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Ass Ketchup

**TF2Tags**
Tags.tf

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Ass Ketchup is a Third Generation tagger that joined on August 21st, 2016.

## Style

Most of Ketchup's submissions involve an autistic meme that died out months ago but that he still finds funny for some reason. He also tries to bring back site-specific memes from the dead that are equally as autistic, such as emoji tags, and usually fails spectacularly.

## History

Ketchup joined the site in late August of 2016. His first appearances on the site were through shitposts that praised the Phlogistinator, much to the understandable chagrin of certain users. He since has learned how to not be a complete and total dumbass with tagging, although some dumbass tendencies still remain. He used to be a Dosciple, but has since become a Wahfioso in the Wahfia. He is typically a participant in site-wide raids or shitstorms, such as the Greatening. Ketchup now makes a tag around once a month, despite the death of the site being a mere few months away.

## Relationships

Ass is on good terms with most of the Generation 2 and 3 taggers, though there are some he finds to be annoying who will remain anonymous. He has a neutral opinion on Generation 1 and 4 taggers, and often forgets Generation 5 exists. He considers Le Tryhard Hunter to be a role model of sorts, despite Tryhard's appearances on the site becoming less prolific.

## Trivia

* Ass used to be a Dosciple, but joined the Wahfia after losing to them in a war. What a switcheroo.
* Ass is known for hating popular things for often trivial reasons, such as the Payload map Swiftwater, the character Monika from the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club, and furries.
* Ass shares many interests and memetic tendencies with Generation 2 tagger Makin' Bacon, such interests including memes of the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the 2014 movie Chef, which has an 87% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. You should go see it.
* Ass ironically thinks the Illuminati is real, and has even made a theory that the cops work for the Illuminati (as a joke), but has only shared such information with Meta Breakers and his own dad.
* Ass reached majorship on New Year's Day of 2017.
* Ass has frequent and odd existential crises.
* After spending the worst year and a half of his life in a toxic wasteland of a community that almost severely stunted his emotional development and learning what the word "waifu" actually means, Ass has proudly decided that he no longer has a waifu.
* Ass pokes a lot of fun at certain taggers, but some of them don't find it as hilarious as he does.
* Ass likes holding grudges, albeit he has not found a single time to use it to his advantage.
Greg the Mannequin

**Greg the Mannequin** is a tagger and a possessed mannequin who got emotionally attached to technology, doing nothing but becoming the bane of the person who stumbles across and finds her. Her goal is to create a game that she can call her own and is forced to live next to assholes in a dormitory. She normally appears offline until someone tells her to play games together.

## History

Greg the Mannequin discovered the site through John Kennedy, whom she met in the real world sitting on his fat ass and making posts on TF2Tags. After having flashbacks to the time she played *Team Fortress 2*, she returned to PC gaming and joined the site on the 14th October 2015. Ever since that day, Greg the Mannequin followed under the wings of John Kennedy (i.e. for about 12 seconds). Now, all she does is sit with John Kennedy during lunch thinking of posts that are better than his.

She also was the winner of the TF2Tags Hunger Games Simulator.

## Relationships

She and John Kennedy are close friends, as she finds him easy to annoy and kick his ass in TF2. She doesn't really have any problems with any other taggers.

## Trivia

* Greg loves to piss off John Kennedy.
* Greg's favorite things about games are voice acting, level design and user interaction.
* Greg hates coding.
* Greg likes to show the good and bad posts she's made.
* Greg likes making wood jokes. (No, not *those* type of wood jokes!)
* Greg is the only biologically female Tagger in the history of TF2Tags.
John Kennedy

**John Kennedy** is a tagger on TF2Tags and is known as someone who can't be taken too seriously on the site, and has proven to be at times an idiot (though not a malicious one).

## History

John joined TF2Tags on January 22nd, 2015. He started by making decent posts until he slowly lost his mind, becoming the tagger he is today. He witnessed a lot of drama during that time, including The Taggening, and other taggers began to acknowledge him due to his experience. John tries to bring his A-game but is currently stuck on Z, and only time can tell how long it will be before he is assassinated or starts pulling rubber room time.

### TF2Tags Comics

One of his better-known contributions are his TF2Tags Comics series, a four-panel comic computer-drawn by John himself, with other taggers appearing as their favourite classes (with requisite rep items) and in-character according to popular perception. It was first announced on February 4th, 2016 to a storm of suggestions and requests from other taggers.

The series currently stands at two issues ;The first issue was released on February 8th, and the second on February 15th.

## Relationships

John Kennedy likes to keep a positive attitude with everyone. The only taggers who currently accept his friendship (through Steam) are Relk\_Cehi, Ulysses, Le Tryhard Hunter, EGG-Z, Blast and Greg the Mannequin.

He has no designated enemies as of yet.

## Trivia

* John Kennedy likes to make stupid ideas.
* John Kennedy has a goal to make a post with every item in the game.
* Besides TF2, John Kennedy's favorite game is *Ratchet and Clank*.
Austin/Tags.tf

## Austin

**Austin** (who previously went as **Ashton\_Doovis**) is a
tagger who joined the site officially in 2015, growing quickly in popularity. After the old site was taken down, he spent most of his time browsing the discord. With the introduction of Tags.tf, he has made a return, similar to other taggers of his time. Now holding the power of gay, be sure to look out for any of his tags.

