UGOPlayer

Flashplayer, sponsored by UGO, and was made by Bill Kara. Flashplayer.com is a website for hosting Flash animations, Flash games, and Flash music videos. They welcome all aspiring Flash enthusiasts to join the community where they can submit their animation.

To get your titles featured on Flashplayer simply follow the instructions (taken from the actual website)

Submitting Work
Step One: Register Your Personal Account:

This keeps track of your submissions, your details like your name, website if you have one and other details you wish to share with your viewers. Click below to get started opening a new account, the link will open in a new window and the form takes about 90 seconds to complete. Register here.

Step Two: Submit Your Flash Title:

You can submit your file to us using our "submit form" this process normally takes about 60 seconds to a few minutes depending on the file size you are trying to send us, we do not accept files over 6 megabytes via the submit form. Simply fill out the movie details, attach your file and hit submit. Your title will be sent to our editors for review and you will be notified via email if your title is showcased on our site. If you already have an account with us simply click below to submit your title to us. Submit A Title here.

Top 10 Animations on Flashplayer
Here are the top ten Animation/Music/Games that were submitted on Flashplayer.com, and voted on a scale from one to ten.

1. The Decline of Video Gaming 3 - 89.0%

2. The Decline of Video Gaming 2 - 82.9%

3. The Decline of Video Gaming - 82.7%

4. A Decline Christmas - 82.7%

5. Sniper Time - 82.7%

6. The Kingdom Hearts Chronicles - 82.7%

7. Final Fantasy Fugitive - 82.6%

8. I miss you Daddy - 82.6%

9. Metal Gear Solid 3: Crab Battle - 82.6%

10. Final Fantasy Gil Quest - 82.6%

The Forum
More notable is the forums on Flashplayer, where a unique community has formed. Oddly enough, the community hardly associates itself with Flashplayer, hardly ever mentioning site content, but rather talking about whatever is on their mind. Though a huge center of discussion is debate, in which members participate in discussing worldly issues.

Moderators (chronological):

LPForever

Exion

Anarchistmunky

Almighty David

The history of the Forum can be found here:

The general content of the community is the following:

Type A:

-long post about philosophy-

"tahts way 2 long for me 2 read"

"omg i almost died trieng to reed dat"

etc.

Type B:

"You all suxors"

"takes one to know one lol"

-thread is closed, but person NOT banned.-

Type C:

"Rate my flash please." -link to flash-

"dood that sux get a life"

"omg u r teh stoopid"

"you suck @ making falsh man"

etc.

Type D:

"dood my falsh rox shood i make anuther?"

"that sucks..."

"DOOD I HATE YOU GET A LIFE YOU ****ING LOSER I HATE YOU :mad2: :mad2:"

Type E:

"Rep me plx"

"omfg u rep whore i b& u"

-thread closed, but nobody banned-

Type F:(the most common)

"lol, look i got 1000 posts lolol.

dis is my list of kool ppl:

me

me

LPforever(cuz he rox)"

"congrats!"

"you forgot me! >:|"

"congratulations, but you forgot me"

etc.

Slang used on the forum
There are many inside jokes used on flashplayer, which have been used so commonly that they are universally known on the flashplayer forums.

That's hot- Generally used as a reply to a thread that is of little or no interest.

10char- (and variations) Used after short one word messages, to bypass the 10 character rule.

Whore(and variations)- Variations include rep whore, trend whore, post whore, attention whore, etc. This means that the person is doing an extremley large amount of the word after whore.

O RLY- A new trend to post a picture of a bird, in a sarcastic reply to something of vast stupidity.

Forum Fads
Some of Flashplayer's Forum Fads include:

The "O RLY" fad

MSN Messanger "Orgys" (Creating MSN Messanger Chatrooms and Participating in them)

History of the Flashplayer Forums
The History of FP: Version 3.0 A month by month look at the ages: December '03 and before: Creation In the beggining, there was Bill. He created the forums, and much of the site today. The forums were a bit of a success, and had many members join and post. This went on throughout 2002 and early 2003. In July 2003, he appointed Redbones as a second administrator, in charge of all site related problems. Then, most accounts were deleted, and most of the posts as well. Then, in September, a new mod joined, his name was Beta. Beta was a good, leniant mod, and did his job with dignity. He was an expert in Flash, and was willing to help anybody with any problems. In October, the longest standing member joined, ButtUglyNerd. All threads made were minor, from people who never came back after a few posts. Madnezz was the next to join, and he was the second semi-major to join. When FM joined at the end of November, things were beggining to commence. Nobody during these times truely cared about posts and spamming. In fact, a thread was made to boost post count, and nothing else. In late December, the fist flood of newbie came. Amongst these were Dustin and Ren. At years close, threads began to pop up, and people generally started having a good time. Bill participated in threads at this time and gave the forum the light it needed to start.

January '04: Begginings The first half of January went slowly, but things were beggining to click. The first ever talks of having user titles arose during this time, and a few more members began to join. Amongst these were Modena, Chris, No One, and Archon. Posts generally were short, and did not carry info. Yet nobody cared. Everyone came to the forum just to have a good time, and did so. Around this time, Beta switched names. Abbot Flash was the last moderator that ever graced the forum for months after, so it is fairly important. Around this time, members began to get to know each other a bit more, and polls, much like those that we see from newbies today, began to appear. The first major thread occurred when Chris began a 1 word story. It was met with enthusiasm, and generally, life was good then. Also, Overmind began our first award show. Late in the month, the 3rd largest thread ever was locked, word association. THAT caused the first major problem, as most people liked the thread. And then, the month closed. A second moderator came, but he never did anything. His name was DevineRight. FP did not have many problems at this time, and nobody complained. Flash was a big theme around then.

February '04: The testings of Abbot Flash Surprisingly to me, things still were just starting at the beggining of the month. User ranks, which were recently released, started the first spamming for a cause. But there were close to no actions taken on it. Things generally were boring, and Open Topics began to look like the Newbie Safe Haven. Everyone was asking stupid "How do I do this?" type questions. Eventually, it began to look like a state of panic. Chaos began to spread, and a call for order was in place. Abbot was failing at modding. It was because he started devoting more time to his Flash movies than to the forum, and spammers were not outlawed in that time. It began to frustrate people, yet flames had not begun. By mid month, a call for mods had been issues by Ren. Things were going out of whack, and needed repairing. At about this time, Ren created the first, and best, newbie guide. Abbot edited it and made it into an announcement. Hopefully with rules, things will stop going out of whack, he hoped. Then, the fights began. Little issues, no doubt, and they were not big fights. Minor disagreements here and there, and simple fights. Ren began to develop a leader's presence, and others began to follow. There came about 15 threads a day around now, and it was becoming a place to hang out instead of a place to go when you were bored. On the 18th, the first threads were locked for spamming, and this began to bring joy. Around this time, the curse of MC arrived to the forum from POM. Important player in the future, but he ws very minor at this point. He was only an FOMer. Serra came on, creating a major debate to arise, but also a lot of randomness. Chris, the king of random, presided. The review team, created by Ren, came with controversy as well. But, it was a great addition, as people began to review the movies on Flashplayer in detail. Clans began arising at this time, and debate teams started to form. People began to be sundered into categories, and the forum unity ther once was disappeared. Amber and LP joined during this time. Meanwhile, a crusade against POM was beggining MC headed it all, and a rebellion almost came. MC had a way with words then, and most people agreed that POM was becoming too large. This call for reform lasted for the entire 2nd half of the month, and then Bill created POM rules, and stickied them. This was met with joy and please of the mods. At the end of February, Abbot almost stopped posting. He rarely would post from that point on, almost like the admins do.

March '04: The First Revolution March opened with a mini exile. A few members left, and Klanz, a major member at the time, was banned, much to Ren's disapproval. Klanz came back as Haven, naturally, but his account is still banned although Ren did try to fight Bill about it. Modena also left. But, no damage was done, as most who left returned. At this point, forums began to be made, and many of them. Also, Ren somehow conviced Bill to remove the IP ban on Klanz at this time. That is when Gabriel, a habitual liar, joined. He lied about his age, and posted many false pictures of himself. Imothing also joined around now, and she was big in trying to ban a few members. We got to the 18th of March, and then fights started breaking loose. Left and right, nothing but fights. Why? Who knows. But, members became disgruntled, and their true personalities started to show. Ren became more cynical. Serra followed him. Chris became quieter. MC, mor obnoxious. T joined then, and joined in. He was seen as an idiot (Sorry T, I'm talking about back then, not now. Though some people may still agree...) Then silence, again. Devin joined. All you need to know. Eggs joined here as well. But, Eggs, unlike Devin, was not a simple case. He spammed the forums, and was almost going to be banned. But, he made a speedy recovery, and became a very funny forumer. At the very end of the month came another cry for mods. Ren cried it, but did not stick through with it. People started to get irked by all of this, and a few more fights began at the end of the month. Meh, March was boring. Pretty much, newbies came and stayed.

