TF2Tags Nightly News Network

The **TF2Tags Nightly News Network** (often shortened as **TF2Tags [Nightly] News** or abbreviated as **TF2[NN]N**) was the signature series of the Expand account, assumed (but not confirmed) to have been created by either Julius or Sherri. It was a meta series that reported on the contemporary events on TF2Tags, whether that be the latest shitposter, the latest person to reach Hale's Own, a wave of missbombs, or whatever general community drama was going on at the time. The series ran officially from August 21st, 2015 to April 19th, 2016, but has continued on by various taggers to this day.

## History

The TF2Tags Nightly News Network originally started as a recurring joke by Expand during The Banning of AFI, and as such the first six TF2NN entries cover it extensively. During this time, Expand created a Steam group for the TF2Tags Nightly News Network, where news would occasionally be shared outside the site. The day immediately following the conclusion of the drama was when infamous tagger L'Étranger would return to the site and begin his infamous George Incident, which sparked up controversy that Expand simply had to latch on to. The Expand account would make two more news sets based upon the George Incident before taking the series on hiatus.

TF2NN would return the following month on September 15th to report on some missbombers and the new Weeaboo War being waged between Tranger and TGRobert. Another news report would be made on September 26th, and then another on the 30th.

Starting October 13th, during the aftermath of the Jessestorm, Expand would begin to make regular reports at rates of either every day or every other day. This constant activity would continue on for the remainder of the year. During that time, Expand covered numerous events and trends, such as Epic Rap Battles of TF2, the Disappearance of Item 100,000, the Taggenings, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, Wrench Wrench, AFI achieving Negative Hale's Own (which Expand calls "Poor and Irish"), and TF2Tags Hunger Games.

After starting off with a New Years Day report in 2016, Expand would take a two and a half week break before returning to report the news again on January 19th, 2016, reporting on things such as CP's Reddit drama and the incident where Kokogumi and others crashed the site by commenting too much. Some speculate that this was potentially where either Julius handed the account over to Sherri or Sherri handed it over to the third person, as following this there was a noticeable change in how Expand talked and typed. Expand would continue regularly reporting for a month, before putting the series on hiatus once again on February 19th after reporting on the Attack of the Clones.

Expand would return for one last stretch of regular news reporting starting March 28th, 2016, reporting on topics such as the return of Timberwoof and the start of the Endiome incident. Expand would make a few more sets within the coming weeks. On April 12th, however, Expand would for the first time make an entire news report exclusively on the Steam group, reporting on Endiome's ban and the recent acclaim of the new series Hon-Hon and Sneky. The next day, Expand announced that they would pretty much be moving all news to the Steam group from now on. The subsequent reports of April 13th, 14th, 16th, and 19th would thus all be housed exclusively on the Steam group. However, the April 19th report would be the last report Expand would make. Announcements would still be made on the group, but none were directly news related. When later asked why they stopped, Expand simply stated that they had gotten bored of doing the news.

Following Expand's retirement, TF2NNN continued to be made on occasion by other taggers who were regular contributors to the series, such as Jesse and Blast.

When TF2Tags successor Tags.tf was launched, TF2NNN was only rarely used throughout 2020 and 2021 with the occasional post using the name. This changed, however, in November of 2021 when resident paint drinker Pain decided to take up the mantle and re-launch it under the new name "Tags.tf Truly Terrific News". This revival was set to be a weekly update over what that week's events entailed, with both news about Tags.tf and TF2 in general. This is currently still ongoing, and probably(?) deserves it's own wiki page. I'm fucking looking at you, Walumancer

## Segments

The TF2NNN reports had several recurring segments that dealt with specific topics.

### Headlines

The headlines were the main chunk of TF2Tags news, where Expand would report on the daily goings-ons of the site and its community. From large, heavy-impact events to smaller, more one-note incidents that got a laugh from some people. A headline would always start each set, with some other stories being sprinkled in throughout if there were any. Many of these headlines would be the announcement of a new missbomber.

### TF2 Updates

These would be updates relating to TF2 itself, whether they be news on incoming updates, new cosmetics, weapon balance changes, or new bits of TF2 lore. These segments sadly got more and more sparse as time went on, on account of TF2's dwindling number of updates.

### Economy

A regular segment since the very beginning, Expand would almost always report on the current state of the TF2 economy, specifically the prices of earbuds and keys. On occasions, Expand would give advice as to what items would be cheap soon or become very valuable soon. This coincides with...

### Item of the Day

Item of the Day was a segment Expand regularly included in their reports starting November of 2015. Expand would highlight a particular weapon/item/taunt and list its price for anyone who may be interested in purchasing the item on the community market or trading for it. During the brief run of Steam group exclusive reports, each price of an item with each possible quality was listed.

