Post-JoeJoeTheAnimator Era

## Overview

The **Post-JoeJoeTheAnimator era**, also known as the **Post-JJTA** or **Post-JoeJoe era**, was a historical period in the Surreal Memes Wiki lasting approximately 10 weeks, from mid-February to late April 2019. The era was similar to the earlier Democratic Age, although there were some major differences, such as the absence of JoeJoeTheAnimator as a bureaucrat on the wiki, from which the era is named after.

There was a significant amount of conflict in this era, including part of the Squidward pepe war and the wars on Miraheze. However, for the vast majority of the time the wiki itself was heavily moderated and was not really chaotic. The era involved JoeJoeTheAnimator leaving first the wiki and eventually Miraheze, Squidward pepe attacking for the last time, to name a few events. Overall, it was a time of many victories for the Surreal Memes Wiki.

## Summary

Starting in February of 2019, JoeJoeTheAnimator, a wiki bureaucrat, was starting to cause many problems. This wasn't new, as JoeJoe had caused problems since October, but not nearly as many as now. He had promoted an untrustworthy user to bureaucrat, rigged wiki elections, deleted the User scale of Trustworthiness, among many other things.

After manipulating the results of a poll regarding his demotion, and creating insulting propaganda pages about the other Surreal Memes Wiki admins on a fandom-esque site known as Miraheze, JoeJoe was confronted many times and eventually demoted. After the multiple vandal attacks that happened shortly afterwards (more details are in the Democratic age article) there was more drama between JoeJoe and the Surreal Memes Wiki.

JoeJoe went onto his Miraheze wiki, named the Atrocious Fandom Users and Wikis Wiki. The AFUW wiki was, at least in theory, dedicated to describing all legitimately toxic users and communities across FANDOM. In reality, it served as both this and as a place for JoeJoe to complain about the Surreal Memes Wiki and their admins, who, apart from JoeJoe himself, weren’t toxic at all. There were a couple other members of JoeJoe’s AFUW wiki, but one by the name of Mar9122 stood out especially.

Mar seemed loyal to JoeJoe, calling him “boss” oftentimes. Mar was originally a fandom user himself, but he got globally blocked there and went to Miraheze. He and JoeJoe got worried quickly when they saw the perceived threat of the Surreal Memes Wiki, and once ExcessiveDisappointment tried to get into the wiki and report the pages about wiki admins to a miraheze steward, JoeJoe and Mar hastily deleted evidence of the pages. The AFUW wiki was even privated at some point (meaning only invited members could see it).

However, there was a more pressing problem at that point, that problem being Squidward pepe again. On February 19th, she launched a massive attack on the wiki, spamming disturbing NSFW images and making sockpuppets everytime she was blocked. The wiki was quickly put into crisis mode. It was a very chaotic day, with the admins just barely being able to hold off the destruction.

But the admins also had a new plan to give Squidward pepe something back. The plan was very simple: spam thousands of pictures of lobsters on the message walls of Squidward pepe accounts. Within the same day as the initial Squidward pepe attack, the tides turned as wikians joined together to destroy Squidward pepe’s message wall with lobbos epic style.

The next day, the vandalism continues, but thanks to the combined efforts of normal wikians, admins and the lobbos it was much lighter than the previous day. Squidward pepe’s rampace did continue until around the 25th, with the 21st being almost as heavy as the initial attack. But during this time, some information was uncovered about Squidward pepe.

Apparently, she was part of a vandal group known as the ARCC. This was definitely bad news, as a group of individuals attacking like Squidward pepe would spell disaster. There was good news, though, and that was that Squidward pepe was starting to apologize. She claimed she was only 13 and she had a rough life. This was confirmed to be trolling which should have been obvious in the first place, but it didn't matter because she left the wiki alone for a while after.

But problems also weren’t over, because JoeJoe was at it again. Apart from a couple unlogged IP addresses he was using posting vaguely threatening messages, he wasn’t on the Surreal Memes Wiki at all. However, he was still in miraheze. SANTACLAWS decided to enter the AFUW miraheze wiki and try to gain membership and therefore access. This wouldn’t work if he were himself, obviously, so he pretended to be RONALDTHEGOD, an older wiki enemy with generally pro-JoeJoe leanings. This was a success, but SANTA did not get a lot of information, or much more than just a kick out or it, probably because he was never very serious about it.

However, it did show how JoeJoe was still complaining about the Surreal Memes Wiki, and how he would not give up the drama. In addition to that, he had the habit of copying other people and avoiding any sort of confrontation, he was becoming unpopular even on the AFUW miraheze. The AFUW miraheze’s community gradually got more and more sick of him, and on March 19th he was blocked by Mar himself. He would still return many times, but even in miraheze he was no longer a serious danger.

At this point, a sort of alliance was forged between the AFUW miraheze (which was now staunchly anti-JoeJoe) and the Surreal Memes Wiki. AFUW users like Mar became respected users with powers on the SMW, and likewise, users like GammaRaul became admins on the AFUW miraheze. This alliance was created not out of choice but out of necessity to get rid of JoeJoe. At the beginning of April, there was a wiki election and SANTACLAWS became the president, promising hasher action against page spam and just making the wiki’s pages higher quality in general. His promises were kept and page spam went significantly down, but it wasn’t the end of it.

But once again, the pattern repeated itself and JoeJoe stopped becoming a problem. In mid-April, Squidward pepe was attacking again, and there were no more lobbos. She used broken text, dozens of accounts, and of course NSFW images. It was still chaotic, but by this point most people in the wiki were a bit more used to Squidward pepe. The worst of the attack lasted a couple days before it died down. JoeJoe also calmed down a bit and temporarily stopped causing drama. But now, a new change would take place.

I.R.O.N.I.C, the organization created in the time before admins to fight vandalism, had long lost its relevance. Since the beginning of the Safe Age many months earlier, I.R.O.N.I.C lost importance. Its founder, wiki bureaucrat PoseidonHeir, decided to completely reform it. He made I.R.O.N.I.C a subdivision of a new organization, called the Surreal Wiki Defence Force (SWDF). The SWDF would deal with all wiki problems and vandals, since someone like JoeJoe or Squidward pepe would have a higher chance of showing up than a seperatist Orangist.

After April, there would not be any more major Squidward pepe attacks and JoeJoe would never be a serious problem. The wiki wouldn’t be totally free of conflict yet, but it would enter a long era of peace with comparatively little drama.