Red Leader

**Red Leader**, also known as **M**, is a griefer on ETT. This user's IP address is in Oslo, Norway. Red Leader appeared in 2022. This user overwrote pages with an ASCII art of the letter M and was the most active griefer. ETT News first reported about them on October 9th. They have been griefing for months. Notable pages griefed: some `/news` articles, `/chatroom`.

## History

Red Leader started to grief in 2022. In November 2022, this user was in conflict with Caca1234. On November 21st, Red Leader, Blue Leader and Caca1234 were in conflict.  Red Leader continued to vandalize pages, until some time in December. On December 19th, Blue Leader modified pages by replacing "HAIL RED LEADER" with "HAIL BLUE LEADER". The next day, Red Leader restored his version of the pages. On December 25th, Red Leader vandalized pages with the text "MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM RED LEADER". On December 29th, ETT News reported that Red Leader was inactive since December 25th. The next day, Red Leader wrote: "I apologize for my inactivity, I've been enjoying a game called Everhood lately. It's quite fun, and the story is top-tier. I'd recommend you play it."

Some time before January (?) 2023, all occurrences of Red Leader's words, "HAIL RED LEADER", were changed to "HAIL GAY LEADER". ETT News suspected that Tikolu modified the text.

On February 16th, Mercy Leader condemned Red Leader. On February 17th, Mercy Leader and Red Leader wrote comments at /mercyleader.

On April 14th, after the ETT Newspaper with the headline "The End of Red Leader?" was published, Red Leader came back and vandalized pages with the words "RED LEADER LIVES FOREVER". Since then, Red Leader has continued to vandalize pages using this message, but gradually stopped. Some of the pages were restored by XGR. On April 18th, Suum cleared some pages that were vandalized by Red Leader. On the same day, notahome stated that 400 pages are now automatically protected from Red Leader's griefing. "Every 6-12 hours now, any griefing done by RL should be fixed automatically." On April 19th, Red Leader's page, /redleader, was vandalized by Suum, who replaced "RED LEADER LIVES FOREVER" with "RED LEADER POOPS FOREVER".

## References

1. ↑ ETT News. (14 April 2023). "The End of Red Leader?". Retrieved from /news/100
2. ↑ Pages vandalized by 146.70.103.101. (9 October 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/44
3. ↑ Red Leader responds to Caca1234's vandalism. (13 November 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/51
4. ↑ Blue-Red Leader conflict continues. (22 November 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/54
5. ↑ No griefing. (14 December 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/61
6. ↑ Griefing resumes; Red Leader writes a message. (20 December 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/62
7. ↑ New pages created; vandalism by Red Leader. (25 December 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/65
8. ↑ Blue Leader and Red Leader inactive. (29 December 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/67
9. ↑ Vandalism on December 30th. (30 December 2022). /news. Retrieved from /news/68
10. ↑ Activity decreased. (14 February 2023). /news. Retrieved from /news/80
11. ↑ Red Leader news. (16 February 2023). /news. Retrieved from /news/81
12. ↑ Red Leader and Mercy Leader news. (17 February 2023). /news. Retrieved from /news/83
13. ↑ ETT News. *Red Leader Returned*. ETTN-2023-2  (25 April 2023)