Hypnobyte

**Hypnobyte** was a notorious player known for his griefing, trolling, and general shenanigans. He joined Purity on **May 23, 2021** and was an active member of the server until he was banned for doxxing (see later) on **February 27, 2023**.

## Player Information

### username

Hypnobyte (https://namemc.com/profile/hypnobyte.1)

### aka

Existencia, Billionize, Retronaut, Bucky2015, Mrbestslayer, Basedex, etc.

### proffesion

Basehunter, Griefer, Computer Hacker, Troll

Hypnobyte joined the server on May 23, 2021. He owned a server similar to Purity but was growing tired of it due to low player counts. He always admired and looked up to 2b2t players and spent his pre-teen years watching FitMC videos and familiarizing himself with the Minecraft anarchy landscape, although through the fictitious lens of Fit's dramatized videos. He would often find himself watching many Crystal PvP HvH montages even though he hadn't adopted the combat himself. HvH was confusing, and in spite of his ambitions to join his favorite creators like **Wao** and **Cerealwithnomilk**, he did not understand the complexities of not only using but optimizing a cheat client to be on a competitive level as these veterans. Instead, Hypnobyte would introduce a primitive version of HvH to his friends that did not incorporate hacks. They would play on his personal server, giving themselves the necessary equipment through creative mode and brawling it out on an obsidian platform. In an attempt to alleviate the burden of restocking on gear, Hypnobyte sought a server that had customizable kits. This server would be **PvP Legacy**, and from here his growth as a Crystal PvP-er would skyrocket. He would play everyday, garnering great win streaks and becoming a force to be reckoned with in his specialized kit, Crystal. Vanilla Crystal PvP was a relatively new and unknown form of PvP at this time and the community was small and close-knit.

### Joining Purity

Hypnobyte was facing a player that went by the name **Mallty** on PvP legacy in the bedrock arena. They fought many times and Hypnobyte was not used to fighting an opponent of this stature. While the true outcome is lost to time, Hypnobyte remembers being roughly tied. While Mallty's domain was clearly Bedrock, he could not stand against Hypnobyte's quick fingers and muscle memory in "Flat" PvP. After the fight was over, surprised by Hypnobyte's prowess in the sport of Crystal PvP, Mallty asked him if he played any survival servers. This interaction would lead to a 2 year spiral when Mallty spoke of a server called "**Purity Vanilla"**.

Intrigued, Hypnobyte searched for information regarding the server on Google. He quickly obtained the **IP address** and was greeted by cobble stone mountains and **G8ev** screeching in chat, "‘ &c g8ev is the daddy of purity &7 he owns you as we speak &6 go to 00 &a to get shit on #######." Wanting to fit in with the tone of edginess that permeated through all servers of this type, he began **larping** in chat as a mentally-challenged homosexual. A Purity D-tier celebrity, **El\_Logicus**, messaged him (likely due to perceived vulnerability) and alluded to a potential allegiance and future faction to which Hypnobyte would be invited. Hypnobyte knew that he would waste many years on this server, and swiftly bought the highest available rank "Prestige" for something like $60-70. This purchase was met with criticism by many of the poorer players on the server but Hypnobyte maintained his commitment to the server.

As every player needs to do at some point in their Purity progression, Hypnobyte began to make his way from spawn and settled at his first base at the coordinates 134154, 72383 OW. He grinded to get a villager hall that would supply him with the items he would need for a triumphant career in survival Crystal PvP. Envious of the tags that preceded individuals on the tab list's names, Hypnobyte would create a group called **RIOT.** He would invite his good friend **taj25** (aka "**\_taj**") and began accepting requests to join. The players that would comprise RIOT (apart from **taj25** and **Hypnobyte**) at the time were: Wallah, Echo, and **ggii2478**.