April '04: The Decline of FP April came, and the call for mods became heavier. Demand increased, and the forumers said that supply was down. Rex was a major contributer at this, Ren was the founder, and others also came and joined in like 7s4h3t5m (You expect me to get that right?) Mods became the key demand from the forumers, and there was no opposition to it. April 5th, Bill answered the mod request, and said he'd look into it. Much happiness. But, he never did. Unimportant, but Pat joined around here. Then, Abbot decided it was his time to take leave. The fights had become too much for him, and he had no other choice. He left the forums. Mod demand increased heavily then, and started to turn into a riot. But, never did. Things continued falling apart, rolling, tumbling, people arguing, fighting, etc, spam was high, all was chaos! Then came a new hope Easter night. T created a new account called "Sportslife", and created a thread known as Unlimited Pleasure. It started out with T posting that he was new to the forums, and that he knew every single member who posted there. There were many greetings offered to him. Then, a fight broke loose between 2 parties. They fought for about an hour with little progress. Then, a person came in a told them to stop fighting, or god will kill a kitten! It was taken from a picture saying "Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten." They listened. Molly, who was new to the forum, ran in. That, plus all that happened, led to a bunch of suggestive sayings from various people, especially Ren. Serra joined in, Chris was in on it, Molly, Pat, and T was the pornography crew. It became a script, and it was all based on an orgie that the have. It led to the famous line "And the moral of the story is, Porno unites communities." It went until the end of the night, and was probably the best thing that had happened in a month because there was no fighting. They attempted UP again the next day. All members were there, except Serra. They tried, but it failed. It was only going to work once. Devin (Toodles) wanted in, but she missed it. T tried to make one. But, it was over. A final attempt at one was made almost a month later by Gabriel, but it never commenced again. At this point, many things happened at the same time. First, Ren started to go out with Molly. Second, Dark Ninja joined, and began to make the forum happier. Third, fights had almost died out at this point. Well, at least until Pat made a thread based on who's life sucks the most. Fight. Then Ren broke up with Molly. Fight. She went for Chris, Simon, and Pat within a month. Fight. Fights grew and grew, until they were out of control. Apologies were there, yes, but major damage was being done. The first spam attack came on April 24th by some idiot. 12 threads worth. That was when people began to realise that the forum wasn't all. Personal problems began creeping in, and causing need for calamity. And then, April ended. It had gone from modded times and happy times to fights. Yet, the worst of it was about to come.

May '04: Hell and recovery. Come May, things were crumbling. Ren wanted to leave the forums badly. Molly blamed it on herself. Chris had schoolwork problems. Haven had been banned and never was quite as content as before. And others also were getting fed up. Then, Kyle joined. He was a lovable ball of fluff. No joke. Anyways, back to the story... Then, on May 4th, it all caved in. Chris, Ren, Haven, and Book (I think...) left. There were others, but many got deleted. It was a night of hell, and nobody slept during it. Too much was going on. The great inevitable collapse had come. Then, Ren and Chris came back. They both had jambled up their passwords, so they had to make new screennames. And, thus, things had not changed to an extent, except some really old members had quit forever. Then came Pheonix. He was an amazing script writer out of a job. He wanted one. So, he began to come to the forum and write scripts for it. In mid-May he made Forum Survivor, one of the 4 scripts ever writen. It was that you vote a forumer off, and he wrote a script telling how they got killed. Simple, but genius. Little happened worthy of note here. Falcon joined around this time, and Imothing's crusade to ban him began. Also, the first lyrics game began. But, mainly it was just random fun. Things went good until Bahumant came, along with Glitch. These guys were big spammers of the forum, and generally hated. Bahumant had about 5 swears per sentance. Glitch spammed with threads, with the intent on spamming. This last for a while, until Sarah came. But, that's later. Wazzup, later known as Robotron, later known as your_GIRLFRIEND was the next to join and spam. He spammed with threads asking stupid questions. Exion also joined (We're at the 18th...), and he became a nice member. Then, some good little newbies came. Hitman came. DN switched names from Paperbagman to DarkNinja. Sarah joined, although was a stupid newbie at the time. So did Decaying Blade. At this point, it was May the 24th. Bahumant left in an angry, swearing way, and a huge flame fest ensued. Then, he was gone for a month. He posted a porn thread, it was deleted. He never was banned though... Imothing returned. It was major member jumbling, and a few fights here and there. Nice and simple. That's when, in the words of the snowman on Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer, it hit! Ren created a thread on the 28th of May telling people to mature up. It turned into a "We need mods! Give us mods!" protest. Sarah then took the liberty of seizing the opportunity, and created a thread entitled "Moderators." Thus, it began. Sarah was heavily in support of getting a new moderator, and tried for hours on end debating alongside Ren and Chris against the forces of Amber (She's in the history? :eek and MC. The entire basis was on a quote Decaying Blade had said in the prequal to it. And slowly, issues were "decided" by majority opinion. This continues from 3:00 PM on Friday until Memorial day, May 31st. Bill posted twice in the thread, and the second said that he would make a new mod for us. Redbones also said the same thing. There were other threads made at the same time asking smaller questions. Well, at the end, we all had a humongous headache, but it was generally agreed that we should have mods. And so, the long wait began. Oh, and to be anti-clamatic, Ren made the 2nd Forum awards thread. It was a smashing success.

June '04: Trouble's A'Brewin June began as May ended. Waiting for mods. We waited. And waited. And Waited some more. And put a bit more on that. We waited for 22 days, until Sarah just got fed up and deleted the whole thing. In the meantime, since it was stickied, it gained a total of over 2,000 posts. Well, at the beggining, June was a nice month. Things went really well, and the only fights were inside the mods thread. All the rest of the forum was peaceful, semi-intelligent, and fun. Then Glitch came back, only in another form. He spammed the forum, and got banned. He came back within two days, and spammed again. He kept on spamming until Sarah talked nice to him. That's when he decided to come back only monthly to spam us. Glitch opened the door for other spammers. Amonst these were Taco, sk8ter, and vboxbot. They spammed unknowingly, but gained much disrespect. Slowly, individuals gained it back. vBoxbot was the first, he gained it back in June. sk8ter took until early July, Taco, um, never gained respect. But, they were just n00bs and spammers here, and they all were disliked. Meanwhile, DN created one of the best threads ever made, the Forumatrix. This thread was a script written by him using forumers in an original martrix story. Fun times, and after it was written, fun times with Exion for Sarah. Her necklace of testicles looms to this day. Pheonix promised to rewrite it, and eventually, he did. It comes later. And at the same time, the 3 word story, one of the most hated threads of all time was also going on. Essense of it was to write 3 random words. It was fun at first, but then it became a spammy waste. It was NOT fun then. Then came the first major battle since mods. Ren, Molly, DN, and Sarah participated with the world against Ren. It was a battle of tears, as it was all accusations on the other's charecter. It ended with Sarah's request for the complete story from Ren, Chris, and Pat. That's when she became prominent in the drama. Ren the next day apologized to the forum. That is when Pheonix began to stop script writing, but go onto pictures. He was a surprisingly good artist, and he created some cool pictures, but things piles up. But, others began to get into the sig pics too. There was more and more sig pics popping up, and threads came. It was pretty cool, until newbies began to receive them. Then, without anyone noticing, the forums began to become stupid. The topics became more useless, with less validity, and less importance. Things were not as they were before, and everything was becoming dumb. A few member, more the cynical ones, began to threaten leaving. A few did, but not many. Part of this was because Bahumant had come back, and he was no brighter than before. But, it was the start of a downfall that would leave FP speechless... June 23rd brought 2 major things. first, Sarah became fed up with mods, and finally deleted it. But, in her annoyed state, she deleted her own account and made a new one. *Shrugs*. The second was a primary attempt at a history by Jarred Chili. Well, it was an attempt, but was missing many things. Compare it to this so far, you'll see what I mean. But, it was too focused on the present. Sarah went and finished hers and posted it shortly after. Abbot had recently come back as a forumer, and at that time, was pretty popular. He wanted to try forum of his own, so he programmed it. He had a great idea of teams with abilities and attacks, but to his dismay, his ideas for improvements failed to come. If it was made at the beggining, it would've worked, but failed because of errors. Then came the Quotes thread, happy because of it's ability to bring back good memories. And then, at the end of the month, Ren discovered Maddox. He began to change, like most Maddox readers do, and he became more cynical. His respect had become a different form. He began to flame more than before. And Kyle followed him. Kyle changed, but slower, so that none of us could see it until it was too late. Yet, he left on the 29th, so it makes sense. Molly made a cool thread that said she wanted to go out with me, but I'll leave that out. 2 more major threads came that month. One was Pheonix's long awaited revision to the original ForumMatrix. He made it narrative style instead of script style, something that has never been done until this time. He also changed the script. Also, Hurt 'N' Heal started, and it was considered one of the most fun games at that time. So, June had closed, and the midyear had struck. So many good threads in one month, and the hope was high for the future. It ended on a positive note. Nobody would predict what happened in July.

