Early Gang

**Early gang**, formaly known as Philza’s Early Gang Society [PEGS; Best Gang; Peggers; Ball Gang) is Philza’s offline chat community. Offline chatters are the Twitch users who chat in Philza’s Twitch chat when he isn’t streaming. Usually, Early Gang is most active an hour before scheduled stream times. However, many users choose to never actually leave the chat, opting to keep it open to chill and chat with other members.

A list of things Early Gang likes to do:

* Chilling
* Being feralsome (feral + wholesome)
* Kahoot
* Going to the bag (Timeouts)
* Barking
* Giving catKISS es
* Having weddings
* Arson
* Crime
* War (see: The Great Spam War; The Early Rising Revolution)

## Treaty

### Treaty Of Early Spamming (TOES)

> TOES: or Treaty of Early Spamming: Those who YEP when it is clear what the intention of the message is will have their souls extracted. YEPing is only used for un-understandable phrases such as 'YEP WEF'
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## Events

### Our Own Emote

On July 22nd, 2020, Philza added the emote ph1lEarly

### The Early Duel

Once upon a time and in the heat of the moment, Birder said "War on Early Gang." Betrayed and hurt, Early Gang went after her, looking for revenge.

Hoping to resolve the conflict, a trial was called. With Bk as the judge, the two traitors stated their cases. It was decreed that they were not guilty and that it was, in fact, just a slip of tongue. However, AniFang and Birder could not forgive, still thinking the other to be a traitor. As AniFang absorbed Birder's power, Birder called for a duel.

According to the Ten Duel Commandments, both sides grabbed a second: Snowflaket for Birder, and Babyzombiefromseason2 for AniFang. And so the duel began. Birder shot AniFang between the ribs, and Snowflaket shot Zombie. The wound dealt to Anifang however is bad. Flinging AniFang out of his mortal form and into his god form, preventing him from firing on Birder. Birder eventually comes to regret what she did to AniFang, and later apologizes to him in his next canon life.

## The Great Spam War

### The Great Spam War

The Great Spam War took place during the first weeks of January 2021 between Twitch users babyzombiefromseason2 and Pearathon, fighting for the title of Top Chatter. The war was a dark time for all of Early Gang, lasting multiple days and, at the time, seeming never-ending. At last, Pearathon emerged as the winner after being the first one to reach 20,000 messages, and was henceforth granted the title: "ironically, talks the most".

### Location

Philza's early chat

On the 10th of January 2021, Early Gang rose against the tyranny of the banished PogChamp and its replacement PogChamp, to take their rightful place as the second most used emote in Philza's chat. They did this by devilishly spamming and ctrl v'ing the ph1lEarly emote until victory was theirs. After the Revolution, they had a cosy time with hot coco, while continuing their wait for the next stream.

### The P.E.G.S ARG

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### Popza TeaTime Era

From about March through May of 2021 Early Gang during the most chill hours of the offline chat would start every message with "PopCat TeaTime" drinking tea and chatting a little. This continued and the very day that PopCat was replaced with Popza(a bttv emote of Phil as the PopCat emote made by @AlmightyNit on twitter and originally from this animatic) and was still used for little tea parties. From there Early Gang would really just drink tea and overly use this pair of emotes. The overuse of this pair of emotes and the huge amount of spam done by Early Gang members is what brings us into the Dark Era of Early Gang.

### Dark Era

In April 2021 chatza had R9k turned on and unique mode would prevail for months to come. No more could members say the same "catKISS" over and over to greet other members. For months every other message had to be resent multiple times trying to rephrase and add so we could communicate with each other. But do not get the story twisted, it was a befitting punishment for all of the spamming crimes done by Early Gang. Learn from the mistakes of the past as to not repeat them.

### The Great Kiel Spam

On April 5th, 2021 at 3:11 AM GMT best mod Ian joined the chat and subsequently, 2 minute slowmode was turned on for the chat. He would go on to spam a little bit until mod Kiel joined in and started a mission of spamming to the top of the chat stats leaderboard. The spamming was dropped after a bit, but the 2 minute slow mode would stay on until at least 10 minutes before stream that day. Later on, around 3 PM GMT Kiel came back and set a bot to spam for him with messages saying how many messages he was on in chat. This filled the chat and was left on for hours until he finally took a rest at a top 3 spot on the chat stats leaderboard.

