The Whenthe Presidential Elections was a server event hosted between the 13th of December 2021 and 4th of January 2022, with the winners becoming the "president" and "vice-president" of the Whenthe server, there was also a second instalment hosted during late 2022.
The Elections
Any user with the last activity role, Top Retard could run for president under set conditions. They could also choose another user to run as the vice-president, vice presidents could be chosen even if they were an activity role below.
There were three phases during these elections, phase one, two and three.
Phase One
My Funny Valentine
Article Talk Read Edit View history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the song. For other uses, see My Funny Valentine (disambiguation). "My Funny Valentine" Song Published 1937 by Chappell & Co. Genre Traditional pop Composer(s) Richard Rodgers Lyricist(s) Lorenz Hart "My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker,[1] for whom it became his signature song.[2][3] In 2015, it was announced that the Gerry Mulligan quartet featuring Chet Baker's version of the song was inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy". Mulligan also recorded the song with his Concert Jazz Band in 1960.[4] the election results were banished from the elections.[1]
Parties which succeded to gain enough votes and get past the first phase of the elections.
1. THOUSDGH Goofy and Steely // (senator armstrong gif lover became the Campaign Manager)
2. THUG HUNTER Nickb and Evil Mario (Were Really Unactive.)
3. TURKEY LEG GIF pd384 and Beef (Unfortunately disqualified, Taylor and Byssum became the replacement.)
4. FELINE FREEDOM FIGHTERS WindowsXP and Baljeet (Baljeet was replaced with wad)
Phase Two
Presidents and Vice Presidents were tasked with making propaganda in order to promote their parties, users were also allowed to make propaganda for their party,[2] a presidential debate was also planned by the staff of the server, but the idea was scrapped due to timezone and organizational issues.[3]
Phase Three
Users had to vote on one of the four parties of their choice on a google doc,[4] it was mostly a fight between the THOUSDGH party and the Feline Freedom Fighters, many members thought that the winner of these elections would be THOUSDGH, but against all odds
the winning party were the Feline Freedom Fighters led by WindowsXP and wad.[5][6]
Aftermath
The event was a massive success and to this day is remembered very fondly by users of Whenthe, with the FFF winning the elections, three users received a special FFF candidate role, WindowsXP, wad aswell as Myszak.
WindowsXP also received a unique Whenthe president role, which gave them #aaaa permissions, they were also allowed to send one message in the announcements channel as a prize,[7] a few THOUSDGH users were against the favor of FFF winning the vote, as they thought
that the votes could have been potentially rigged.
Second Elections
The Second Whenthe Elections were hosted on the 18th of October 2022, this event saw a lot more parties join, the only party that was in the first, original elections was the Feline Freedom Fighters, now calling themselves "The Freedom Party"
The elections officially begun with an announcement from the then owner of the server, Steely. These elections were meant to revive the server in some way, as it had been severely damaged due to it facing many difficulties and challenges thanks to The Report Crisis aswell as The July 2022 crisis, with many known members leaving for other places, some had been brought back with these elections. The rules were more loose than those of the first elections.
Welcome to our second presidential election! It is my honor to give the rundown on how this event is going to go.
It is your societal duty as a bluename+ citizen of whenthe to determine our next figurative leader of the server.
Here's how it will go.
Everyone who is interested in becoming president and is IJ+ must dm me with their chosen vice pick who can be any role and a potential presidential team name.
You will have 3 days to determine this. Be sure to talk to each other first as you will have plenty of time to strategize and coordinate your plans.To simplify the rules:
-IJ+ can be president
-Any role except mods can be vice president
-Pick a presidential name!
-DM me your team to enter into the race
-Mods and admins cannot join the race (sorry guys)
-Voting has NOT started yet
-Having a presidential team is perfectly fine and within the rules
-You have 3 days. ~ Steely
There were significantly more parties running this election, though most of them had not been able to secure many votes, and make election changing propaganda, most users supported the party WOTE. Which was heavily influenced by the then loser party, THOUSDGH. WOTE was a coalition party that was led by five very much known members of the server. Finally, on the 13th of November 2022 the winners were decided through democratic elections, WOTE secured a major victory in the Second Whenthe Elections.
References
- ↑ Chart showing the election rigging during the first phase of the Whenthe elections.
- ↑ Namin's announcement regarding the beginning of the second phase of the elections.
- ↑ Namin's announcement surrounding the cancellation of the presidential debate, due to "timing".
- ↑ Closed Whenthe elections vote google doc.
- ↑ Graph showing the election results.
- ↑ Namin's announcement about the final result of the elections.
- ↑ Screenshot of WindowsXP's announcement message.