July '04: Crash and Burn FP! The beggining of July started with a call to reform. Ren had called for a better summer, and MFD called for it here. He claimed that the forum was getting idiotic, and too argumentive. So, the call to reform came. It held, and proved itself through non-argumentive times. But, people began to leave. That is when Ren remade his newbie guide, and it helped tremendously. Sarah made one a little later for the newbie area. On the 7th, one of the biggest political figures at the time, 00Elf came. Strong willed republican, willing to fight for all his views intelligently. And I mean using facts, not opinions or shaky facts. He proved a good match. And a good thing for the rest of the time. For that was when the 9th hit. Sarah left for a week due to ACL surgery. Amber and Deathstrike left because of Summer Camp. Little did they know what they'd come home to. July 10th, quiet fun day. July 11th, Commandersa leaves for camp. July 12th, Mad Max returns and spams. Then came July 13th. Molly left the forum to start the day. Pat followed her. Rex had toleave for a few days. T left forever, because the forum "sucked" in his words. Also, during this time, the stickied announcement of the rules disappeared, because announcements have cut off dates. July 14- Nothing, except Amber's departure. July 15- Mad Max began to make signature pics for forumers. July 16- MC makes a thread making fun of Redbone's family, he gets banned. Chris is banned in the process. Ren, seeing MC banned, leaves the forum. vBoxBot joins in. So does Decaying Blade and Jarred Chili. Eggs leaves, and so does Rex, who previously swore never to leave. There were barely ANY members left at that time. The week had occured. When Sarah came back, she was in shock. That was when the rallies began. Pheonix rallied up the forumers not to leave. Sarah rallied the forumers up to start over, make good with the bad. Redbones, to the delight of many, put up a new announcement of general rules. The enddate on this was 2010, so there was NO fear that was going down anytime soon. MEANWHILE, Ren and MC had created a forum, Zerg and Cheese. They really did not care about the forum, they wanted it for the articles they would put up, in essence maing it like Maddox's site. Well, they did so and it worked for a while. At least until a few *****y members strolled in. They caused chaos with debates in ZaC, and it's initial intentions failed. Back at FP, Redbones decided to upgrade the forums, which he did. The forums became "spiffy", and created a much friendlier atmosphere. It also created the much hated reputation points. And the public groups which have not yet begun. But, it was attractive. Ren was pleased to see it, and strolled right back in. So did many members who followed him. Bahumant was a heavy presence as an actual good for the forum, and contributed. Things looked like February, no decent posts, but nobody cared. Anyways, Glitch returned mid-month and spammed again. T lied and said it was Pat trying to get IP banned. Anyways, during the latter part of the month, a Lord of the Rings script was created, and provided relief for a harder time. Everybody died in the script. A final note is that at this time, Necromano and Nepharski joined the forum, and their lasting relationship began. Thus, at the end of July, things had shaped back together. A loss of members had become a new home. August was just around the corner, as was a hope, a dream, a care.

August '04: David and Overmind When August began, a new start had been issued. But, some dirt still had to be cleaned. First, August started with heavy advertising of forums. These were generally from dis-respected members, but the "alternative forum" spam began to grow. It went unnoticed, and accepted. Second, a forum fad began in which members would change to have their entire profile be 8 Bit theatre related (UNIMPORTANT, but still...) Then, rep started becoming prevelant. It was a heavy topic, and generally liked. Unlike now, it was not abused, it was more like a game. MFD was the #1 at rep, followed by Ren, and then Sarah. That was when MFD created a second account. That hit a high rep also. 4th was Amber, thought I'd mention that. Rep was only given on very nice posts, as Sarah had posted a little lecture on Rep on what it should be given for and stuff in late July. A spammer by the name of Imnotinvisible came in early August. She was the first intentional spammer who spammed just to spam. She would post porn, just to eventually get banned. Slow movement by the admins then caused concern amongst a few members. Rex started a new mods debate, but without the support of Ren and Sarah, it did not have much strength. After that point, the advertising of forums became another prevelant issue. It became like spamming, and was shunned by those senior members. FerrarriF550 joined at this time, and he was considered a major flamer. Got banned once, but was heavily like by the more cynical members. He created a sense of joy to the forum, at least then. The forum's opinion was becoming cynical, and the cynics were winning. . Anyways, at that time, the forum's drama greatly decreased. Nothing history worthy occurred, only repeats of old threads and stupid threads. So, stupidity increased at the time. On the 11th, things worthy of note happened. DN, a great forumer, left. He never returned, except to laugh at the forum. Second, Almighty David, another cynic, joined the forum. He was a well liked member, and his name is engraved as a good newbie. His presense in August was heavy, then he disappeared forever. Anyways, he first came on at that time. Almighty David created an insult thread when he arrived, and it was not greeted with much happiness. Yet, it eventually gained some respect and became a fairly decent thread. David began his domination of the forum there. Then came the war on the Avatar. Ren believed that Avatars should be increased in size to 100x100. Well, that met little success, as the admins completely ignored it. There were around 4 threads on it in suggestions and 1 in Open Topics. It was the second time the admins had failed that month, or ever. It started to amount to something. Then came a time when Ren began to start a major prescence in the forum. Everyday, he would create some thread, some time of uselss thread, granted, and he would get approval on it all. Without Molly/Sarah/DN/Pheonix to debate with, he started looking "Awesome". He seemingly did not contribute to drama, only unto the forum. And people looked up to him for more than a forumer, but a leader. And what he said went. A primary example is Almighty David. Ren said that he was cool, and by just doing the smallest things, he seemed cool. And so, the second dominancy of Ren began. Bahumant recently had gained some respect at the time. He made a careless error and flamed sk8ter, and it began to lead to his downfall. At his forum, sk8ter had tried to take over, kicking Bahumant out of a job. Bahumant caught it and de-adminned him. He brought it over to FP. At FP, sk8ter had a recent reputation built up, and was beggining to be liked. When Bahumant flamed sk8ter, it backfired. Bahumant tried again by posting what sk8ter did, that failed. He was being flamed left and right, and he was neg repped for minimal reason, and had always been (OK, I'm kind of defending him here.) Bahumant said that he would leave if everyone was nice to him for 24 hours. nobody believed it, and he stayed for a longer time. Loopdeloop also joined, and was liked by Ren. He became a prominant "Good Newbie". Another prominent newbie at the time was Nepharski. Nepharski was actually the best newbie since Sarah...*Is hit*. Fine, best newbie ever with exception of Sarah. *Is hit harder*. Fine, best newbie since Ren. Anyways, he was renowned for his maturity and posting style. He became well liked (OK, I'll pause here. Ren said that he should stay at open topics, Waiken said "After 1 post you like him?" and a big debate began. Forum opinion followed Ren.), and if anyone has ever hated his personality, hit me again. *Is hit again*. Shut up. Anyways, he was a good forumer at the time, and still is today. David, meanwhile, began to shift focus to school at the time. He didn't, although he said he was. He remained major at the forum until the end of August. Then came David's 2 most prominent threads. The first was the forum psychologist thread. He began to talk to people jokingly about fake problems. He selected a few psychologists, and in their status, it was written "Forum Psychologist #1, 2, 3, etc." This was his first big hit. His second big hit came when he made a "Help me take over the world thread." Nepharski was the key player in it, and he and David came up with a master plan on taking over the world. It became almost an RPG. It is famous as a fun thread, with no true purpose. Exion came back frm his summer break at that time, but his disappearence was irreleven. Bill was the only important forumer missing at the time. Now you're wondering "What happened to Pheonix?" by now. OK, you aren't. His computer crashed, and he couldn't get on FP until it was fixed. So he's out of the picture. David began to fade. Sarah was on vacation. Ren was dominating. This was his second increase in domination, as he was the only big drama name left on the forum then. That was when Chris returned. Chris returned simply to ask for voices for his movie. Well, it went into his full fledged return to the forum. He was back, he talked, but nothing much as before. He stayed mostly out of forum drama, and stayed only to advertise his movies. he shifted from a forumer to an animator at the time. So did JarredChili. So did Imothing, who would play a bigger role in times to come. This was when Sarah returned. She was her same old *****y self at the time. But, times would change. Withing 3 days, she, like the forum, went cynical. Well, to an extent. She released all anger out in a period of 1 week, and it created like for her. She grabbed the number 1 rep spot (It actually meant something then...), and kept afirm hold on it for the rest of her time at FP. She became a prominant figure. Things grew when she started to "date" Ren. Together, they had a tyrannical rule over the forum. Ren the king, and "Sarah, my queen". (Wow, little egotistical there, am I not?). Anyways, it began. And so came Sarah's great monthlong idea, the Forum Oscars. She had an idea to make awards for the FP movies, and she was intending to make another script. So, she made the Forum Oscars idea up. She called a few members at the time (BookFreak, Time, Eggs, and Chris) to become a panel of judges. Thus, fun began. I really want to stop being in here, and Farishye is next on the list, so I'll backtrack to the 18th. A newbie, waikentheberz, had recently joined the forum. He made a thread "Randomness". It lives in shame as many members flamed him for making it. Others defended him, so a war began. This represents that the forum was not fight free at this time. It last a while, and Nepharski also made a presense in here keeping his head down, and only debating intelligently. now, back on track. Sarah then received a PM from a member, Farishye. Farishye said she was hot, and she replied that she was taken. Then, he replied abusing her again. She told him to stop. He continues. She fowarded it to Ren, and Ren made a rant on Farishye, in which he and Sarah began flaming him. Farishye carried his abuse into the thread, and Necromano joined in. Now just a thing about Necromano first, he is not a drama type forumer. Well, he came in, and he flamed the wits out of Farishye, and his battles with him lasted longer than that day. Sarah contributed major respects to Necromano, and his presence began to be felt. But, it was only as a forumer, not a drama person. So his name will barely be heard here anymore. Anyways, August fast approached the end. Bahumant came back from a trip, and he reverted back to his old self. He faked a suicide, and he was flamed for EVERYTHING afterwords. He left. David also came back for a while, and made some more semi-famous threads, mainly for their fun. But, times were ending for him. Ren's dominance throughout November then peaked on the 26th. This was when he made a thread about Deep Sea animals, and did not get flamed for a stupid topic. Anyways, on the 27th, his downfall began when he wrote the first rave thread, it was about himself. People said it was a waste of space, and idiotic. Although he began a forum rant/rave tradition, it marked the turning point in his dominancy. His fall became prevelant.Molly returned for a day, and she remarked how she thought the forum was a bunch of idiots for liking Ren. Big argument mounted, with Chris on her side. Ren came on then, and quickly ended it, but the damage was done. His fall became steeper at the point. SecondPoseidon left, a major forumer, mainly known for the voice of reason. He left with respect, and never came back. It was a big thing then, as many people liked Poseidon, mostly for non-interference in drama related activity. But, time moved on. Thus, August closed. August was a grueling month, but renowned for it's anti-drama antmosphere. It's most prevelant themes were Ren's dominance and the time of David. But, Ren's fall had kicked off, and would begin a little later. The time of the newbies was coming.