### Ghost Hunt Arc

On August 13th, 2021 at 6:12 AM GMT, a group of peggers began roleplaying ghost hunting. Ghost gang (Spectra\_Ghost and basstzarrun\_) offered floating snackies to the mortal ghost hunters, who had flashlights and water guns of holy water. The ghosts very quickly turned hostile and stabbed Braveree, making them part of ghost gang. Mist tempts Brave with snackies and uses the revive book to revive both Brave and Spectra. There is momentary peace with the ghosts as tea is shared. Mist betrays the ghosts as the cookies had holy water in them. The ghosts turn hostile on the mortals, and mortal gang drives away in a car to escape the ghosts monkaSTEER. The holy water cookies make the ghosts fade away and they are saved by Marshy with the revive book. Mist comes back with normal cookies, and both mortals and ghosts make an agreement to leave the ghosts at peace in their haunted mansion.

### End of the Dark Era

On May 31st 11:04 PM GMT after a stream best mod Ian proposed to Early Gang this message "Will only release unique mode if I get enough Poooound" and for that Early Gang was roaring and ready to work to be freed. After a minute Ian left saying "Ok, if I don't see enough pounds when I get back then unique mode stays on." This set Early Gang into a panic, so members called in fellow offline chat communities. They called on Chatboo(Ranboo's), Chatno(Techno's), Chat\_(Tubbo's main), 404 Offliners(George's), and more. Working together with fellow offline chatters they were able to be freed from R9k and live peaceful lives where they've learned from the Dark Era and too much spam.

### Bag Lore Roleplay

Bag lore is the concept of the timeouts being an actual location in the Philza Twitch chatroom. Since then, the bag has become a staple of the chat. When people want to leave to go do errands or when they just wanna have fun, people usually time themselves out with blocked terms, getting them timed out by Fossabot respectively. Subsequently, people joke about "cleaning up" the bag, because of how it gets when the online chat becomes rowdy. This lore has sprouted to include a supposed "Pegs Household".

### Chatboo Joint Custody

In late June of 2021, 6 months after Chatboo(Ranboo's offline) was adopted by Chatno(Technoblade's Twitch offline chat), Early Gang members asked Chatno members if they could have joint custody of Chatboo with them. Chatno agreed and since then Early Gang has officially been one of Chatboo's parent offline chats.

### The Poooound Pyramid

On June 9th, 2021 at around 10:08 GMT, Early Gang collectively tried to hold so that twitch user Min1Josh could complete the Poooound Pyramid.

### Fatherless Behavior

On December 28th, 2021 Phil came into Early Gang and added two 7TV emotes before jokingly timing out multiple chat members for "funnies." He then left for a while after saying "gotta poop" as this is our streamer it was completely expected. After later coming back to joke with Ian about the Ian 7TV emote that was added he decided to shitpost on Twitter and added the BTTV emote Drake. After he added Drake, Early Gang rejoiced that they aren't hated by their streamer and started asking for a Poooound or a catKISS from Phil. With that members decided to combine emotes to mimic Philza's user look in chat making it look like he sent a Poooound and a catKISS, all while roleplaying and acting as if he actually did. Due to this, we call this event "Fatherless Behavior."

### PEGS Talk

On December 31st, 2021 at 12:08 AM BST Phil pinged everyone in his discord with the announcement that it would be shut down for the weekend for only subs to talk in it as a lot of staff would be away and chilling for New Years. When this happened a lot of people flooded into the discord and Early Gang was active with members realizing that they'd most likely be answering plebs as well as subs who hadn't connected their Twitch account to their Discord yet. Members watched the discord for a little while and decided to eventually join a sub vc together. It became a bit of an Early Gang vc takeover and talking about Early Gang. Twitch user SkylerWolf128 as the first to join started talking and went on to talk mostly about PEGS for about 7 hours in that vc. A lot of Early Gang members came in and out, with random Phil viewers in there as well, learning about the history of PEGS as well as a bit about Philcult. Due to how Skyler was going on about Early Gang a member likened it to a TED Talk or podcast and from there we called it "PEGS Talk." Finally, after those 6 and a half hours talking in SubVC members called it and left the vc all together at 7:01 AM BST.

### r/place 2022

Beginning on April 3rd, at approximately 3:00 pm EST, the r/place April Fool’s pixel art project expanded for the last time.  Organized by Chat\_ and Chatboo, an initiative was made to claim territory for offline chats, and write their names on the canvas.  Meanwhile, Early Gang, led by Twitch user mmirandyy, chose to recreate the mug from the ph1lEarly emote near the coordinates of 365, 1375.  Around 6:00 pm, attacks from XQC viewers aimed a void attack at an image of Benson, coordinated by Tubbo.  The territory of r/offliners, along with Early Gang, was caught in the crossfire.  Recovery efforts were swift, and all damage was repaired in time for Philza to notice the mug whilst chatting in the VC of Tubbo’s stream at 6:28 pm.  By 8:00 pm, ‘Early Gang’ was fully inscribed on the r/offliners banner.

