First Sockpuppet War

**The First Sockpuppet War** was a wave of accounts created by blocked user Dazwarier. It begun on the 4th of December, 2019 with the block of Dazwarier and would end on the 3rd of January 2021 with the creation of AmongUsIsC00l. At its height, several accounts were being created per day.

## Backstory

Dazwarier first registered for wikiHow on the 4th of September, 2019. He would make several bad faith edits until eventually recieving a perma ban in December 2019, which is the generally agreed upon start of the first war.

## December 2019: The beginning stages and 1-day accounts

After Dazwarier was blocked, several accounts were registered and subsequently blocked. Over the course of the first war, it is estimated that 50 accounts were registered and used by Dazwarier. Notable ones include Mac OS X User 10.11, Herobrine123, Liveboke, George Puscas, Pennywise2, Life of Luxury Parker, and AmongUsIsC00l. Several accounts were being created by the day, and were swiftly reported and subsequently blocked. By the 24th of December, about 20 accounts had been created and Dazwarier was using multiple VPN's to bypass IP Blocks. That was when Herobrine123 was created. This began the trend of the "I'm quiting now!" trend. Dazwarier would create an account, selfreport to the ANB promising to quit, and rinse and repeat. Another early tactic was creating multiple accounts, one of which would be an obvious sockpuppet, while the other would call out that user to appear "good". This didn't last long, as admins caught on that multiple accounts knew how to use the ANB, that they had a problem with a Sockpuppet named Dazwarier, among other things.

## January 2020: The Height of the war

When the new year kicked off, dazwarier started with LiveBoke. This account was another 'I'm quiting now!' account. The famous person trend would be next, with BillGates1, Steve Jobs 1, HarryKane Fan, and SteveJobsApple all being known accounts. It is also notable that because of this problem, other bad faith users unrelated to Dazwarier, such as Fortniteuh, were reported as daz socks, altlough at times daz has said that it was him, but this was only recently admitted and is unknown if it is true. Admin trust for new users was at an all time low. After this, with sockpuppets lasting longer, George Puscas lasted a whole 20 days. The nail in the coffin was being excited by "Ashley11" returning, which turned out to be yet another Daz sock, likely to divert admin attention.

## February 2020: The admin impersonation accounts

After George was blocked, the Admin Impersonation began. Accounts all pretending to be "admins" or "new accounts" of notable users, like R2\_d2000, Loiswade42, and Caitlynn L were created. The caitlynn l account also has another sock, Dennis1879, which was never identified as a Dazwarier sockpuppet up until 2024, which proved that Dazwarier was getting better at evading blocks and these accounts were known to have lasted longer than others.

## March-May 2020: COVID-19 Lockdowns and Pennywise2

With much of the world going into lockdown at this stage of the war, Dazwarier had more time to spend on wikiHow and this started with Pennywise1. This account was blocked and was suspected of being yet another sockpuppet. Pennywise2 was registered and it is likely that these suspuicuns of pennywise1 was over or was no longer of concern as Pennywise2 for the most part was a good user. That was until the patrol block. 1 month into this account, Pennywise2 was RCP blocked. This would begin the email chain and would spell the end for Pennywise2 in May

## June-December 2020: Slowdown

It is generally agreed upon that losing Pennywise2 was a huge blow to Dazwarier's morale as there is only 1 known account from this stage, Life of Luxury Parker, which wouldn't even be identified as a daz sock. Parker was semi-active for 6 months before quitting in 2021, likely to focus on AmongUsIsC00l.

## January 2021: End of the war

AmongUsIsC00l was registered 3 days into 2021 and because Dazwarier hadn't been seen on the site in nearly 7 months (to the admins knowledge at the time) wasn't suspected as a sock. He would become a estabilshed user and gained welcome wagon status in 2022. The nail in the coffin was forgetting to use a VPN when daz decided it was time for a bit of trolling. These events would start the Second Sockpuppet War...

## Trivia

\*The first sockpuppet war is generally considered the first time that sockpuppets on this scale ever happened.

\*Dazwarier is known to be male and reside in the UK.

\*Dazwariers age isn't known. One early sock identified as 11. Another 2 months later said they were "1 day from 13" and in 2021, another also identified as 15. Assuming the first is true, that would put dazwarier at 15-16. If the second is true, then he is now 17 and if the third is true, then daz is now 18-19. It is unknown if any of these are remotely accurate and could have been a distraction.

\*At the height of the war, admin trust in new users was so low that any new user blanking pages was automatically assumed to be a sockpuppet.