### Milestones

Sometimes, Expand would report on Tagger reaching new milestones of their Tagging career. These were usually big numbers, such as Relk surpassing 20,000 total crits, AFI nearing and achieving Negative Hale's Own, or Legownz surpassing Sensible Haircut following the latter's ban. This sometimes had the unintended effect of causing missbombs to stifle the tagger's celebration, however.

### CAH Adverts/Highlights

Expand would often either advertise games of Cards Against Humanity or display highlights from previous games. In what can be considered TF2NNN's sport section, wins and particular funnies would be highlighted and reported to the rest of the site.

### Special Reports

Special reports were essentially the breaking news segments of TF2NNN, where Expand would report on breaking developments that had only just happened or were in the process of happening. These sets would usually be a more detailed report on a single headline, but sometimes they would be formatted like a regular report.

## Reception

Following initial support from Relk, A Fucking Idiot, and TheOnlyGuyEver, Expand would go on to heavily cover the initial event that sparked the running joke in the first place. As time went on and they did more and more reports, the TF2Tags Nightly News Network would become a beloved staple of site lore during its eight-month period of activity, with people regularly praising Expand for keeping them informed and being funny while doing it. TF2NNN would eventually grow to be so popular that it would become something of a site meme, where others would do their own reports under the same name or cover for Expand while they were unavailable. Smash Z and Jesse have both been known to cover for Expand.

Every now and then, however, Expand would get something incorrect, usually with the effected party stating so in the comments of the set. Sometimes Expand would give a correction or retraction, other times these comments would go overlooked and unnoticed. Expand's most noticeable error was when they falsely believed that Sensible Haircut would be unbanned at the end of 2015, misinformation that was repeated quite frequently during 2015. Expand would eventually submit a correction on the Steam group.

