Drama

Drama: a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. As with any decade-old internet fourm, especially a forum for music criticism, drama has been extremely prevalent on Sputnikmusic.com with flame wars, break-downs, racist/sexist/homophobic rants, and bullying/harassment all being semi-frequent on the site.

## History of Drama

The following is an incomplete history of drama on sputnikmusic.

### 2020

7/15/20-8/11/20 - The Great War: a gigantic flame war primarily between The Biggle Boys (led by JefferyBigglestein), and several loosely associated factions of detractors including BTS Stans, Bigglestein Truthers, Alts, and "The Dark Army", led by Sinternet. Bigglestein would declare victory after Sinternet surrendered on August 11th.

7/25/20 - SPRFanof5H begs SowingSeason and Jom to remove all negs against his reviews and ban JefferyBigglestein after Bigglestein neg's his review of No Pressure by Logic. Sowing ignores him but Jom gives Bigglestein a 3 day temp ban and removes the negs on the review (only for more negs to appear once this incident became publicized).

8/13/20-8/14/20 - The Mark Kozelak Thread: Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelak accused of rape. Users Toolpeth182 and Doof go on a two-man victim-blaming crusade, attempting to defend Kozelak's actions. This is met by severe hostility from users like Lord(e)Po))ts, JefferyBigglestein, Ryus, Snake., joeman82, Minushuman24, and others. Gyro and Potsy get at it. The DoofDoof account banned for making death threats against heck and spamming heck's shoutbox with elitist, narcissistic insults. On 8/14/20, jom nuked the thread for the following reason:

> "The thread got nuked because the goofballs trying to @Sowing when he has zero SKM/RHP albums was a real head-scratcher. I have serious concerns how some of the participants involved can function in society with their myopic view on what was becoming an increasingly terrible thread the more I scrolled. Now I have to go pretend to head-hunt in all the Benji et al threads, which is... not great?
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> To be clear: it was definitely for the kys/phobic/rape apologist nonsense. Can't believe I have to type this in earnest but here we are." - jom
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10/10/20 - JefferyBigglestein's review of Jane Doe by Converge gathers a lot of attention, a 10/27 pos ratio and 250 comments in just 3 hours. Then, it is deleted by a mod without any explanation. This leads to Bigglestein posting the THEY TRYNA SILENCE ME thread that gets 350 comments and is featured overnight. A civil war within the Sput staff occurs as Bigglestein content is deleted, with some of it being re-uploaded. The clear censorship of Bigglestein's content confuses and angers users. Within hours a full on temper tantrum occurs in the threads. Biggle detractors justjoe, sinternet, budgie, among others make paragraph long rants against bigglestein. Verm makes an alt to also state his greivences. LordePotts comes in and provides a counter-detractor argument explaining that people who whine and bitch about Bigglestein are the problem. And as always based Bigglestein wins as the list ends up featured (after being featured and de-featured various times throughout the day).

**2022-2023**

Known by some as The Great Sputnik Massacre, Sputnikmusic was hacked in January 2023. The process deleted tens of thousands of user comments, made the forums non-functional (so bad they had to be shut down permanently), and the avatar feature was rendered unavailable. The site was shut down for many days as the supposedly real mods scrambled to save their beloved, already quite broken site. Colton claimed over and over that he paid a hacker to hack the site, though all that was confirmed was that a disgruntled user did so. After repeated attempts to take credit, his ass was banned in July for being dumb (so 99% of people said). After people were agitated by Colton’s sus comments, user pizzamachine afterwards said a comment about “be careful where you poke around or someone may get hurt” (I’m paraphrasing). Potsy claimed pizzamachine was mafia, though pizzamachine’s involvement is unlikely considering he is the nicest guy on Sputnikmusic. However, his true role in all of this is unconfirmed. There’s only one thing everyone agreed on: Sputnikmusic was dying, and mx was an uninvolved tyrant.