Editing Lore (section)

===== [Haz and Jackson vs Destiny and Dylan Burns - MARCH 3RD, 2022] =====
The old Discord server got nuked in May 2022, and nearly the entire historical record of IGG was destroyed along with it. Some even say it was worse than the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. The original Discord server was mass reported by the tyrannical Discord mod named Gaga-- a Pakistani redlib-- and her friends. She attempted and failed to dox Haz after losing over a dozen debates to him. Nobody was safe from the clique from August 2021 to February 18th, 2022. They rode to server popularity by disguising woke ideas as [[Marxism|Marxist]], then slowly using them as pretext for enforcing such ideological slop, similarly to how [[National Socialism|Nazis]] co-opted [[Communism|Communist]] and Marxist language to infiltrate undisciplined or inexperienced groups. During this time of woke anarchy, degenerates flooded the server ranting about their sex lives and doing vile things; it is not remembered by IGG as a noble or aspirational time whatsoever. 

In the midst of this long tyranny was a short, light-hearted period surrounding the IGG member Duck Society and his domination of the server with his silly "Duck lobby". Duck Society had been in the server for a while, spreading his meme ideology of Duck supremacy; with newfound serverwide popularity, however, he expanded his meme to the "Goose deepstate", and reacted to things cryptically with duck emotes. When questioned on its meaning multiple times by Infrared showrunners, Duck refused to give an explanation, and likely never will. The duck meme would remain an insider joke cemented in IGG history for years.

During this entire time, Haz was struggling immensely on a personal level as well as in his leadership role. He had chronic insomnia, was distrustful of others, and openly said the only thing driving him at this point was growing and building Infrared. IGG frustrated Haz, trying to give advice or armchair therapy. Haz even tried edible gummies to help him sleep, but said they "made him dream weird stuff." Haz ultimately overcame this just as the IGG server overcame this period of tyranny, both coinciding with the beginning of the Russian SMO in February.

For one day there was no server for Infrared on Discord; Duck and a few others started an unofficial server, which eventually fell apart and was abandoned after the new official server was founded. 

The new server was created on February 18th, 2022. The interview process to join the server ceased. All talk about the aforementioned clique was banned forever. From February to April 2022, the server was dominated by a new group, the "[[Patriotic Socialism|patriotic socialists]]" and "left-theocrats". This period of the IGG Discord server was characterized by its rank-and-file members still unsure of their actual beliefs, still bouncing from one trendy thing to the next. The "patriotic socialists" were gorillacels-- a term invented by [[Yossarian]] meaning dumber gorillas-- who were unable to respond to rightful criticisms that they came off as American [[Chauvinism|chauvinists]], instead using the "patriotic" label to deflect. "The "left-theocrats" were cringe as well in their own way: they attempted and failed to synthesize religion and Marxism, instead sloganeering and espousing sophistry. 

During the same period came the war between East Asians and "Abrahamics" in the Discord server. The "Hyper-War" was a short period where East Asians and East Asian diaspora struggled against the "Abrahamic" members of the server. It was started by an "Abrahamic" bragging about the amount of believers in God in China, which led to an explosive reaction by a member of the discord, Korean Bolshevik. It was all downhill from there. The war was mainly about the East Asians going on long rants/lectures about respecting East Asian [[sovereignty]] and emphasizing the different civilizational reality of their region. They went on about how East Asia was more "atheistic" or even "pagan" in the Abrahamic sense of the words. It always seemed to get worse as these conversations went on with many sides weighing in on the conflicts. Eventually, when one of the main propagators left the server, the wars ended, putting to bed another unfortunate chapter of IGG.