Endiome Incident

* Additional measures implemented to better identify missbombers, including public voting records and limited anonymous voting.
* Makin' Bacon hits Hale's Own.
* The Tagger behind Endiome's main account is permanently banned, though the Endiome account itself is not.
* Endiome slowly exiled from the community until the advent of the Discord Era.

## Belligerents

* **Makin' Bacon**
* **TheOnlyGuyEver**
* Blast
* Mr. Copycat
* Walumancer
* Legownz
* Le Tryhard Hunter
* Meta Breakers
* Most of the community

* **Endiome**†
* Jesse

The **Endiome Incident** is one of the most infamous events in TF2Tags history, wherein an established and respected member of the community hid his identity to go on the largest and most prolific targeted missbombing campaign the site has ever known, primarily against Makin' Bacon but also against a few others. This event sent shockwaves throughout the community and implemented changes to the site's vote logging system in an attempt to combat future missbombings.

## A Mysterious Missbombing

Late at night on March 28th, 2016, Makin' Bacon, a respected veteran Generation 2 tagger with nearly 5000 points, made a set titled "Relkism", wherein he aired his gripe that, whenever Relk\_Cehi made a tag very similar to someone else's (as in, almost identical with only 1 word being different), he would always get at least five to six crits while the original poster would get barely any, or sometimes more misses than crits. He made a snide potshot at Meta Breakers (whose reputation had not yet recovered form the Edge Incident that had occurred earlier that month), and expressed that he wasn't mad at Relk, but was just confused. Ordinarily a tag such as this would be like any other Tweet Tag. Perhaps some discussion in the comments, perhaps some funny quips, probably Relk going "Bah" because he's a sheep in denial. But shortly after, Makin' would leave a comment on this tag revealing that he had been missbombed, and issued hyperbolic and violent threats to the culprit. TGRobert would shortly thereafter comment about the severity of the missbomb, while Mr. Copycat would go on to engage with the content of the set itself, before addressing that severity of the bomb as well. Makin' would then request a critbomb to try and help counteract the loss of points, a request that TGR called lowly. Makin' would then comment that his main suspects for the bombing where Jesse (likely due to his reputation), TGR (again, reputation), Meta Breakers (for their rivalry at the time and the fact he potshotted him in the set) and Relk (who he indirectly criticized in the set). He specified that he was leaning towards either Meta or TGR, because he didn't think Jesse or Relk were that low. TGR and Relk defended themselves, with TGR stating that he hardly ever votes on tags much less bomb, while Relk simply said it wasn't him. Smash Z then commented that he believed Relk did it, to which Relk called him a "bah" (again, sheep in denial) and accused him of being the bomber.

A few minutes after posting the set, Makin' would post another tag, claiming that Meta Breakers had a rival for the person who hated him the most, and posted a link to the vote log of the missbomber. Within the hour, Makin' would make another tag screaming about the missbomber, as he had at that point lost 500 points, and just before reaching the Epic profile rank as well. TGR attempted to calm Makin' down, which Makin' instantly rebuked by asking how he could possibly be calm while experiencing "AFI's wet dream". TheOnlyGuyEver commented how shocked he was that the bomber took so many points, wondering how many IP addresses the bomber had to do such a thing, though TGR commented that Makin' had 770 or so tags at the time, and therefore you would only need a single IP to deal that much damage. Makin' would continue to sperg out in the comments about how bad the missbomb was, citing ideas that this was potentially revenge from the Shitposter of 2016 from the Attack of the Clones, and that multiple people were bombing him, while TGR called him an "overreactive wank" and Relk commented how he feared for Makin's mental stability.

A little later, Expand would report on the missbombing in the latest entry of the TF2Tags Nightly News Network. A bit past midnight, TheStarvingFriend would make a joke tag regarding the situation. In the comments, it was revealed that Twelve Hour Respawn had critbombed Makin' to mitigate the damage of the unknown missbomber, to which Makin' was extremely grateful. Shortly thereafter Fancytag would also critbomb Makin', to the point where he had not only achieved his previous score, but surpassed the rank of Epic.

