CP

**CP** (shortened from the original **CP1228**) is a controversial Generation 1 tagger. While a well-regarded (if somewhat inactive) member of the community, he was previously been embroiled in a fair few bits of drama, from getting A Fucking Idiot banned to using Reddit to give one of his tags hundreds of crits.

## History

### Early Goodwill

CP made his first tag on February 27th, 2015. Finding the site interesting and fun, he would later show his IRL friend Legownz the site, and the two started tagging together. He would begin by tagging every few days or so, with his second tag made on March 2nd amassing a respectable 27 crits. He would tag regularly throughout March, though he took a two week break between the 14th and 28th. He kept a similar pattern through April of 2015.

In May he would make his first distinguishing act within the community through his part in trying to maintain peace and hope during the Racist Anon Incident. Though at first he would rudely mock everyone on May 7th for taking the Racist Anon so seriously (giving them attention and trying hard to figure out just who it was), over the next twelve days of the Anon becoming an increasing nuisance he would change his tune, saying on the 19th that he would not be leaving the community like some others and told people not to worry. He told everyone that TF2Tags was not a lost cause and that eventually the Anon would be found and banned, advocating instead for everyone to keep on keeping on. His response during the incident was largely seen as positive, and may have been an initial boost that made him more visible among the other Gen 1 Taggers, who outside of Legownz and Sensible Haircut hadn't paid him much attention.

His positive reputation would grow through June. In July, during Team Legownz, there is no direct evidence that CP changed his username in support of Legownz against Player 1 + Player 2. However, it is very likely CP would naturally side with his IRL friend. In late July, his tagging activity would begin to wane, posting a few tags once a day every week or so. His activity would return to regular rates in the middle of August, however, with the advent of the infamous Mobile-Friendly Update. Like pretty much everyone else, he sided firmly against the move to get rid of Misses and joined the Bring Back Misses movement. CP would join the radical militaristic branch of the movement alongside Sensible Haircut. To prove their point that removing the Miss Button would actively harm the site by not punishing shitposters, the pair went on a shitposting spree, making tens of deliberately terrible tags that normally would have directly harmed someone's points on their profile, but instead were rewarded with tiny incremental increases because people couldn't express their negative opinions other than through comments. It is unknown how effective this move was, but both men were noticed by Dr. Dos and subsequently banned temporarily. Ultimately, Misses would be restored.

### "I deserve credit."

*Main article: The Banning of AFI*

Following Bring Back Misses, CP would take a break for a few days before returning to regular tagging starting August 20th. However, during this time CP would report A Fucking Idiot to Dr. Dos for making several low-quality tags, as AFI does. Dos, having banned AFI before, responded to the reports by banning him. The community would quickly respond to the beloved shitposter's banning with confusion and sadness. However, the period of mourning would quickly turn into a period of anger after CP, thinking he had done everyone service by getting rid of a bad tagger, announced in the comments of Sensible Haircut's memorial tag that he was the one who reported AFI and that he deserved credit for being the one that got rid of him.

Over the next few days, the site community would viciously turn against CP for his actions, including AFI himself after he wrote Dos a well-worded email and got unbanned. CP would defend himself stating that he didn't know AFI, did not understand his humor, and technically did what he was supposed to do in reporting shitposters. His claims of of not knowing AFI or liking his humor are questionable (if not outright lies), however, for three reasons.

1. AFI had been a significant presence on TF2Tags since joining in December of 2014, 3 months before CP even joined the site himself.
2. CP took part in Bring Back Misses just a week prior. One of the main talking points of BBM was that getting rid of Misses destroyed what AFI was seeking to accomplish on TF2Tags.
3. CP himself parodied AFI's style in the very set that made people respect him during the Racist Anon Incident three months before. This point in particular proves he *did* know who AFI was.

During the debacle, only one tagger directly came to CP's defense, that being Legownz. Though Legz did not condone CP's actions, he condemned everyone missbombing CP in anger, calling them "Immature idiots" and "Just like the new guys", as well as comparing them to Teaquin. Crimson Blitz would eventually come to his defense as well, lambasting the community for their behavior and calling them cyberbullies. CP himself stated that he was probably going to leave the site for good over his treatment, but ultimately never went through with it.

AFI would eventually come out and apologize to CP over how he and his supporters treated him in the aftermath of the banning, and CP would reciprocate by apologizing for reporting him in the first place and pledging to support AFI's efforts from now on. The people largely forgave him, and things went back to normal.