## Gallery

8/20/2015: AFI's ban, mocking Tranger, buds tanking.8/21/2015: AFI's ban, Stout Shako price, Relk's birthday, bucket jokes.8/21/2015: AFI's unban, Trager's disappearance, incoming shitstorm vs. CP.8/22/2015: Lull in CP drama, taunt prices, Black Box nerf, Outpost scammers.8/22/2015: Rere promotion, Invasion, Saxxies, Spy v. Engineer, CP's trial.8/23/2015: End of CP drama and recovery, lull in bucket jokes, AWPer Hand price.8/24/2015: Tranger's return and George debacle, economy downturn, Panic attack sucks.8/24/2015: AFI v. George, people complaining about drama, economy recovering, gunslinger still hell.9/2/2015: Jesse murders Makin', Sensible breaks in, Legownz vs. Makin', Tranger returns, shitstorm weather report.9/15/2015: Missbombers, Invasion Update incoming, Weeaboo War, buds recovering, Expand's birthday.9/26/2015: Jesse milestone, TF2Tags Thread Simulator, Missbomber, no drama, economy stable.9/30/2015: Floro Sapiens missbombed, economy stabilizing, wiki info movement, TGR v. Tranger.10/13/2015: Tags without Dr. Dos, economy remains flat, Jessestorm aftermath, decline of bronies, balancing news.10/15/2015: Tranger v. TGR, economy expected to fall, Legownz surpasses Sensible, Jessestorm aftershock.10/16/2015: Engineer v. Spy on hold, SVF bad, TGR missbombed, Filthy Frank surpasses bronies, economy prediction proved true.10/20/2015: Shitpost activity increase, ERB of TF2, buds continue to fall, P1P2 vows to destroy all weebs, site server difficulties.10/24/2015: Jesse suspected of missbombing P1P2, buds fall AGAIN, Fred Fuchs wealth.10/26/2015: Jesse and TOGE v. P1P2, buds bad, drama uptick, mercs do not age, revolving door of eras.10/26/2015: Buds continue to tank, increasing tensions of Jesse/TOGE v. P1P2, expand capitalizes through weapon sales.10/28/2015: RIP buds, peace negotiations fail, Halloween, AFI nearing milestone.10/28/2015: Buds stable now? Scream Fortress, Expand lies, Skeleton Rain.10/31/2015: Conspiracy Theorist  Copycat, buds stabilize, P1P2 and Undertale, TF2 updates.11/1/2015: Soldier hate, Sharp Dresser, TGR drama, buds finally remain stable.11/2/2015: Another wiki info wave, missbomber, Festive Force of Nature, Expand's impartiality challenged.11/3/2015:  Makin' accused of critting AFI, Gaben birthday, Blast's opinions, economy flat, Duck Billed Hatypus, No-fap struggles.11/4/2015: Special report: Tag 100,000 disappearance.11/4/2015: Conga bug patch, Dos returns, CP predicts tag 100,000 incident, Conscientious Objector.11/6/2015: Jesse and Sqwid banned for swears, Bill's Hat, Conspiracy Theorist Copycat, No-fap failures, P1P2 approval increases.11/7/2015: Jesse assassinates Copycat, taunts crash, Dogfighter, meme revival.11/8/2015: Marmot assembles team, Relk activity increase, Bonkspenser Kurt Cobain joke, Conga, local dunking.11/9/2015: Acquiesce returns, Blast calls for Highlander match, time travel on the rise, economy remains stable, Strange Powerjack.11/10/2015: Site up after downtime, Dos attempts coverup, All-Father, Danjin halts economy death spiral.11/11/2015:  Major Problem promotion, contest end incoming, Relk milestone, lull in site creativity, keys up and buds down, Bonedolier.11/12/2015: Relk under fire, Saxxies, P1P2 killed by memes.11/12/2015: AFI close to -7500 milestone, The Taggening, TGR's malware, Oblooterated, CAH.11/13/2015: First Taggening end, Time Travel legislation passed, Hong Kong Cone, Boxing, Smash Z is the entire circus.11/15/2015: Keys up and buds down, Smash gets his own segment, X yourself idiot meme revival, Australium Blutsauger debate, Strange Shotgun.11/16/2015: Smash Z special report. Smash Z wins, Marmot x Blast, Aussie Blutsauger, Borscht Belt11/17/2015: Maximum Overdrive, AFI hits -7500, Legownz requests mods, Second Taggening ends, cheap taunt, new users, Sensible critbombed, Jesse gameshow.11/20/2015: Potential bud increase, CAH, Third Taggening, Old Guadalajara, Cone ad Bucket jokes low.11/21/2015: TGR is a summoner and strangles Marmot who won CAH, Bees, Expand commits suicide 4 times.11/21/2015: Tentacle porn up, Blast explodes, Expand ass, Wrench Wrench.11/23/2015: Special Report: AFI achieves Negative Hale's (referred to as Poor and Irish), buds prediction comes true, Festive Revolver, Snow.11/28/2015: "Original" jokes,  Fancyfucker, slow bud recovery, Walumancer CAH victory, Smash Z attempts Negative Hale's, Expand dies some more, TGR waifus.12/2/2015: Testicular Torsion, Smash loses at Maximum Overdrive joke and CP and Jesse fight for custody, Jesse x Legownz confirmed, Jesse murders the south.12/2/2015: Cards Against Humanity Highlights.12/4/2015: Bonkspenser leads string of AFI impersonators, missbomber, Sensible potential unban, economy continues to rise, Festive Huntsman, P1P2 integrates.12/5/2015: Fancytag hosts, Expand sick, Genuine the Original, buds and keys, Missbombers, Florida weather.12/6/2015: Shitstorm, TGR becomes the enragement child, Hunger Games, economy in flux, Square Dance.12/7/2015: Makin' Bacon substitute, Hunger Games issues.12/8/2015: More clones of taggers, more