Unfortunately, this would not be the end of the ordeal, as by the night of the 29th, the missbomber had struck again, this time causing Makin' to lose a whopping ***2000 points*** in what is still the largest single missbombing recorded in TF2Tags history. At this point, Makin' was pointing the blame squarely at Jesse, who had not commented on the situation whatsoever. Makin' would then make a tag demanding that Jesse or TGR, or whoever the culprit was, critbomb him back to his proper score. TheOnlyGuyEver commented in support, calling out Jesse for being unnecessarily harsh. Jesse would then finally appear and state that he had not missbombed Makin' even once, and that TGR was the real culprit behind them all, citing a steam chat message which read: "12:22 AM - TheGamingRemote: Jesse you know I'm the one who missbombed the pan because he is a cocky shite and needs to learn his place." Given that this was Jesse saying this, who was known to missbomb people for reaching certain profile rank milestones and being a general asshole, Makin' understandably had some reservations about believing the message to be authentic, getting incredibly confused as to who he should believe, given that TGR previously claimed not to have done it. Smash Z proposed missbombing both Jesse and TGR to cover both bases in revenge. Relk commented that he said something about attention-craving, probably to insinuate that Makin' was craving attention and playing the victim. Relk had never said anything about attention-craving, however, and Jesse pointed that out. Jesse would respond to Smash's proposition with a set called "#CritbombJesse2016" where Jesse noted that if 3 people got together and missbombed all of Jesse's 1200 submissions, he would lose the rank of Hale's Own, essentially goading the bomber (or anyone, really) into doing the same to him. Makin's suspicions turned to TGR at this point, but a slew of comments only confused him more.

Resident Site MediatorTM Blast would enter the situation, beginning by commenting rather angrily for everyone to settle down, clearly not happy at the state of the site and the likelihood that he would have to mediate yet another conflict. He would then make a tag expressing his frustrations that he had only stepped away from the site for a couple hours and now Makin' wanted Jesse and TGR dead. He reminded them angrily of what Dr. Dos had threatened a month prior. TOGE would agree with Blast's sentiments, pointing out that Jesse himself was constantly reminding everyone of what Dos had said, and yet he was the one who (allegedly) started this drama. Blast continued his rant, expanding on TOGE's point, and demanded that everyone involved use common sense and drop the pettiness, and called Jesse a hypocrite. Makin' refused the demand, saying he will stop making a scene when people stop missbombing him, claiming that he did nothing but be victimized. Marmot would make a tag commenting on the fact that there was yet more drama. Blast would continue his rantings by saying that *he* was supposed to be the level-headed one and now he was being driven up a wall, particularly at Jesse (allegedly) going back on his word, and that every attempt he made to keep the site in check always failed in the long run. Marmot attempted to calm Blast down, by telling him he wasn't dealing with insane people, but stubborn people who believe themselves insane, but Blast would not calm down.

Blast would make another tag not long after that this incident was ruining the return of Timberwoof, who had only recently returned to the site on the 27th. At the same time, TOGE would make a tag telling all those involved in the incident to act mature and end the nonsense, coming to Blast's defense and claiming that he shouldn't be forced to get involved every single time something like this happens. Mr. Copycat would make a tag at the drama's expense, but would also tell people to chill out in the keywords. Timberwoof himself would even comment on the issue and ask politely for people to stop acting like children. TOGE would comment on this tag, saying that it was times like these that only proved that the site needed community moderators, which Dos had still not implemented, a sentiment to which Blast agreed. Makin' countered that moderators weren't necessary and that it was weebs (read: TGRobert) that were the issue, expressing that TGR had become his prime suspect and that his already low opinion of him had sunken even lower. Of course, he still wasn't 100% sure if he should believe Jesse's word or not, as that was the only evidence against TGR, but it was the only evidence available at the time for any suspect.

Still clearly enraged, Blast critbombed Makin' in an attempt to quell the situation, asking sarcastically if he was happy, to which Makin' never replied. Blast then made a rage-filled set expressing that he was done trying to play mediator. He said he was fed up trying his damndest to keep the site together for everyone's sake, only to get no satisfaction as everything only ever got worse. He said it made him sick to have to step in so frequently just to save the site from deletion over idiocy, without ever getting any results or reward for his efforts. Acquiesce empathized with Blast's frustrations, saying that being a mediator is a "hell of a bitch" and that it would probably be best for Blast if he stepped away for awhile. Legownz would thank Blast for trying his best anyway, which Blast thanked him for after revealing he had given himself a rage-induced stomachache. He expressed that he would take a few days to a week off from the site in response, which TOGE, Le Tryhard Hunter, and Crimson Blitz supported, the latter of which offered to act as mediator during that time for him.

Following Blast's explosive outburst, Bonkspenser would make a tag advising everyone stop the shitstorm before Dos came in and pulled the plug from the site, as he threatened to do following the Attack of the Clones. A few joke tags about the situation were made by Greg the Mannequin, John Kennedy, and Walumancer, the latter of whom made an NTF2Tags parody of the situation. Le Tryhard Hunter lamented the state of the site's community. Finally, Jesse (verifiably due to vote logs) would go on to missbomb Blast for 100 points, seemingly due to his earlier extended outburst, which nearly set Blast off again until Ashton Doovis came in to help mitigate the damage with a critbomb.

After all of that, the situation slowly petered out. The site would return to normal, and with April Fools' Week 2016 happening a couple days later with a planned NTF2Tags Invasion event planned just prior, everything seemed to go back to normal... until it didn't.

