The April 11th Incident refers to a series of events that occurred following the Irony Hub mod applications. Most of the information surrounding the background of this incident is unknown as most of the events took place in the mod chat. As a result of this incident, multiple mods temporarily were demoded or they resigned out of protest. The mod team after the April 11 Incident consisted of: Diogo, Juno, Goomba, Belle, Mehdi, Darth, and fanestachungas. This does not include the new Advisors.
The Accusation
On the afternoon of April 11, 2024,[note 1] material regarding user Diogo's alleged solicitation of thigh photos from discord user Goomba were spammed into the general chat of Irony Hub by another user, Paunic. The material that was posted depicted user Badovinci (Paun's alt) calling Diogo and Goomba out for exchanging photos, alleging that the exchange had been going on since Goomba was first given moderator status. According to this user, Goomba was a minor in the time that she was first modded. With the knowledge at the time, it seemed that there was irrefutable evidence that Diogo had in fact solicited semi-explicit images from a minor.
The Response
As one would expect, the population of the server went ballistic when this initial information was made public. Widespread accusation of pedophilia soon began to envelop the entirety of the general chat. Diogo soon after acknowledged the information, but to little effect as the malicious jokes continued. After #general continued to devolve into chaos, a 6-hour slowmode was implemented before a total lockdown was put in place. During this time, many began to fear that a nuke was imminent due to the lack of response from the moderation team and Diogo himself. Eventually, Diogo came forward and began to clear the air. His initial response was questionable; Diogo did not acknowledge the information regarding the explicit photos, and instead presented evidence that suggested that Paunic, the "whistleblower" in this instance, was a pedophile themselves. The images posted by Diogo during this lockdown consisted of Paunic seeming to want to have sexual affairs with both a 17 year old, and a 15 year old. After more time passed, Diogo eventually presented two photos that proved that Goomba had turned 18 five days before the thigh photos were sent.
The Response to the Response
"i will unlock the channel in 5minutes as i will let you ponder
on who is the "pedophile"
—Diogo[1]
Unsurprisingly, the lockdown did little to nothing in regard to calming down the population of the server. The jokes and accusations continued to be thrown around wildly. Around two minutes after the lockdown was lifted, Goomba herself came forward and stated that she did not recall sending the photos to Diogo before she turned 18, and even going as far as stating that she posted similar photos publicly to whoever asked for them. After these statements by Diogo and Goomba, there was little to no validity remaining to Paunic's initial claim that Diogo was a pedophile.
The Response to the Response to the Response
Even with the accusation being struck down with irrefutable evidence disproving it, the server was still not in good shape. The jokes continued, and #general was eventually locked down once more. This time, Diogo elected to give a brief overview of the history of Irony Hub. He then went on to admit that he was responsible[note 2] for encouraging an incident in which the notorious former user LTC allegedly committed self harm, resulting in his ban from the original Irony Hub. [(for some fucking reason? idk this was weird as hell tbh)]
[Diogo, here, i explained my first ban as many people in the chat were spamming why was i banned in the original irony hub for a few weeks, implying that this wasn't my first time. I explained to the server what had happened because this happened four years ago.]
The lockdown was once again lifted. As time went on, the jokes persisted, but eventually the server returned to normal.
Diogo's response
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Diogo's final response
In the end, everything went back to normal. This is the first real incident we've had on the server, not close to nuking but close to a mutiny or something along those lines.
Everything has been forgiven, some have been forgotten. My wish is for the server to continue thriving and go forward, not dwell on what happened yesterday because it is simply nonsense.
I hold no remorses towards anyone yesterday except a friend which backstabbed me for absolutely no reason that is now banned until he apologizes (which will probably never happen.)
On this note, thank you for supporting the server and staying on it.
Kind regards, Diogo.
The Casualties
- User Paunic — muted for 4 hours for "spreading misinformation" — eventually left while muted, Banned, potentially on NUL
- User rigbyyraccoon — muted for 4 hours for continuing to bring up the accusation.
- User Medovinci (paun's alt) — Banned, potentially on NUL
Other incidents that happened on April 11th
- User Phantho — demodded and banned following grooming allegations after the publication of a Google Drive folder, some may argue that the reason for his ban was because of the accusations that were thrown upon Diogo and Paunic, as a result, many of the allegations were brought back to light. (From Slim (Google Drive owner), I discovered this stuff from an anonymous leaker after I mentioned the incident that happened earlier, basically said leaker told me I would hate Phantho more if I knew what they did and they sent me the evidence, and obviously I compiled it and sent it to IH for obvious reasons. It doesn’t have anything to do with Diogo or Paun.)