September '04: The Decline of the FP forumer hierarchy September began with the Raves. They occurred often, frequent, and with validity. Ren began doing one Rave or Rant a day. David joined in, alongside with Kyle. At this time, Kyle's change was beggining to be noticed, and his cynical likenesses appeared. The Raves came, and they were considered good threads. Rants also came, and were considered funny. Nepharski, long known for his consistancy of posts, began working on threads. His first was a "Mastermind convention", which was a humongous hit among FP. Almighty David made an "Insults thread" a few days later, another huge success. The purpose was to insult the person who posted above you. It, in the cynical forum of the time, came with wonder and excitement! (If that's exctiting, this must be getting boring...) Nepharski's political standings began to play a role by now. He began to show support to republicans, and his spirituality also was integrated. It changed his repute for the better, and his voice was heard. (Fine, Nepharski just made some really good posts, and they helped him up.) THIS is where I want to bring in the IRC chatroom. The IRC was originally conceived by MFD in mid to late July. It was used a little, but nothing much. Around September, it started kicking. It was a popular hang out for the forumers, and a popular place to generally be. Members loved MFD for this. Then came the out of the world crisis where the Russian School was taken hostage. WaffleK12 then joined the forum. He, unlike the majority of the forum, found the hostage situation FUNNY. He made fun of the kids, and frolicked around. Immediately, he was shot. He stayed around for 3 days making fun of the poor kids who could lose their lifes, and Bill pulled the plug on him. Controvercy number 3 occurred then with Bill because the banning was too slow. But, that's background for November. Then came the Molly "Crisis". Molly had been going out with Chris for the majority of the summer, and she was mad at him. So, she had her friend send Chris a message saying that she had killed herself, and that she had "Found the box." (Later, I found out that it was a thing they decided to both send to each other.) Chris posted a thread, letting FP know. FP believed, at least the majority. Ren even believed. Anyways, Kyle did not. He argued with Chris and Sarah on it all night, and eventually gave up. Few forumers followed him, and the majority believed. The next day, Ren found out that it was all a hoax and told the forum that she was not dead. She grew to be imfamous after that. She never intended it to arrive at the forum, it was only a thing between her and Chris. She stopped the act when she found out that Chris had told the forum. Anyways, after that, she blocked everyone in the forum from IMing her. Haven returned, and warned the forum to leave. Life is better without it. But, he, being gone for so long, did not get many ears. Nobody left, but his voice began to change a few people. David had almost disappeared, and he rarely posted. This time, he would not return. MFD, a long time poster, decided to leave. Ren posted that he was thinking about changing, but didn't know. Majority opinion took a hold on him, so he didn't change. Anyways, Sarah had made a Short Story thread a while back in order to rival the ever growing Poetry thread. Sarah wrote her story, a weird one name "Fristonia". He posting was the only thing that kept it alive. She reached the final part when Tortured Heart decided to post a poem. If you don't know, There were three major newbies who all joined at the same time. TH was considered sweet. Fallen Grace, another good newbie, "cool". JetBunney was considered a combination of the two. Anyways, TH posted a poem about suicide. Danny, after hearing Ren talk about FP for so long, decided to come to FP. Alright, Ren told him to go then. So, after he flamed TH, Sarah had her go at him. Chris joined him. The worst debate in FP history then came, when Sarah and Chris began ranting on cynics. The cynics defended themselves, saying that Sarah and Chris generalised. It went on from 6 until 9, and then stopped. Ren and Danny then started to act like they took over the thread, and talked about having sex with the girl across the street. Chris (Via AIM), found this to be awful, and told Sarah that they should mock the cynics. They did so. Their trolling began, and went on until 11 that night, when they agreed to stop trolling. This debate continued on the next day through a Rant/Rave that Ren made on Chris, with Sarah out of it. It went on, and eventaully, Chris called Ren ugly. This was a fatal flaw, because Ren takes true anger at people who call him ugly. He flamed out of anger then, and not just out of spite, and Chris backed off. Unlike previous debates, nobody left with unhampered reputations. Danny was known as a bad newbie, thanks to Sarah. Ren lost most of his respect. Chris became known as a "*****er", and Sarah lost respect as a leader, and she also lost her will to stay. Ren had lost steam, and he almost gone. But don't worry, he has 1 more key role to play before the spam attacks. Anyways, I thought I'd mention Sand_Trap here, probably the most typical example of a newbie. He was just young on the forum, and did not exactly post the best of threads, but he was the average newbie. Moving on... In later September, another complaint against the admins came when Bill, without the smallest provoksion, disabled all signature URLs, Pics, VB code, and lowered the text imit to 150 charecters. After begging from the forum, he turned them back on. By this time, though, he had enough complaints, including his leaving for the summer, that the moderator dam was ready to explode again. This was the time when Loopdeloop, a newbie supported by Ren, left. David had completely faded, so he's gone. The polls then came, asking "What do you think of me? Am I good or bad?" These went on for the rest of the month, and grew to be annoying. Sarah killed it with her poll having all negative options. Anyways, time for fun. This was where the mod dam partially broke. Sarah cleverly manipulated discussions into one on mods a number of occassions, and they all turned into cries for mods. Ren, unlike last time, was against mods, and was cynical at the idea. Sarah contacted him via AIM, and their most bitter fight lasted the night (Hehe, rhyme.) The next day, Sarah blocked Ren with anger. Ren, thouroghly upset (Sarah was his girlfriend at the time), decided to destroy FP. He began posting porn pictures for the intent on getting IP banned. His friends from FoM saw what he was doing and joined him. They were the most efficient spammers of the time, and flooded about 20 pages with spam. IRC played a key role that night, as it was the only place to talk. FP was taken over. Bill and Redbones, the next day, saw the mess and IP banned over 20 screennames, excluding Ren. It was a fatal flaw to the admins, though they did not feel it until later. They were watching Rocky. A fourth call for mods was issued, yet completely ignored, and lost all steam. Ren yelled at the admins for not banning him, and then got his ban. It wasn't an IP ban, so he returned. The banned his IP, yet he had a proxy to get around it. Then, his dad blocked the site for him. Chris, meanwhile, organised and launched a full scale assault on Ren's forum. Ends up he got the wrong one, but he still launched an assault. He, Sarah, and FG were the key spammers at Maddox Mania (We wanted Friends of Maddox but were idiots...), and that led to all three IP bannings. And then, September ended. Sarah, as promised, released the 4th and final script made on FP, the Forum Oscars. Really met applause, and the month of her work ended. Yet, it wasn't as she had hoped. For September had gone from the high and the beautiful, with a established hierarchy, semi-respected admins, and major members, such as David, Ren, Sarah, and Chris. When it ended, it was low and desolate, with only Chris and Sarah left. And for those of you who hate hearing Sarah so much, she is the next to disappear.