### Business As Usual

Following the Banning of AFI, CP would return to his spot as a generally well-liked tagger. CP would be one of the few people to defend L'Étranger during his infamous George Incident, calling out whoever missbombed him (blaming P1P2 though this was not confirmed). However, he would request that he and TGRobert move their later Weeaboo War off the site. Between these incidents was the Banning of Sensible Haircut, and though he would make some comments in the tags relevant to the event, he didn't take a hard stance on the ban, and it is unknown if he took a hard stance in the ensuring war between Relk\_Cehi and Ulysses that came from it.

On September 24th, CP announced that he would start a friendly competition with Legownz to see who could get their dream unusual before the other. CP would win the battle in a month after obtaining his Unusual Counterfeit Billycock with the Dead Presidents effect on October 25th. About two weeks before, on October 13th, CP would join Tranger, TGR, Legownz, and Walumancer to create the Ulyssesstorm, where all five men disguised themselves as Ulysses and brought intense confusion onto the site for a day.

On November 4th, mere hours before the site's 100,000th tag was posted, CP made a tag advocating for a temporary set ban to ensure that such a huge milestone would not be claimed by some cheap set. He told everyone to keep watch when the tag was less than 90 away. However, someone would do what he feared, and made a massive set that contained the 100,000th tag. Not only that, but they deleted it right after. He was considered a minor suspect at first but was quickly dismissed.

Later that month during the Taggenings, CP was seen as part of an indirect cause the submission limits not resetting by Mr. Copycat, who declared that CP's time-travelling tags earlier in the month started a trend that messed with the space-tag continuum. Copycat stated that it wasn't just CP's fault, but everyone else's for time travelling so much. This, of course, was merely a joke suggestion. CP also made a Panic Attack joke regarding the Taggenings, which garnered mild success.

### Cheater, Cheater, Reddit Feeder

On December 18th, 2015, CP would make a tag of Engineer's Bucking Bronco taunt titled "The Upstairs Neighbors". The seemingly innocuous tag was received very well. amassing 24 crits. For about a month, it would stay that way. However, in mid-January 2016, this tag would suddenly blow up overnight, amassing over 100 crits in a day and more to come after the initial discovery by Bonkspenser. By the time it stopped gaining points, "The Upstairs Neighbors" would reach 294 crits, becoming the 101st highest-rated item on TF2Tags. People were naturally suspicious as to why this tag was suddenly so popular. However, a few things eventually made the story clear. First, around the same time the site was being flooded with a swarm of new taggers, who admitted to having come from Reddit. CP at this point had grown a reputation as a joke stealer, taking jokes from r/jokes and posting them on the site. People soon realized that CP advertised this tag on the TF2 subreddit, and as a result gained a massive amount of crits.

While this did not have the same near-universal negative reaction as CP getting AFI banned, this was still widely unpopular with other taggers, as it was considered 'cheating' and also resulted in an influx of new (and hence *unwanted*) taggers on the site. Taggers unhappy with this move included Makin' Bacon, Bonkspenser, Digi, Marmot, Fancytag, and Player 1 + Player 2. The upset portion of the community angrily criticized CP for cheating the site by getting a bunch of randoms to critbomb his tag and bringing in a bunch of low-quality Redditors to the site (many of whom Fancytag reported and got banned for their terrible submissions). Legownz once again came to CP's defense, stating that he was on vacation and did what he did to advertise the site because he loves it. He said that he had good intentions, and that if people couldn't handle teaching some new faces they should fuck off from the site.

CP himself would eventually make a response to the controversy. Unlike his response to the Banning of AFI, this statement was much more personally defensive and viciously aggressive. However, it was equally muddy in terms of whether he was telling the truth. He insulted the people who criticized and missbombed him, and explained that they shouldn't be mad because he advertised two tags on Reddit and only one got that many crits. He said he posted them on Reddit because they were relevant to the recent update that added those items, and that he wanted to prove to r/TF2 that there was still originality on TF2Tags (ironic, considering his reputation for taking jokes from r/jokes). To quote CP: "if you're going to devote your life To criticizing me over a few meaningless website points... ...then you have much bigger problems" (sic). He also defended his use of Reddit because Wikipedia defines it as a "social networking website" used to share "direct links" on what is essentially a digital bulletin board. He saw no fault in him using it to boost his score. He accused his critics of thinking him an attention hog, which is untrue because he "only posts twice a day". He said he knew a lot of great minds on Reddit and thought it would be perfect for them to come on and share their jokes on TF2Tags as a way to "bring back the good old days" but that those who were against his actions "threw that in the trash and took a massive shit on it." He calls out Makin' for telling everyone to shitpost as a means of getting the new taggers to leave and called *him* the attention hog, and that it his the reaction of those against the advertising that was killing the site. He maintained that he did absolutely nothing wrong.