## History

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Before the disappearance of Tf2Tags, Austin had already been taking a break from making tags. After the closure of the original site, Austin spent most of his time lurking around the Tf2tags discord and occasionally chiming in on random conversations. This got old, and went on 2 or 3 "hiatuses". One instance of his inclusion involves coming out to the server, in which the responses were mostly memes (which is the best way to respond to something like that). Up until now, he spent his time in school, drawing, and playing video games.

## Relationships

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Austin has tried to stay very friendly with as many taggers as possible, with having such people as Acquiesce, Fancytag, L'Étranger, Marmot, TheOnlyGuyEver, and many, many more.

## Trivia

* Inbetween his inclusion of both sites, Austin improved his art skills exponentially, up to the point that his drawings look like actual people rather than skinny-necked things.
* He is gay. very epic poggers moment.
Taggers Against Humanity

**Taggers Against Humanity** (also known as **TF2Tags Against Humanity**) is a Steam Group created by Blast that plays games of Cards Against Humanity hosted by (and only available to) users on TF2Tags.

Games are played with the Pretend You're Xyzzy webapp, with most games commonly being hosted by Blast, Fancytag and EGG-Z. These games use the base game packs and expansions, as well as custom TF2Tags cardpacks made specifically for these games.

## Trivia

* Ironically, the usual two people who host the game have terrible internet connection, which leads to a *lot* of ragefests about connection issues.
* Blast and Fancytag both created custom TF2Tags cardpacks. Recently, the two merged packs to create the TAH: Asshat Edition pack.
Turtlekit

**Turtlekit** is a small ginger-and-white tabby tom with chocolate-brown eyes.

## Trivia

* Turtlekit is named after his uncle, Valorsong. He is a spitting image of Valorsong, and Dreamstar has taken a special interest in the kit, never letting him out of her sight.

## Family

**Mother:**

Dreamstar
**Father:**

Bucknose
**Sister:**

Featherkit
**Half-Brothers:**

Hollowforest
Streamtail — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
**Half-Sisters**

Busterflight
Jaysong
**Grandmothers:**

Cloudheart
Whiteheart — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
**Grandfathers:**

Smokefoot — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
Antfoot — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
**Uncles:**

Valorsong — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
Stonesong
Darktail — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
**Aunts:**

Hollyfeather — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
Roseflower — *Deceased, Confirmed StarClan member*
Littlepaw
## Relationships

### Family

#### **Busterflight**

Turtlekit adores his elder half-sister, and likes to play with her a lot. He admires Busterflight and looks up to her, wanting to be just like her one day. Turtlekit keeps pestering Dreamstar, his mother, to let Busterflight be his mentor when he gets to be apprentice-aged. He really likes it when she brings him mice from the fresh-kill pile.
HUMÆN

HUMÆN (also known as **stk**, formerly known as **Shit Poster**) is a Generation 5 tagger who actually had somewhat of a presence on the original TF2Tags (having used the original site since January 2016, during the aftermath of the New Tagger Riots), though was frequently bullied and downplayed due to the insular nature of the community at the time. He would largely sit and make tags without making too much of a presence. In July of 2020, he would join the new site and its matured, more welcoming community, and has since risen to become a significant presence, currently being the 11th most critted tagger.
Removal of Misses (2017)

The Removal of Misses (Unofficial name) happened on February 24, 2017. Dos stepped in to ban a few people for mass targeted missbombings, and when he left, the miss button was gone.
There was instant outcry from the community, with people making sets and tags belittling Dos for his poor management and problem solving skills. Pages were filled with angry spam, and it seemed hell had broken loose. Within a few hours, misses were back and Dos reported it was just a bug. Whether that's true is still up for debate...

## **The Victims**

Victims of the missbombings include:

Spook Toque

Relk\_Cehi

Bloo Kirby

Major Blitz

## **The Mass Missbombings**

The missbombings started out with a minor missbomb by Relk\_Cehi on Bloo, who made a joke on his tag saying "I don't get it," due to a message in the keywords.

The next day, someone made an alternate account and had missbombed multiple people, those being everyone listed besides Bloo Kirby in "The Victims" list.

Later that day, Dos removed misses from the site.

## **Resolution**

Later that day, Fancytag, a already somewhat friend of DOS, sent a long e-mail to him about things like adding back misses and, what was the most focused demand from the event, adding moderators/admins.

Eventually, DOS replied, linking his steam account and saying the following message, "Add me on steam, let's talk." Eventually, a steam chat with DOS began, there is no actual recording of this chat due to Fancytag, the only one who talked to DOS, agreed that *nothing* from the steam chat would be leaked onto the site.

No one else knows what happened, however two things happened: Firstly, misses were returned to the site, with DOS claiming the no misses were a bug.

Secondly, Fancytag became a moderator.
Kal/Tags.tf

TF2Tags
**Tags.tf**

## kal

**Kal** (previously **Digi**) is a returning Generation 2 Tagger from the original TF2Tags. Shortly after rejoining the site, he was promoted to be one of Tags.tf's site administrators. He also runs the site's social media accounts. Given how he was one of the most staunch advocates for mods on the original site, this promotion is quite poetic.
Bloo Kirby

> "I'm Blind, I'm Borderline Retarded, and I'm Bloo"
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**Bloo Kirby** is pretty much your run-of-the-mill tagger. She is (or in some cases, was) known as the person with a high crit-per-tag rate whose profile was unviewable, which was quite a blunder for the wiki.

