As anyone that visits the sub knows, the automod has been way out of bounds for a very long time. It’s fucked with the comments, locked threads, removed comments, and has generally been a major nuisance to the community. The problems have been getting worse over time, but the real cause starts back much earlier. The story is pretty long and complicated, so please bear with me.

Several years ago, someone who use to be a good friend of mine, [/u/n8thegr8](https://www.reddit.com/u/n8thegr8), was a major gamer. Whenever I went over his house, we’d spend all day gaming together. We mostly played risque anime games (admittedly, they were borderline pornographic), but we also played other more main stream games. Sometimes, when we got bored of smutty anime nudie games, we’d need to head out to recharge at our local coffee haunt. That’s where all the trouble began.

One afternoon, n8 and I were hanging around, sipping on some fine mochas and playing “Code of Princess” on our Nintendo 3DS devices, when n8 noticed a new employee. She was pretty in a spunky kind of way. She had short green hair, piercing dark eyes, and I wondered to myself if she was some kind of Spanish. N8 asked me if I had ever seen her before, and I told him I hadn’t and he should concentrate on the game, because girls are just stupid distractions. He went back to playing, but I could tell by the way he kept looking over at her that this wasn’t going to be the end of it.

The next day, I stopped by n8’s place for some Hentai themed puzzle solving at our usual time, but he wasn’t home. So, I flew into an immediate rage and called him up (and btw he took FIVE rings to answer). When he finally did pick up, he responded with a casual “hello?, as if ONE he didn’t know it was ME calling and TWO he doesn’t realize he was missing our regularly scheduled time together! So of course I immediately start SCREAMING “what the actual FUCK n8??” Then he has the nerve to answer back to me “Ralphie, calm down, wtf are you talking about?”. So of course I let him have it over what he just did to me. He tells me to calm my tits and that he’s just over at the coffee shop. I figure, fine, maybe he already had some “Hentai time”, and he just needed to recharge. That’s understandable, and we can still play some 3ds there. So I finally settle down to a light frenzy when I hear a second voice, a female voice, come through the phone saying “n8, don’t talk about tits like that, it’s demeaning to women”. I knew from that moment I had been sold out.

I think by this point I should tell you the girl n8 met was a major sjw-type. In fact, she even has a reddit account under [/u/awkwardtheturtle](https://www.reddit.com/u/awkwardtheturtle). Now, I have to tell you, this green haired girl turned out not to be a green haired angel at all, but rather a green haired angel who had fallen from the grace of our lord to become a green haired devil, or maybe a green haired demon. I don’t really know how religion works that well, but I can assure you she was absolutely unholy. It turns out the green haired unholy turtle demon was deep into the social jerktice scene, and had a personal crusade against gaming in particular. It was even worse when she found out that n8 and I liked to play “pervert games” together.

From that point, n8 disappeared from my life almost completely, aside from the odd text he managed to sneak out when “awkwardtheturtle” wasn’t looking over his shoulder. I guess they had become as inseparable as n8 and I once were, and it was killing me. I felt as chewed up inside as Danny Trejo looks on the outside. What was even more disturbing was that I had found out from an online friend in the gamer community that “awkwardtheturtle” was part of a pretty big anti-gaming cult. That’s right, she didn’t just hold “negative views on gaming”, but she was part of a literal cult against it!

Slowly but surely this green haired snapping she-chelonian, began to turn n8 into someone unrecognizable. One of the first things I noticed was that he began to make casually racist statements to me in some of our sexts, but “in a joking way”. Like when I came, he’d ask me “does it smell like mayo over there?” I didn’t know what he meant at the time, but I guess it’s some kind of anti-white dog whistle they use in the stunted-jerk-weiner crowds. It was at that point where the progression from “joke” to “agenda” began to become more apparent.

From there, after a number of now famous “reddit antics”, he and his newfound mistress of the swamp began to work their plan of pushing their agenda onto the subreddit [/r/DarkJokes](https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkJokes). It started out as little “joaks”. Like, “haha, automod doesn’t let you say a letter or a word”, or it “says something funny when you say a certain word”. But their use of this tactic soon turned from comedy to tragedy. It was no longer “you can’t say some version of the word ate”, now it was “here’s a message from peta”. It went on and on like that, until they made no attempt whatsoever to hide their mis-intentioned maladies from mainstream publicality. The final stage of their cancer, which we have just seen take place, was the virtual removal of all comments, along with blatant anti-gamer statements. They even began pushing the subreddit [/r/BanVideoGames](https://www.reddit.com/r/BanVideoGames), which btw, just so happens to be run by a diaper-furry, and a mutual lover of both n8 and turtle, [/u/Br00ce](https://www.reddit.com/u/Br00ce). I have a strong feeling that the three of them are currently living together, but that’s a whole different story for another time.

Anyway, I worked for WEEKS to prove to the admins that turtle and n8 were pushing this agenda and not just making funny jokes. I’m confident that if I hadn’t gotten an admin to join the mod team some weeks back, that I would have been demodded long ago for what I did. I think it’s safe to say that, as usual, we’re all thankful for admin interference on reddit.

While I can’t say what will happen in the future, I can end this on a positive note. Last night, after hashing things out with n8 in some raunchy texting, he finally gave in and played a game of mario kart with me online :\^). It might be a small step, but a small step in the right direction is better than a rocketpack to hell.

Anyway, I just wanted to let the community know what was really going on and thank everyone for their patience and support during these difficult times. The gamers have truly risen up!