The Great War

**The Great War,** also known as **The Sputnik War**, was a war fought on sputnikmusic.com between the Biggle Boys, commanded by JefferyBigglestein, and Sinternet's Dark Army, with several other factions involved. Delcared on July 15th, 2020, by Sinternet, the war lasted for 27 days and ended on August 11th, 2020. The Biggle Boys would win the war following Sinternet's surrender. About a month after the end of the Great War, sinternet would be banned, solidifying the Biggle Boys as the new powers of Sputnikmusic.

## Main Belligerents

### Winners

The Biggle Boys The United Chocolate States

### Losers

BTS ARMY Sinternet's Dark Army

The Bigglestein Truthers

## Major Events

The BTS Invasion, The 8/8 Biggle Bomb, JefferyBigglestein's first temp ban

## Main Belligerents

**The Biggle Boys**: A group of pro-Bigglestein users led by JefferyBigglestein. These users typically pos Bigglestein reviews and leave supportive comments defending Bigglestein from trolls/haters. ColeT and LeddSledd are two of the more well known Biggle Boys.

* Jeffery J. Bigglestein (Leader) † (temporarily)
* LeddSledd (Lieutenant General)
* ColeT
* Mort
* bloc
* joeman82
* Hodenfresser
* Log S
* Dahound
* kalkwiese
* costofnothing
* lucman
* Tranth

**Sinternet's Dark Army**: A loosely associated faction of Bigglestein detractors, who leave short, quick insults on Bigglestein related posts. Frequently leave negatives on Bigglestein reviews within a quick or sudden timeframe (such as leaving several neg's within a 15-30 minute period), a tactic known as "neg bombing". Are dead convinced Bigglestein is an alt or a troll. Have given up on trying to give Bigglestein advice and now just insult and berate him while typically not interacting with other Biggle Boys.

* Sinternet†
* Snake.
* JefferyPigglestein†
* Dissonant
* coldheaven
* DickBalls†
* Ryus (loosely associated)
* Millions of alts trolls and bots.
* JefferyEPBigglestein†
* OperationBigglestein†
* SunnyDBazloofJoofASS†
* GutsOnDekk†
* zkAOR†
* Nerdurosis

**Bigglestein Truthers**: A group that, similar to the Dark Army, are detractors of the Biggle Boys. However their approach to Bigglestein is very different from that of the Dark Army. The Truthers typically leave long, multiple paragraph arguments on Bigglestein posts, trying to educate him on their percieved issues with his reviews and posts. They are more likely to get into fights with Biggle Boys whereas the Dark Army typically ignores other Biggle Boys and only attack Bigglestein himself. The truthers do not believe Bigglestein is an alt and most believe he is a real human being/legitimate user rather than a troll. This stark contrast in ideology has resulted in some members of the Truthers and the Dark Army getting involved in skirmishes and flame wars as they dispute the validity of the JefferyBigglestein account.

* ArsMoriendi
* Kompys2000
* SPRFanOf5H

**The United Chocolate States:** ChoccyPhilly's faction. Strategy is to just help whoever has the momentum and claim victory at the end (the USA WWII strategy)

* ChoccyPhilly

**BTS ARMY**: After JefferyBigglestein's scathing review of Map of the Soul: 7 by K-Pop collective BTS went viral on twitter, BTS stans started making accounts to neg bomb and critique Bigglestein with long winded paragraphs. Use strawman attacks like calling Bigglestein a racist, sexist, homophobe, etc despite not having any such proof of the claims instead of actually debating his points. Similar thought process behind the Bigglestein truthers. The BTS Army is perhaps the only faction on Sputnik more disliked than the Biggle Boys.

* maitad
* BANGTANGRANDMOTHER†

## Belligerent Motives

**The Biggle Boys:** sinternet and/or SPRFanOf5H banned or "surrenders" and the creation of an active Sputnikmusic wiki.

**Sinternet's Dark Army**: JefferyBigglestein banned

**Bigglestein Truthers**: JefferyBigglestein banned or "reformed/fixed" (as in making content that fits their standards)

**The United Chocolate States**: Win.

**BTS Army**: JefferyBigglestein banned and promotion of K-Pop groups like BTS across Sputnikmusic.

## Timeline

### 7-15-20

* Sinternet Declares War
* The first Sputnik Times is published [1]
* SINTERNET DECLARES WAR list posted [2]

### 7-18-20

* JefferyPigglestein account founded: The first alt made known to the public from Sinternet's Dark Alt Army. Makes posts and lists attacking Bigglestein.
* The first Great War update posted [3]

### 7-19-20

* JefferyPigglestein temporarily banned: the first casualty in the Great War.