## History

According to her first post, Bloo first joined in late Summer of 2015. Unlike most newcomers, Bloo started out with very great submissions. She continued at that pace, being sort of like the high crit/tag ratio taggers who don't much care for the community, but instead just want to present their ideas to a miniscule part of the internet (a good example of such a tagger is anatolebahorel). However, another unique part of her (her appearance, more so) was that her profile lead to a 505 error, thus seeing all of her tags, or score, was quite an ordeal that required notes and a calculator. After much complaining from other people, she messaged Dr. Dos and had the error be sorted out, thus stripping her of her main known feature in early March 2016. Nowadays her quality hasn't dropped, and he remains in the community as a semi-active member of the *Discord* server.

As of late March 2018, Bloo Kirby has reached the rank of Hale's Own, just shortly after the other major Kirby-themed Tagger and girlfriend, Proto Kirby.

## Relationships

She is a very friendly person, and has many people in her friends list, even as to having one of the biggest collections of taggers in her *Steam* friends list. Said list includes, but is not limited to:

* DannyFantom
* Fancytag
* Flak
* Ulysses
* Mettallux
* Player 1 + Player 2
* Propizio
* Pudis
* Sqwid
* Walumancer

And the list goes on and on...In addition to she is in a long distance relationship with Proto Kirby. On the flipside there is one person she is not fond of: Relk Cehi. When Bloo joined and quickly started growing in the ranks, Relk noticed the similarity between her and Bloo's style, which made her claim that the latter person is a thief. As always, drama ensued and people argued. The conflict has since been resolved, but the two still don't like each other all that much.

## Trivia

* At some point in 2017, Bloo attempted to change her representative item to The Gentleman's Ushanka, painted Aged Mustache Grey, with the Blizzardy Storm unusual effect. This got on Relk's nerves. But hey, nobody acknowledges rep changes anyway, so...
* Bloo was featured in a video called *"Joke Weapon Demonstration: Force-Hundred-Nature"* featured as a comment requesting for the previously mentioned Force-Hundred-Nature.
* Despite her username and avatar, Bloo Isn't an incredibly Huge fan of *Kirby*. She still likes the series, but she's not a huge fan. She also despises the animation *"Kirby: Right Back at Ya!"*
* Bloo Draws fat fetish art and hates herself for it.
* Bloo despises *Steven Universe*, despite drawing fat fetish art of Peridot once.
* Bloo is an achievement hunter.
* Bloo is one of the sites only females.
* Bloo Doesn't clap at the friends intro.
Expand

## Expand (Julius)

**Expand** is a tagger (technically tagger*s*) on TF2Tags, best known as the creator of the "TF2Tags Nightly News" series.

## History

### Debacle with A Fucking Idiot

Shortly after his arrival to TF2Tags, Expand stumbled upon A Fucking Idiot. Unbeknownst to him, AFI's posts were merely ironic and not meant to be taken seriously. A short war erupted but ended as soon as the belligerents realized they were just fucking around.

### TF2Tags Nightly News

Expand began his signature series not long after first joining TF2Tags in late August 2015, commenting on recent site events and the TF2 economy. It received substantial attention from other taggers at the time, due to its coverage of a TF2Tags shitstorm (i.e. that one time where everyone was angry at CP yet again).

The frequency of Expand's news reports have varied over time since its inception. It originally ran nightly at 8 and 11 (with some minor variations) partway through August before his laptop "crashed with the intensity of one thousand angry weeaboos". As a workaround, he created the "Team Fortress 2 Nightly News Network" steam group in an effort to spread the word after his death (which is now a "bunker" for if the main site ever goes into a slumber). He returned to the site on September 3rd, resuming his tagging and news programs (which were scaled back to bi-weekly reports).

Expand's reports have dwindled in number over time (with the mantle often being taken up by other taggers), and in early 2016 he was quoted by Smash Z as saying he wanted to stop making the series.

## Relationships

Currently, Expand is allies with TGRobert and is on good terms with most of the TF2Tags community.

## Trivia

* Expand's birthday falls on the same day as Jerma985's.
* Expand's name is probably in reference to the meme "Expand Dong.
* The Expand account was actually shared by three people during the course of Tags. The first and most well-known is Julius, who created the account and whose Steam is in his name. Then there was Sherri, a woman who took over the account and may have been the creator of TF2NNN, and an unnamed third person. It is unclear who was in control of the account at what time. On Discord, Sherri was the primary Expand people interacted with.
¡BEAT!

## ¡BEAT! McSickle

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**¡BEAT!** is a tagger on TF2Tags who started tagging in 2014. His preferred tagging style consists of jokes using the unusual effects and "Know the Difference" sets.

## History

### The Shitposting Era

Starting off, he was a common-or-garden shitposter due to his poor English, lack of meme knowledge, and was a generally bad tagger.

### Rebirth

For a certain amount of time he had forgotten TF2Tags, but upon returning saw the massive pile of shit he'd made for himself and cleared it all.

His first successful post was a tag called "Buy a wife".

Following this fresh start, he began tagging much better than before.

### The Red Week

From November 15th to November 22th, BEAT made "bad posts which I instantly removed".

### Hiatus and After-Hiatus

He hasn't created any tags from August 10th 2016 but February 17th 2017, he finally posted some new tags. Even though he created many, he couldn't create any hits like he did before.

After creating many average, boring tags, an year has passed.

### 2018

He finally made a tag which has over 10 tags, Nyet Neuturality. His tagging style was slightly different from the style before. He features many different unusual effects and many items names are based on American pop cultures and trends.(Even though it was too late to use Despacito).