## Second Strike

At the tail end of the April Fools festivities, specifically April 6th, Legownz would report a missbombing against him. Though the culprit was unknown at the time, later changes to the vote log systems verified that the culprit was Jesse. Luckily, the bombing was quickly reversed thanks to the efforts of TGRobert, Mr. Copycat, and Le Tryhard Hunter, who critbombed Legownz back to his normal score. Things would seemingly return to normal following this, until ten hours later when Makin' reported that he had been missbombed yet again, linking two different vote logs in the tag that, upon combing through the votes, indicates that he had lost several hundred more points. Makin' reported that this had been the fourth time in the past month that he had been missbombed on such a scale, and that he was ready to declare war. TOGE would second the sentiment, though less aggressively. Le Tryhard Hunter would call upon the members of the Spaghetto (he and Makin's Papyrus-dedicated faction) to aid him in critbombing Makin' to help combat the missbombings, call that Meta Breakers and Walumancer answered, which Makin' replied to with graciousness. Blast attempted to help as well, but was unable to do much given how he had already crit most of Makin's tags following his breakdown from the previous series of bombings.

Makin' would make light of the situation at first, making a meme out of the missbomber and parodying Meet the Engineer with the missbomber. However, he would quickly grow semi-serious as he would call out the missbomber, whoever it was, in an open letter addressed to him. He addressed Teaquin, TGR, Dos, and Jesse (whoever the culprit was), that he was convinced at that point it was a single person using multiple accounts, and that he worked hard to attain the crits he earned and didn't need someone coming in and rendering his work pointless. He then made a JonTron reference, followed by a Sans reference. In the comments, he proclaimed that no one else on the site hated missbombers more than him at this point. Player 1 + Player 2 told him to calm down and to stop sperging out over virtual points, while Mr. Copycat offered to critbomb Makin' when he had the chance, to which Makin' thanked him. Tryhard pointed out the fact that Makin' had become the second most missbombed tagger in history (the first, naturally, being AFI). TGR commented that he almost began to feel bad for him until he put an Undertale reference at the end of the set. By 2:45 AM on April 7th, Tryhard reported that he had finally restored Makin's points back to their previous state, to which Makin' was extremely grateful. From there, things appeared to settle down once more.

Until they didn't. Because on April 8th, at 10:12 PM, Makin' reported that he had been missbombed yet again. TOGE wondered aloud who would continuously do such a thing, noting that Makin' was a nice person and hadn't done anything wrong. Floro Sapiens made a comment that unfortunately is unreadable due to being deleted by Dr. Dos, but it is known that he did comment thanks to Tryhard referencing it in that very comment section. Makin' would then make a very angry set directed towards the bomber demanding he stop while also throwing several insults his way. P1P2 would once again tell him to stop making such a fuss over virtual points. Makin' would make another tag begging someone to find out who the bomber is and to tell him. But nobody came.

Jesse would reenter the drama by making a tag claiming that people simply didn't believe him, and he could tell. This was of course in reference to him naming TGR as the bomber at the beginning of this incident. TOGE expressed that he believed him, but Makin' was still unconvinced. Some joke tags were made about the continued missbombings and things finally began to settle down...

I think you know where this is going.

## Endiome Emerges

On April 10th, the bomber struck again. In a tag titled "THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH!", Makin' linked two more vote logs showcasing hundreds of misses, and commented that if all of these misses were removed, he would have reached Hale's Own by now thanks to the amount of critbombs he had received thanks to his friends. Keep in mind that he was at 4997 points when this all began, meaning that the missbomber had hit Makin' for over ***3500 points*** at the very least over the course of the several bombings.

Right after this comment, however, the bomber finally came out of the woodwork. Using a profile picture which was a cropped version of Jesse's at the time (the picture itself was a bomb, from a piece of fanart of Mettaton) and speaking like P1P2, Endiome said that he had no sympathy for the likes of Makin'. Jesse then commented that he found the single crit in a sea of misses to be hilarious, and found it funny that Endiome had not missbombed him or Relk during all this time. Endiome replied that neither Jesse nor Relk, either separately or combined, are as bad as Makin' in his eyes. Makin' demanded to know what he had done to deserve this treatment, and Endiome replied that it wasn't anything he had done, and that he was bombing him purely because of his behavior. Makin' shot back that, by his logic, P1P2 should have lost all his points by now, a sentiment which Jesse agreed with. Makin' demanded a further explanation. Was he too nice? Too much of an asshole? Either way, there were many others far more deserving if either was the criteria. Endiome responded with the following:

> its not always whether a person is a dick or a not, and from what ive seen there are a lot of dickheads here, but its more often about how utterly pathetic and pitiful you are. egotistic, ignorant, (well, also a dickhead, if I have to say that too), extremely self-centered, childish, and so much more
>
>