October '04: From Chaos to Happiness to Spam to Mods October then came after a noisy September relatively quiet. Nothing happened, and all was still. Many people were shocked at Ren's leaving, and starting clinging to the past. Kyle stopped that, saying to forget the past. Kyle also made a "Rules of existing at FP" for the newbies, but that was minor. FiberOptics joined, a future major member. Simon hacked into his old account. Sarah faded gradually. Yeah, things were going smoothly. Until... No, nothing. It stayed peaceful for a while. Unheard shout joined. Vaerin join. Mafiasco joined. LuckyShot joined. AKA, a second newbie revolution was happening. One thing that I will say is that politics began to be a new theme of Flashplayer. Many treads were made on it. Aso, advertisements became REALLY big. Everyone started advertising a forum, except little Sarah (^-^). Sarah, after Ren's departure, realised how few people she knew who were left. Her updated history finally was posted, and then the next day, she left. Naturally, Pheonix returned the next day. FM posted another mod incentive, as Sarah had told the admins with her last post that the admins had failed. FM began a small uprising that was put down quickly. With Sarah leaving, FG's change began. He went from cool to cynic. But then, he was still cool, and went out with TH. Minor, but it happened. Sand Trap unknowingly copied a Pheonix idea, and began making a Forum Survivor. Unlike the last one, the stories were short, and it was a daily death. He made seperate threads, while Pheonix only made one. Yet, that was his first burst out onto the forums. I'll also comment that Pheonix posted his first forumer awards at this time. By now, the newbies had completely taken over. All threads seemingly were made by them, and only them. And, under the few drama forumers left, they gained respect. FG became the new rep leader, and eventually, the most respected. But, Kyle was emerging as the most respected of the time. MFD began giving up on the IRC chat, and that began to disintigrate. There were spammer attacks around every 5 days, but that was the aftermath of Ren's departure. Anyways, FP withstood the storm and most members survived. MFD's survivor was next. It lasted days and days, and never exactly was completed. SandRock made a second hurt and heal, and it succeeded again. Ninjit joined. At this points, all forumers made changes out of their newbie states. Sand got into politics slightly, FG's cynical change began, and Nepharski's respect soar. Just by change, I suppose, but they began to look as they do today. October then became shear stupidity. Threads began to ask people what they prefer. One such example was a poll on the type of Peanut Butter people prefer. What X-Man are you? A thread saying "Holy ****". Yeah, that's where things went downhill. Spammers saw the door open with these topics, and one named Ranger came in. He spammed, and was banned. He then got a second chance and came back. That was where he, along with FG and Luckyshot, invented the phrase "Rep Whore." They would beg people for rep, just to see their counts go higher. It was truely pathetic. Unlike August, when rep signified respect, Rep had become as useless as post counts. When Ranger was 1st page of +rep, something was obviously up. Anyways, rep whores started, and they got flamed. Badly. Then joined Gabriel, a member from before June who was imfamous for lying. He was thought to be banned when he made his first comeback, but the second comeback worked better than people (Fine, MYSELF) thought it would work. He gained a bit of respect before completely losing it with his GabrielII account that was banned. Now TH, remember her? She began a huge forum awards. And no, not just that 1 thread. She made about 10 threads all selecting certain members for certain things. Kick Ass Girl, Kick Ass Forumer, Biggest Spammer, etc. And this went on for a long time. She gained some major respect for that, and even more from dating FG. So, she's bigger. Fine, I have to mention some hated people, this isn't an all ahppy month. Shadow T-1000 and Robotron joined. Shadow was just a moron, plain and simple, and was generally hated as a n00b. Robotron, previously Wazzup, joined, and he made about 5,000 threads on stupid subjects, average about 4 a day. When people told him to stop, he would burst into a swearing rage. But, he eventually was banned. Anyways, October neared its end, and presidential polls popped up. "Who will you vote for" "Who is stronger in economics", etc. threads popped up. There were some intelligent discussions on it, and it helped a then-spammy forum. And then, October ended with a bang. An anonymous member came back to the forum and posted a thread impeaching the moderators and administrators. It ended up being Sarah who posted it, but anyways. NOBODY agreed with her (Minus WhiteSnow, a newbie at the time), and the majority said that the admins would never listen. Chief members against this were Sand_Trap and Exion (Ironically). Anyways, after fierce debating, Sarah went balistic and flamed a majority of the members. Members began wondering about the issue instead of who this member was. Then, Bill came on, and saw the thread. He promised a mod within two weeks. Within a week, he hand picked LP as our newest mod. Sarah revealed herself and had a bit of a *****ing contest with Bill, and Bill realised her validity. He changed thenafter.

November '04: The testings of LP and Exion, part 1 November opened. Plain and simple. Amber posted the Super Duper Loopey Happy thread, or the "Be as happy as possible". It worked, and made forumers happy. And with november came back a fabled forumer of the past, MC. Except he switched his name around to CheeseMaster, or CM (OMG! I actually said CM!) He played a key component in the late mod debate, and he would play more to come. But, he rejoined, and to no flaming since Sarah was gone. Moving on, David made a return from his fading for 1 day. He explained why he left, and he said that he wouldn't be able to go on much anyways, so he left forever. And, along with oldies returning was T. He rejoined as "ProjectKatz", and actually became a bit of a good member. FG left, but he returned soon enough. FM left for good. November 2nd was the election, a big forum topic, and a few new spammers came in, and produced a second spam attack. This was before LP, so it was up to the admins to stop it. They took a much longer time than wanted, in fact, almost an entire day. People were begging for help then, and almost at the mercy of the spammers. Bill came on and kept trying to ban them, but they kept returning. That was the exact time when LP was made a mod, just for your information. Together, they finally brought an end to the spam. Face Stab! a notorious flamer joined at that time, but it was nothing big. What WAS big was individual changes in people. FG's change had completed, and he became a complete cynic. He broke up with TH, causing some battles. Sand Trap, after modsII, changed into a debater, and one of the more intelligent. He gained much respect afterwords. But, he was still soft as he would still sometimes apologise for his actions and stuff. Then guess who pops onto the scene again? You guessed it, Ren. Danny (He never left...) created a thread saying that Ren had something to say. Ren, apparently, went suicidal. It began a heavy debate with Chris, and it ended shortly after Ren said that he was suicidal. Later, it was known that it was all a joke, but that's what happened. Danny was banned within a few days time, after a PM by Chris to Bill. Yet, it would remain as the 5th great debate. 1 more is to come. This was when the post switching first was seen. Something messed up with the server clocks, and some posts, when posted, went above a previously made post. It was annoying, and more difficult to read the forums. LP could do nothing, ony Bill could. he said he'd switch it, but that didn't happen for months. So, it became REALLY hard to read anything on the forum. At this point, since LP had become a mod, people began to think. "If I make a thread, maybe it'll make more of a difference than before". MFD made the advertisement thread for all forums. There came another cry for people to stop begging for rep. People wanted less spam. And other things like that came on scene. LP took these into concideration when he made his new rules of the forum in later November. A n00b joined, Arby_3000 (Sorry Arby... You were.) He was a bit of a spammer, but he learned quickly. He managed to become esteemed, but not without struggle. Anyhow, he's in. Sand_Trap made his cycles thread, and it mainly consisted of a statement that all threads are just repeats of previously made threads. He remarked that history was just an endless circle, going back to its roots. Believe it or not, he was right. Chris, long time member who had faded, finally left. He came back later, no matter, but he left, again. In fact, he came back in almost 2 days. LP then laid down rules one by one. Like "Stop the sig threads!" Yes, he had become a truer mod, rather than just locking threads, he was showing leadership. On the 16th, JetBunney, the first of the great newbies of September, decided he had to tell his secret. His secret that he was really a guy, and acted the entire thing as a girl. It was a flaw that lasted with him, as he was constantly ridiculed for it. He faded so quickly that his days at FP were horrible. Ah, shows what happens if you lie. LP then decided to do what few mods could do (In fact, only 3 could.) He created a thread, and posted in it a list of rules. He stickied it, and locked it. Rejoice! The rules were made, and LP's leadership is everflowing! OK, enough of that. Alright, this is getting REALLY boring. Absolutely nothing happened in October and November. I'm getting truely sick of this. Argh! Anyways, since I'm getting really annoyed now, I'll say something about the fantasy football season. LP, Sarah, MFD, Chris, Kyle, Taco, DudeofOz, and Time Master were members of a league, created by MFD in August. They played each other, and at this point, LP was winning the league, with Sarah in second with 2 losses (Hey, I stopped paying attention for two weeks.) Sarah then beat LP in December, ending his undefeated season. Throughout December, the FP playoffs of Fantasy Football happened, and Sarah, after almost flawlessly winning the first round destroyed LP in the final. Thus, she won the championship. OK, fine. You don't care. Back to the boring history. Actually, at this point, something unexpected happened. Exion was chosen as a mod. People complained because he was over 21, and believed Bill was prejudiced towards younger members. Sarah stormed in and asked Bill "What in gods name are you doing? EXION?" Well, most sources I have said they did not expect Exion to be good. Even Ren laughed at the idea. Yet, Exion then started showing why he was selected. He went slightly uptight, and although LP did the banning works, Exion cleaned up the messes. Exion proved himself. FG then made one of the first rant threads seen in the longest time, ranting on TH. It became a huge flame fest/war, and did not go well over with other people. FG then made a new thread that next day about her again, but in a different manner, more apologetic. Falcon, who had been trying to start fights for about 2 weeks, created a thread to start a fight between them. T also started a thread. Thus came the rant thread rule from LP. And then November ended. What am I going to say about it? BORING! Nothing happened, and I seriously apologise for these last 2 months. I do believe that there is only 1 more boring month, that being December.

