User kept on drawing a bunch of the characters in uniforms and tanks and made a lot of other users uncomfortable.

Usually this kind of AU would be...well, it's definitely something akin to a WWII history buff talking extensively about WWII and only that. It'd be tolerable in some servers, but most certainly not in this official server for the game

We tell the user to knock it off, they continue posting about their communism AU for the silly bug game.

We time them out for a day afterwards, citing that not only did they not stop when we asked them to, but they're violating the rule about no politics.

Another user steps in, saying that it's unfair that this person got timed out and pointing fingers at other users with other AUs that are most certainly not breaking the rules.

YEAH ME TOO MARK

(Fun fact, the person that stepped in? They got timed out earlier that week for mocking Pride Month. Oh man, what a smart move, especially considering that 3/4ths of the mod team is LGBTQ)

lmaoooo

Anyway, the first user gets out of time out. They say that they are no longer doing the Communism AU.

They then show a logo for their new political system AU instead.

oh boy they do something worse-- yep

That has nothing to do with communism

But also

Actually wait, they specifically said that this new political system follows after the communism AU after that party dissolves

T poses and clips out of bounds

if you have to make an @ everyone announcement reminding people of the rules, can you end it with "glory to Arstotzka"

i think it would be funny

I'm sorry, my brain went "oh the bugs are communist now" and then I choked on toothpaste laughing

It's not funny to deal with but COMMIE BUGS

I get the feeling this person is obsessed with politics.

Another mod already did an announcement moreso stating that if you ever feel uncomfortable with any messages (or COUGH COUGH AUs COUGH HACK COUGH) to send it to modmail, but OH MAN we so should have done that

But yes, funny Bug game is now communism. According to this guy.

If he told me that he likes learning about WWII I'd 1000% believe him

our bug game, comrade

glory to antstotzka

An update about this: the guy has been continuing to post up stuff about his totally not Communism AU, then I called him out on it being very similar to his previous stuff, he messaged me saying that he's not doing the Communism AU anymore and then he just. Left the server.

Oh-kay!!

Farewell, Commie Bug

o7

OH YEAH, and the person that stepped in and was mocking Pride Month earlier? They got banned earlier this month. Hooray!!

Again, you can make any kind of AU that you want! It's just that not every AU can be shown on the official game server!!

did he get banned for queerphobia or something else

i feel like that other person messaged you just in an attempt to like, guilt you about shaming them out of the AU

Yeah, the person that got banned tried stirring shit again and told one of the mods, who is bi, that pride is indeed a political issue and that I shouldn't have muted him when it was hours later after the fact he said it.

I'm not sure if they were trying to guilt me, but I did get another modmail from another user absolutely trying to guilt me.

should have included that sonic the hedgehog message with the ban message. it's "political" and you're being "silenced?" damn, i wish it worked! shut the fuck up!

Daaaaaaag, we should've.

The mod that banned him though, throwing down memes like that so casually isn't quite his style

that's fair