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Also known as the Ban Holocaust of 2014, The Ifunny Ban War was a "war" declared by a large collection of Ifunny mobile app users. Popular and Verified User, Untouchable, was the main belligerent that was involved in the rapid and massive account and IP banning off of the Ifunny application.

Leading Events

On December 30, 2013, The Ifunny Application had a major update to version 3.0.0. This made many significant format changes as well as the feature to subscribe to users. This feature was long waited as many users in the ifunny community begged for this option for many months. This gave many popular users such as Le_Zeke, TerriblyDrawnComics, Shrapnel, Untouchable, and _eZaF a very large and consistent fan base. Many of these popular users gained up to 160,000 subscriptions. During future updates, Chef, the Head Administrative account unveiled verified status to popular users. This was for people to insure that these profiles were indeed legitimate and did not posts inappropriate content such as pornography, hate posts, and/or illegally derived posts. Many users were not aware that verified users had limited administrative authority. Verified users had access to features such as direct contact to Chef, account ban and suspension, and comment deletion. This was put into place in order to help monitor Inappropriate activity within the Ifunny community. Untouchable's Raid

In early August 2014, an unknown user discovered that the popular and verified user, Untouchable, had liked a post that was posted by a child model profile named, BailJait. The post that was liked was of a young adolescent girl in model poses and attire. When this was discovered the news started to spread throughout the Ifunny community. Untouchable responded by banning any and all accounts that were outspoken of the event. People who made new accounts had their IP addresses banned. As other simple users got banned, users of Ifunny groups and communities got banned as well. This sparked a large protest especially in the Fandom and Gamer Groups. As they start to show anger, Untouchable began to ban entire groups as a whole. It is believed that the Fallout game fandom was completely eradicated during this event.

War Begins

Discovering the news, the ifunny community exploded with anger, hate, and attempts to expose Untouchable. As The banned accounts rack up, Large communities such as political, fandom, furry, and even offensive groups came together and declared to fight back against Untouchable. An Unknown Amateur hacker went undercover and stole Untouchable's IP address. With this and the information given to him by Untouchable himself, he was able to uncover many secrets such as Untouchable's real name, address, and passwords. He also discovered Chef's phone number, and proof that Chef himself and other popular users were assisting Untouchable in his ban raid. He used this information to pressure Untouchable into unbanning all accounts. Untouchable responded by Banning his IP. Before this, he was able to send the information out. This allowed for the Groups and communities to have justification on the crisis. Untouchable and his followers continued to ban and report but now the users fight back. Groups perform ban raids on untouchable followers and start to leave negative reviews on the App Store. This got the attention of the head Admins and they finally Banned Untouchable. The war was over.

Aftermath

In total there were 34,000 accounts banned from the app. With 4000+ IP bans. As groups, fandoms, and communities attempt to rebuild the damage, they still don't feel justice for all the lost accounts. Now with information that untouchable is being banned and unbanned, users have proposed demands to chef for the lost of accounts such as permanent ban of Untouchable's IP and revival of all banned accounts. Other proposed plans include verification of one from every group, verification not having admin control, and a public apology from the staff. So far the only response was a tweet from chef saying to email him if your account was banned as of 8/14/14.