The Neo-Revolution

(From left to right) Meme, death506, and xyrothim gathered during the Neo-Revolution

## Event

The **Neo-Revolution**, which has also been called the *Second Revolution* and the *Revolution 2: Fuck this boogaloo*, was the third mass staff exodus in the server’s history, the first being around early 2018 during the second Staff Civil War, and the second being the  original Revolution, which took place during mid to late 2020.

It was led by a group called the Restorationists, which consisted of BT xyrothim, SrBT death506, JrMod Lil\_RocketMan, former SrMod Neua, and JrBT Meme. The group was led by xyrothim, and consisted of the five people who were willing to pitch in for the purchase of the entire 8th Axis network, including the AoT server, the domain name, the discord, and all other server assets. When that failed, they launched a last-ditch attempt to devalue the server in hopes of being able to purchase it by effectively crippling its ability to progress with updates and moderation.

Along with the five Restorationists, QT GGrxxn, BT Chicken010709, BT WynnieGoose, BT Lxeys, and JrBT Yash joined a second group called the Neo-Revolutionists and agreed to simultaneously hand in their resignations if given the order by Meme in the event that all other discussions to acquire the server failed.

## Cause

After years of the server higher-ups displaying a complete inability to function as an admin team and help to progress the server forward as well as built-up animosity by many staff team members towards admins such as BT-Head Xaela, QT-Head Dishwasher\_Soap, and RP-Head Turtle7, a group of the only working staff members came together to discuss a plan of action for actual progress to be made.

After talks in the No Regrets faction discord, xyrothim, death506, and Meme joined up and formed the earliest form of the Restorationists, with Neua and Lil\_RocketMan being added soon after displaying their willingness to chip in for the potential purchase of the network.

After it became clear that their initial course of action would not be possible, talks were held as to what to do next. One such plan was to start a Gofundme with a target goal of 6,969 and simply titled “Help me fuck over some Brits”. Eventually, the idea of a second Revolution came up, and as the best course of action, the group chose it and moved forward.

## Build-Up

The Restorationists attempted to make negotiations with the higher-ups to no avail. After xyrothim reached out to Link with a proposal for staff reform, Link agreed to schedule a meeting with the other higher-ups, but never notified them of when it would happen or even that it was happening, and had still not done so even a week later. This and other displays of Link's complete incompetence led the Restorationists to take a more drastic approach, as they could not work with someone as unreliable and irresponsible as Link. To this day, the Restorationists joke that the server was killed because of how useless Link was.

## The Restorationists

On September 17th, 2022, Meme created the group chat that would become the Restorationists after talks with xyrothim about buying the server. The group was initially called the Tycoons, which was later changed to the Usurpers, before the group finally settled on the Restorationists.

The same day that the group was established, a message was written by Xyrothim and Meme and sent by xyrothim to the 8th Axis Network owner Dylan with the proposal to purchase the network. After a week with no answer, a follow-up was sent including an opening offer, and a week after that, no contact had been made.

As a last resort, Meme attempted to contact Dylan, asking what he thought was the most valuable part of the server. After a full day went by with no reply, he gave the order to initiate the Neo-Revolution, and on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022, at 5:00 PM PST, the resignations were sent.

## The Neo-Revolutionists

The Neo-Revolutionists were chosen by the Restorationists from their loyalty and distain to the server. They were QT GGrxxn, BT Chicken010709, BT WynnieGoose, BT Lxeys, and JrBT Yash. Between the Restorationists and the Neo-Revolutionists, the groups made up the entire working Quest and Build Teams respectively.

They were assembled to completion at 3:28 AM PST, October 1st, 2022, the day before the Neo-Revolution. Xyrothim announced the mission and the situation, with Chicken010709 agreeing first, followed by Lxeys and WynnieGoose. GGrxxn was skeptical but ultimately joined the plan, with Yash holding out a bit longer, though eventually being persuaded by Xyrothim and Meme.

At 5:00 PM, on October 2nd, 2022, the order was given to begin the mass resignation, which was finished to completion.

Xyrothim led the charge quitting first, with death506 following with a date by which he would resign, GGrxnn giving an ultimatum that he would resign if nothing changed by the time everyone else had quit, Chicken010709 giving the same statement as death506, WynnieGoose, Lxeys, and \_Rea\_Sweetheart\_ formally resigning, and Lil\_RocketMan giving the same statement as GGrxnn.

Though Meme had been fired as a JrQT member in a separate incident before the event, he still participated by resigning from his position as a joint RP-Head, and informed the other RP-Head, Turtle7, along with the rest of the staff, that he had added a custom model for a giant Titan's dick and provided proof to that claim in the discord's general chat. The proof was deleted but can still be viewed here.

## Results

After a lengthy discussion with the now former BT-Head Xaela, reparations for the misuse of the head builder role were made in the form of a change in the role holder. Xaela formally appointed then SrBT death506 to the role of BT-Head later in the same day of the Neo-Revolution and left the server soon after.

Server Owner Link closed the server for an extended period of time close to a month. People wondered if he was shutting it down, but it turned out he had been asking for suggestions on what to do from all the other staff members, none of which replied. He put the server back online and its playerbase has not risen from zero ever since.

Though the final results took a while to occur, the Neo-Revolution was, amazingly, successful. It would eventually lead to the event known as the Neo-Revival, which is detailed in its own article. The Neo-Revolution was the first revolution in the history of the server that was able to see out as many results as it did. The effects of the results are wide-spread and already causing progress. Hopefully, the Neo-Revolution will continue to exact results and push progress forward for much longer.

## Gallery

The mass resignations sent in during the Neo-RevolutionA shot of Link in a recreation of the Neo-Revolution, the full video of which can be found here.