## Relationships

He has received and accepted friend requests from Fancytag,Marmot,EGG-Z,Expand and Player 1 + Player 2 on Steam.

## Common Aliases'

* About that Jarate I owed ya
* A Fucking Sickleman
* BEATROBICS
* Crocket launcher
* Difference
* Fancy Description Tag
* FUS RO DAH
* Hale's Own
* I QUIT TF2 BUT CONTINUE TAGGING
* idk american joke(Shitposting era)
* Kill me(Shitposting era)
* Know the difference
* Sickle ¡BEAT!
* Wheatley
* ¡BEAT!
* !TAEB¡

## Trivia

* He admits to being a missbomber during his Shitposter Era.
* For the TF2Tags Hunger Games, BEAT was the "Hordeless Headless Horsemann". In the same game, he found a sickle, which made him change his name to "McSickle".
Missbombs

**Missbombs** are TF2Tags's own weapons of ~~m~~ass destruction. Much like pentagrams, inverted crosses and genital herpes, they are a sign of great evil, and are only enjoyed by edgelords, atheists, and bug catchers. Also much like genital herpes, they never seem to *go the fuck away.*

## What are They?

Missbombing is a form of griefing that involves deliberately downvoting the entirety of a user's tags with the intention of massively decreasing their total points, often by many hundreds. It was infamously pioneered by Teaquin around May 22nd, 2015, as an act of petty vengeance and trolling against those who mocked him. Frankly it's a wonder that nobody did it earlier.

Missbombs quickly became a constant source of annoyance on the site, as *anyone* could do them (including Anonymous site-goers, before anonymous voting was removed because of it) and it was extremely difficult to find the culprit, more often than not requiring an IP check from Dr. Dos. Several shitstorms have involved and been attributed to instances of missbombing, despite them only being a point of contention for a little under a year.

Eventually, they would become less of a problem, as several countermeasures would be implemented in order to make missbombing harder and identifying perps easier (some better than others). Voting logs were introduced on August 18th, 2015, ascribing 12-letter alphanumeric names to voting IPs, and the voting system was revamped in April 2016 getting rid of these alphanumeric names for the actual usernames of the people who voted on the tags.

The inverse of missbombs are critbombs, and they are often used as a retaliatory response to the former.

## Forms of Missbombing

### Grudge Bombing

Grudge Bombing is the most common form of missbombing, where the bomber singles out one or a few users to mass downvote. Grudge Bombings, as they are named, are usually done for personal reasons, often because of dislike for specific a user(s) boiling over and people feeling compelled to act upon it. On rare occasions, multiple people will Grudge Bomb the same target at once, and usually this occurs when one person *severely* fucks up. Sometimes, people will use VPNs or alt accounts to make it so that they can downvote their targets' tags more than once. The most infamous example was the Endiome incident, where one person used an alternate account and a VPN to Grudge Bomb many users for up to thousands of points.

### Carpet Bombing

This type can be seen as the Chaotic Evil form of missbombing, where someone decides to miss posts indiscriminately. Most often occurring on the front page with the most recent tags and going as far back as the bomber wants or can manage before the inevitable banning. Carpet Bombing is usually done by general trolls or users fed up with the website and taking out their final frustrations before leaving for good. The most infamous carpet bomb was done by Ulysses on September 11th, 2016, where he carpet bombed the site for as long as possible in an attempt to get Dr. Dos to pull the plug on the site for good. This didn't work, and only resulted in his permanent ban.
Submission Limits

The submission limit is perhaps the only measure the site has to combat common-or-garden shitposting (besides downvoting it to oblivion, of course). Nevertheless, the unassuming, little white number in the top corner is rarely treated with any respect, and anyone with a high enough amount of points barely even gives it the time of day.

Except when it breaks.

## The Science Behind Limits

Your submission limit dictates the amount of tags and comments you can make each day. Once you hit your limit, you'll need to wait for the site's clock to 'roll over' (7:00 PM Eastern Pacific Time), at which point your limit will be reset.

Your submission limit changes depending on your Profile Ranking, with the limit increasing at certain ranks:

* The default limit is 5 posts per day.
* At the rank of Uncharitable (100 points), the limit increases to 10.
* At the rank of Wicked Nasty (500 points), the limit increases to 25.
* Anonymous posters (while anonymous was still an option) would be limited to 3 posts per day.

## The Importance of Those Limits

Dr. Dos, the site admin, created submission limits to make people wiser about what they post and to keep shitposts down to a minimum. Veteran taggers with higher amounts of points have their limits raised as a way of acknowledging that they're good enough at tagging to not shitpost *too* much.

Well, that's the *theory*, anyway.

In reality, the site doesn't often suffer from the sort of gormless spammers that the limit is intended to shut down; most of the major conflicts happen between veteran taggers having arguments, and they have the full 25 posts to play with. And hey, even 10 posts didn't stop AFI from getting Negative Hale's Own...

That's not to say they're *useless*, though. The Attack of the Clones would have been *much* more annoying were it not for the 5-post starting limit!

## Comment Limits

Before January 11th, 2016, the submission limit only counted tags, not comments. This change, known as the Limited Comments Update, was enacted after two posts were made dedicated to reach a Hale's Own comments section. One post reached over 3500 comments, and another almost hit 50,000 comments before crashing the entire site. This incident is referred to as "The Mystery". Why is it called that? Why that, fellow tagger, is a mystery.