### 7-20-20

* Sinternet and the dark army launch an attack on JefferyBigglestein's No Love Deep Web review - goes from 6/7 positives to 6/14 positives overnight.

### 7-21-20

* JefferyPigglestein mysteriously unbanned
* Dickballs exposed as Dissonant's alt, banned. [4]

### 7-22-20

* Second Sputnik Times is published.[5]
* joeman82 calls ars a "biggle truther", informally establishing the Bigglestein Truther movement. This group is similar to the Dark Army in that they are detractors of the Biggle Boys, however they vary from the Dark Army in their ideology and troll tactics. The Dark Army believes Bigglestein is an alt/troll and use quick, short insults and profanity against Bigglestein. Meanwhile the Bigglestein truthers firmly believe JefferyBigglestein is real/not a troll and try to debate Bigglestein with long, multiple paragraph arguments trying to attack his views/beliefs rather than the man himself.

### 7-24-20

* The battle of the no pressure review takes place as a new combatant, SPRFanOf5H, goes after bigglestein. SPR is an interesting case because while his more personal attacks fit in with the methods of the Dark Army, his belief that Bigglestein is a real person fits more under the Bigglestein Truther ideology. For now he is presumed to be a Bigglestein Truther.
* SPRFanof5H begs Jom and SowingSeason to perm ban JefferyBigglestein as well as remove all neg's from his reviews. [6][7]

### 7-25-20

* Bigglestein's "SPUTNIKNEWS" list and "I accidentally got drunk and" lists deleted, JefferyBigglestein banned until 7/28/20. A crushing loss for the BiggleBoys, however because the ban was not permanent it is not a total defeat. The War still rages on.

### 7-27-20

* Bigglestein unbanned a day early, a huge win for the Biggle Boys.
* Bigglestein's return post, "MEME MONDAY 7/27/20" generates a lot of activity, receiving a record high for any Bigglestein list with 175 comments as of 7/27/20 9:18 PM. Interest in the wiki spikes with this and the amount of pages increases by more than double, increasing from 20 to 43 within a few hours as users actually put effort into making and organizing content instead of using the wiki as a grounds to shitpost/spam.

### 7-30-20

* A cyber battle between JefferyBigglestein and Ryus takes place, which Bigglestein wins
* Bigglestein makes a list stating his top objective/influental 10 movies of all time, drawing a large 150+ comment discussion. Ryus calls out Bigglestein for putting Citizen Kane on his top 10 list, embarrassing himself and showing his lack of film knowledge. Ryus compares putting Citizen Kane on a top 10 objective films of all time list to putting Sgt Pepper or Pet Sounds on a top 10 albums of all time list (ironically proving Bigglestein's point as most music critics with any sort of integrity would only exclude those two albums from a top 10 list just to be an edgy contrarian). Bigglestein easily trounces Ryus in the cyber battle another win for the Biggle Boys.

### 7-31-20

* Bigglestein posts the GREAT WAR UPDATE 2 Thread where he proposes three different flags for the Biggle Boys.
* ChoccyPhilly throws his hat in the war as a new faction, the **United Chocolate States**. Currently unaligned, said he will join the winning side and claim victory.
* Hodenfresser joins the Biggle Boys

### 8-1-20

* Bigglestein posts a scathing review of the BTS album Map of the Soul:7 which criticises not just BTS but their sinister and capitalist orgins. Despite a majority of the comments praising Bigglestein, the review is neg bombed by a legion of BTS stans in addition to the Dark Army.
* SPRFanof5H posts an apology to JefferyBigglestein on barry000's Neon Tree's review.

### 8-2-20

* Third Sputnik Times is published, here Bigglestein responds to BTS stans, threatening them to stay out of the war.[8]
* The Biggle Boys unveil their flag.
* Sinternet offers truce[9], Bigglestein says he will accept if Sinternet formally surrenders.

### 8-3-20

* A BTS Army member, Maitad makes an account to post a multi-paragraph rebuttal to Bigglestein's BTS review. She is promptly clowned on by the rest of Sputnilk.
* Bigglestein's review gains traction on twitter as BTS Stans find it and get pissed, multiple BTS stans make accounts to attack Bigglestein [10]
* Bigglestein declares war on BTS [11]. Memes are unleashed upon BTS and their stans as a part of the fourth meme monday. General perception of the Bigglestein account begins to improve as Biggle Haters attack the BTS invaders and various pro-Bigglestien posts are made sitewide.
* Sinternet reveals the dark army's flag and rescinds his offer of truce.
* The Biggle Boys see a massive surge in popularity. Log S, DaHound, lucman, and kalkwiese all join the Biggle Boys.
* Biggle Truther ArsMoriendi announces he will defect from the Biggle Truthers and join the Biggle Boys if JefferyBigglestein gives a "not cringe" review to Love's Secret Domain by Coil.
* Stans hack into DavezillaMP3's account posting a pro-BTS list and other BTS propaganda.
* Costofnothing posts the first chapter of The Great Spuntik War, and he is subsequently admitted to the Biggle Boys.