### Early Days

Hypnobyte's early days on Purity consisted of PvP-ing at spawn, spamming "RIOT ON TOP" in chat and trading. His friend, **taj25**, would befriend a player named **xMunky** and this individual would help them PvP at spawn and teach them tips and tricks about how to be successful on the server. Hypnobyte was skeptical of xMunky and this skepticism, paranoia, and borderline delusional behavior would carry with him for his entire Purity career. Hypnobyte believed that xMunky was trying to "inside" them - which in layman's terms means to act nice towards somebody to obtain information (usually base coordinates) to leverage against them. Hypnobyte withheld coordinates from xMunky and frequently emphasized to taj25 the importance of remaining a safe distance.

### Learning the Ropes

The summer of **'21** was a fun time for Hypnobyte. Despite the fact he was traveling and did not have stable internet connection, he would inside many groups through the **Faction Hub** and would proceed to grief them when he was stationed at a hotel or on cellular data when circumstances of the grief did not allow for delay. This strategy of **cold approach insiding** proved to be very effective, reflecting the current playerbase and their (politely) lacklustre knowledge of securing their work. Hypnobyte would accumulate many coordinates, though the **quality** of the bases could vary. The most fruitful base to dawn out of this era was that of a faction called "**Pendragon**." The base was exceedingly impressive for Hypnobyte's standards, and he raided it alone, systematically eliminating or forcing to flee all of the 6 members online at the structure.

He continued these shenanigans until September 2021 when he pivoted, once again, towards PvP when his home internet enabled him to restore his status as a competitive player. During this month, he appeared in a video titled, "**Crystal PvP 1v1s + 3 $100 GIVEAWAYS on Purity Vanilla Anarchy Server**", by the popular youtuber, **Johnayy**, in which he "**1v1-ed**" him.

**The Cavemen**

Around this time, an informal arrangement of PvP-ers and spawn frequenters came into existence. This group would be known as the "**The Cavemen**." It began when the previously mentioned player, **xMunky**, invited \_taj to the team, and in turn, Hypnobyte. Hypnobyte, still attempting to revive RIOT, was reluctant to follow suit. However, he eventually conceded and enjoyed his truest faction experiences on Purity. The team would grow at a fast but sustainable rate and rise to prominence. It rivaled, if not surpassed, some of the greatest teams to occupy the server and there was a general sense of **camaraderie** that he immensely appreciated.

### Ryder V. Friendlets

Complimenting his membership of Cavemen was a pseudo-group he founded that he ridiculously named, "**Friendlets**." This group primarily served to formalize his cold approach insiding method and manage the ongoing insides in isolated discord channels that he would present as singular to the victim. This infrastructure allowed him to coin and deploy the method of the "**reverse inside**" in which he would recruit new or naive players to a fabricated faction to get them to reveal increasing information which he would exploit to troll, grief and kill them. One of the repeated targets of these attacks was **El\_Logicus** and Hypnobyte would purposefully start beef with him and his friends in chat to make his griefs more impactful. These series of aggressions and banter would grant us his debut griefing video ("**HEYITSHADES GETS NUKED BY HYPNOBYTE AND HIS POSSY**") and **The Ryder Massacre**.

**The Cavemen Fallout**

Hypnobyte wanted to graduate from griefing small-time players and move into the big leagues. Opportunistic, with the permission of xMunky and other upper echelon members, he leaked an insignificant Caveman base to **Frrost\_Bite** to earn trust and demonstrate the illusion of his departure from the group. Around this time he had also received critical intelligence on the Atlas base through his Friendlets scheme. He shared this intelligence with Frrost, further solidifying his relationship. Friendlets and Pumpkin continued griefing minor builds such as the claimed "**Biggest Wheat Farm in Minecraft**", a collection of interesting builds through a joint effort of some of the servers most prevalent builder individuals/groups that spanned 1000s of blocks, and the **St. Patrick's Day Party** hosted by cavemen member **\_Strach\_**. This deliberate plot was unknown to the majority of the cavemen and they were rightfully angry. When Hypnobyte wanted to reunite with the group, they denied him reentry on the basis that he had hurt them too greatly or that he could not be trusted, though he was **never given an explicit reason**.