This change was superseded on February 20th, 2016: comments now have a limit of their own, independent of the submission limit.

Occasionally, the submission limit fails to reset, and remains that way until fixed by Dos; these occurrences, particularly the first, are referred to as Taggenings.
Tweet Tags

**Tweet Tags** are a controversial type of tag on TF2Tags, where the main purpose is not to rename a TF2 item into something cool and/or funny, but specifically to interact with the on-site community.

## Origins

Tweet Tags are thought to have originated in late 2015, and this is for a few reasons. First, though there has always been an aspect of community on TF2Tags, the main community formed and grew in mid-2015 and would quickly grow. This corresponds with the permanent disabling of Anonymous posting by Dr. Dos following the Racist Anon incident, which forced people to sign in to TF2Tags with their Steam Account in order to post. As the community grew and bonded, the site continued to be the main hub of interaction, even though there was a Steam group made for TF2Tags. As such, people would begin to make tags to spark conversations and get to know other taggers better.

Tweet Tags began small. A comment on site drama here, a link to a Cards Against Humanity game there. Eventually, however, Tweet Tags would blossom into many different forms, from conversation starters to site trends, such as sets where people gave some information about themselves. The name "Tweet Tags" would be given because they were tags about people's lives, confined within certain character limits, similar to the purpose of the social media site Twitter.

## Why did people do this?

Well, largely because they had no other choice. The TF2Tags Steam Group was largely seen as an inconvenient and unpopular forum of communication. Many users simply were not part of it or barely ever used it if they were, if they even did anything there on the first place. Since Dr. Dos never gave the site a forum tab, chat feature, or any other way for the taggers to communicate outside of tags themselves, the people turned to tagging to get their daily dose of site interaction.

## Backlash

Though Tweet Tags were largely seen as a net positive to the site overall, they had many serious and vocal detractors. Most of these taggers were from Generation 1, such as Relk\_Cehi, Sensible Haircut, and Dr. Dos himself, though there were certainly Generation 2 taggers against them, such as Bonkspenser and Expand. Their reasons for disliking Tweet Tags came from their prevalence taking away from the main purpose of the site: Renaming TF2 items. To them, Tweet Tags transformed the site into something it was not intended to be: social media.

## Legacy

Tweet Tags lasted primarily from late 2015 to the first half of 2018. Tweet Tags can be held responsible for keeping the site activity so high through these years, despite the outcry from the naysayers. However, they mostly began to disappear as more and more taggers increasingly joined the many Discord servers that the community had set up. Discord would eventually serve as the community's primary hub of communication, thus making Tweet Tags mostly redundant and unnecessary. When Tags.tf launched, Tweet Tags became banned.
Brock

**Brock** (stylized **brock**) is a Generation 5 tagger who joined in February 2021. Beloved for his brand of "so dumb it's hilarious" humor, Brock has carved out his own niche. Though he doesn't tag or interact on Discord as often as other members of the community, he does so often enough that his comments are regular mood-lifters for all to enjoy. Some call him a good boy. Some might say the goodest boy. In truth, he's just Brock.
Sappening of 2016

The Sappening was an event that occurred on December 23, 2016. It started with a tag by DudeTheNinja. The Steam servers were down for more than 3 hours.

## Chronology

### The Initial Sap

Prior to the event, DudeTheNinja submitted this post as a joke. Shortly after, the Steam servers went down, which caused everyone to believe that Ninja has sapped Steam, including Ninja himself. The first to notice the server issues was HogPilot , and replied to the initial sapper post with: "Great job Ninja, your sapper sapped Steam." He then retaliated with a spam of ">" characters (meme arrows, a principle of some of DudeTheNinja's posts).

### Attempts to remove the Sapper

The first of many anti-Sapper tags was by Hutch, which was a reversal of the initial sapper tag. However, this was useless, as the sapper had melted the processor . HogPilot then wondered if the sapper was removed (which it wasn't). This was followed by the item set that gave the event its name...

### The Sappening of 2016 (but it's an item set)

The item set, by the guy who sapped the servers himself, describes the event as it happened. It begins with a recount of the build-up, leading to the active taggers at the time thinking about how to fix this.

At first, DudeTheNinja decides to try sapping the sappers, to which everyone disagrees with, and saps himself. He goes into a panic when his waifu decides to give up her processor to save Steam, but Yonkerbonk has a much better idea: distracting the sapper. It eats through the sapper and launches towards the (fictional) girl who was going to sacrifice herself...

Until Smoky Quartz smashes it to pieces and complains about the screaming, which was interrupting her date with Peridot (to which Quartz was surprised about the accuracy of this).

However, the servers stayed down and Pyrollux suggests a game of Pretend You're XYZZY. It ended with HogPilot sad that he never got to play his games.

### It Stays Down!

Despite Ninja's attempt to 'fix' all of this, the Steam servers stayed down. People began to make comparisons with The Great Steam Purge  of Christmas 2015, and got annoyed due to notifications. However, people also saw a good side to it.

All the cause of the Sappening had to say was this . To which people sent kind gifts to him.

The adverse effects of Steam being down began to affect some taggers and make them go insane. Vulture even said that he would murder Ninja with a knife. Even HogPilot started to go mad. Many taggers started to shitpost the same stupid shit.

After the third hour, a link to an article was brought to the site by Smoky Quartz's spirit. It showed that PhantomSquad and Poodlecorp claimed responsibility for the downtime, as illustrated in an article on hackread.com. Surprisingly, around the same time, Steam went back up, and all was good.

