Cheggstaffel Incident

The Cheggstaffel Incident, also known as the Conqist Heresy, or November Incident, was one of the darkest hours in GS' community history, rivalling only the 2nd Postman Pat Incident. The Cheggstaffel Incident was the climax of over a year of tensions that had been bubbling within the community directly traceable to The Yaoi Wars. The result was easily the most destructive event in GS history in terms of lost content and community history. It was also effectively marked the end of several long-term issues, including the Anti-Gest revisions and Critical GS theory.

Background
Tensions had been mounting within the game community due to months of Conq and Koe annoying people about Gest and KLM/CLM, and then being muted for it. This resulted in a special channel being made for them where they would be muted. Drama soon led to that channel being replaced by a shitposting channel for Conq and Koe called Conq Hill Autonomous District (CHAD) on the 26th of November, where they would be free to say KLM/CLM, Gest related stuff, and anything else as much as they wanted. This channel was effectively treated as a sacrificial lamb by the rest of the server, where Conq and Koe would do whatever they wanted there, and other channels would be free from their content.

CHAD
CHAD was deeply, deeply unpopular with most of the server. Besides Conq and Koe, only Latino and Avraso sought to participate in it. This channel represented a sort of dark alleyway in GS. One by one, members of the channel such as Bean and Quartz were banned from the channel by Conq, meaning that any messages they posted there would be deleted.

Cheggstaffel
By the 28th of November, only two days after the creation of CHAD, plans were brewing to take down the channel. Within several hours notice, Chegg created the Cheggstaffel, which was essentially her and several other active GS members who disliked CHAD. The main plan was to spam CHAD faster than Conq could delete their content. A channel called #cheggstaffel was created to plan the raid on CHAD.

The spamming began in the morning of the 28th, when members such as Bean and Quartz spammed shitposts and memes in CHAD. Conq struggled to keep up with the spam. To top this off, Vya deleted several of Conq's pinned messages detailing the rules of CHAD, angering him greatly. His pleas for them to stop spamming his channel went ignored, and while trying to delete the spam within CHAD using GStapo, Conq accidentally deleted large amounts of legitimate CHAD content.

Koe eventually came online and began assisting Conq. Seeing CHAD almost gutted, and coming to the conclusion that other server members had deleted the messages, Koe retaliated against #cheggstaffel directly by using GStapo to delete every message within the channel. He also used dyno to delete thousands of messages consisting of spam within CHAD, but ended up deleting the last of Conq's pinned messages by accident.

Channel deletions
Seeing the destruction of CHAD resulted in Conq choosing the nuclear option. At 9:32am AEST, Conq used his admin abilities to delete the following channels:


 * #announcements
 * #general
 * #memes
 * #weebunism
 * #off-topic
 * #civil-discourse
 * #cars-and-nationalism
 * #cheggstaffel CS 2.png CS 4.png

With the exception of #cheggstaffel, all the following channels constituted most if not all of the activity in the friend server where the GS core community had settled in since the death of TLW. The reaction to this development was immediate, with server members reacting with enormous anger at Conq for the deletion of all of the server's important channels. Conq was kicked by Vya and banned immediately afterwards by Chegg. Vya deleted CHAD afterwards.

Whodunnit arguments
Koe formally backed down from deleting anymore channels, particularly because there was nothing left to fight for and nothing left to retaliate against. Koe had only witnessed the last several minutes of the raid on CHAD, causing him to ask other members why the raid even took place. Several reasons were given, namely that it was funny, they were bored, Chegg saw CHAD as a 'subversion' of the server, and some members claimed that Conq had not abided by his promise to keep his shitposting within CHAD.

It was pointless to discuss the last point as almost all channels were deleted, while Chegg admitted that her role in starting the raid was incorrect and she should not have done it. Koe expressed frustration, expressing his belief that CHAD was the only place were himself and Conq were free to express themselves without other server members getting mad at them. Jackson, despite his participation in the raid, expressed sympathised with Koe's arguments. Other server members showed no remorse about the situation however, stating that the 'shitty alt-right humour' of the channel warranted a raid and that the humour had leaked out of the channel on multiple occasions, though Chegg asserted that this was an excuse and the attack on CHAD was largely because she saw it as a subversion. It was also hard to argue how immoral it was to raid the channel after Conq's overreaction and subsequent deletion of all of the server's major channels due to the destruction of a 2 day old channel.

Koe claimed that the channel also held value to him and Conq, directly stating that their KLM/CLM spamming was directly related to their perceived unfair treatment in the past, referencing The Yaoi Wars, the July Bannings and Conq's Presidential Promise as examples of the two being treated poorly by other server members for deeds that other members also indulged in, such as edginess. Koe was not taken seriously, with Bean and Quartz subsequently telling Koe that they are only treated poorly for being annoying or racist. Cheggimus and Jackson changed stance and stated that while Conq's deletion of channels was wrong, the raid itself was also wrong and should never have occured, regardless of the CHAD's content or nature. Frustrated at the recent events, Koe left the server for several hours. He eventually returned with an apology for flaming, before asking server members to respect him better, describing it as a gripe that he has had with the community for over a year.

Legacy
The legacy of the Cheggstaffel Incident is yet to be known, considering how recent it was. Some consider it necessary however, an incident that finally popped the bubble of tension that had been building within the server between Conq and Koe, and other server members. Conq is indefinitely banned, and while his return is inevitable, it is now accepted that he will not be admin. Quartz has also stated that he will be banned from further iterations of #weebunism. A page is dedicated to summarising losses due to the Cheggstaffel Incident.

Imperial Proclamation 2290
On the 11th of February 2022, Chegg announced the Imperial Proclamation 2290, which stated that henceforth, discussing the Cheggstaffel Incident would be heavily discouraged. This proclamation occured due to Ahmy's return to the GS community in Civ 7 after a several month break, where various members attempted to fill him in with all the server drama during his abscence, resulting in an argument over who was responsible for the Cheggstaffel Incident. This was mainly between Quartz and Bean, and Koe.

The Proclamation was celebrated by most members except for Bean and Quartz, who believed that they had the right to speak about the incident, and that suppressing it was a bandaid fix of a larger issue. Chegg stated that she wanted to suppress the incident, stating that Koe and Conq's KLM/CLM movement, which led to the Chegggstaffel Incident, was sparked by server dogpiling in the first place, and that continuing to blame them for the incident would only exacerbate those issues. Vya accused Bean and Quartz of being too resentful. The argument died down after like 10 minutes.