For the purposes of fairness, the TF2Tags Lore Wiki does not recognize "The Upstairs Neighbors" as CP's best tag, due to artificially inflating its score by sharing it with an audience that otherwise would not have seen it, alongside the fact that no similar support was given to anyone else's tags by those that were advertised to. As for which side was correct, there is no way to tell. It is entirely possible CP was doing all of this for attention or to get cheap crits, but it is also just as likely that he only did this because he was trying to prove TF2Tags had merit and bring new blood into the site. In all likelihood, *both* sides are likely correct, but this has not been confirmed.

### Fading Away

Following the Reddit debacle, CP would continue to tag through the rest of January before taking a break from February through most of April, tagging only once in March to wish Acquiesce a happy birthday. On April 24th, he would resume his normal tagging until June 17th, where his tagging habits would become erratic, until the end of August where he would seemingly leave the site for good.

CP would resurface on March 13th, 2017, where familiar faces and new Generation 3 taggers alike would greet his return. He would tag regularly through March before disappearing again. He would reappear on July 11th, leaving for good a month later on August 12th, when he posted his last tag.

## Style

While CP's jokes started out as original, over time he would increasingly take jokes from Reddit and post them on TF2Tags. This was both a running joke between him and Legownz and also a point of criticism from many taggers (which only made the response to his advertising all the more vitriolic). However, it is important to note that not all of CP's tags came from Reddit and that the majority are original.

CP also had a habit of making a bunch of tags with similar jokes in quick succession of each other, much to Legownz's annoyance. In fact, it very well may have been this habit of CP's that made Legownz coin his famous phrase "Item sets exist for a reason."

Finally, CP started a trend of time-travelling jokes in November of 2015.

## Relationships

Immediately, CP's closest friend and ally on TF2Tags was Legownz, his IRL best friend that he introduced to the site shortly after discovering it himself. Legownz came to CP's defense in both controversies he was the main focus of. The two often commented on each other's tags demanding they give credit to their respective inspirations (CP for Legownz and Reddit for CP), but this was mostly playful and not serious. They also, naturally, hang out often in real life. Their current steam names are also quite similar (Legownz being "This Space for RENT" and CP being "This Space for LEASE"), indicating that they remain friends in 2020.

Crimson Blitz also came to CP's defense in his controversies, and are also friends on Steam. He is also friends with Blast, Le Tryhard Hunter, Floro Sapiens, and DannyFantom on Steam. CP also returned to TF2Tags during his break specifically to wish Acquiesce a happy birthday, so they may have been friends as well. Sensible Haircut was an early source of encouragement, but they did not seem to be friends, and they did not keep contact following his ban. He also likes Relk.

CP has made a few rivals during his controversies on the site, specifically Makin' Bacon and Player 1 + Player 2. However, both seem to have moved on from their dislike of him.

All in all, though his history with the community is very rocky, people largely respect CP.

## Gallery

CP's first tag.A post that coaxed a rare comment out of Dr. Dos.CP's best tag that was achieved legitimately.CP's technical best tag, but since he cheated for its score (despite his claims that he did nothing wrong), is not officially recognized.
## Trivia

* "CP" are his initials.
* CP advocates for a day where F2Ps in TF2 are recognized and celebrated, as almost every TF2 player was an F2P at some point, and without new players the game never would have grown the way it did. On such a day, everyone would equip their Ghostly Gibus, Pyrovision Goggles, and Mercenary Pin while pissing off Sniper mains.
* He is a big fan of Bender from Futurama.
* CP dreams of becoming a rich and famous engineer.
* CP hybrid mains Soldier and Spy. He mains Soldier for his mobility, versatility, and reliability. He mains Spy because he loves his playstyle and loves backstabbing unsuspecting victims.
* When the TF2Tags Hunger Games was going on, CP made the suggestion of the tributes putting their District in their name for fun.
* He once challenged TGRobert to making the longest set on the site. He failed miserably.