Walumancer then stepped in and pointed out that missbombing someone for that reason makes no sense, as a user's score is based purely upon the creativity of their tags, and that missbombing was unproductive and helped no one. Makin' then responded that Jesse and Relk are also egotistical pricks and yet they received none of Endiome's ire. Endiome then responded that he wouldn't still be missbombing Makin' if it wasn't for the fact that he was overreacting to the point where people were critbombing him out of pure pity, which Makin' responded that people were only doing that because of Endiome's actions in the first place. Endiome simply laughed it off, claiming that he agreed and that he continued to do it because he found it so funny. TheStarvingFriend and TGR made some joke comments, and then Walumancer requested that Makin' speak with him on Steam about the issue. TOGE then commented that missbombing someone because you think them childish is itself a childish act. Finally, P1P2 told Makin' to stop trying to get him missbombed by bringing up his name (though Makin' did repeatedly tell Endiome not to Missbomb P1P2).

Makin' would then make a set calling Endiome a hypocrite for calling Makin' childish despite being a missbomber. He essentially repeated his points from the previous tag's comment section, then pointed out that nothing he was doing was forcing Endiome to missbomb him. Endiome was doing it because Endiome chose to, and people were only critbombing him because nobody likes missbombers. Makin' admitted that he can act somewhat childish, egotistical, and everything else, but pointed out that, in this instance, Endiome is the not only the reason he was acting that way, but the very things he accused Makin' of being himself. He pointed out that, had he never missbombed Makin' in the first place, none of this would have ever happened.

Surprisingly, the comments of this tag began somewhat in Endiome's favor. Meta Breakers told Makin' to calm down, pointing out that people continued to believe the same things about him due to his previous incident, and Jesse pointed out that sets like these were exactly what caused Endiome to missbomb Makin' in the first place. Endiome himself then confirmed that very idea, saying that none of this would have happened if Makin' didn't act this way in the first place. TOGE and Walumancer would then defend Makin', the former daring the bomber to stop being a coward and reveal who he really was, while the latter stated that Endiome was the only one who had a problem with Makin', and that he and only he was responsible for this mess.

During this period, Makin' and Walumancer began chatting on Steam, trying to put together a list of potential suspects of who Endiome really was. Makin' would then post this list on the site. These suspects included:

* Bonkspenser (deemed not likely, but Bonk did tell Makin' he was on thin ice with him relatively recently)
* Digi (for being a general asshole)
* G-Swizzle (general unfamiliarity)
* Jesse (deemed not likely, but possible, and noted that Jesse was acting quite confusingly throughout this entire ordeal)
* Kokogumi (who has started drama in the past)
* L'Étranger (Makin' admitted to insulting him in the past, and that he might be angry over it)
* Shitposter of 2016 (very possible due to Makin' being one of the more outspoken users during the Attack of the Clones)
* Teaquin (no explanation needed)
* TGR (deemed not likely, but possible, for reasons similar to Jesse)
* ¡BEAT! (who has admitted to missbombing in the past)

Makin claimed that it could be anyone, including someone not on that list, but he was absolutely certain that it was someone in the community and not some random new user. Mr. Copycat inquired as to why he was so certain that it wasn't some random asshole, and Makin' responded that Endiome being a new profile with only one tag was extremely suspicious. Copycat pointed out that such evidence did not disprove his theory, and that he was borderline feeding a troll at this point and only making things worse for himself. Makin' countered asking what he was supposed to do then, because if he did nothing than nothing would be done and he would have to continuously eat hundreds or even thousands of more misses. TGR then dismissed the possibility of Tranger and Kokogumi being the bomber. As he was closer to both than most, he confirmed that Tranger no longer cared for the site and Koko was too busy memeing. He said that G-Swizzle and Bonk had no reason to be considered suspects, and that BEAT also said his bombing days are long behind him. That left Digi, Jesse, Shitposter of 2016, Teaquin, and TGR himself. Jesse asked Makin' what he exactly meant by him and TGR "acting confusing", which Makin' clarified that he didn't know if he could trust either's word during this due to their reputations. Tranger himself then appeared and sarcastically claimed that he was Endiome, which Makin' considered taking seriously before Tranger had to outright say he had better things to do, like watch anime.

Makin', feeling low and self-reflective, then made a tag genuinely asking if people in the community had a problem with him. Most people (Reboot, Twelve Hour Respawn, Acquiesce, Crimson, Tryhard, TOGE, Blast, and The Last Airblaster) said they had no problems with Makin', with Crimson and Airblaster even admitting to liking Makin' enough to critbomb him (though Airblaster was put off by Makin' telling him to stop openly saying that he had critbombed him, as it would only make Endiome strike again). However, TGR and Relk did both say that they had problems with him, with Relk specifically noting his behavior from the past few days was his reason.