December '04: The Decay of Peace And the December came. December started with a forum matinence problem. there were minor glitches all day, and then at around 6:00 PM, things really went messy. The open topics forum was completely deleted, and major problems occurred. By this time, both Redbones and Bill were on, trying to fix it. The forum then was shut down for 3 hours, the only crash ever. Bill and Redbones restored the entire forum from a backup, and managed to save it. But, most data was lost. So, it basically meant no posts on the 1st of December, or close to it. Anuimation Central then began another run. AC is a forum that had been up twice before, and had gained some respect. MFD tried it, because both times, it was messed up by Dalton. That's not FP or related, so I'll leave it out. And then FG made his charades thread. It was a fun 454 post thread, but it began to become a spammy flammy filled waste, and it was locked. But, it was a big thread of note. Alright, I'm up to the 15th here, and absolutely NOTHING happened so far, except my thread saying that I had just destroyed LP's perfect season. So, I'll give a brief summary of the month so far. In December, people, like the thread, grew to be idiotic. Yes, idiotic. People, even though it was against the rules, made threads on sites. They were obviously locked, but it showed that people were not bright enough to listen to the rules. A lot of 1 link threads started, as did many useless information threads. Generally, so senior members who dropped in occassionally to see how it went shuddered at it. Yet, all was not desolate and idiotic. 2 members stood prominent in the general idiocy. Their names were Sand Trap and Nepharski. For, unlike the rest of the forumers, they began holding some serious debates. Their debate were mainly on religeon, with Nepharski the religeous one, and Sand the Non-Religeous one. They also debated on politics. Unlike past debates, these were not serious debates, only for fun. And they brought in facts, not just opinions. These debates carried much more weight. It also gained them almost as much respect as Sarah and Ren had during early September. FG was beyond all in respect, but in a different manner. His was popularity respect, theirs was intelligence respect. HWolf, a newbie, joined in this month. He started off really well. He was an intelligent, liked poster, and then he went to open topics and made a thread which was his "Newbie Guide". He did really well on it, and he got a sticky on it. It remains there to this day. HWolf became a prominant member, and never backed down, until much later. BeaverChuck also joined, and was well liked. Trigun, the third newbie in the triad (Always a triad, why? Chris-Ren-FM, Sarah-Time-Commandersa, TH-FG-JetBunney, and here. Why?) turned out to not be so well. He was an unintentional spammer, and he made mistakes by constantly bumping threads. A petition to ban him QUICKLY changed him. Ironically, he left a few days after. So much for Trigun, or do we think? Anyways, back to post switching. I suppose at this point, the server time difference went to about 20 seconds instead of 10, as post switching came more frequently, and sometimes more drastically. Thread stealings began. In this, a person would post shortly after another, and by typing in the title, "Stole" the thread. It was ANNOYING. 2 more things happened by the end of the year, as drama started to kick back up. One is Nepharski finally insisted that people stopped following him. This showed his true maturity as a forumer, and made him rank highly amongst the forumers that exist. He became more humble, so to speak. The second was the closing kick. As in January 1st, the year ended with fireworks, not neccassarily the best kind. Sarah had, for the majority of the month, joined a forum called "Teen Help". Kyle, on the forum, started talking about her behind her back. He said about how her advice was idiotic, and only restated the problem in an optomistic way. Sarah, naturally, went into the forum, and saw this. She also saw T telling what TH standed for.Immediately, a battle commenced. Sarah, defending herself, flamed and debated with Kyle, T, and FG. T backed off when Sarah accused him of immaturity in a PM. He deleted his post where he randomly blurted out when Sarah went to give advice. FG stayed and debated. Sarah and Kyle dueled it out for a good majority of the night, with Sarah stating that all Kyle's reasonings are opinion, and thus useless. She managed to cause a good controvercy, and the thread was deleted. But, it was the last of the great battles of FP, at least those that dealt with personal issues. So, the year ended. And it wasn't as simple as it was the last year. It had gone through Drama, 5 personal battles, 2 mods debates, a forumer exile, and many, many debates. But it wasn't ready to stop. 2005 was coming.

January '05: A whole lot about nothing. To start off January came a n00b named Florez. He was a spammer and an idiot, but that's beyond this. Sk8ter, after messing up his Sk8ter account came on as a new name that he made in 2002 "Sup". Also, post switching had become insane, and a bit cool then. But, Bill was informed, said he'd do nothing, and failed again. Then MC completely exploded on Nepharski (I'm assuming it's because Cheese saw Nepharski more respected...) Anyways, it was an angry, heated flamefest, but Nepharski proved maturity in it as Cheese exploded on him and he argued intelligently. (I feel like posting the thread, for Cheese is so wrong in it. http://www.flashplayer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12767) Sand Trap then wrote his seven sins thread. It turned into a debate. Yet, it was a really good debate. Main components were RandomGuy, Sand, Anarchist, and Nepharski. The debate challenged religeon and went on and on with facts, opinions, and conclusions. Although it was intelligent, Sand took a hit for it, not because of his debate, but because people were frustrated. It most likely was because his points were generally valid. Then they turned to useless junk. He also wrote his "Startling thing about the universe" thread, another debate, same components. Yet, that met with some agreement, and went on for a long time. Public Groups then turned into a small open topics suggestion. Bill ignored, naturally. Also, arguments had been getting worse. They were more and more idiotic, and it was noted. Flames came. 2 members joined around now. Tyrant, the first, was a flamer. He loved to insult, curse, and destroy people. Didn't do much debating, more flaming/arguing. He LOVED to get into arguments with MC(One of the reasons I like you so much). The Critic, the second of them, was not much of a flamer, but a general debater. He would debate, but it was generally passive. His voice made him sound like another cynic, while in truth, he wasn't much of one. But, these are the 2 newbies that gained respect in January. Also, 2 idiots/n00bs/spammers came. 1st came chazzdude. (Remember him?) He was a spammer, and he was generally hated. He got banned, and came back. Another ban, another return. Then he was banned into oblivion. The second was your_GIRLFRIEND. Same as Robotron, he would make approximately 99 threads a day. And all on stupid subjects. You complained, he cursed you out, or flamed you. He soon switched accounts to FunnyGuy, and then returned as your_GIRLFRIEND again. He created a nice swearing thread, and got banned MFD made his "I will get banned" thread, all based on the inferance that he wanted to get banned by posting bunneys making love. It was a joke, and he was not banned. But kind of funny... Then, Sarah returned. She made her return thread, and in it she acted like a newbie, but stated her own facts. In totality, about 2 people believed her. The rest wanted proof. LP checked, and the IPs matched, yet people still were cynical. Sarah then 1 by 1 took them out. MFD's "Do you masticate" thread did not acheive the success it once did, but it was successful to an extent. Funny thread. Nepharski made the first rant on Sand Trap, as he had completed his change to a generally "annoying" person (OMG! Opinion!), because he liked to argue too much. Pheonix returned. Only for a day or two, naturally, but he still did return. And he reminded the newbies who he was... Trigun, after recently leaving FP, make an account "Wolf's Rain". He claimed to be Pheonix. He started making signatures, but things seemed suspicious. That's all we can get to in this story now, because January ended. Last thing that happened in January is that posts started switching pages, not only order. So, post switching increased. Bit of arguing in January, but nothing much new.

