha on 30 April 2021. Me, Alpha, and other ATC admins held a meeting and then announced that Leo was no longer the president, demoting him of all roles. Alpha created a poll about who should lead the wiki, but Finolian once again showed up with their allies and began arguing. Something that I now look back on as funny is that I created an argument post just to get people to stop fighting on the poll, but nobody used the post. Sikyo, who was likely tired of all the chaos, ended this Second Leo Conflict by banning Leo.

## Chapter V: War on Politics and the Fall of Alpha

Following this series of events, fighting would begin between Alpha and Liuan. I reacted to this fighting by saying Liuan, stop being stupid; Alpha, stop yelling at everyone. This was promptly reacted to as me supporting Alpha by, well, everyone. When Alpha declared a May Revolution, I was hesitant to help him. After all, wiki terrorism IS still terrorism. However, when the events made it necessary, I secretly joined the revolution in the sake of my own interests. This is a move I deeply regret. Politics lost support, Alpha’s movement collapsed, and my agreements with Alpha were exposed. My reputation on the wiki got thrown in the mud and I experienced a mental health crisis. This is around the same time I turned away from Christianity and was shunned from my actual friends in the real world. Alpha, having fallen from power, would enter a period of being hated as May ended and June began.

## Chapter VI: Aftermath of the Crisis

Entering June, a period of shattered peace began. After the Patriot-Belastan War occurred and I lost most of my respect and was distraught, I began panicking. I realized I was on my own. My friend Alpha had a war waged on him… the War on Alpha. The War on Alpha brought about new challenges as I realized the wiki couldn’t successfully rebuild. I stood by Alpha through all the problems. A new crisis was possibly beginning with the start of the ATC Winter and Wiki-Politicalism began to collapse. Alpha, after years of beginning to slip, eventually left the community… or tried. I felt guilty through it all. Was it my fault Alpha had lost? That I had lost? When July came into existence, I came to a new idea. An idea that I’d come to regret.

## Epilogue

July’s idea came to lead to conflict. An attempted coup and another account. July 11, 2021 was the day it all broke. However, after the conflict was resolved… More happened.