Freddit Freebuild

**This article describes real server events.**

The server's main logo

**Freddit Freebuild** (also known as **Freddit** or just **Freebuild**)is an online community that started as a **Minecraft** server based on the Five Nights at Freddy's series by American indie game developer Scott Cawthon. It first opened on July 6th 2015, and has been active ever since throughout multiple different mediums, with or without an accompanying Minecraft server.

## History

Note: a more comprehensive document detailing the server's history can be found here. It is not fully complete.

### 2015

#### Before the server

Not too much is known about Freddit before it existed as a Minecraft server. According to **Dilly Van Shneenie**, the server's Founder, he was in a pool and discussed his plans to launch a FNaF-themed Minecraft server with his mother. Because it was intended for the Reddit FNaF community, she suggested Freddit, combining Freddy and Reddit.

#### The first days

The Minecraft server launched in its first iteration on **July 6th 2015**, where Dilly made a post on the FNaF subreddit asking people to DM him for the IP. This iteration only lasted a day, but this is where most currently-active oldfags have their origins.

The second iteration began on **July 7th 2015**, when the server opened publicly for the first time. A few days later, Svenapproached Dilly about hosting the server, after the latter talked about his issues running the server. Sven and Dilly became the first two owners.

#### The first ownership war: Fallout

As the months progressed, various events happened which are still referenced today, such as the infamous 1I\_L0V3NdU5 griefin fnaftown, an iconic location from the earliest era of the server. Sven and Dilly's ownership became less stable over time, as the two began to disagree with each other's choices more and more. Severe animosity occurred between members who thought one was more right than the other.

These events were later fictionalized in Zoo's comic series "The Fallout of Freddit", describing the Ownership War of 2k15 in a story set inspired by various Fallout rps that happened on the server.

Fortunately, the Sven and Dilly drama de-escalated.

### 2016

#### The Reversal era

By **mid-2016**, events on the server shook it up immensely, to the point where both Sven and POC were no longer the server's owners. After an attempted server rebranding by Dilly, including a wiping of the staff team in order to accommodate it for the subreddit's staff team to take over, the server fell apart. Waving, JAFC, and Woger offered to take the server files and to run them on their own server, which would become **Reversal**. Despite the name change, many users still called it Freddit, until it was decided the community would outright rebrand back to Freddit.

#### The second ownership war: The Cold War

Waving and Woger were booted from ownership after a while, both for different reasons. The next few months were covered in fear of server deletion attempts, which came to be known as Takeovers. Woger's takeover attempts came out of trickery and malice, while Waving's takeover attempts came from wanting to take his config files back.

The Cold War eventually came to a halt when both ceased attempting takeovers. Waving was banned, while Woger was allowed to become a regular part of the community. The Discord server was first opened in **September 2016**.

### 2017

#### The Takeovers of 2017

The time between the end of the Cold War and the next major drama events was rather uneventful, except for Zoo's heater exploding and Pres being exposed as a liar (despite this being painfully evident to anyone on the server who witnessed his multiple late """"drunk"""" nights).

The next major event took place on the morning of **March 19th 2017**, as **Psy** unbanned **JAFC**, who was on a tempban of a few days, and opped him in order to wipe the server's worlds in an act of revenge due to feeling bullied by various members on the server. Compared to the takeovers of the Cold War, this was the first successful takeover to have a lasting effect on the server, as 4 months of build progress was wiped permanently. The two were banned for a few months.

The next takeover attempt occurred a month later, as **axe\_face** (someone who had been part of the server since 2015) and his friends griefed spawn with NPCs named "chicken nugger"along with spamming signs everywhere intended to deeply hurt specific users over issues they have ranted about in the past. They also placed command blocks around spawn intended to delete the worlds, but were unaware they had no effect after contingencies were put in place against future takeover attempts.

For a more detailed explanation visit Takeovers.

### 2018

#### The Golden Year

Due to its uneventfulness in terms of drama aside minor arguments and the bans of Tornadoand Spurr, **2018** is often remembered as one of the most peaceful eras in Freddit History. It spawned various new forms of shitposting, such as the controversial Insanity Shitpostingwhich originated from Orb and Zoo's DMs, and marked the first year a Freddit meme went outside the server in the form of the Gay Luigi Hunt, where servers joined in on Freddit's hunt for a user named "Gay Luigi" who had sent " ;\_\_\_\_; " through the Septapus bot's wormhole feature. (Note: Gay Luigi was found later on, and turned out to be fine.) Mainlore and the concept of the Freddit Multiverse was also created in 2018. World RP bloomed, and brought a new sense of community well-being to the server.

### 2019

#### Back to drama

**2019** began with Sven announcing in the middle of a World RP session that he would be resigning, along with taking the server files with him. Despite this, Freddit continued under after JAFCoffered to fund a new dedicated machine for the Minecraft server. A few months later, Sven's mind cleared up, and the server files were returned to Freddit.

Other than this, 2019 was rather uneventful in terms of drama, other than Waving being banned for attempting another takeover in September. Near the end of 2019, tensions began to form between JAFC and owners Orb and Zoo on the former's ownership and moderation of the server. By the start of 2020, JAFC was the only owner on the staff team.

### 2020

#### Time loop of 2020

**2020** opened up packed with toxicity and drama. In January, the discussion of JAFC's ownership led to the creation of a packed and lengthy owner election, with **Psy**, **Nep**, **Leedle**, and **Zelda** running. Despite this, arguments on the topic continued; JAFC would accept his faults later that month.

Some likened January 2020 as a parallel to January 2019, due to the copious amount of server drama and memorable server events, and both involving owner issues and adressing user toxicity. On **February 14**, the owner elections concluded and Psy became JAFC's co-owner.

#### B-Side: Identity Crisis

On **February 4, 2020**, Freddit's IP temporarily became **play.bigchungusmc.ga** due to Zoo forgetting to renew the previous one. The lack of *Freddit Freebuild* in the IP sparked discussion on a potential rebranding and advertising plan. The name of **B-Side** was considered but created community-wide controversy. Freddit beleived that a new name would alienate the community and ruin the character that they as a whole created.

In the midst of discussion a new user named MikpinRYB joined the server, claiming to have joined from Freddit's Big Chungus shitposting gifs (using the temporary IP). Freddit kept its name and moved to a new advertising model using Discord gifs. This new model brought multiple new users to the server and began to reshape how Freddit saw themselves.

The initial wave passed over quickly, as new users began joining just to grief, insult, spam, and leave. The Big Chungus IP was later removed and *play.freddit.ga* returned as the IP.

In late **February 2020**, **JAFC** announced he could no longer fund the Minecraft server. Thus, for the first time in years, the community existed without a Minecraft server for a few months. In its place, Aeternos was used to host the snapshot survival server that had begun on the main dedicated server, along with a temporary freebuild server hosted on **ServerMiner** provided by Nova.

On **June 12th 2020**, the Drought came to an end when Sven stepped up to provide a dedicated server and Freebuild was turned on again.

The second half of 2020 was mostly calm.