### Spring/Early Summer of 2022

During the spring of 2022, Hypnobyte's larping and activities on the server took a noticeable shift. He started trolling players like GlaceonGuy and Caudimorda to no end. No longer did he want to be seen as a PvP-er and occasional griefer. Instead, he wanted to hone his skills in basehunting and cast a threatening shadow over the Purity community to show how safe they really were. After the update to 1.18, many bases were vulnerable to basehunters that would follow the trails formed by the artifacts of these version updates. The last week of June was an eventful time for the server; with **Pumpkin**, Chadlets, and BC (**Block Chain**) all getting devastated. The most interesting one, Block Chain, Hypnobyte can be credited with sole responsibility for. It was the last day before Hypnobyte was to leave for a great vacation when he was larping in the Faction Hub about how he can manifest base coordinates through spirituality. He provided a screenshot of him at a recovered destroyed base that was posted shortly before. A respectable player by the name of **Rayyze** took issue with these grandiose claims and sarcastically asked Hypnobyte to, "**Manifest my base.**" Within 2 hours of his request Hypnobyte had returned with a screenshot of the MASSIVE faction base of BC in F3, of which Rayyze was a participant. This find challenged Hypnobyte's and many others concept of reality as a mathematical miracle, and many people doubt the legitimacy of the story and believe the coordinates were obtained beforehand, and rightfully so.

### Summer of Madness

Unable to play due to being on the road once again, Hypnobyte diverted his attention towards **Discord Trolling**. He would camp servers like the Faction Hub and **Purity Vanilla Discord Server** for hours and initiate arguments with whoever he could. He developed an eccentric persona during this time which has contributed to his notoriety and remains a staple of his character today. Hypnobyte treated trolling like an art and conveyed a mystifying ethos through his seemingly insignificant remarks and shit-talking. He expertly pushed peoples buttons and would captivate even self-admitted trolls for hours and days in meaningless exchanges. One in-game claim to infamy that occurred this summer was when Hypnobyte approached the Purity Staff asking for permission to grief their base in light of the new "**coordinated-hacking**" rule. This information was not meant for public ears but it was eventually leaked by what we can only presume to be the staff themselves, which raises important questions about the privacy of the tickets we create. This base (DB) was later griefed by Frrost\_Bite as Hypnobyte was at a stalemate and could not move forward with the ticket.

### Fall/Winter 2022

In the shadows of these endless laughs and playful trolling, something truly despicable was brewing. Since the dawn of the Cavemen a new player by the name of **paleles** grew to resent Hypnobyte and they would often engage in shit-talking and other aggressions towards each other. Hypnobyte manipulated the Discord API to create a **Discord Information Scraping Bot** that would join all the valid links in a discord server, flag keywords for human review, and repeat. In November things had reached a boiling point between the two and Hypnobyte, tired of all his insults and abuse decided he needed to use this automated system to bring paleles actions to justice. His original intention was to leak his alts (aka alternate accounts) as this is something paleles would derive sadistic joy in towards Hypnobyte and made him waste a lot of money and time. However, Hypnobyte realized there was much more information than what he thought and he accidentally obtained information on his real identity. The **Summer of Madness** strained relationships with the staff and they were eager to ban him. Despite the fact that Hypnobyte never leaked the illicit information he gathered, they felt a **doxxing** ban was justified. In a final confrontation, Hypnobyte provokingly begged majorsopa to ban him and he was subsequently **permed**.

### Aftermath

After the punishment, Hypnobyte went on an evasion spree. Today, he studies cyber-security and is a student in high school. He also helps young men wake up to the realities of modern dating and shares his successes.

### Minor Notes

* Hypnobyte boasts a highly valuable relic collection containing staff heads, unique items, map arts, resources and more.
* One constant throughout Hypnobyte's Purity journey is the faction **Animus**. He has been with them since August of 2021 and have built many impressive builds together.
* Crystal PvP Montage.

### Closing

   There are many things I failed to go into depth to today. I will try to maintain this article and continue adding more accurate information based on personal accounts and real events. We will see how Hypnobyte's story unfolds and whether his dominant presence in the community will persist through his ban.