The Yaoi Wars

The Yaoi Wars were a crucial moment in GS history during mainly April 2020, effectively splitting the community into two factions over what sort of content should to be allowed within GS, both within restricted channels and in public ones. These two factions were mainly pat, Arion and Psikhrangkur as the pro-Yaoi faction, and koe and Conquerus being the main individuals in the anti-Yaoi faction.

#Weebunism
Global Sim is known for being a community of individuals with a strong interest in pornographic material (especially Quartzes). For this reason, a dedicated channel named was created as a private channel for quartzes and core members of the GS community, essentially making it a sort of hangout club with a layer of hentai on top.

Yaoi
Quartzes was not the only person with an interest in spreading his collection of pornography. Pat and Arion were also a frequent poster of pornographic content, with Pat mainly posting yaoi, and Arion posting variations of normal gay porn. This caused some tension with other members, who found their content uncomfortable, since they occasionally (but rarely) posted his yaoi on the public channels. Quartzes occasionally got angry at Pat and Arion for posting yaoi in #weebunism, due to the incredibly explicit nature of some images, including people appearing to have sexual relations with rodents. Quartz argued that #weebunism was mainly there for "anime porn", not the kind of stuff that Pat and Arion wanted to post. Overall however, Quartzes did not rally hard against their content, generally only accusing their content of being "cursed".

Simmering arguments
Conq was a far more active opponent of Pat and Arion's content, as well as their behaviour outside of the hentai channel. Pat and Arion would occasionally make sexual remarks that made other members somewhat uncomfortable. While many members of GS make cum jokes and shit practically all the time, many perceived Arion and Pat's content to be frequently more explicit. One thing that could be added on is that both of them were gay, and therefore their sexual remarks would generally be centred around them pretending to do explicit things to other players. Most other players in GS however are also males, and many were not gay. For this reason, some found their remarks uncomfortable, while Pat, Arion, Psi and some other players found their discomfort to light-hearted gay sex jokes to be homophobic. Most heated debates were confined within #weebunism, but eventually Koe decided to take sides in support of Conq.

While Pat was generally more willing to limit his content to a certain amount and away from public channels, Arion was far more unwilling. At one point, Arion and Cheggimus got into an argument over Arion's sexual remarks, with Chegg arguing that not all server members are necessarily comfortable with his type of content, and that he should attempt to be mindful of this. Arion argued that most opposition to his content was homophobia, particularly from Conq and Koe.

Fatwa
Things came to a peak when after considerable tension within GS, Chegg decided to make a dedicated channel for Pat's style of content. She also created a fatwa in the moderator channel for Pat, limiting what sort of content would be allowed outside of his channel. This fatwa was met with strong approval from Koe and Conq. On the other hand, Pat was very displeased, and decided to leave GS until the next game. Psikhrangur then joined in, opposing the new fatwa and restrictions, and arguing that the opposition against Pat (and Arion) was nothing but homophobia and hypocrisy. Due to Pat's departure, Chegg changed her mind and came to believe that she had been potentially too harsh against Pat. Quartzes made an apology to Pat in #weebunism as well.

Accusations of homophobia
Pat claimed that Conq and Koe were harassing him due to homophobia, which they both denied. At the time the argument started, only Conq was online, while Koe only joined in later. Psi argued that #weebunism was a NSFW channel, and therefore Pat had every right to post his own porn there as he wished. He also stated that Pat always made sure to not be explicit outside of #weebunism once requested of him, which Conq argued was not true. Conq stated that Pat would just stop for the time being before resuming his sexual remarks shortly later once everybody had forgotten, and then arguing that Pat's behaviour may deter new members. Psi checked the server to look for the last time when Pat had ever been explicit, stating that Pat had been largely clean for the past 2 weeks. Sharky and psi began wondering if Conq and Koe were confusing Pat and Arion for each other, blaming Pat for Arion's content. Conq accused Psi of using the search bar as a way to purposely ignore Pat's content that did not explicitly mention words like dick or cock. Sharky and Psi then argued that Conq was overreacting over Pat's behaviour. Conq argued that this behaviour was still unacceptable, and then countered Psi's assertion that Pat had not done anything in ages by claiming that much of his content had been deleted already. Psi then checked logger bot and told Conq that nearly nothing had been deleted in a while. Conq accused them of intentionally ignoring Pat's content, before stating that some photos that Pat had posted were not incredibly explicit, but were still able to make players uncomfortable. Examples he used included " that big guy with the hairy feet and he hugs and kisses other men", which Psi dismissed by stating that he didn't give a fuck about it, while Conq argued that he should for the sake of other players, especially new ones.

It was at this point that Koe joined the conversation and stated:

"Just because some people are comfortable with something doesn't mean that everybody else is. Should gore be allowed then?"

Everything that Koe stated during this conversation has been deleted, possibly because he was banned shortly later. This is why Conq is pretty much the only person on the anti-yaoi faction apparently saying anything here. By accidentally comparing homosexual porn to gore, Koe greatly pissed off Psi. Conq then argued that there should be quality control on what content is posted, before Chegg came in and stated that she was not going to do quality control on hentai. Conq said that he was talking about content in public channels, making Psi get more pissed, and causing him to tell Conq that he wasn't going to label Pat a lunatic over things he posted a month ago. He also stated that he was disappointed in Quartzes for being so opposed to yaoi and other content from Pat. Chegg reversed her fatwa at that moment. Conq then stated that Pat had even posted images of animated kids kissing, something that was likely a reference to a post that Pat made of two possibly adolescent boys kissing each other. From here onwards, the argument just devolved into angry rehashes of everything that had been said so far. In the aftermath of this, Conq and Koe were both demoted.

Aftermath
Quartzes and Chegg both expressed regret at their initial reactions, with Chegg stating that she regretted her fatwa. Quartzes also expressed his belief that he was too harsh on Pat. He stated that he would stop moderating Pat, and claimed that Koe and Conq were only attacking Pat because of their homophobia, before expressing that he believed that he was responsible for allowing them to attack Pat in the first place. Pat returned sometime shortly after this, with him being given all of his old roles back.

While Quartzes believed that Pat was being unfairly targeted by Conq and Koe due to homophobia, he also expressed similar beliefs to sharky and psi, stating that arion was way worse than Pat.

Ramifications
The events of this war had a massive effect on GS, starting an enormous rivalry largely centered between Pat and Conq, leading to the July Bannings, and soon afterwards, the 2nd Postman Pat Incident.

Long term legacy
Interpretations of the event have changed heavily since the departure and ostracision of Pat, Arion and Psi over the following months. By late-2021, Chegg believed that all sides were guilty and that the entire situation was a mix of everybody having their own agendas and being willing to argue in bad faith to benefit themselves, while she herself poorly managed the situation by attempting too much damage control that wouldn't fix any issues.

Conq and Koe still maintain they were unfairly treated during the whole situation and wrongly regarded as homophobes, though Koe now believes that his position during the Yaoi War was unreasonable and that he did conflate Pat with Arion at least a few times. He believes that the large scale support for the Pat, Arion and Psi during this time period was due to people not wanting to be branded as homophobes for opposing them.

Despite Quartzes' opposition of Pat's gay yaoi during this period, much of his content in #weebunism today is gay or trap porn, making the spark of the conflict entirely meaningless.

KLM/CLM
This incident, coupled with further incidents, contributed heavily to Koe and Conq's feeling of isolation within GS, leading to the only half-ironic KLM/CLM movement. This means that a direct line can be traced from The Yaoi Wars to the Cheggstaffel Incident.