## The Aftermath

Joy swept through the site, albeit with some confusion. Many unnecessary tags were posted, and Smoky lamented that she had used 22 tags during the 3 hour downtime. Steam was back, and the holiday sale with it. The next few hours were relatively silent on the site, and no one thought much of the events afterward.
Hale's Own Club

The Hale's Own Club is the unofficial grouping of Taggers who have at some point in their tagging career reached the coveted rank of *Hale's Own*, or 8500 total cumulative points from all their tags. Given that point gaining is the only real objective of the site, entering the Hale's Own Club is often the primary objective of most Taggers, though not always as some exceptions display.

## Reaching Godhood

Reaching Hale's is far from easy. You need both talent and consistency, along with a few friends every now and again. Critbombs and Missbombs can lead to this journey becoming much shorter or much longer, respectively, depending on the frequency and scale of these bombings.

Reaching Hale's often takes many months, even years, and because of this when it is reached Taggers often feel a great sense of pride and accomplishment. Reaching this rank often brings a great aura of respect around these Taggers, as it shows that they are hardened vets who know exactly how this site works.

It is often agreed upon that once you reach Hale's, you can never have it taken from you. As such, those like Jesse who have reached Hale's but were banned for life (thus having to start over again on another account) are still considered to be in the Hale's Own Club. Likewise, reaching a legendary *Negative* Hale's Own also allows one to join the Hale's Own Club, meaning A Fucking Idiot is also part of the Hale's Own Club.

## Members

The following are all the Taggers who have reached the rank of Hale's Own at some point in their Tagging career, along with their current number of points, rounded to the nearest hundred.

* Anonymous (90000) (Unknown date)
* Anatolebahorel (12100) (Unknown date)
* Togekiss (12400) (Unknown date)
* Relk\_Cehi (28800) (June 24th, 2014)
* Sqwid (13500) (August 15th, 2015)
* Ulysses (12800 on original, now banned account) (September 24th, 2015)
* A Fucking Idiot (-13400) (November 24th, 2015)
* Legownz (10000) (March 13th, 2016)
* Acquiesce (11800) (March 16th, 2016)
* Bonkspenser (8500) (Unknown date)
* Marmot (9300) (April-June 2016)
* Makin' Bacon (28800) (April 14th, 2016)
* Qror (8700) (Somewhere between November 21st and December 20th, 2016)
* Walumancer (9500) (December 27th, 2016)
* Mettallux (11300) (February 20th, 2017)
* Crimson Blitz (9400) (July 13th, 2017)
* Proto Kirby (10000) (March 26th, 2018)
* Bloo Kirby (8600) (March 27th, 2018)
* Fancytag (8500) (September 3rd, 2018)
* Blast (8500) (December 3rd, 2018)
* Moura (July 13th, 2022)
* Meta Breakers (8900)
* Reboot (8500)
* Twelve Hour Respawn (20400)
Pain

> "The hardest thing, is saying goodbye"
> - pain, in her goodbye message under her last tag
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**Pain**, also known as **Selene-Madeline**, is a Generation 5 ex-tagger who had joined Tags.tf during the first September Contest, becoming a part of Top 10 highest scoring Taggers. As of December 18th, 2022, she quit the site and is no longer an active member of the Discord.

While in Tags.tf, pain came out as trans, further solidifying the idea that any prolonged exposure to Tags.tf will slowly turn you to the opposite gender.

## Style

pain's style was extremely varied, ranging from god-awful shitposts to pop-culture references.

On December 18th, 2022, pain would post her final tag and announce her departure from the site. As of current day, she has not returned and most likely won't.

## Trivia

- She is openly addicted to the popular Toby Fox RPG game Deltarune.

- She is a fan of the character Marcy Wu from Amphibia, as well as being a fan of the shows Amphibia, The Owl House and Infinity Train.

- Her favorite game of all time is Night in the Woods, despite not being a furry.

- A close runner up to Night in the Woods is the Generation 7 Pokémon games Pokémon Sun and Moon, as well as Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

- Her chosen name, Selene, is named after the female protagonist of the same (canonical) name in the previously mentioned games.

- She has around 2,300 hours on Team Fortress 2, and a close 1,700 hours on Terraria.

- Only two tags of her have more Misses than Crits.

- She is banned from the TF2 Community Discord for posting a gif of Girlfriend from Friday Night Funkin getting her feet tickled.
Tags.tf

**Tags.tf** (known officially as **TF2Tags**) is the successor site to the original TF2Tags, following its shutdown in the Tagpocalypse. It was founded by brothers TGRobert and AncientShed, and developed entirely by AncientShed, on June 1st, 2020.

## Staff

### Current:

* TGRobert (Head Administrator)
* AncientShed (Administrator, sole site Developer)
* Walumancer (Administrator, previous Acting Head Administrator during the early days of TGR's coscription)
* The Lazygineer (Administrator)
* Moura (Administrator)
* Kal (Administrator, Social Media handler)
* Cammie (Steam Group Manager)

### Previous:

* Ulysses (Administrator, left the team and overall community prior to site launch)
* Makin' Bacon (Administrator, stripped due to inactivity)
* Therister (Administrator, stripped due to inactivity)
Space Cowboy

**space cowboy** is a rising Generation 5 tagger who joined Tags.tf in late January 2021. Despite joining the new site in its second year, space cowboy has quickly attained many achievements, such as ranking among the Top 10 highest-scoring taggers and winning the Fear's Own prize during the Second September Contest.
HogPilot

> "I don't get it"
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> ~HogPilot's average reaction to a post
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## History

HogPilot first discovered Tf2 tags when he discovered a Steam Forum thread called "Clever Names For Weapons" (thread has since been locked"). In it, some people linked tf2tags and he clicked on it, and posted his first tag. It was met with some positive results so he kept posting.