Then, almost out of nowhere, Endiome began to expand his missbombings to other users, as TheOnlyGuyEver both began to report that he was getting hit as well, with TOGE reporting that the bombings were "spreading like a disease". Meta Breakers feared that he would be next, considering he saw a lot of Makin's flaws within himself. TGR said to look on the bright side, because maybe now at least Endiome will lay off Makin'. TOGE called once again for the implementation of moderators, or at the very least for Dos to get involved and end the madness. Reboot would begin a critbomb TOGE movement, which Meta Breakers contributed to.

## The Madness Ends

On April 13th, at 2:10 AM, Dr. Dos would post a news announcement declaring he had answered the prayers of Makin' and undid the damage of Endiome. He detailed his process for narrowing down each of the 60,000 IPs that have ever voted on TF2Tags to the one responsible for causing all the damage. Of the 60,000 IPs, 10,000 had more recorded misses than crits. However, most of these 10,000 only had a net vote score (total crit votes minus total miss votes) of -1, meaning they only had one more miss than crit. Additionally, most of those 10,000 had only a dozen votes or so. When only counting those with net votes of -2 or lower, the number dropped down to 4,500 IPs. When only counting those with -10 or lower, it drops further down to 1,200. The 500 most negative IPs have scores of -31 or lower. The 100 most negative have -165 or lower, adn the 10 most negative have -685 or lower. The most negative IP had a voting score of -1943, but this user also has 1498 crit votes as well. While combing through the IPs, Dos noticed that many of negative IPs were very similar, so Dos searched for tags submitted with one of those IPs and quickly found a user to attach these IPs to. With the user being found, Dos looked at a log of every single IP this user ever used to submit items or comments with and looked at the IPs that were cross-referenced with the list of negative IPs. And thus, the man behind Endiome was found.

In response to these findings, Dos implemented the following:

1. The user behind the bombings was banned, though Dos declined to say who it was.
2. Every vote this user made, whether crit or miss, was erased.
3. Every item this user has ever voted on has had its score recalculated. Over 9000 items were effected.
4. Voting now records the user's identity, not just an IP, making future missbombing significantly easier to verify, correct, and ban for.
5. Anonymous voting is limited to only 5 votes per day. Only signed in users can vote on unlimited submissions.

Dos warned that, if such methods were not a sufficient deterrent, he may have to take more drastic measures, such as making all vote logs and the people who voted on them public, or removing misses entirely. He concluded by saying that if other missbombs were found to notify him, because he doubted that Endiome was the sole person responsible for the bombings, though likely the main contributor.

The response to this news post was swift and overwhelmingly positive. Makin' instantly thanked Dos to high heaven, though he and Meta worried how this may affect AFI, who had only recently returned to the site a week prior from his banning following the Attack of the Clones. Copycat, curious, asked Makin' what his current profile score was at the moment, and Makin' stated that he was quite close to Hale's Own, which was very exciting for him. Specifically, his score was raised to around 7200 points. TOGE and Walumancer expressed relief at the bombings finally ceasing. Many joyed tags were made, though there were a few exceptions.

Legownz reported that he had actually lost 2000 points (in reality it was closer to 1500). Initially believing he had become victimized by another missbomber, it turned out that the user behind Endiome had actually given Legownz a very large number of crits. Arceus too reported losing a fair number of crits from Dos's action. In the comments of the latter, Twelve Hour Respawn reported that Relk had mini-missbombed him, missing tags he had previously critted to make him lose double the points. Other taggers reported point gains thanks to Dos, with Smash Z reporting gaining 200 and TOGE reporting that he gained 500. Smash would later quell the worries of a few taggers by reporting that AFI had not been effected by the new update at all, and that he was still below -10,000 points. Makin' thanked everybody for critbombing him during his hours of need, and when Legownz lamented never truly reaching Hale's because of all the critbombs, Makin' decided to help Critbomb Legz back to his former glory. Grateful, Legownz returned the favor and gave Makin' a small critbomb as well. Smash Z and Reboot also critbombed Legownz, with the latter being the one to push him back over the Hale's milestone.

Makin' would make a set expressing how great April 2016 had been so far, citing the unbanning and return of AFI, a great April Fools' Week, personal justice against Endiome, the beginning stages of the TF2Tags Game. Shortly after this, Legownz reported that he had raised Makin' to 7900 points, and actively called for someone to give him the final 600 points he needed to reach Hale's Own, citing that there were several taggers he felt deserved Hale's more than he did, such as Crimson, Blast, and Makin' himself. Makin' was, of course, grateful.

