Nejby

"I'm Nejby"

**A Nejby Story - Told by Mustache Walrus**

Nejby is a prolifically known user that remains to be one of my favorites from the entire server. From his brash responses, to his pure understanding what is narratively appropriate to make a moment worth remembering, to his amateur but well though out art style, direction and characters, he is simply an unseen prodigy making good art. Though he's early in his career as a content creator, I have high hopes that with the right support he can blow the world away with his quirky personality

**Chapter 1**

I remember the first day I saw him in the discord server. I was trying to draw The Voice In Your Head on bunch of stuff and make that a meme, because duh, that's how memes work obviously, and as I was looking for good images to edit in the chat title #general\_images and I found this fantastic post. "Trying a make new meme"

The character was his own original Borys Jeleń, the image was an off color concept like any other SiivaGunner meme and I thought it was bound to be an instant hit, so I went with it and made my own edit, later pinging him with this picture and the phrase "No weep shit" (because Borys had transformed into The Voice In Your Head)

Nejby was quite overjoyed that someone had noticed his work since he was new to the server, and reposted that edit a few times, but mutually I was excited that someone was excited about something I made, so he would continue to make more Borys Jeleń drawings and I would make more borys edits like these.

Admittedly, Nejbys work does not have a lot technical skill, but what makes me drawn to his ideas is their sincerity. They are easy to break down, fundamentally correct, poignant thoughts, that have deeper meaning in what it means to be a fan and an artist, and while some young artists can achieve that, he is one of the very few that does his own thing.

I'm certain he is aware that he is not at the level of experience that some of his peers are, but his persistent endeavor through is proof that all of that might just not matter since experience is just a factor of time. Nejby's story is about the path less taken and having the ability to direct your own life to what hasn't been done before and achieve greatness.

Keeping on that idea, Nejby has always been very different than a lot of the community, leading him to have difficulty fitting in. Being a resident of Poland, English had been a second language to him, often making him struggle to express himself with other users. This toppled with his inexperience to deal with the occasional teasing of it would lead him to get frustrated with himself and trash out at others. This would become a destructive cycle as more users would become aware of his situation and get annoyed with his behavior, leading to more trash outs, one of which would eventually get him banned from the server.

This event was overwhelmingly upsetting for Nejby, not just because the act of being banished, regardless of being warranted, hurts, but also because he so desperately wanted to be accepted by the group he was now isolated from, so in an act of desperation Nejby made the dumbest but absolutely greatest decision so far and took that path less taken to make "Siivacord but with Nejby"

Now this server was an absolute duplicate of the one he was banned from, because logically if you can't join the server, you might as well clone your own. But a duplicate server is not a complete copy unless you invite everyone you knew from the original, ...so he went ahead and did that. When I got invited, I was on board. It had 15 users and there was no harm to be had, I just thought it was him keeping his connections with the friends he made on siiva, but 15 would soon become 100 within hours, ...which is *manageable* if every user on the server doesn't get admin perms, but some how that oversight was made as well.

After the first 100 @everyone notifications, I deducted that not all thing were well in nejbycord.

It was in full raid mode and the pings were going crazy. People who didn't get invited in by Nejby were soon getting word about the server and asking for invites as well and it just escalated. All the original channels were deleted, new channel with names of profanities were being made, dumb absurdist images were being spammed in all of them, tts messages of racially insensitive terms were being broadcasted, @everyones and @heres were being posted by the thousand, and most importantly, everyone was having a blast.

...well except nejby.

It wasn't unreasonable for him to be upset. From his perspective, which likely was correct, the crowd was laughing at him, not with him. Personally I believe if he owned the situation and let thing progress naturally with out interference or joined in on the fun, that night might of turned out better for him, but his just as valid decision to yell at everyone and ban them all (including myself) from the server was fine too.

A lot of people felt sorry for Nejby after that, he did make some bad mistakes to have himself ostracized from everyone, but it was pretty obvious he wasn't completely the bad guy, but things were kind of set in stone in Siivacord. He was banned, and the consensus on that was final, but that didn't mean he couldn't be part of any of other splinter groups around Siiva and when the degenerates of Vvvvvavvvvvvr got word about Nejby and what happen, a lot of them welcomed him with open arms. In fact Nejby became a psudo-community-celebrity for a moment, people made rips about him and Borys Jeleń, and he got his own role. This is one of my favorites https://youtu.be/6I0rAXJLz5s

But then again, pretty much as quickly as it started, all good things had to come to an end, for the common enjoyment of Nejby had quickly dwindled down due to issues similar to the SiivaGunner Discord, like his frustration with communication and being made fun of, leaving him to be isolated from the community once again.

It's been a year since these events and things are looking bright. We're still friends, and from what I've seen he's doing very well now. The work he has put out has definitely put a smile on my face, but maybe I'm delusional, you can only determine the value of my opinion through your own observations, so take a hard look yourself. I just think it would be nice if he could be reconsidered for the server, time moves on and people change, and being he's a good friend, it would nice to see him there.

**Epilogue**

 I truly think he's great, and he keeps getting greater

That why he should have a day to run Siivagunner.

Borys Jeleń Playlist