## Relationships

His relationship with other taggers is mostly good, however Baguette Syndrome is known to be annoyed by him, and older taggers secretly hate him for being clueless most of the time. Since then, however, HogPilot has been involved in drama due to his posts that affected Makin Bacon's New Year surprise, "trend" tags, causing multiple taggers, especially Vulture Prime and Makin' Bacon to lash out at him through comments and misses. He is hated by Vulture\_Prime and VampireButcher01 and they both have missbombed him.

## Trivia

* HogPilot plays the Drums in real life. He plays the Snare drum to be specific.
* Despite living in Texas, HogPilot was born on an American Air Force Base in Germany
* HogPilot's least played class is Medic, and mains Soldier.
* HogPilot once kept up a fanfic-esque storyline called "The Experiment." It was met with mostly positive feedback, but was put on hiatus after Spook and Sniper destroyed his series.
* He began to use a War-Pig as his rep item after Makin' posted a tag asking him why he didn't know anything
* HogPilot hates any trends related to Minecraft, whenever one comes around, he cannot bear it and usually screams about it. Ironically, he plays Minecraft.
WindClan/Roleplay

Archives: None

Spiderstar's nose twitched with the incoming smell of something nearly. Clicking her tongue, a warrior suddenly shot forward, running after the smell at a fast pace as to chase it down. The smell, which identified itself as a mouse, shot out from the hay across the barn and looked quickly for a safe spot, but the ginger warrior had caught it in time. With a slap to the neck, the mouse was dead, and the warrior came trotting back proudly to Spiderstar. Spiderstar sniffed, turning away, "If you're looking for praise, go look for a kitten or something to give you your daily pride," she mewed, shifting away from the ginger warrior. The warrior growled, "I wasn't looking for anything!" he retorted, stalking away hotly. Spiderstar yawned, *Patchfang is so pathetic, too bad he's stuck in my clan,* she thought to herself, licking her paw and drawing it over her own ear.

Spiderstar remembered when she expanded the territory back, away from the clans as to not piss them off, and towards the horseplace. The horseplace was a wonderful idea to take, since the stupid twolegs still thought those loners lived here and sometimes gave them kittypet food, as well as the large abundance of mice that happened to be here. The loners had been driven out, but she had offered them a place to stay, at least the decently shaped ones. None of them had agreed to stay, so she had no choice but to drive them out or kill them if they fought. All of them left without a fight, and ran towards the mountains or something.

After that, Spiderstar had thought of an idea to stake out rogues and loners around the area that were in decent condition to hunt and fight, and offer them a place to stay. This worked well, as the clan's population had now increased greatly. They fit in quite nicely, and even when she hauled them to gatherings, the other clan's didn't seem to figure out they weren't already born here. Her whisker's twitched; stupid clans. Spiderstar wasn't planning anything dramatic with the clans now, but she would certainly love to expand her territory some more as to get more hunting grounds stabalized, since there was only so much space in the back of Horseplace, or really enough space to where the other clans wouldn't notice she expanded at all. She made her medicine cat swore to never telling the others of her expansion, or any cat that went to the gatherings. **♈**♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ **♍** ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ 22:32 Mon Jun 22

Cryptflower awoke to jabbing pain in her stomach. She writhed about, squirming to get comfortable, but as the agonizing daggers continued to stab, she screeched in pain. The kits were coming! Nachtide"*Anchors aweigh!"*
Sqwid/Tag Archive

Whether you call him by his original or second name, Sqwid was a tagger of exceedingly high esteem. Of his 770 tags, around 222 reached at least 20 crits. These tags span from December 2013 to January 2018. So enjoy this goldmine of puns and Spongebob Jokes. You won't find them as high in quality anywhere else.

## Gallery

Sqwid's first tag.Sqwid's best tag.Sqwid's last tag.
ShadowClan

## Allegiances

### Leader

Duskstar - brown and white tabby tom. *Roleplayed by Neha*
### Deputy

Crimsonwing ~ dark red-brown tabby she-cat *Roleplayed by Nachtide*
### Medicine Cat

Stark - brown tabby tomcat. *Roleplayed by:* literal trash
### Warriors

Quailheart - brown and white tabby she-cat. *Roleplayed by Neha*
Lightningclaw - white tom. *Roleplayed by Neha*
Ravenheart - black tom. *Roleplayed by Neha*
Tawnypelt - blue grey she-cat. *Roleplayed by Neha*
Cloudfoot - ginger tom. *Roleplayed by Neha*
Shadowclaw - grey and white tom. *Roleplayed by Fernflight*
Mintflower - grey she-cat. *Roleplayed by Fernflight*
Wildheart - tortoiseshell she-cat. *Roleplayed by:* literal trash
Crowclaw - black-and-white tomcat. *Roleplayed by:* literal trash
Cloudpatch - black-and-white tom. *Roleplayed by SnowedLightning*
Iceheart - white she-cat. *Roleplayed by Iciloo.*
Kestrelstar

**Kestrelstar** is a pale ginger-and-white tomcat. He was the leader of WindClan, before losing his last three lives on a deadly illness at the time. He also had two litters of kittens, his first being Suntail, and his second later containing Newttail and Morningear.