Following this, many other celebratory tags would be made, including a humorous set by Mr. Copycat retelling the events of the Endiome Incident, Reboot reporting the latest news for the TF2NNN, and a very rare instance of Walumancer praising Dr. Dos for the changes he made.

Of course, one very important question still remained...

## But Who Did It?

Amidst all the celebration, Dos posted a tag called "The Finer Details", where he linked to a pastebin file listing out the names of all taggers who had their scores either raised or lowered by at least 100 points as a result of the changes. The score changes were as follows:

* Makin' Bacon: +2396
* Floro Sapiens: +736
* TheOnlyGuyEver: +475
* A Fucking Idiot: +311
* Meta Breakers: +287
* Fancytag: +238
* Player 1 + Player 2: +199
* L'Étranger: -303
* Jesse: -1247
* Legownz: -1517

Dos also noted that the user behind Endiome also lost 300 points himself, but Dos had removed his name from the list. In total, 159 users had their scores adjusted. 71 users gained points, 88 lost points. 13 people lost 10 or more points. 14 people gained 10 or more points. Legownz noted being surprised that he lost the most points, and wondered aloud if he attracted bad people or something.

TheStarvingFriend was an early advocate for trying to figure out who Endiome actually was, though his question was met with some dismissive remarks. Legownz claimed that only Dos knew and it was entirely up to him to reveal who it was, and Dos himself commented that the missbomber was "the friends we made along the way". Jesse would return later in the day asking what the fuck happened considering he had just lost 1,000 points and, more importantly, why Endiome was banned from the site and not him, as he confessed the missbombing BlitzKrieg36, SaturnCaine, and Legownz. Nobody would answer him.

PsychKlown would make a set claiming to try and figure out who Endiome was, and while halfway through it devolved into Half-Life 3 Confirmed levels of ridiculous leaps in logic, he did bring up a few very valid points. PsychKlown pointed out that Dos indirectly confirmed that Endiome was an established tagger due to his pastebin tag and the whole "friends we made along the way" comment. The pastebin tag also ruled out a few potential culprits. Dos specifically said that the Missbomber lost 300 points due to the score changes, but that he had removed the user's name for the list, likely for ethical reasons. This means that Endiome could not have been Jesse or L'Étranger, since both were on the list. Additionally, a very significant clue was present in the fact that Endiome had actually give a hefty amount of crits to L'Étranger, who was one of the more unpopular members of the community at the time, with very few allies. Additionally, Endiome's profile picture was cropped from Jesse's profile picture at the time, meaning that Endiome likely had some form of acquaintance with Jesse.

Making things all the more interesting, Reboot made a tag that Endiome actually commented on. This revealed that Dos only banned the main account of the user, and did not actually ban the Endiome account itself. This also means that the Endiome account was merely a sock puppet and did not actually do any of the bombing itself. This actually made Mr. Copycat question whether or not Endiome was even the missbomber in the first place, noting a lack of substantive proof other than Endiome's word and the fact that he wasn't banned, which might mean he was just trolling.

Of course, the amount of evidence was overwhelming enough to make the culprit increasingly obvious. The culprit is a) a known user, b) friends with (or at least on good terms with) L'Étranger, c) has some relationship to Jesse, and d) hasn't commented since Dos took action. It didn't take long for Makin' to put together that Endiome was none other than TGR. This meant that Jesse had been telling the truth from the very beginning and yet nobody believed him. In hindsight, it should have been obvious even before Dos acted, as TGR had acted quite aggressively towards Makin' during the bombing.

## Aftermath

Jesse made a tag basically going "I told you so" but noted that he didn't know if that is such a good thing or not. TOGE instantly said that it is and that everyone should rejoice at a cancerous tumor being removed. TGR (now operating through the Endiome account) shot back that such a thing couldn't be true considering TOGE and Makin' were still there. The three men bickered for a bit in the comments before Jesse made his own thoughts on the matter known. He had missbombed three people recently. One was a major tagger (Legownz), one left the site over it (Saturn), and the other one was a complete missbomb of every tag the user made (BlitzKrieg). Why does he get to stay while TGR, who only bombed two people gets permanently banned? Jesse demanded that TGR be unbanned immediately or that he gets banned alongside him. TOGE justifiably found this laughable considering the damage TGR had done to Makin' and likely would have done to him and others had Dos not intervened. Jesse countered that AFI, a shitposter like TGR, was also banned but got unbanned recently, and that, toxic or not, TGR was "still one of us". TOGE countered that being "one of us" means absolutely nothing when you do terrible things to another "one of us" simply because you do not like his attitude. Jesse then asked why, then, he was still around considering he had done bad things. TOGE could not answer this question because he had no idea how Jesse had managed to do everything he did without consequence. He was more surprised that Jesse was still around than anything else.

