Popbob

popbob is a well-known player and prolific griefer who joined in early 2011 from 4chan. She is widely known, even beyond 2b2t, and has become a well-known cultural icon for minecraft players in general.

Beginnings
popbob joined 2b2t in early 2011 as a result of browsing 4chan, although she became associated with the Facepunchers. She participated in a limited number of bases, generally with Facepunchers, (such as Ramiel's Watch, Squid Base, 1095 365 Base and Kaamtown), but increasingly tended towards griefing. She become an especially prolific griefer over time after creating an early version of the newchunks module and also being an early adopter of Hacked Clients as a whole.

popbob successfully backdoored 2b2t twice in 2011, leading to the creation of a variety of Illegal items, as well as the foundation of Plugin Town. Both backdoors were achieved through popbob's creation of software for Hausemaster to run the server. The majority of Illegal items available on the server were first introduced as a result of popbob's backdoors.

Griefing and infamy
popbob went on to become an infamous griefer and toxic player. She worked mostly alone in her griefing outbreaks and occasionally griefed with other Facepunchers during the Facepunch Era of 2b2t and with D4RKJ0E (jared2013) or iTristan during the Age of Tyranny. She was able to determine other players' coordinates using the thunderbolt exploit. The exploit used an oversight in Minecraft's code that allowed the coordinates of thunder to be tracked down through packets, as the sound of thunder was global and would only strike where players were located. The exploit would send the coordinates to popbob in chat, which allowed popbob to find players, kill them, and grief their bases.

Another activity that gained popbob infamy was stealing information from other players. When many players, including xcc2, taylo112, and iTristan, were rebuilding a base known as Kaamtown, popbob used nhack to screenshot Omaliymix and Kaameron's desktops and send it to them. They both quit 2b2t after that, and xcc2 stopped using nhack. However, iTristan and ImperatorTerrae, as well as some others, continued to use it.

Later history and current activity
After this, popbob has left and rejoined many times on alt accounts or on her main. popbob uses alt accounts to keep her identity secret from the wave of new players, as the majority of them do not know of these alts.

popbob changed her skin from her iconic troll-face skin to an all-white skin on July 7, 2016. She was also seen on 2b2t on December 4, 2016. Also, sometime in 2016, she reconnected a link in a chain of beds using the bed teleportation exploit on an alternate account known as RadicalHiccup so that jared2013 could use it to grief a base known as The Lands, a base owned by Jacktherippa.

On June 13, 2020, popbob changed her Minecraft skin to a female character displaying a transgender pride flag. She also linked a Steam profile on her NameMC page by the name of Mackenzie, and commonly used the name Kenzie on Discord. Many people were confused and doubted that if popbob still owned her account due to this surprising change; however, iTristan later confirmed that all of the accounts of the members of Nerds Inc had not been taken and were still owned by their respective owners, confirming that popbob is transgender.

popbob has been seen on 2b2t as recently as 2020 very occasionally. During the creation of the Guardsmen, HermeticLock invited Popbob to the group and joined; however, due to her inactivity and HermeticLock only inviting her as a joke, this is mostly considered honorary.

popbob was also present in the activities of Nerds Inc’s development of the Nocom coordinate exploit; however, she herself did not contribute to the exploit.