By Square
Sources:
TotalFreedom Timeline: https://i.imgur.com/7w1q4k1.png
Meme Timeline: https://theawesomer.com/a-timeline-of-…to-2020/554885/
Old TotalFreedom Board (exclusively S&D): https://totalfreedom.boards.net/board/162/spam-drama
TotalFreedom Board: forums.totalfreedom.me
MC Youtuber Timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Yak1rIzik
TotalFreedom Board Sources + Citations:
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/682/mark-irl-zomg-jeezz
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/569/random-rap-battle
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/1284/sorry [1]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/4463/gr…et-bullying-far [2]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/15202/meme-thread
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/23027/post-4 [3]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/20743/bad-kid-me-3 [4]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/1284/sorry [5]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/28712/p…sing-apostrophe [6]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/38331/real-admin-app [7]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/50708/watching [8]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/54279/s…min-application [9]
https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/54280/admin-app-11 [10]
! I AM NOT AN EXPERT ON EARLY TOTALFREEDOM THIS IS JUST MY OBSERVATION AFTER THREAD SKIMMING I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU HELP THE THREAD BY COMMENTING !
Era 1: Age of Creation, Creativity and Rage Comics (2011-2015)
The early 2011s of TotalFreedom, when the server was created, has no historical logs (to my belief) which I can use to measure what it was like back then. However, at the time, many trends were becoming extremely popular such as nyan cat, Chuck Testa, do a barrel roll, i took an arrow to the knee and most importantly: rage comics.
Personally, I believe that the community and humour were centred around emoticons and mispelling/numeronyms.
This belief seems to be validated with the creation of the forum, where spam and drama show a more childish and friendly audience with youtube videos being shared and "LAWL"/"LOL" and capitalization being used commonly throughout threads for a few years. The community at the time were also enjoying mcyters at the time, most popular being Honeydew, Ssundee and Captain Sparkles.
My personal favourite spectacle of this period of time is the absolute emotion yet weird transparency in anger/sad threads [1].
Apart from this, the community's jokes were primarily stupid 2012/13 jokes which is refreshing compared to modern-day copy & paste antics.
As the threads progress towards late 2013, more mature players seem to appear - which shows more of a mature forum [2] however many of the same type of threads still appear. This seems to be the case as well throughout 2014 and 2015.
Era 2: Breaches in Security and Hilarity (2015-2017)
At this point, the forum shows a large gradient in maturity compared to the last era, with more notable people joining the server.
However, remnants of old humour still linger with clickbait threads and mispellings/emoticons.
Surprisingly, little snippets of 2021 post-humour-mortem s&d threads actually are created, perhaps being the foundation for future ironic unfunny threads[3].
The creativity at this era is striking as opposed to modern-day forum threads and ideas like this gemstone of a thread[4].
I have also observed (I believe) to be one of the first "everyone hates me threads" [5] whose comments aren't actual copy/paste "make fun of the person" comments but actual support which surprises me.
This grammar thread [6] marked a vague point where most of the people on the TotalFreedom forums had telligible posts with actual english, approaching the rise to the high point of the TotalFreedom maturity curve.
The TotalFreedom maturity curve is a phenomenon I have observed where the middle eras (era 3-4) have a peak in intelligence and IQ (primarily drama threads and Wilee/others) compared to the more dumber creation/phoenix periods.
One of the most significant checkpoints in this era is the first joke admin application which, personally, is one of the most unfunny trends in TotalFreedom history [7]. While it is not as cancerous as some of the threads modern-day, it probably served as a basis for people to make admin application jokes.
As this is a large section of TotalFreedom history, I skimmed through most of the threads until markbryon's resignation, as the majority of the threads here hold the same theme excluding certain weeks with trends such as "Ask a -" or other similar repeated structures.
Era 3: Seth Kelly Comedy Club (2017-2019)
With the fall of markbryon, notable characters such as wilee appear which contributes to a higher average IQ community however these same people founded the ideas of using copypastas for use in threads[8].
With the notable increase in brain cells, TotalFreedom finds itself newfound self-awareness. With this, irony has become a lot more common and threads you might expect to find today are found in s&d such as the ironic admin applications aforementioned[9][10].
This leads to an absolute shitfest that originated out of nowhere, spontaneously creating the cancerous community we know now.
My personal belief is that wilee was one of the individuals that spearheaded this development with his distinct sense of humour.
This era lead to a wide range of new admins, most notably the Seth Kelly gang, leading to the best admins of all time (personally) but also wide drama at the same time due to smartnt, etc.
At this time, the s&d threads and comedy were monopolised by the admins - having a more diverse range of comedy compared to phoenix-age OP humour, where irony all blend together to make a robotic-like compilation.
It should be noted that this started around when most of the smartnt and other group admins resigned which left a void of personality to the server.
In late 2019, this became apparent as cancellation/suspension s&d threads became the new popular thing to make - leading to the absolute destruction of actual comedy on TotalFreedom. All that was left was the fallout when the server was deleted - the next era.
Era 4: The Phoenix Project and the ashes of OP comedy
Modern-day comedy is robotic, primarily copying popular admins or singular admins/OPs saying the same thing over and over.
This is exacerbated by the release of Among Us and certain memes such as the chad wojak, leading to the absolute dissolution of any vibrant colours of comedy in TotalFreedom as people repeat "Among Us Sus LOL Among Us Chad" ironically to be cool, eventually deranging the community from ironic to unfunny.
As I said before, this is at the trough of the right part maturity curve, the server has become less mature.
Conclusion
My final conclusions from the study personally show me the phenomenon of the TotalFreedom maturity curve, where old TotalFreedom and modern TotalFreedom is less mature than the Seth Kelly/Windows rule TotalFreedom with the resignations and applications of certain admins.
Afternote
This is the current end of my study as this has gone on for around 2-3 days of studying the old forums and new forums, anyone who can spot out some inconsistencies/incorrect data can comment so below (I rushed out the last paragraphs because I'm bored of this thread already) so I can amend them.
Draft URL: https://shrib.com/#Denver5gRW6aw