Following this, Expand would link to his latest post on the TF2NNN Steam Group, where he reported on a few things but mostly the fallout from the Endiome Incident. This included an obituary for TGR, that read as follows:

> We would like to say goodbye to a fellow user, TGR. While his actions were less-than-noble, he genuinely wanted to see a better site. A site where people actually posted creative tags/ sets instead of the nonsense we see today. While belligerents will use this as an opportunity to take jabs at him posthumously, like the cowardly bastards that they are, many users recognize his contributions to the site, the wiki, and the fact he wanted to give the site closure. His last words were: "I died laughing." RIP Nepragement Child 2015 - 2016
>
>

This relates to current issues with the site this person behind Expand (there were 3) had taken as of late, which contributes to the reason why he was increasingly moving the news to the Steam Group (see Trivia section for more details). In the comments of this Steam Group post, Makin' expressed that in some ways he'd miss TGR, but could not weep for him given the things Robert had subjected him to. TGR himself would comment that he was not done with TF2Tags and that it would take a lot more to see him leave. Jesse would edit this post in an attempt to cover up TGR's apparent death, which greatly angered Expand and saw him reverse it. Mr. Copycat believed Makin' did this at first and criticized him harshly for it, before Jesse told him the truth.

Expand's sentiments would be the first among several taggers who were pained to see TGR fall to the dark side and get banned. Other taggers expressed that they would miss TGR in tags, such as Blast, Ashton Doovis, and The Last Airblaster. Walumancer wrote a full eulogy for TGR, praising his tagging career, including his few tags that were quite humorous, his witty comments, his unmatched waifu collection, and introducing Nep into everyone's hearts. A few other taggers expressed similar sentiments in the comments. Throughout all of this, Makin' and TOGE would essentially be dancing on his grave, bombastically celebrating TGR's banning.

Le Tryhard Hunter pointed out that the community shouldn't start a riot to bring TGR back, as it would only prove one of Dos's points from his rant following Attack of the Clones about banning problem users only for people to clamor to get them unbanned, which Dos despised. Jesse agreed with the sentiment, and advised everyone to keep quiet and let him deal with Dos. TOGE pointed out the hypocrisy of it all, noting that everyone wanted the bombings to stop until the discovered that the bomber was a regular tagger. Crimson warned Jesse to be careful if he was going to go to Dos with this request, while Makin' noted that he and other taggers affected by the bombings did not want TGR back and that Jesse shouldn't be lobbying for his return. For better or for worse, Jesse's attempts were very quickly shut down by Dos with the following message: "i think if people's actions on the site result in the way the site operates having to change then they can stay out".

In an very odd and potentially drunken move, a clearly saddened and angered Jesse would decide to critbomb Makin' the full way to Hale's Own shortly after this, which Makin' found baffling but otherwise was extremely thankful for the very out-of-place act of kindness. Jesse responded that everyone on the site owed him a drink and that he was bleeding.

With his unexpected milestone and end goal reached, Makin' decided to throw a set together to thank everyone for supporting him in his tagging journey. He thanked Jesse, Legownz, Relk, Crimson, AFI, Acquiesce, Arceus, P1P2, Ashton, Blast, Bonk, Marmot, Danjin, Egg-Z, Expand, Fancy, Tryhard, Smash, Sensible, TGR, TOGE, Walumancer, and Dos, before retracting his thanks towards TGR and saying "fuck you".

## Legacy

The Endiome Incident was one of the most significant missbombing events in TF2Tags History, to the point where it can be called the first and only miss**nuke**. It was the largest-scale missbombing the site had ever seen, with at bear minimum 2,871 misses being thrown about by a single person, though if Makin's math is to be believed it could be well closer to 4,000 misses. Never again would anyone even come close to such a level of pure negativity, and to this day it remains unmatched. It was also the first shitstorm event where the central "villain" so to speak was confirmed to have been a member of the community, and thus it was the only time where the banning of such a "villain" was ever appealed, though it did not work.

The measures Dr. Dos implemented to combat the missbombings in the future were well-received and popular. The limiting of anonymous users to voting only 5 times per day meant that no-name users would have to jump through extra hoops to cause significant chaos on the site, and the changing of vote logs to reveal who exactly was voting on what meant that even named users could not missbomb without being identified. The only downside of these changes was that there was a slight lag in between clicking the crit or miss button and the vote actually being registered, as the site had to verify that the vote was legal, but it was a negligible price to pay for future insurance against missbombs.

As for TGR himself, though he would remain on the site under his Endiome profile (now simply renamed to his normal username and proper profile picture), his activity did take a noticeable dip afterwards, and eventually his attention would slip and he would leave the website almost for good. He eventually came back, of course (he *is* responsible for organizing the creation of the second site, after all), and considering his current position as the head administrator for the community, it's frankly *wild* that things turned out the way they did. And while Robert's reputation is still quite muddy with a certain sizeable portion of the community, it's certainly not because of this incident anymore. Hell, a few days after the event, TGR had already buried the hatchet with both Makin' and TOGE.

