Juryrigged > Other > RI History > GameQueen Era

Ah, the GameQueen era. This period between September 2001 and February 2002 will go down in history as one of the worst AND best experiences of my life. For those of you who are too young or too old (cough cough Mecha Sonic cough) to remember what the hell I'm talking about, the GQ era was the giant flamewar that RI erupted into about GameQueen. Who's GameQueen, you ask? A 13 year old female (ha ha, not) user who seemed to flirt with anyone and anything that would give her the time of day. GQ made about 7 topics a day, most of which hitting 500 in mere hours. She even beat Dark Kirby's post contests, which I have so many fond memories about. I miss that man.

Anyways, right now you're probably thinking that she was just some popular user, and hardly worth me writing about her. Think again. She had an attitude that just made you scream. The whole "I get 500 topics and all the pre-pubescent boys love me, nyah" bit was getting a bit tiresome. 90% of the people who hung out with her were either stupid, horny, or Gettles (I have to put him in his own category, he's not stupid or horny). I should know, I started out as one of them. Probably because GQ was the first person on RI to treat me rather well. I was a lurker that first summer, and when I did post, it was something somebody could turn around and use to flame me. DP did it all the time. Damn that Dead Pig, he always ripped my head off. It wasn't until I became SPAGQ that he started to like me... but I'll cover that later. Anyways, long story short, Jayke pulled me into a chat and talked some sense into me, and I became neutral on the whole GQ thing. Eventually, I would grow to hate her.

One day, presumably in November as I have the memory of The Great Magus who's being hit on the head with a large sack of hammers, orange (another old forgotten one, she lurks at LUE now) got the idea of a faction for those who hated GQ. It was named the SPAGQ, or the Smart People Against GameQueen. It is now a household word in the chats. Well, at least ours. Sometime in December, the more hardcore Whoranites (as I have so affectionately named them) created SPDGQ, or Smart People Defending GameQueen. They could have picked a new name, but noooo, let's just steal theirs. Out of those "smart people" defending her, only Zeek The Cat was actually able to put up any reason for us to stop flaming GQ. He's still around, hanging around Aymelek, who is almost a cool copy of GQ, in comparison. Just without the uber-flirting and the cybersex. Note: Please don't kill me, Kimmie. Anyways, the first original members of SPAGQ were Dead Pig, xsin, orange (obviously), Slicktager, Jayke, and Zeldamaster. Zeldamaster was easily the outcast of the group, seeing as he had defected from her side and just took the whole thing too seriously, dodging sides at least once a week. He was so a poser member. Anyways, I joined soon enough, adding to my sig like the others. Many others joined, including Angelman, Kaelia, Demonangel28 (All girls. Even Angel.), Hexbot, syxxcowz, HighwayMonkey, Ashton Precis SO2, Charlie, and countless others that I'm too lazy to mention. If I left your name off, please send your complaints to t_carey77@hotmail.com. The revolution was rolling.

It wasn't until January of the new year that things began getting intense. MISERABLY intense. Every other topic on RI was about GQ, asking why everybody was against her, telling us why we should all be against her, and Zeldamaster telling us who he was for that particular day. Gundam Master, her boyfriend (snicker), continued to proclaim his love for her during her "*sits in a field of flowers* day/month/year" topics, and often in our flaming topics. GQ's secret board had been discovered by us, and we flooded and burned it. Then we found her other one, where something disturbing was found. A topic where she had been "cybering" with Kusanagi, another one of her lapdogs. And this was some pretty explicit stuff. I would suggest going to http://www.geocities.com/ashtonprecisso2/gq.htm if you REALLY wanna see it. The funny thing is, neither of them were banned for it. Or warned. Or even lost karma. We took it as proof that CJayC really WAS getting cybered by her, a point which would be proved later. Solo too. Solo was a mod who sided with her, and hated us for all we were worth, and we hated back. Funny thing is, mods are supposed to be NEUTRAL, aren't they? Anyways, on January 27th, 2002, something happened that would shape the argument forever.

January 27th, 2002. Sometime around 8 o'clock. Dead Pig had thought up the brilliant idea of mass-marking GQ, in a attempt to get her banned. For those of you familiar with the term "mass-marking", it means to search out a message of someone's and to have 15 people mark it. If 15 people mark a message, the victim will be suspended indefinately, and possibly banned. Unfortunately, DP picked an off-topic post of GQ's, which wouldn't even be modded at all. I had found a flaming message directed at me at about the same time, but for some reason, we went with the off-topic post. Seconds later, GQ was suspended. Five minutes later, so were we. But we were banned. IP banned, which meant all our accounts went poof. I had convinced a friend to mark too, and he was banned, and he had a 600 karma account, as well as one that was UN-NUMBERED for some reason. He still holds it against me, and I still blame it on DP. Oh, how he got yelled at by us. Poor kid. CJayC posted on RI, telling us about how stupid we were to do it, and to stop picking on GQ. Ironically enough, he didn't even need to add that last part. The war was over.

Over the next 3 months or so, people (mostly trollers) tried to revive the hatred for GQ, asking "Why did you flame GQ?" and attempting to copy her smug attitude. Zeldamaster attempted to raise SPAGQ from the dead again, only to have himself banned again (He didn't do any mass marking [he was excluded from our chats], he got himself banned on his own). Speed King broke into her account (Her password was Melissa. MELISSA. Who the hell has their password as their first name?), attempted to get them banned, and was KOS'd himself. That account actually stayed at the suspended level for a few months, eventually being reinstated by Ceej again. Spike Dudley, who has been taking care of her accounts for about a year now (Jesus man, you are whipped.), and actually posted a topic sometime in September of 2002 using it, which caused a huge uproar that died down as soon as it started. Nowadays, the mention of GQ is enough to cause a fit of rage or laughter in our little clique, and raises the question "Who's GameQueen?" on RI itself. If GQ ever does come back to RI, it may be enough to cause another flamewar, and it may not. But one thing is for certain: The era of her existance will forever stay in RI history. Well, at least until GameFAQs explodes in a pyrotechnic rage, which is bound to happen sometime soon. Dreams really DO come true.