February '05: Mounting Tensions February. Great month of the year, happens to be my birthday month. But, history is all that matters. February opened with a spam attack by users under different names. LP caught them all and banned them. It was a joke, but Chris wanted all of the attackers banned. MFD, FG, T, Sk8ter, and Ranger were among the attackers. There was a small debate afterwords, and the attackers got a warning. Started a fall for a few of them. Also, Sand Trap, Fiber Optics, and HWolf had been using the FPCon thread (Nepharski) to make a small story. They joked around, good time. (MINOR DETAIL! SHUT UP!) Pure Shadow, a parody of Shadow T_1000 joined, and was generally a heartless monster. Almost got banned. Moving on... A fight started in a thread asking "If you could do anything, what would you do?" Sand Trap and MFD were the main participants. Then, for a few days, nothing but junk. Threads died. On the 9th, Kyle left the forums. He said he would be gone for 2 weeks. He departed for a while, then changed his sig to a goodbye saying. He was gone, unexpectantly. MFD had for about a week gone to compulsary posting. He started doing 70+ posts a day, and it was becoming spammy. He also developed a presence this time. Rex left, and this time, he did not return to his full copacity ever again. Life must've caught up with him. Anyways, time for something big. On the 13th of February, MFD, FG, and Bill began debating. Bill warned MFD and FG to stop or they would get banned. After MFD responded cynically, Bill banned them both, and changed their titles to "Drama Queen". They would be fine with it if he didn't change the titles. So, they came back on alternative accounts and led a small rebellion. Bill, soon after, reinstated them, but with a warning to all to never troll the admins. (I still do. ) Chaos was not complete. The Critic then made a small thread on public groups in the suggestions forum. Bill posted, and said that he had problems with it. This set Sarah off, and she told him EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT. We looked close to getting them, but it didn't work. (Sorry, minor detail. But, I want people to know, we were close, we can be again.) Florez then returned, and using the alternative o made a Hwolf account. Nobody knew it was him until shortly after. He was banned again, and Hwolf was symapathised with. Chris, who had been fading for months on the 16th, left. But, not easily. No member of the 4 members of drama (Ren, Sarah, Molly, Chris) ever left without a bang. Chris spammed to extreme measures. He spammed, got banned, and made a new account. Spammed, ban, new account. This repeated until his IP was banned. He could easily evade it, but he didn't really want to. He was gone. Oh, and Sarah told her real name here. RandomGuy made a thread about a picture of a ghost taken, but it was proved not to be real. It was a small, fun debate. T's account, which had been banned for 6 months was unbanned. Small debate, nothing much. Another small debate happened in the Rebel thread (T). It mainly was on whether rebels are good or bad. Wolf's Rain, a member for the past month, then confessed to not being Pheonix by a bit of blackmail by Sarah. . He admitted it, and then left for a time, until he returned as Trigun. Nobody knew until April. MFD, who had been fading ever since his ban, almost disappeared. He got involved with "World of Warcraft" and rarely came on. Never truely left, but you get the idea. On a thread posted by Devin (ToodlesX. How come isn't she in here?), the second debate between Sand_Trap and Sarah began, on Stem Cells, abortion, insemination, etc. First of many... your_GIRLFRIEND was finally banned here. Then he came back as FunnyGuy, where he actually began to be liked. Bill stopped post switching in this month, but we really don't know the date. Moving on... Or not. February, having 28 days, ended. It seems like there should be a peak to the story, doesn't it? There is. you'll have to read on to March.

March '05: The Age of Drama March was when Drama returned to FP, big time. Start off with hate_SarahIV. She, a newbie, joined, and her name caused suspicion. Ends up she didn't really hate Sarah. Anyways... The first true event was a disquised forumer who returned representing Guess What. He threatened to spam the forum if the forum did not meet Guess What's ultimatum. Of course, nobody listened, and the thread was locked and laughed at. But, a fear of another spam attack grew afterwords. On the 3rd, Your_Girlfriend returned, and after making a true idiot's thread, was banned and his identity revealed. Lowest point for him here. Then came feelings of a dead FP. There were no newbies, oldies had left, and people went into another depressed state. They did not come out of it for a few days. FG's fall then began. FG made a new screenname (Surprise, surprise), and when Forgotengirl returned, ruined her return for her. He was found out by Exion, and after an ensuing fight, the thread also was locked. FG returned for a little while, until he was banned, and it was the first ban that did not happen after an incident. FG returned on and alternative screenname, and being furious, post porn all around, saying it was because Exion did a bad job banning him, so he tried to get his IP banned. After a day, he was. His name, like Ren's, lost major respect after that. People made threads for a few days after asking "FG? What happened to him? Why's he banned?" So, LP, after taking advice from a member made a new sticky thread. This time, it had the rules in the first post, and a list of banned users and why on the second. FG was the honorary first name. The thread is still there today. Sarah, the next day, made a thread on removing post counts. A big debate happened with MC and Sand, but Sand really stood out here. Although no winner actually came out of it, it was a really good fight. Critic also started a revolutionary thread telling the mods to stop giving out names of rep. They sort of listened to it, and have only said it after a spammer or idiot reps a person. Knox-3 joined, and in hiding slowly gathered hatred. He spammed to an extent, but it was just considered normal newbie spam. But, he never exactly improved. He gained less and less respect each day from here on out. Guess What then finally came, as he said he would, but without anyone. He admitted that the messanger was himself, and apologized for all he ever had done. Well, he had a hard time getting back on his feet, but he eventually got there. A 3rd n00b was easyas3.14. He was a reincarnation of BigDawg, who joined in November. And, as it seemed, he wanted to get the lowest rep possible. So, he gave answers to threads that were unwanted, and became hated with a passion. Never was banned though... A fourth n00b was frozenpheonix. He was good at the start, actually, until he got himself banned by bypassing the swear filter. RandomGuy left us, and at his request, was banned. He returns, don't worry. That is where I think FP became dirtier. Little threads came saying "Ooh, which girl is hottest?" and stuff like that. One was with Arby, and Ninjit participated. At this point, people still hadn't given up with the "FP sucks" theory. Waik stopped it with a really angry thread at them, and although there was some disagreeal (Shut up), it worked. People stopped until the present day. But, as natural, the cries of "FP sucks!" made people leave. March 15th, Nepharski left. THIS was a big hit, because the intelligence factor dropped tremondously. (I'm surprised nobody followed him then...) NightmareInc, remember him? Back from August? He made a presence here. He started becoming very "badass", and he started to get liked a lot. He managed to climb up to the top rung (You know, with MC, Tyrant, and Ren). He's stayed there, and personally, I think he's become an exellent member. Then good newbies joined. Punkzim was one of them. Not neccassarily good, but he has never exactly been bad. Thorbjorj (If I get that right...) was the second, and is generally considered the best newbie since HWolf joined. Mid March, the problem threads began. These were TH type problems (No TH, not your types of problems. Teen Help problems), and generally wanted a bandage. People HATED it, saying "Take it to a teen help forum". So, a few battles were incited among those who felt it should stay and those who thought otherwise. Redbones created a new admin here, named serg. Unlike the previous one (Bo1. Joined in January, and disappeared...), serg became and remained active. He got new smilies his first day. Thus, a good start from him. Soutafrica then presented his cause that newbies are too picked on. He created a second account, and received 3 bad reps in 1 day for the smallest things. He said to ease up. Eventually, it became very suggestive. Sarah, Arby, and Ninjit had a huge orgie that night, biggest since UP. And, that led to some perversion later. Forum families came the nexct day, when a person had a crazy idea to have a daddy and stuff on the internet. Sarah, Arby, and Ninjit formed a small one. It worked, until a second family of Dr. Intox (Newbie at the time), TribeDemon, and someone else (Grr... Only fact unknown...) Well, big family war, and that led to more people wanting to get in on it. It was killed, and then LP deleted the thread, after asking the forum's advice. Well, at this time, perversion was really high. Critic created a bikini thread, major posts. LuckyShot made a thread asking for an end. Sand agreed. Of course, Sarah, Arby, and Ninjit didn't. Big debate, and it resulted in absolutely nothing, again. Then came another spam attack. Put down easily, but one came, unknown, and untriggered. Nepharski returned to triumph. And then stayed. But, then came the kickA*forumer group, starting a mild debate, mainly because of its stupidity. Sarah and Arby were starting another Orgie when Intox butted in. He started to abuse Sarah, until she stopped it all. A spark of joy came when Madness 5 was released. It was so big and often posted, that I just had to put that in. LS made a hypocracy thread, small fight. This is where I pinpoint an increase in threads. There always had been 31 pages of threads a month, but with new newbies, a dramatic increase happened to an average of 45 pages in the last month, or 40 threads in a day. TREMENDOUS increase, and navigation is harder. Potatoe's "Do you harm yourself on purpose?" was not well liked. Arby made a second FPcon thread, and that worked. It stayed on its original purpose. And this is when an increase in Teen Help threads also came. It went from mild to moderate here, and people got really annoyed. The FP newspaper arrived at FP around here, and generally failed. It was a good idea, but didn't work. Funny Guy then went crazy, again, and spammed a bit again. No ban but he lost respect, and generally left. Imothing, a top forumer, generally hated for *****ing (Leah, I love you. Just general forum opinion) left. Much to the rejoicing of Sand, may I add. At the end of September came the second cycle thread stating that history goes in cycles (By me, ironically), and a new newbie guide by Arby. This one was pretty. And then something unbelievable happened. March ended! Oh my gosh! OK, so it ended. If you can tell, it was drama filled at the beggining, and then it became very random. Nothing flowed at the end of the month, not really. So, to the home stretch...

