User:Joey Coconut1/Drafts/Donfall

Donfall (aka the DonFuneral) was a drama resulting from a general hostile attitude towards DonFuer that was sparked by DonFuer's grief of the Bing Bong Connect 4 competition. It resulted in the loss of 22 Donfuer bases and builds, as well as the loss of about 150 of their members and affiliates, although many of the members, affiliates, and bases were inactive at the time of the drama.

Initial Events
A 2B2T Connect 4 competition was announced by Sven_Sven called Bing Bong Connect 4, which was to star many big groups on the server. The day before the event took place, members of Donfuer turned up at the arena locations, griefing them in advance of the competition. They also attempted to grief a BSB recruit base, but found it already griefed.

Official statements from D_loaded took credit for the griefs, branding the event as a BSB event and claiming they were in retaliation for the griefs of their own bases by BSB. This first statement was slightly walked back later on, where they continued to justify the griefs, but stated they were sympathetic to other participants.

BSB and NamoVFX then griefed Donfuer 26 in retaliation of the event's grief. Despite the setback, the Connect 4 event took place shortly after.

After the competition ended, there were a series of statements openly opposing Donfuer for their actions. The Astral Brotherhood would reopen applications for former members of Donfuer, while continuing to reject Donfuer members. The Cakemasons would enact a policy to also reject current members from their group. Fifth column would support Donfuer, claiming they were embracing anarchy. Zd0lf and waltss would leak over 20 donfuer bases to those who attended the event. Event co-ordinator KitNightingale would inform Donfuer they would not be welcome at any further events involving the Connect 4 builders, which would include Bing Bong Connect 4 and Pitfight.

During the first day, Donfuer would kick, ban or otherwise lose 120 of their scouts, rangers and members. They had 226 Discord members before the event, but were left with 106 Discord members the day after the event, effectively halving their Discord membership overnight.

Continued Fallout
In the days that followed, BSB would start a crusade against Donfuer, claiming to have destroyed 15 of their bases within the first day of the event. A couple of 2B2T bases would be griefed by Astral Brotherhood, as well as a further base would also be griefed by Astral Brotherhood on the Constantium server later on. While not strictly Donfuer-related, SBA and Dima788 would also locate and grief D_loaded's 2020 Mason Lodge.

D_loaded would make another statement during this time, fully apologising for their actions to most of the groups involved. He would join the Connect 4 voice call twice - first trying to clarify his position in the face of a lot of angry participants, then returning once staff had muted the chat in order to fully apologise, swiftly leaving as soon as the statement was delivered. D_loaded would also resign from the Fifth Column during this time in order to further distance himself from the griefing community.

D_loaded would later seek council with KitNightingale in a private voice call. A candid clip compilation was released after a recording was acquired by Franknificant. Kit would claim he obtained this audio while trying to help her edit other videos she was working on. Within the compilation, D_loaded claimed that the biggest issue with Donfuer was that there were "so many" of the members that were stupid, the higher-ranked members rarely did tasks he would delegate to them, and that Donfuer planned to tell wavering members to leave the group.

In response, D_loaded lamented the secretly recorded conversation, deciding to release the full conversation he also secretly recorded in order to add context to the comments. This would lead to further members leaving the group, cutting membership down to 97 members. Donfuer would continue purging members in the weeks that followed, reaching around 40 members.

In retaliation, the Fifth Column would grief several bases. LordGalvatronMC's personal base, Angband, was griefed, along with the Astral Brotherhood base Molaris. Cakemasons was also targeted, with Orsond griefing the base Mooncake, and the Cakemasons discord being nuked.

Griefs

 * Several of these bases were considered "abandoned" by Donfuer, but were not griefed until Donfall.