Hunger Games, more unironic shitposting, more missbombings, more fluctuation in economy, Noh (more) Mercy.12/10/2015: Jesse shot during attempted robbery, deletes self, Legownz attempts to Lee Oswald John Kennedy, recommended music, The B.M.O.C.12/12/2015: Smash CAH victory, P1P2 murdered by Jesse, Jim Carrey to act in P1P2's autobiographic documentary, Maximum Overdrive revival, Expand is HOT.12/17/2015: P1P2 tells TOGE to fuck himself, nerfs, economy falls, Strange Phlogistinator, Tagger drops his soda.12/22/2015: Tagger wins CAH using the art of Edgelord, Expand's ass, Taggers bad with blank cards, The Force Awakens sucked, economy stagnant, Rancho Relaxo.12/25/2015: Influx of new Taggers, shitposting high, economy on holiday break, Festive Ambassador, Expand banned from saying "Merry Christmas".12/28/2015: TGR v. Marmot, many new multi-classes, uptick in KTD tags, Collector's Ali Baba's Wee Booties, CAH game advert.1/1/2016: Until-2016 bans lifted, Jesse to assassinate several taggers, buds increase, Collector's Direct Hit, New Years.1/11/2016: Great Comment Crash, buds, Cold Snap Coat, Weather.1/13/2016: Phlog complaints, Crimson speaks out for Bonkspenser, Tough Stuff Muffs.1/19/2016: Return from 2 week break, CP reddit drama, TGR claims self to be "Cancer Incarnate", Jesse speaks of uncomfortable truths, Strange Bazaar Bargain, Comments crash site.1/23/2016: Snowed in, negative prediction of economy, Strange Kritzkrieg, Wah Master's Jarate, Bonk ripped over KCM.1/25/2016: Expand found dead, TGR sex scandal, barber murder, weather, Collector's Bonk!1/27/2016: Shitposting epidemic, shitstorm war, up in economy, Collector's Solemn Vow, Expand has insomnia.1/28/2016: CAH Highlights.1/29/2016: More CAH Highlights.1/29/2016: Fancy and Le Tryhard Hunter call out bad posts, Smash continues winning streak in CAH, CAH highlights, GPU explosion.1/30/2016: TGR Rick Rolls, Jesse John Maddens, Makin' behind the times, up in keys, SFM poster.2/2/2016: TGR boasts of wedding skills, Fancy tries to out-cancer TGR, Bonk trapped, IWTFWMD, static economy.2/2/2016: Special Report: Search for admin of wiki, Blast possesses several dongs, Valentines hateshipping, Strange Sandman.2/4/2016: Scrublords, brothers, buds stabilize, The All-Father.2/7/2016: Maximum Overdrive's third coming, John Kennedy's TF2Tags comic, Legownz almost gets unusual, Jesse v. Relk, noob blames site, Marmot x Bonk, Blast and Crimson become therapists, Level 3 Chin.2/9/2016: John Kennedy releases comic, Fl1m milestone, Digi challenged by Walrus, shitposting at 2-month low, Strange Equalizer.2/13/2016: Bring Back Comments, taggers join Wahfia en-masse, P1P2 wants fish pussy, Fancy hosts CAH, Genuine Machina, static economy.2/14/2016: Special Report: TGR's 350-item set screwed over by interanl server error. Smash remains king of sets. TGR fuming mad.2/19/2016: Attack of the Clones, Makin' most affected, Smash most cloned, single suspect suspected, TGR overhauls wiki, keys increase in price.2/24/2016: CAH Highlights.3/28/2016: Timberwoof returns, Sergent Spooky praised, Makin' missbombed and is PISSED, keys down buds up, Vintage Ritzy Rick's Hair Fixative.4/1/2016: April Fools' Week begins, NTF2Tags Invasion aftermath.4/3/2016: April Fools' Week continues, AFI unbanned, keys being stolen, 8-bit TF2, Marmot in space, Aces High Co-Pilot Item of the Day.4/3/2016: TF2 and tunnel vision, pony shitposting at all-time high, Acquiesce milestone, everyone late, Molotov.4/7/2016: TF2Tags Game announced, AFI unbanned, Lenny Attack, weather, Collector's Dead of the Night.4/8/2016: Jesse thanked for filling in, Makin' makes accurate summary, major missbomber (Endiome), incoming snow, Copycat discovers cure, Sight For Sore Eyes.4/12/2016: Endiome identified and banned, Hon-Hon and Sneky receive critical acclaim, ref and keys down, buds up, Backstabber's Boomslang.4/13/2016: Dos update vs. missbombers, Hon-Hon and Sneky a hit, Legownz returns to Hale's Own Club, Reboot Studios, Strange Cadet Visor Item of the Week.4/13/2016: Announcement of moving to steam group.4/13/2016: Legownz goes on rampage over non-usage of item sets, Endiome fallout, mystery chef, Blizkrieg to teach English, Sapper, Obituary for TGR. Last words were: "I died laughing."4/14/2016: Safe-n-Sound expected to skyrocket, more on Steam Group.4/14/2016: Digi creates new Steam Group, tributes made to P1P2, Digi v. Floro, economy stable, Safe-n-Sound.4/16/2016: Another link to Steam Group.4/16/2016: Spy v. Engineer update to happen soon, TF2Tags game ideas hit front page, Screen-Cap Roulette, GilvaSunner returns, anti-Makin' propaganda, no change in economy.4/19/2016: Milestones for Egg-Z and Walumancer, no change in economy, Screen-Cap Roulette.4/29/2016: People use Reddit, Server Maintenance, Game leak, Strange Apparition's Aspect, Unusual Cloudy Moon Fed-Fightin' Fedora.5/13/2016: Jesse on new cosmetics, Bonkspenser's great reset, Meta Breakers leaves, Maximum Overedge.6/10/2016: Makin' Banned, Blast gets topical, Relk missing, Level 3 Chin Item of the Day, Buds and Key prices.