### A Note From Endiome

On the 29th of August, 2022, several years after the event's been concluded and everybody's made their fair share of jokes and quips about it, TGR was asked for a sort of epilogue to the whole event, as the original post detailing his reasoning was deleted, and he was accessible enough to ask about it directly. Surprisingly (and unfortunately) enough to many, he's still kicking! After a long while, as it usually is with TGR, he had the following to say:

> After externally rubbing my four diseased neuron synapses together, I've managed to remember a portion of the event for this epilogue.
>
>
> Basically, I used my phone to conduct the missbombs. At some point I noticed that my phone would change IPs every so often when using cellular, so I exploited that. I first tried it out on Floro for no reason other than the fact he was French. That's it. If he hadn't been French, I would've never touched him. Regardless of my reason, through him I found out that my plan indeed worked. Now, longish story short, I targeted Makin' and TOGE because of their childish attitudes. They were unreasonably hostile to me because of my affiliation with anime (in other words, hated me for being a weeb), and just generally acted like teens with spruce logs up their rear holes towards not only me, but some other mates as well. I admit, my solution of eliminating their crits was a bit crude and less mature than, I don't know, just talking to them, but I guess I was just that sick of it by that point. Makin's reaction is half the reason I kept going at him for so long, though. The troll in me found it priceless.
>
>
> Do I regret it? No, and yes.
>
>
> No, because it was fun as hell. As I said, Alex's and others' reactions were really entertaining and had me excited and giggling throughout. Like my past edgy self said, "I died laughing." More importantly, it worked. Not long after, I honestly apologised to both, and last time I talked to either, they seeemed like really great mates, and I'd love to speak to them regularly, if not for their inactivity and de facto departure from the community. Before Alex did disappear, we played a fair few games together, and had a great time, regardless of our messy past. All in all, they forgive me for Endiome, I forgive them for being huge dickheads to me and others.
>
>
> Yes, because it did leave a stain on my reputation at the time. I admit, I'm a controversial person due to a number of reasons, from my relationship with Jesse, to my politics and principles, and many other minor details and personality quirks. The banning did make me lose interest in Tags, since any comment or post I'd create would most likely be met with little positive feedback, and instead crate an awkward virtual rooms to most. I don't blamne Endiome for my eventual exile, because at the end of it all I was just trolling with somebody's internet points and nerves, but the ban is ultimately what made me just give up with the site and its people, and which thereafter led me to a pretty boring and unfun period in life, which arguably continues to this day.
>
>
> Either way, it had its ups and downs for me and for others, but ultimately I achieved what I wanted, and if it even slightly nudged the two targets towards a better attitude, then I'm glad.
>
>
>
> P.S. I know he won't read this, but I apologise to Floro. I found it funny at the time (I still do, I've always hated the French), but it was still entirely uncalled for.
>
>

## Trivia

* This was the last major historical event of Generation 2.
* The name "Endiome" was created when TGR was creating the account. Originally, he wanted to name himself "Dio" to pull a "But it was me, Dio!" meme on the site, but Steam wouldn't let him and recommended "Diome" with some random numbers. TGR simply decided to cut off the numbers and put "En" in front of "diome" and called it a day.
	+ Yes, "Endiome" is, in fact, a JoJo reference.
* Tanner, who did not involve himself with this shitstorm, created the beloved series Hon-Hon and Sneky in part due to the Endiome Incident. Tanner stated that he created the series as a response to the negative happenings on the site at the time, which including the first and second round of bombings against Makin' Bacon during this incident.
* Expand made a post on the TF2NNN Steam Group during this incident titled "The State of TF2Tags", where he expressed grievances he and other anonymous taggers shared about the current state of the site, noting that the vast majority of tags had become either users taking out their anger on the site (perhaps referencing Blast's breakdown), shameless reposts, circle-jerking, users asking for bombs (critbombs for themselves or missbombs for others), and exclamations about recent events via representative items (aka Tweet Tags). Genuine renames and funny jokes had become a very small minority of the tags actually being made, and he and many others were growing sick of it.
	+ Expand acknowledged his hypocrisy for these criticisms considering he makes the news sets, but cited this as the reason he was now moving them to the Steam Group.
	+ TGR actually expressed agreement with Expand's sentiments, and there are indirect hints in TGR's obituary that TGR might have done what he did because he saw Makin' as the pinnacle of these tags Expand expressed issue with.
	+ Digi was also shown to agree with Expand's sentiments.
* Twelve Hour Respawn allegedly knew that TGR was Endiome prior to Dos banning him. If true, it is unknown why he did not act for either side.