Vandal Ages

The Vandal Ages were the most anarchic period in the SMW's history, where there were no active users with given powers to keep the Surreal Memes Wiki in order. As a result, the majority of vandal attacks and conflicts happened during this time. This chaotic era is considered the darkest age in the Surreal Memes Wiki's history, but it still saw the formation of I.R.O.N.I.C and the release of ROTR2, among other things.

## Spring 2018 (The Rise of Orangists)

* This was around March to April of 2018, when users such as Kyleroo and PoseidonHeir were very active. Some problems had grown by now, though. The SMW was becoming less secure. Vandals would attack soon, and Nullatrum had not bothered to put anyone else in a position of power, and he started to go inactive. His last known message was to a few other users talking about how the SMW was becoming inactive, and that they needed to work together to help it grow again. However, he never talked again after that, and he went inactive, and since no other authorities existed, the Surreal Memes Wiki was out of order completely open to vandal attacks.

* And vandal attacks began. Around this time, PoseidonHeir also noticed what a threat Orang was in the Surreal Memes videos. Apparently, there was some propaganda found in the Orang page, which said he was the true hero of Surreal Memes. Also, a few anonymous users started posting Orangist and Pillarist propaganda in the comments of some articles. These were the earliest Orangist/Pillarist encounters.

* PoseidonHeir informed everyone of the Orang propaganda in the page, and enlisted the help of fellow user Kyleroo to track down the users, and they created a thread to do it, which is now ancient and has hundreds of messages. Also, the user Grand Pillar showed up around this time, claiming to be Grand Pillar Cl'egius. He initially attacked PoseidonHeir and Kyleroo, in the form of roleplay on the thread, but it did turn out that the Pillar Lord was controlling him, and left, so the Grand Pillar turned good. Eventually, ApertureEmployee427 found the page and corrected the false information.

* After these events, Orangist sightings were becoming a bit more common. One particular anonymous user stood out. This one nicknamed himself Fandom 666, and he vandalized some articles with Orangist propaganda. At the time, no one could block this vandal, since the only SMW authority (Nullatrum) was inactive by then. Users like PoseidonHeir, Kyleroo and Grand Pillar worked together to fight him, but they couldn't stop him because of this, though they could revert his vandalism. Fandom 666 also made a user account called KylerC123, which is what he is known today.

* PoseidonHeir became very concerned though, and he needed a better way to fight against KylerC123 and some other Orangists who sided with him. He founded the famous I.R.O.N.I.C organization (which worshipped Meme Man, Orang's main enemy) to fight Orangists, and started recruiting members around the SMW. This organization became popular quickly, yet KylerC123 and his cronies were resilient and continued their constant attacks. This was the beginning of the first war between I.R.O.N.I.C and the Orangists.

* In April, KylerC123 told users he planned an event called the Great Orang Movement on May 28, in which he would completely obliterate the Surreal Memes Wiki in the name of Orang. However, this would later be called the First Great Orang Movement as two more would follow much later. By May, KylerC123 claimed he was no longer KylerC123, but Orang himself, who had taken over his account. He also told users on May 25th, as opposed to the other date of 28th. It was unknown which of the two dates the First Great Orang Movement would actually occur on.

* However, it didn't matter, because at this point, KylerC123's attacks were becoming rare and dated, as he seemed to be losing interest. I.R.O.N.I.C was having many victories, and seemed to have contained most threats. At some point, KylerC123 must've given up entirely and moved on, as he stopped doing anything. Days passed, and nothing happened on either May 25th or May 28th. I.R.O.N.I.C had already won, and that concluded the first war between I.R.O.N.I.C and the Orangists. KylerC123 would be blocked later on, unable to do any more harm.
* The SMW was very happy about their great victory against the Orangists. PoseidonHeir took it upon himself to act as if he were the SMW's leader, despite not having any roles of authority, he began to direct the Surreal Memes Wiki, and most Wiki users followed his orders out of respect. He was also a major contributor by this point. However, even though KylerC123 had given up, there were still Orangists out there, who made a few notable attacks on the Wiki. However, they were outnumbered and defeated by I.R.O.N.I.C usually, so the Wiki was fine for a while. At some point in March, the vandal known as DeLoominarty had shown up, but he was mostly a meme and wasn't as important, though he was still an annoying vandal.

## Age of I.R.O.N.I.C.

* It was around the transition from Spring to Summer 2018 that a lot of the current active users on the Wiki started showing up, such as S A N T A C L A W S and GammaRaul. PoseidonHeir was still very active, but a couple other users had begun to go a bit inactive, such as Kyleroo, who would still sometimes do things, but was much more busy with their external life, and of course, Nullatrum had been long since inactive.

* But even though there was little protection from vandalism at the time, the early summer of 2018 was a relatively good time for the SMW. I.R.O.N.I.C had grown to the peak of its power and influence over the Wiki, and was now able to successfully keep it guarded, and as a result, there was very little conflict.

* Many major events happened to the Wiki during the length of Summer, particularly August. On July 22, 2018, "Riddle Of The Rocks 2" was released by Bagelboy, in which Orang pledged to the Council of the Ancients to no longer perform malice. Also around this time, a Wiki account called AllMightyOrang claiming to be Orang himself arrived and also pledged to the Wiki that he had become good, and was now sided with Meme Man and the good users. He was doubted at first,but the Wiki users, including I.R.O.N.I.C, were moderately accepting of him. Some were suspicious, but he ended up good after all.

* This created a divide between the Orangists. Of course, the Orangists always worshipped Orang, and hated Meme Man, but only because Orang hated him too. But now that the supposed Orang had sided with Meme Man, some of them believed that Meme Man could now be trusted because Orang had switched to his side. These particular Orangists were always loyal to Orang and his decisions. These became known as Unifist-Orangists, and although few in numbers, these users were friendly to the Wiki and were completely peaceful,now loving both Orang and Meme Man.

* And then, there were the other, more evil Orangists. They declared Meme Man to be evil no matter what, even though the supposed Orang had sided with him. Some of them considered the AllMightyOrang account to be fake, and that the real Orang still hated Meme Man. However, even if that were true, the real Orang had still pledged to the Council to be good in ROTR2. Despite their lack of logic, these Orangists continued to hate Meme Man, and were still threats to the SMW. They became known as Separatist-Orangists. Thus, Orangism was divided into two categories. Upon taking note of these new events, I.R.O.N.I.C reformed to be less hostile to Orangists overall, and be moderately accepting to Unifist-Orangists, and mainly go after Separatist-Orangists, as they were the threats now.

Combatants:

ALLIES

- Meme Man

- Nullatrum (inactive shortly after the beginning of the Vandal Ages)

- PoseidonHeir

- Kyleroo

- I.R.O.N.I.C

   ENEMIES

- KylerC123

- DeLoominarty

- All the other vandals