Chromebooks Are Trash Sickness

In late 2022, Chromebooks Are Trash, a member of the Neon Council reportedly fell ill with an unknown illness in their real life. It has affected The Watching Eyes operations.

## Background

Chromebooks lashed out at My Mixed Biscuit in October 2022 whilst he was complaining about a vote on a raid taking far longer than expected in the IPA group-chat. Biscuit was the overseer of TWE for much of 2021, a time when the group was mostly inactive.

Later that month, on the 24th October, Chromebook left the IPA group-chat and gave Biscuit an ultimatum of having to add a discord user by the name of Delicious Mint Tea and then "fuck off". Their conduct confused other TWE members, as expressed in the IPA group-chat. Delicious Mint Tea was not immediately added until Chromebooks took the initiative of adding him, before crowning him overseer and transferring ownership - a move which was shunned by other members of The Neon Council.

## Sickness

Very little is known about their actual illness, however it is said to be serious and potentially life-threatening. Chromebooks is known to be a secretive internet user in general, so details are sparse. Chromebooks elaborated in a message released in the general channel stating that they would have to "put TWE on hold" as their health "has recently begun to deteriorate heavily" and they "could actually fucking die." Chromebooks also stated that they would "try to hang on as long as I can." The cause of the illness or disease is unknown. On the 28th November, Chromebooks made a possible return as a member of The Neon Council after a major case opened up, saying "Fuck it. Gimme details."

It was later revealed around December by CAT that the illness was terminal, with no further details. In March 2023, Glitch declared that the illness may have been severe enough to actually kill CAT, and this was believed for around a month, until 11th April 2023. CAT typed 3 messages in #general on The Watching Eyes discord server, which read: I am alive. I do not want to be. But I am.

This triggered renewed discussion surrounding CAT and their illness in #general, it was revealed DaBaby was not aware of their illness and somehow the discussions regarding from 6 months prior was something he had missed. Glitch, CAT's closest friend, publicly responded, saying, "Hey. You ok?" As of 12th April, CAT has not responded.

## Consequences

The major consequences of Chromebooks illness were the sudden shifts in power. Goose was formally the Overseer but wasn't highly involved, with Mixed Biscuit serving as a de-facto leader in late 2022, it was presumed that Glitch, the founder, kept ownership of the Discord server for The Watching Eyes. Most members did not know that Chromebooks was the one that actually had ownership of the Discord server, and thus had the power to delete the server. Chromebooks transferred ownership to Delicious Mint Tea and gave him the overseer role, officially crowning him as overseer. He repeatedly cursed in the general chat, intimidating other members and prompting a serious discussion in the IPA group-chat regarding his ability to serve as overseer, and more importantly, how easily he could delete the server at a whim. Admist the instability, Duderinow offered to stay in the server and "keep an eye out" on the situation.

News broke of their illness when Chromebooks are Trash lost their account to a ban from Discord administrators, this meant that other members assumed nobody could contact them or Chromebooks wouldn't reach out. Glitch - being a friend of Chromebooks - had a discussion with Delicious Mint Tea in The Neon Council channel where they discerned details of what happened.

   In the discussion which occurred on the 5th November, 9 days after Chromebooks first disappeared, Glitch and Mint had a discussion about Chromebooks. Mint made bold threats of deleting the server and asked to see proof of the relationship between Glitch and Chromebooks, revealing details of their life which Glitch later offered to keep secret in their reunion some 10 days later. Vague accusations were made that someone in The Watching Eyes reported Chromebooks which resulted in their account suspension. It was known there was a possibility that Chromebooks would never be able to return or reach out due to Discord's ban system, however they eventually did return later in November 2022 confirming that they are sick and their heath has begun to deteriorate. They also stated that Delicious MInt Tea "was a good lad" but "followed orders too damn hard" revealing that Chromebooks handed ownership to Mint making him vow to "not let the server die", but also gave him permission to delete it as a last-resort should something happen and Chromebooks would never return. The disappearance spanned only 19 days however brought an unwanted power-vacuum with it. Once they did return in early November, stability was mostly restored as Chromebooks was now present to moderate the situation.

On the 9th November 2022, Yeetus suggested in the IPA group-chat to allow Mint to remain Overseer as he was not actively doing harm to The Watching Eyes. As of 2023, ownership remains within the hands of Mint with no active effort to retrieve it, though various plans have been discussed but hindered due to them potentially being illegal. The lack of urgency surrounding the case currently can be attributed to the fact that CAT revealed mint was locked out of his account, so he can't do harm either way, which is why he was not responding to earlier messages. Recently, some IPA members have still expressed discontent that ownership of the TWE Discord server is not within their hands.