Several People Are Typing

*"spat's importance will increase exponentially as the years go by and people forget more shit"*

- Drew Linky, 2018

*"nah i haven't touched spat in months"*

- Drew Linky, 2021

***Several People Are Typing***, colloquially referred to as **SPAT** (as in the past tense of 'spit') or **Reddit Manifesto** is a document maintained by HSD co-admin Drew Linky. It documents the comings and goings of the server over the course of several years and has been lauded for the unbiased view it provides into the server through the active participance of the author, even despite his perennial penchant for grandiloquent loquaciousness.

As of January 2022, SPAT is mostly in maintenance mode, as Drew's creative output has slunk to somewhere on the level of mid-hiatus Andrew Hussie.

## Plot

Being an alleged piece of non-fiction, SPAT does not have a plot as such, though occasional semblances of narrative threads do appear. Broadly speaking the history of the server can be split into a number of 'sagas' (if you watch Dragonball) or arcs (if you watch other anime). It unfortunately doesn't cover HSD history in its entirety, missing out on key events such as the 2016 Putin Sleeper Agent Putsch and the 2017 Marsy Islamophobia Exodus.

## Literary Genre

SPAT can best be classified as a Slice of Life hagiographic manifesto and an early entrant in the genre of Web Realism, as it purports to show a slice of life using characters that are, supposedly, entirely based on real netizens devoid of any artistic exaggeration or authorial bias.

## Controversies

### Veracity As A Primary Source

There are some that question whether SPAT should be classified as a primary source in the first place as, even though Drew is ostensibly part of the culture he is describing, he isn't actually physically present and only receives his impressions of the ongoing events through the filter of an online messaging app.

### Selling Out?

At various times, Drew has allowed guest writers to write their own impressions in his supposedly neutral document. It's no secret that many of these guest writers are selected purely on the basis of nepotism or activity in Drew-adjacent channels.

### Stylistic Inconsistencies

A lot has been said about the writing style in the document, but even Makin has at various points made fun of the seemingly arbitrary usage of 'big words' and misguided attempts at lofty, literary writing.

### Editorializing

Accusations have been levied at Drew for 'conveniently' leaving out certain noteworthy events or individuals that he considered 'too controversial' to document.

### Right To Be Forgotten

On occasion, individuals will request to be removed from SPAT, but the author has seen to make this process extremely arduous, ultimately even trying to bargain them down to merely become anonymized instead of outright removed.

### Inconsistent Update Schedule

Over the years, the update schedule has varied wildly, from several pages per week to a single update in half a year, much to the dismay of many server regulars.

## Trivia

* The name is derived from the message that discord displays in a channel when there are, indeed, several people typing.