He was chosen as deputy by Harestar around the cat's end, being he was around 60 moons when finally reaching leadership. Kestrelstar was known as the cat that lead to the clan's fatal fall officially, being he was a violent cat and launched pointless attacks on other clans at the smallest things. Due to this, he lost his lives very fast, and lost his clan's lives fast as well. His choice of Foxfoot as deputy after Hootwhisker's death came from the cat being his grandson, and one of the only cats not deadly ill from the sickness that swept the camp.
Otterfur

**Otterfur** is a brown-and-white molly with darker points. She was the deputy of WindClan before starving from lack of food and ending up in StarClan. She had one son, Sycamorewhisker. She joined the clan partly into it's delema, hoping to help it out some. She was choosen for deputy afterwards by Foxstar due to the shortage of warriors, but only being in the clan for 3 moons it was a bad decision.
ShadowClan/Roleplay

Duskstar woke slowly, tired eyes blinking as he found his way into consciousness. He realized he was alone, his mate having awoken already. Yawning and stretching as he rose to his paws, he padded out of his den and onto Highrock. Another cat stood there, her wide eyes unblinking as she surveyed the camp. Duskstar fell in beside his mate, resting his tail on her back and licking her cheek. "Good morning, love. Did you sleep well?" Quailheart nodded. "Yeah, I'm up early because Mikey said last night that he wanted to talk to me in the morning. I'm gonna go see what's up with him." With a quick dip of her head, she leaped off the Highrock, disappearing eventually into the warriors' den, leaving Duskstar to take a glance at camp. It was early - not many cats were awake, and the dawn patrol was just returning. He sighed, retreating back into his den to wait for his mate. —.nehastay beautiful, keep it ugly. 22:16, June 22, 2015 (UTC)

Crimsonwing stirred from her soft nest. The feisty deputy growled prior to yawning. Dawn light had broken through the den. She had missed the morning patrol. --Nachtide

Shadowclaw padded pack into camp along with the dawn patrol. He hated being woken up for the early patrols, but what could he do? At least he got to sleep for a while after, right? Seemed good to him. He padded up to his mate, Mintflower, who was sitting by the fresh kill pile, a mouse in her jaws. —  ferk 23:53, 06/23/2015

Duskstar, having given up on speaking to Quailheart anytime soon - he knew that when she and Lightningclaw talked, they talked for what felt like *seasons* - decided to go see what the rest of the Clan was up to. He glanced over at the fresh-kill pile, noticing one of his senior warriors, Shadowclaw, and the tom's mate, Mintflower. "Morning, Shadowclaw. How was the dawn patrol?" —.nehastay beautiful, keep it ugly. 02:21, June 24, 2015 (UTC)
Iceheart

**Iceheart** is a white she-cat with blue eyes.

## Description

### Appearance

Iceheart is a broad-shouldered, compact white she-cat with icy blue eyes. She is large and powerful, and is one of the best fighters in her Clan. She has thorn-sharp claws and long fur that keeps her warm in leaf-bare.
### Health

Iceheart shows signs of cat anxiety. Overall, she is in excellent health.

## Trivia

Iceheart is the only cat who understands Bushfire.
## Relationships

### Family

**Bushfire**

Bushfire is Iceheart's half brother. Both were very close when Bushfire had joined ShadowClan, but he then left for ThunderClan.
Dulce Herba

*Dulce Herba*

*“sweet grass”*

*Major “poa” or sod grass. It is a crop used for food by the Fae Cervidae.*

*Color: its color is various shades of dark green.*

*Height: 2′ to 3′ naturally*

*Taste: sweeter than candy. Irresistible to most of Earths creatures. Think like anti-freeze, but not deadly.*

*Growing instructions: Kept in small clearings in woodland areas, fields, and prairies. can grow in most soils including sandy and acidic, but has a slightly different flavor. Needs lots of weeding to control the ratio of bitter greens like dandelions and the dark sweet grass.*

*Because of its inherent nature of drawing people and animals to eat it, the Fae Cervidae usually have to guard the precious grass with powerful Umbras.*
Minktail

**Minktail** is a mostly black tortoiseshell molly. She is the daughter of Wildheart, and her brother is Crowclaw. Her mate is Warblerface. She is currently a warrior of RiverClan, formerly being of ShadowClan before leaving to join her mate's clan.

## Description

### Character

[DRAFT]
**Positives:**Sweet, Loving, Caring, Optimistic, affectionate, loyal, sympathetic/empathetic of others, usually puts others above her own needs, selfless
**Neutral:** Energetic, overly trusting, sensitive, innocent-like, open minded, flirtatious/romantic, forgetful, emotional, 'an open book', extrovert, large imagination, has limited courage/has a cowardly nature
**Negatives:** Gullible, dependant, immature, anxious/a very nervous cat, oblivious, childish, 'prone to suggestion'

## Images

### Pixels

*Please do not edit this gallery without permission from the role-player*
Nydia

*Name: Nydia*

Name meaning: a safe place, nest

*Sex: female*

*Gender: female*

*Race: fae cervidae*

Age: deceased, died at full maturity

Skin color: peachy and warm

Hair color: carob

Hair length: top of shoulders

Eye color: green with copper flecks

Height: 5' 6"

Weight: 145 lbs

Relatives: Trevor (son), Nox (daughter), Luce (son), Amalie (granddaughter)

Fun fact: dies in childbirth