End of TeenagersGaming

Group of players that gathered at the Spawn Museum the night prior

At 10AM Eastern Time on December 30, 2021, r/Teenagers Community Director Vilhu announced that the TeenagersGaming branch of the r/Teenagers Discord server would be shutting down until further notice. At the time of the announcment, there were five hours remaining until the Minecraft server as well as all TG related servers and Discord channels would go offline or be deleted. This announcement would explain why the BuyCraft website went offline weeks before.

Players that were banned throughout TG's lifespan were unbanned to enjoy the last moments, including DDoSer whippper and members of Gentry Island. TG mods turned off protections, allowing players to grief and explode spawn and other popular landmarks thorughout the server. Revelations also occurred, with exgodstatus revealing that they were an alt of OGBUBBY. The server peaked at nearly 70 players, before the server was abruptly closed by Vilhu without warning an hour and a half before the scheduled closure. At 3PM Eastern, all Discord channels were deleted as scheduled, though Wuzado archived #minecraft and released the files on his Discord server.

## Cheese\_Addict's Message to the Community

Before retiring, Cheese\_Addict released the Teenagers Gaming Transparency Report, a document pertaining moderator logs showing how Vilhu dismissed pleads and alternatives by numerous mods, attempting to seek an alternative or compromise to the speedy removal of TeenagersGaming. These mod leaks would be the basis for major backlash against Vilhu and Discord mods for their lack of transparency and unprofessionalism.

## Vilhu's Announcement on #announcements

Hey @Announcements and @TeenagersGaming,

As we all know, nothing can last forever - not even the best things. That's why I'm sad to announce that we're sunsetting our gaming branch, TeenagersGaming, starting today.

TeenagersGaming has been a part of the r/teenagers Discord since 2019, and it has seen a lot of changes: from different categories getting added and removed to opening the official Minecraft server. A *lot* of us have had great memories with gaming-related events and I'm so happy we've been able to provide that for such a large audience. More importantly, I'm glad to have had the opportunity to work with such a wonderful team of mods who've made all of this possible. They deserve a bigger thank you than I can even describe.

However, it's now in the community's best interest to remove the subcommunity-like structure, and focus on integrating gaming more to r/teenagers as a whole. We'll try our best to fill in the void that's left by TG: this server will still have a gaming-related channel(s), and the subreddit will welcome gaming-related content even more than before to compensate r/teenagersgaming's shutdown. Changes to the server will be implemented within the next couple of days.

"*But what will happen to the game servers?*" They will be shut down on December 30, 2021 3:00 PM. "*But I liked playing on the servers!*" We know! While there are no concrete plans for 2022 yet, new iterations of the game servers are definitely possible, as the servers have been very popular. "*What about our donations?*" I know this is an important question for a lot of you, but unfortunately I can't go into specifics of the financials behind server upkeep, so I'll keep it at a general level. The vast majority of donations have gone directly to cover server hosting (note: ~70€-100€ per month alone). In addition to that, donations are used to cover licenses and other fees (i.e. domains, plugins, software, taxes). Payment handlers also charge a small fee per donation. **However, if a new game server is opened in the future, your current donation perks will carry over.**

Thanks for the memories <3

- r/teenagers mods

## Gallery

MelonMints was mentioned in TG's final log message before going offlineOGBUBBY prints out Cheese's transparency report and creates a makeshift bookStartshow declaring his canonnical Gayness, he also used this as his popupA Photo of SussyLarge.
## External Sources

* TG Transparency Report by Cheese\_Addict
	+ Mirror on archive.org
* TG Discord Channels Dump by Wuzado
	+ Mirror on archive.org
* sigma\_turbine's recording of TG's final minutes
* Cooopl's folder of last day pictures