April '05: Current Events April 1st. AKA, April Fool's Day. A REALLY interesting day. first, Eggs returned after his long exile into the land of Penguins and Apricots. And, there also were jokes played. The main, and only one mentioned here, was Nepharski's joke about leaving. He left the forums, and much to the dismay of others. Some others even went as far as to leave because he was gone. Over AIM, he heard that people were leaving because of him, and he returned in meanings of a joke. Off April 1. Ninjit made a thread on adding and subtracting members to get others. Well, Sand then started going insane and started a debate on whether preversion was really neccassary. It went on for a while, and ended. Moderate debate, and it ended without a side winning. Sarah started working onher history, which you are reading now at this time. Then she posted it, and it was a success. She also reached 1000 posts that day, which I have specifically left out of the story, but this one was different. Sand saw it, and started debating on hypocricy. It was not large enough to be considered the 6th personal debate ever, but it was pretty large. She also made her petition to close the What Song thread, and in it, she lost horribly. Yet, it was shown that the forum does follow certain individuals, and that Sand does not exactly listen to posts when he debates, making him hard to debate with. Anyways, it failed and was locked. Then, TH disappeared. Where to, who knows, but she disappeared. Intox said that she committed suicide, working around a PM she sent him. He began going crazy, posting her phone number and talking about how she died. He got banned on the 10th. Sand made the second Forum Matrix, and started it. He posted part 1, and said that he would post the entire thing after he was done. It was amazingly GOOD. Waik made a second account, just in case. Yet, he seemingly is less active now. Sarah attempted an awards show, but failed. (Don't I love failing?) Antasia, one of the best newbies we've had, then joined. Oddly enough, it was a she, not a he. So, she was immediately liked. TH returned on the 8th. She made the "WTF, I'm not dead" thread, which was a major debate, and the only one ever with Intox. Intox started to abuse her by giving out her phone number, and posting PMs she sent him. That thread went insane, and was locked. A rep begging occured that weekend. Yet, it was all locked, and some users banned. ninjit, after seeing all the help request threads made one thread, and made peer councelors in it. This worked, because it actually stopped the help threads (To an extent), and it was only people who wanted to be bothered by it who were. TH started talking about her friends coming, and that turned into a post your pic thread. (Wow, I never realised how minor a thread that was...) Nightmare made a thread on getting rid of the rep thread, but it failed like the What Song petition did... AnarchistMunkey was appointed a mod that weekend, and is our newest one. A minor event was Pheonix's return, and his starting of the 3rd Abbot Acheivement awards. The last major event thus far happened when MC made a thread on Halo 2, ghallenging others to play him and beat him. Sarah came in with a small flame. Cheese went on a rant about Sarah, and a debate ensued. Just barely missed being the 6th personal debate again. It went on until the next day, when Cheese remade the thread. Sarah also turned it into a debate, mainly because Cheese acted hypocritical in her opinion. So, Munkey told her to delete her posts in that thread. She did, and the debate ended. And, now we are at the present.

April ’05 (continued) Yes Sarah handed down the duties to me ninjit for the history after her leave and so we continue the month of April. A member of newgrounds came to the forum and said that Bill had been stealing material from newground, which we all know is a lie and call out for attention on his part. Bill assured him that the animations were meant for multi sites for everyone to appreciate. Of course, everyone wanted to make a big deal about it and start spamming just so they could end up in this history. Newgrounds struck first with a couple of spammers. A few of our logical members went to newgrounds and talked reasonably and a few didn’t. Two notable people were Tortured Heart and Lpforever. (I joined to late to help. ) So the spam attack came to a close and everyone went on with their lives. A few other things happened in April, newbs joined older members left/came back/etc. And that’s about it for April. FG came back as imonkeyonmars. April ended and May came to the forums. And you know the saying, “April showers bring May flowers.” (Yes a very short history but April had already been covered mostly by Sarah.)

May ’05: FP’s Renaissance This is the month of art, literature and other fine arts that were a part of FP. This is also the month of the summer’s newbs joining. Members like almighty_david and Pure_Shadow had come back. Sometime around this month, rumors began to spread that Sarah (the maker of the history of FP) had committed suicide because of being kicked out of the only keeping her stable and from a peer who she was helping killed herself. Many other thoughts occurred that she wasn’t dead and many other thoughts occurred that no one cared. Necoramo and Farishye (Mystic Gunman) of coarse argued because of Farisye’s rudeness and Necoramo’s over protectiveness. About the arts and literature part. Sand_Trap decided to do what PhoenixOutreach did a while ago and make a Forum Survivor. It was a big success and many people thought to try this out themselves. Waikenthenayberz made the second story called, ”FP Tournament.” It itself is a work in progress. The third one was one, I myself made called, “RPG Murder Files Case #1.” A few others attempted but weren’t too successful. Sand_Trap and myself ended up being the only ones to make sequels. The “Let’s talk about rep” thread (also known as the rep whoring thread) was locked because of constant spamming in that thread. A member by the name of RABID-ZOMBIE (DR. INTOX’s “brother”) began stalking TH at this time. I backed TH up and it ended in a relationship. A few other forum relationships started happening this month like ddrdude13 and Amber. Must be because it’s spring. TH and myself switched accounts for a little while just to see some reactions and got banned for a night. A small commotion started up and ended abruptly. The 3rd Annual Abbot Achievement Awards happened, which PhoenixOutreach and myself held. Unfortunately, I wasn’t much of help because I was banned. And that concludes the very, merry month of May. (Yes, biased I know. It’s hard to avoid.)

Week One: Started Quite Slow. Many newbies made threads, a bunch were ignored. PO made a "Stop, Collaberate, and Listen!" Thread to try to get a group script writing thing started, so far nothing seems to have been produced. Renegadee made a birthday thread which was popular, and leetspammer made a thread bashing Arby_3000. Also of note, Negretic was still prancing around making threads, much to the annoyance of many. Overmind supposedly made an apperance. And most importantly, Sarah was a *****. No bias? Damn. Sarah came at the begining of the week to post she hadn't actually killed herself, she had multiple personalties and overdosed on asprin to kill her alter ego (imposssible). Big debate insued, people cryed, attention whoring was everywhere, yada yada yada. You get the picture. Nepharski had the Villager Awards, which I am mention because I think I won something. PostSabers started up, with Hwolf being a whore-*COUGH* I mean, being himself and started yelling at copiers. Almighty David made a "It is just a forum Thread", which was reguarded as truth, which just goes to show public intelligence levels. That wrapped up the week.

Week Two:General junk topics. Nothing really good in the begining. Someone kept joining up in new names, and everyone united in hate against him, blah blah blah. Necroramo cryed about Sarah. More Junk. Coolkidevan showed up and spammed. More Junk. A super power thread was made, which I only mention because it happens every 6 months. Some people made more posts. Unheard bumped the thread "I'm Bored, a Flame War perhaps?", or something close to it. That stimulated people's minds a bit, and everyone came off happy in the end. NI made a rant on children shows...Renegade made a thread and posted lyrics, everyone took it as him saying good bye, and he laughed...Now the biggie. OMGTIRGUN made a thread on some Metal bands that were quitting, or whatever bands do, and a huge flame war erupted over metal music. PErsonally, I think it was rather immature, but I'm not writing this thing, am I? So ended the second week. Ew. A million threads were made on Micheal Jackson's trial. A million. Someone made a "Love" thread, I'm pretty sure I debated in there. Junk threads, junk threads, junk threads...oh, and I made a thread about "Join date = Penis Size", which made a bunch of people like me.

Week Three: Forum Families re-started, as predicted, it turned into an orgy of sorts (more RP-ish). RandomGuy was threatened by an Tsunami, which is important because he is awesome. Nightmare INC got banned for rasicm(?), everyone freaked out. Junk, Junk, Junk...Shadow made a "Fighting with Office Supplies" thread, which I'm mentioning because I don't want to talk about Arby's "SEXSEXSEX" thread, More junk, junk, and more junk. More Junk. Seriously, its about 4 days of nothing good. Hell, the best thread was Anyman's "God of ______" thread. The week ended with junk.

Week Four: Junk, junk, junk. Nightmare questioned whether the Holocaust happened, 00elf questioned whether drugs really happened, and nothing really happened. Crimsion_Vincent, who had been steadly gaining unpopularity, started a thread denouncing Rage. It was ignored. S10000(an ass) joined, then left because nobody liked him or his ego. There was more junk. I guess some forum was deleted, but this isn't about them, its about FP. A thread called "How would you like Hitler to Die" by srhonda was started, which made me question everyones intgrity. Lobster Lover, whom I have avoided talking about for "reasons", tried to get people to smoke pot, huge debate, ended with no real winner. Some faulty dimensional theories were created, and a rant on LP was made. Rabid Zombie made and FP City RP thread, which was sucessful. PLeanty of junk afterwards. Rage made a "Rage for Admin" thread, people started coping, he got mad, made a few more threads, spam, spam, whore, whore, and everyone left moderatly pissed. Sometime in the fourth week, Rage made a "Confession" thread, claiming to be a 40-or-something year old man, posted pictures, and raised a rucus. There was wide-spread belief until, not to sound egotisical or anything, proved him false with solid evidence. Afterwards, we all had a nice cup of tea. There was junk. There was a *** marriage debate where Nepharski posted a hugely biased and blind article that could easily be proven inaccurate. Some more junk, some people got more posts, and the month ended with what could be called spam.

(Thanks Sand_Trap for the "unbiased report" but Sarah didn't care so...:3)

Concluding Remarks: This is FP. From it's humble roots in the beggining to the wreckage of this very day. It has gone from high, beautiful, unflawed, and harmless to a forum with a dark past, and people who are ashamed to go to it. Yet, there is hope. There always is. A hope that peace and improvement may come. It shall come to us. The only question is when.

All we have is up to June of 2005. It hasn't been updated in a while.