So, here’s basically what happened from what I can tell from my research and/or my own experience.
In 2015, OJ was a heavily Sanji-oriented fandom, much to
@Chrono ’s pleasure. Sanji = Zoro or Sanji > Zoro were the moderator approved opinions, and anyone who dissented from those opinions was publicly mocked/shamed.
Then, the “Age of Wank” began, when the first Zoro Fans began to emerge. You had people like
@Cinera ,
@Bogard @Nidai_Kitetsu @ZenZu ,
@Garp the Fist ,
@Gol D. Roger , etc...who emerged to fight the mighty Mod-Supported Sanji Wankers, even though some of the above weren’t outright Zoro fans and were just tired of the bullshit. Lol.
Unlike before, these Zoro wankers were mighty and their weapons were straight fax and extreme overwank. The OJ mods at the time found themselves powerless to silence the wankers as for the most part, they were civil and debated with facts and not personal attacks (for the most part).
OJ was then thrust into chaos for the next 3 years, where it became a complete and utter toxic battleground where almost every thread became a secret front to advance the pro-Zoro or pro-Sanji agenda. Almost every poster had become influenced by the debates, and everyone and their mother was taking sides. You had Zoro fans rushing to defend whatever character indirectly made Zoro look better, and Sanji fans who did the same. There were exceptions, but 95% of the OJ arena were just Zoro Vs sanji threads in disguise. It got so bad that the mods actually shut down the Zoro vs sanji thread, though this basically had no effect for the aforementioned reasons.
One day, the mods permanently banned myself,
@TheAncientCenturion ,
@comrade , and
@Zenos7 for a variety of reasons (or lack thereof lol). The important part of this was that when our friends confronted the OJ mods about our ban, the OJ Mods could only accuse us of doing things that we never did, while providing 0 evidence that we had actually done them.
Then, a year passed, and Divvens announced the destruction of OJ due to article 13 (lol), and at this point some private jokes from our discord Server got leaked and the mods went ape shit at anyone even associated with these jokes. Namely, the people in the discord server with us (coincidentally, all of the same “problem Zoro fans” from above and then some).
Granted, the jokes that were leaked went
WAY too far, I’ll be the first to admit that, but nonetheless another massive war erupted between the mods (once again, pro sanji) and anyone who was even coincidentally associated with the people who made the jokes (once again, coincidentally pro Zoro). A massive conflict ensued where the Mods were like “explain this shit!!!” And our associates were like “dafuq? We weren’t even a part of that lol”
Then the mods permanently banned anyone even associated with the jokesters (around 30-40 members, some of whom hadn’t even logged into OJ in months or more lol) and then OJ was free to die a pro-Sanji forum.
Pretty funny, that a five year conflict spanning the course of hundreds of thousands of posts and thousands of keyboard warriors, was birthed by motherfucking Zoro vs motherfucking Sanji. Lol