At some point early on the morning of April 4th, a small Among Us crewmate was added below the handle of the mug, before being covered over.  Noticing its absence, Twitch user daedalus\_light asked if Early Gang might remake it.  To prevent future removals, Twitch user memorialis\_ suggested moving the crewmate inside the mug.  At one point, the descriptors of “sus” and “sussy” were used to describe the new addition, the later comment eliciting a positive response from chatters.  The crewmate would furthermore be referred to as “Sussy,” an honorary PEG.

Early Gang made only one alliance throughout the event, getting into contact with the Tortoise Lot, who had been chipping away at the mug’s southern border.  In exchange for retaining the mug’s single-pixel-wide black outline, Early Gang offered up their spare pixels.  The final result looked like the mug sat upon a table with a checkerboard cloth.

Around 6:50 pm, EST, pixels across the canvas began turning white.  Users could only select white as a color, and this was originally believed to be a bug or ploy to weed out bots. However, it was soon revealed that this was the intended ending of the event.  It was unanimously decided that Early Gang would white out the mug themselves before it was overtaken by the ever-growing white void heart in the center of the canvas.  In the words of Twitch user RubyRedRaccoon, "the pixels sink into obscurity once again, a thousand memories equaled in the storm.”  The event came to a close by 8:00 pm, April 4th, 2022.

### Grippers Incident

On the 21st of July 2023, the night of Philza's return from filming for the Sorry channel, Philza planned to go live later than the regular 6 pm, BST. Beginning around 7 pm, BST, some alt accounts began to talk in pegs. Notably two alts had "Grippersfrom" in their username, like many alts such as RGBtolietfromseason4 or Crackerfromseason4 that joined the conversation but were timed out for being alts. This would cause regulars in pegs to spiral in a sense of hysteria and denial. After going back and forth for a while in conversation still in shock from the alts arrivals, Philza Mod IanBealio sent a few messages of support for the gripper accounts. "⚠️ GRIPPERS ONLY ZONE⚠️" was a common message of support while keeping other non grippers alts timed out.

During a calm period, regular members of pegs (Such as Love\_ylo , Flaco2393 and whimsical\_lucas to name a few) also participated in gripper-enjoying activities including the licking, petting, showing off and sniffing of the foot emoji. The Gripper Alts multiplied as grippersfromorigins was made, and members of pegs referred to this as 'Griptosis' a play on the cell dividing process Mitosis. Another topic of this interval was a gripper pegs marriage, to which a few pegs proposed a poly gripper marriage. alas, one of the alt accounts denied claiming "Sorry I'm already taken peepoKiss ."

Conversation surrounding grippers continued until Philza went live at approximately 7:46 pm, BST, causing pegs to panic and broadcasting the gripper centred conversation to thousands of viewers and vod watchers.

### Shitmas

On January 12th, 2023, during an otherwise very chill part of stream, Chat got really into the concept of shit and the term "Shitmas", spearheaded by members of Early Gang. This included parodies of well know Christmas songs such as Last Christmas, Jingle Bells, and Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. Even Kristin join in on the fun, further encouraging this fatherless behavior.

## Explanations

### Peggers

The nickname “peggers” came from Chat\_ (Tubbo’s main account’s offline chat community) when during one time some members of Early Gang were visiting Chat\_ and a member explained how our full name is Philza’s Early Gang Society (PEGS) and a tubbling dubbed us “peggers.” No big surprise there as that is the same community that calls Chatboo(Ranboo’s offline chat community) members “boobers.”

### The Bag

The bag is what Early Gang came up with for the idea of “if chat is crows, then how do timeouts work?” The answer came up with was when a user is timed out they are shoved into a bag for the duration of the timeout. A mod of course can take them out of the bag if they so choose but rarely is that done. A common phrase for Early Gang members is “the bag is okay Okayge “ when the bag is mentioned or a timeout has occurred.

### Lobe so mobe

A misspelling of "love so much" from the "-obe"s Pearathon (Pobe) and babyzombiefromseason2 (Zobe). Popularized in Early Gang by Pearathon and is now used a lot by other members. You can see this phrase used a lot in members' resub messages directed mostly towards Early Gang in general. Recently the phrase was used by the favorite online parent Mumza a couple of times. The first, and the second.

### Ball Gang

Ball Gang, or Ballers, was founded on December 10th, 2021 by enderosiris (ball gang), cookiedoughsnitch (balls gang), and SaberMyth\_ (ballers). The name originates from the Halo game type Oddball, where the announcer very frequently talks about the status of the ball. Due to this, Early Gang members started calling themselves Ball Gang and from there developed ballKISS, monkaBALL, ballCheck, ect. Going along with that there was a lot of simping for the Halo men in armor so be aware of that as well.