Jessestorm

The **Ulyssesstorm** was a brief but notable shitstorm that occurred on October 13th, 2015, where multiple Taggers pretended to be Ulysses, with the more than successful intention of pissing the man off.

## Background

The infamous and enigmatic First Generation Tagger known only as Ulysses has a well-known hatred for most things and most people. His squabbles with many Taggers big and small are often remembered in the history books of Tagger lore. However, his hatred for the relatively small Tagger known as L'Étranger would spark this shitstorm, where the latter's attempt to annoy the former spiraled out of control into an orgy of clones and identity crises.

## The Ulyssesstorm

On October 13th, 2015, L'Étranger would rename himself to Ulysses and post a two item set titled "Message for the Community", making it seem like Ulysses (probably the most highly-regarded tagger at the time) would be addressing the community in some way. However, it was revealed to be an "It was me, Dio!" joke, where Tranger would reveal his true identity. It was a simple attempt at a joke and to piss Ulysses off, but things quickly grew bigger than Tranger would ever imagine. TGRobert would soon follow in Tranger's footsteps and rename himself to Ulysses as well, commenting on L'ÉUlyssesr's set to showcase this. CP would soon follow and do the same. UlyssesP would then make another Tag pretending to be Ulysses, to which L'ÉUlyssesr would soon respond to with another tag. Legownz would express his confusion at it all before joining in on the fun himself. The quartet would continue posting various Big Menn on Campuses and commenting on them to confuse people. Walumancer would eventually join in as well, though he only posted one tag. Shortly after, people caught on to what was going on and notified the man that was being copied, who was not to happy to hear of it, to say the least.

What followed was Ulysses messaging each of the five clones on Steam and demanding that they cease all Ulysses-ing. These totally formal, reasonable requests were accompanied by various detailed and very specific threats of violence, which often included something to do with the copycat's spine. The only surviving message from these threats was a snippet from his message to Tranger, the man who started it all: ""Fucking off yourself, you miserable waste of organs and tissue." The five would read the warnings and wisely follow the angry tagger's instructions, returning to their original names. The Ulyssesstorm had came and went in the span of an hour and a half.

## The Aftermath

Following the totally ordinary threats, the five clones returned their names to normal. Tranger claimed that killing him would be pointless and that Hell doesn't even want him, while Walumancer attempted to shamelessly steal the copyright for the shitstorm's name, which Tranger himself had come up with. Following this, the other taggers began to make their reactions to this entire ordeal.

Crimson Blitz began with a set of five jokes surrounding the Ulyssesstorm, which was received positively. Mr. Copycat would then make a tag claiming that some of these jokes were good, but was missed to hell due to most believing he directed those comments at the Ulyssesstorm itself, rather than Crimson's set. Qror would make a tag commenting on the Ulyssesstorm in a rare moment of interacting with site drama, and Marmot soon followed, wondering what the fuck was going on in the previous hours. Relk Cehi said he had no words to describe any of it. TGR would comment on all of these, aggressively trying to get everyone to move along, as there was nothing to see there. Some random tagger named Radar O'Reilly attempted to rename the situation into the "Jesshattan Project" but was quickly and overwhelmingly denied. Ulysses himself would finally appear and address the situation, claiming he didn't remember the previous four hours and had no idea what was going on. That night, Expand would make a TF2Tags Nightly News Network set that mentioned the Ulyssesstorm as a highlight. Following this set, the shortest and yet still devastating shitstorm had finally and completely passed over TF2Tags.

## Gallery

Note that originally L'Étranger, TGRobert, CP, Legownz, and Walumancer were all named "Ulysses" at the time of posting.