The Splitting of the Subreddit

## 10/13/2017 - Incident

The original sub, r/Manga\_Collection had a strict no porn or ecchi content rule. As a new member, Antoine posted a small haul which included "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness". His post was removed by main subreddit moderator, Puffy\_Vulva, and he was banned from the community for two weeks.

After the ban was up, on 10/13/2017, he made a collection post joking about the incident. The post was locked, but not before stirring up indignation from regulars in the community.

Nexus makes a new haul thread with a flippant censoring of the same manga volume and that post is removed by subreddit minimod Wesker. A thread is also made calling for the removal of the rule and implementation of reddit's NSFW tagging feature. In the discord server (created by GwJ on 9/26/2017 without Puffy\_vulva's endorsement or approval) there is heated discussion on the topic.

Puffy\_Vulva refuses to update the sub rules and instead offers to, rather than a blanket ecchi ban, possibly allow suggestive content provided there is absolutely no nudity. This compromise was deemed unsatisfactory.

JoshDecent sends a PM to GwJ entitled 'cock-gobbling moderator' attempting to gauge interest in creating a new subreddit.

JoshDecent and Cholaster join the discord.

Discussion begins centering around subreddit mod Puffy\_Vulva's inactivity on the platform in addition to his hypocrisy and abrasive attitude towards discussion in the reddit thread comments.

## 10/14/2017 - Waiting

JoshDecent posts a thread to the sub asking Puffy\_Vulva to hand off control because he isn't active.

Wesker joins the discord server. He says he was only enforcing the set rules in his position as moderator and was incapable of altering them against Puffy\_Vulva's wishes. He encourages further dialogue rather than letting active members splinter off into a new sub and offers to try to persuade Puffy\_Vulva to ease the NSFW restrictions:

> 'I will try to persuade him that covers with suggestive themes should be fine if the NSFW tag has been placed as long as it isn't overly inappropriate. Like don't expect covers with people having sex, even if not much skin is showing and if you think nudity on covers with underage girls should be allowed, then you're fighting a losing battle.'
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The members of the discord wait to see if any results comes of this.

## 10/15/2017 - MangaCollectors

Puffy\_Vulva makes it clear to Wesker that he will not be budging and Wes encourages moving forward with the new subreddit, boycotting, and starting fresh.

GwJ creates the new subrettit r/MangaCollectors. A goal is made to have active mods that participate in the community they run and a rule set and automod are quickly created. Messages are also sent out to active members from the old sub inviting them to join.

## 10/20/2017 - Puffy Responds

Members of MangaCollectors continue sending invitations to the new sub in dm to users on Reddit up to this point and start getting complaints of spam.

The new sub is addressed publicly for the first time in a thread on r/manga\_collection titled 'The last mention of this drama: for those being spammed with messages'. In it he rakes Wesker over the coals for his participation in the events and unfairly places blame on him for the fallout. (Unfortunately this content is no longer viewable as the subreddit has since been privatized and contents of the post cannot be verified)

Nexus agrees that the spam was out of line and asks the members in the discord server to lay off the pm invites and sends Puffy\_Vulva a message apologizing for the spam and asking for civility and positivity for the two subs operating as separate entities going forward.

Following Puffy's post, Wesker is demodded and banned from the original subreddit for sending out the invites while still still an acting moderator there. Wesker deletes his manga preservation guide from the sidebar as well as his other posts.

Cholaster also retaliates by removing his konbini ban guide from r/manga\_collection and instead linking the new subreddit in it's place.

NSFW content discussion on r/manga\_collection featuring Puffy\_Vulva being insufferableWesker banned from original subreddit after spamming invited to people encouraging them to join the new sub.