I.R.O.N.I.C Age

## Overview

The **I.R.O.N.I.C Age**, also known as **Spring-Summer 2018**, was a historical period in the Surreal Memes Wiki lasting approximately 10 weeks, from late May to early August 2018. Although there were no active admins during this period, it was a relatively peaceful time with conflict and vandalism being rare in comparison to the two eras before and after it, namely Spring 2018 and the Age of Chaos.

## Summary

During this time, I.R.O.N.I.C experienced the peak of its power and began to act not only as a partisan organization but also as the wiki’s de facto government. During May and June, I.R.O.N.I.C’s member count went from only a few to the upper 20s. Orangists, having suffered many losses in their wars with I.R.O.N.I.C back in the spring, were basically defeated for now, and major Orangist attacks were few and far between though many Orangists themselves remained.

It was during the I.R.O.N.I.C age that many now prominent users, such as SANTACLAWS joined the wiki and slowly rose to importance. The size of the wiki’s community was also growing and the amount of pages was increasing faster, past 200. Page spam wasn’t a serious problem at this point, but it would still become a source of controversy.

Epicfailer0, along with his brother Milostevealready, both semi-important members of I.R.O.N.I.C, were making pages about things that didn’t actually exist in the surreal memes universe. RonTheGuy, another I.R.O.N.I.C member, felt the need to vandalize these pages due to their lack of canonity, leading to some drama between them.

Epicfailer and Milo “scronched” RonTheGuy before PoseidonHeir got involved. Since RonTheGuy had legitimate reasons for vandalizing the pages, he was unscronched. The drama started the first discussion of fanon pages in the wiki, and to deal with the problem a non-canon category was created, since with no actual admins, the pages couldn’t be deleted.

On July 22nd, 2018, famous surreal memer BagelBoy released Riddle of the Rocks 2 approximately 3 months late. The video featured the ultimate battle of Meme Man and Orang, the release of the Omniscronchulon, and most importantly, Orang apologising and joining Meme Man’s side at the end. This created a divide between the Orangists, and split them into two groups: Unifist Orangists and Seperatist Orangists, while they had previously just been Seperatists.

The Unifists accepted Orang’s choice to apologise and chose to trust both Orang and Meme Man. Although few in numbers, they were peaceful and trustworthy. Then there were the Seperatists, who believed Meme Man was untrustworthy no matter what and that they should continue vandalizing, even though Riddle of the Rocks 2 proved this wrong. Despite their lack of logic, they were still a threat even though they hadn’t attacked the wiki since May.

The I.R.O.N.I.C age has been peaceful, with very little vandalism or major conflict. This peace wouldn’t last much longer, though, as on August 7th, 2018, both DeLoominarty and CheeseDestructor would start separate massive vandal attacks and as a result, the Surreal Memes Wiki would be chaotic for months to come. While the I.R.O.N.I.C age was largely bright and peaceful, the following Age of Chaos would one of the most, if not the most, trying time for the wiki.