GS-RTSG drama

The drama between the GS community and the fellow discord geopol simulator RTSG has defined many aspects of GS over the past few years. The drama between the two is complex and stems from a variety of different interests and intentions, all culminating in the smouldering garbage fire that has been the relations between two little discord RPs.

RTSG's point of view of the whole situation can be seen here.

Background
The members of the RTSG community and GS community first interacted in Global RP. The two communities got along well from here until RTSG4, when it was proposed that GS3 be merged with RTSG. This plan was later cancelled and GS3 went on without issues concurrently with RTSG4. The two communities generally had common members, with RTSG members like Sharky and Vadim becoming active in GS while GS members such as Chegg and Quartz became active members of RTSG.

Rise of drama
The drama between GS and RTSG can be traced to several things that arose in late-2019 to early-2020, largely in the 4th iteration of the RTSG game, RTSG4. The key GS individuals involved were Chegg, who played as Pakistan or as an admin, while Quartz played as the Soviet Union earlier on.

Chegg in RTSG
Chegg originally had a good relationship with most RTSG members, though attitudes changed over time. The transphobic nature of many RTSG members somewhat alienated Chegg, making her occasionally hostile towards such members. Meanwhile, RTSG members sometimes saw GS members as poor players and conspiring to hurt RTSG. Chegg was allowed to be an admin during RTSG4, though there were accusations of bias against her, causing her to be banned from the server after she resigned.

She rejoined the server in RTSG 5, though her time during this game only furthered the rift between the two communities. She would later be accused by Prism of attempting to poach RTSG members via DM invitations, which Chegg proved to be false. Prism would later admit that he was lying about Chegg poaching members but eventually decided to continue claiming that Chegg had been poaching members. Chegg would decline to approach the community henceforth.

Mak-Quartz drama
In RTSG4, drama flaired up when Mak accused Quartz of attempting to groom another user named Sultan. Quartz vehemently denied these accusations, and Sultan reportedly denied that Quartz had ever attempted to groom him. Furthermore, many RTSG members considered Quartz to be a poor USSR player, further angering him. These accusations eventually died down, though Quartz would remain permanently angry against Mak.

Quartz would later be banned from RTSG by Mak while playing as the USSR. Since Mak immediately took control of the USSR afterwards, there was speculation that it was done to poach the country from Quartz, feeling more dislike of RTSG.

Global Sim
The existence of the GS game was itself a spark that contributed to the drama between the two communities. The GS community was made up largely of people who were disinterested in RTSG due to mechanics that they saw as overly complex or due to processing that they felt stifled fun. In Chegg's own words in late-2019, "this server is pretty much just RTSG refugees and other people".

This led to RTSG somewhat seeing GS as a server that relied on leeching off RTSG, highlighted by their accusations against Chegg that she was poaching members, and undoubtedly leading to them gradually disliking GS over time.

Involvement of other GS members
Other GS members included in this mess was Conq, who was unpopular in the server for his... interesting views, which have gotten him into issues in GS as well. He was banned at the end of RTSG5. Pat was also in RTSG for some time but was pushed away by the somewhat toxic nature of some members.

Central drama
A major reason for the drama and enmity between the two communities is the general belief in GS that RTSG's server culture promotes toxicity, while RTSG saw GS as attempting to undermine RTSG. The possibility of flaming becoming prevalent in GS undoubtedly led to further issues between the communities, while RTSG continued to distance itself fearing an attempt to destroy its server.

Cope
The word "cope" is commonly used as slang for "deal with it". The term was popular in RTSG, and became increasingly common in GS from GS6 onwards, as members such as Graham and Vadim began popularising the term in ther server. The term was quickly adopted in an inflammatory manner. Once it was banned, Pat began supporting its unban, in support of Vadim and Graham. Cope was most commonly used by RTSG members in GS, and was usually used as a way to flame. The word quickly garnered a very negative connotation due to its use by some RTSG members in the server.

Vadim-Graham controversy
Due to their role in the cope arguments, as well as their general rudeness towards other server members, Vadim and Graham became two of the most controversial GS members. Despite constant warnings, the two refused to change their behaviour and frequently argued with admins and refused to follow server rules regarding recpect. They would eventually be banned. A major reason for their long presence in the server despite their behaviour was Chegg's fears of increased hostility between the two communities. Their behaviour would inspire Conq to further attempt to distance GS from RTSG, as seen below.

Transphobia and doxxing
The transphobic and generally bigoted nature of many RTSG members contributed greatly to the destruction of ties between the GS and RTSG community. Prominent RTSG members such as Prism, Sultan and Hashim were known for posting highly racist or anti-LGBT content within the server and within other servers. Notably, Sultan had raided the fellow discord RP The Modern World, spamming transphobic messages and harassing the server owner. It should be noted that some members of RTSG tried to defend the server's reputation for transphobia by stating that these beliefs were not common, though GS still harboured a dislike of RTSG due to their tolerance of such beliefs, and these beliefs sometimes being possessed by members of the RTSG admin team.

In RTSG4, Chegg allowed some members of the server to know her instagram account. While her relations with these members would crumble over time, drama would arise when Sultan publicly posted Chegg's name in one of RTSG's servers without her permission. Furthermore, he followed this up with transphobic remarks against her. One of the head admins, Prism, was reluctant to remove the images and when he eventually relented, he refused to punish Sultan.

Interestingly, MakaroniX and Prism briefly had an edit war in Chegg's wiki page in RTSG over which pronouns to refer to her by, with Mak attempting to change pronouns in the page to "her" while Prism attempted to change them to "he".

"Decoupling" debates led by Conq
By GS8, continuous banning of members from each other's communities eventually led to drama no longer happening between the two servers, even if a mutual dislike persisted. Conq's desire to detach from the community was inspired largely by his experiences with Graham and Vadim. His push to decouple led to stuff such as the Trench War, which many saw as Conq attempting to project his hatred of RTSG members onto Duck and Will5stars. They would he briefly banned by him, but they would be let back in quickly enough. While Conq was the most ardent supporter of decoupling from RTSG, though other members such as Quartz and Koe sometimes supported this as well.

Bans and alts
Over time, other members of RTSG and GS would be banned from each other's servers. Members such as Koe were banned from RTSG after attempting to send in an alt or two, while Hashim was eventually banned from GS after spamming and flaming. RTSG often sent alt accounts into GS, allowing them to access information from the server despite being banned. The only GS member to attempt sending alts into RTSG was Koe, who sent several primarily into SOE.

The RTSG member Duck, who was initially trusted enough by Koe and Chegg to be an admin in The Long Winter, supplied screenshots from the server's admin channel to RTSG's members, considerably damaging the remaining trust that GS had in RTSG members. Linio tried to spark drama himself for fun, briefly making the enormous rift between the two communities even larger.

Drama in RTSG Hub
Will5stars was in control of an RTSG server named RTSG Hub sometime in early-2021. He was pretty relaxed and allowed some GS members into the server, mainly Koe and Pit. This was a pretty big dumpster fire as the two got involved in flame wars with members such as Sultan in the server, eventually resulting in the two being banned.

TLW blanket policy
Following the constant drama from RTSG in previous games, Koe attempted to institute a blanket policy in The Long Winter. His plan was to ban all RTSG members and only give exceptions to those he felt were acceptable, such as Duck and Will. Opposition from Chegg largely resulted in this blanket policy being heavily muted, still resulting in a very strict policy of banning most RTSG members but being somewhat more tolerant of members who hadn't flamed in the server before.

Present status
With the death of GS and the apparent death of RTSG as well, drama between the two is as good as dead too. The remaining members of both communities speak to each other very sparingly, if at all.