### 8-4-20

* Bigglestein posts another anti-BTS review, garnering even more positive support as the pos ratio after the first 10 ratings is 8 pos's, 2 neg's.
* The Great War Update 3 list is posted, with more Pro-War propaganda included.
* JefferyEPBigglestein and OperationBigglestein join the site. More alts made by the Dark Army in an attempt to deter the Biggle Boys momentum.
* Costofnothing posts the second chapter of The Great Spuntik War
* LeddSledd promoted to Lieutenant General of the Biggle Boys

### 8-5-20

* Bigglestein posts a review of Mac Miller's Swimming. The review starts out with a 3 pos's in a row, bumping Bigglestein's approval rating to a record high 45%. gets neg bombed by the Dark Army alts as pos ratings go from 3/3 to 3/7 within a 5 minute period, dropping it down to 43%. However the Biggle Boys rally, bringing the review to a 8/12 and 44%. Another wave of alts attack as the review goes back down to 8/16. More accusations of vote manipulation by the Dark Army swirl. Biggle Boys take this review as further evidence of Dark Army breaking site rules.

### 8-6-20

* Bigglestein detractor coldheaven gives his first ever pos to a Bigglestein review, the BTS Love Yourself review. [12] This would be important as it would be one of the first notable times that a detractor admitted a Bigglestein victory (usually the detractors try to downplay Biggle Boys' achievements)

### 8-7-20

* SunnyDBazloofJoofASS and GutsOnDekk alts made, both making lists attacking JefferyBigglestein (as well as LeddSledd, SowingSeason, and Jom)
* SunnyDBazloofJoofASS and GutsOnDekk revealed to be Sach alts. Sach had an argument with himself then either logged off/got banned from the Guts account and used the Sunny account to attack Jeffery. Sunny's motives would seem to shift, at first rallying people to ignore Jeffery, then later saying "it's fun to fuck with you and give ur wiki content bro". These disparities would lead to him being destroyed by Jeffery in a cyber battle.
* DoctorGerald, MilitaryGerald alts pop up too although these alts weren't made specifically for the Great War having been around since 2013 and being used sparingly.
* Discussion heats up on Sputnik as 6 of the top 8 posts at one point are just threads discussing Bigglestein [13]
* SunnyDBazloofJoofASS, GutsOnDekk, JefferyEPBigglestein, DoctorGerald, militarygerald all banned. Huge win for the Biggle Boys.

### 8-8-20

* A nuclear bomb is dropped on the Dark Army. OperationBigglestein banned AND all his content wiped, and JefferyBigglestein receives his first feature with his review of Video Age's new album, Pleasure Line. This event would be dudded the "Biggle Bomb".
* The Dark Army refuses to give in as another anti-Bigglestein alt, zkAOR, is made.
* ArsMoriendi joins the Biggle Boys
* ArsMoriendi leaves the Biggle Boys after Ryus convinces him to do so.

### 8-10-20

* Bigglestein posts a comic book depicting the events of the Biggle Bomb. This would see positive reviews, especially due to most of Bigglestein's detractors being banned or defeated.
* Tranth joins the Biggle Boys.

### 8-11-20

* Sinternet posts and quickly deletes a list announcing his surrender. Sint cites the Biggle Bomb and the continous losses as the reasons for defeat.
* JefferyBigglestein posts the "SWEET SWEET VICTORY" thread proclaiming victory.

### 9-8-20

* Sinternet banned for calling Jom a "cracker ass heroin shooter" and begging Jom to ban Gyromania.

### 9-23-20

* The ghost of sinternet seen haunting Sputnikmusic. (sinternet unbanned after two weeks)

## Citations

* 1 - https://imgur.com/a/eMOSwXG
* 2 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1215646&listid=192558
* 3 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1215646&listid=192590
* 4 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?mode=1&listid=192640#comments
* 5 - https://i.imgur.com/BFqbNEt.png
* 6 - https://i.imgur.com/A7F0ERq.png
* 7 - https://i.imgur.com/iyd06gD.png
* 8 - https://i.imgur.com/D8dtVOc.png
* 9 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=81427&page=21#comments
* 10 - https://imgur.com/a/iiC6iod
* 11 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=192812
* 12 - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=81860&page=2#comments
* 13 - https://i.imgur.com/skXlB38.png