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| name            = Sapphire Development
| name            = '''sapphire'''
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| caption          = The original Sapphire gem logo, based on the Minecraft diamond.
| trading_name    = <!-- d/b/a/, doing business as - if different from legal name above -->
| trading_name    = <!-- d/b/a/, doing business as - if different from legal name above -->
| native_name      = <!-- Company's name in home country language -->
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| headquarters    = [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak]]
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| industry        = Gaming, Social
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| genre            = <!-- Only used with media and publishing companies -->
| genre            = <!-- Only used with media and publishing companies -->
| fate            =  
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| foundation      = Hollywood, FL, United States {{Start date|2011|09|20}}<!-- City, Country ({{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}) -->
| foundation      = 2011<!-- City, Country ({{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}) -->
| founder          = *[[Bryan Gregory]]
| founder          = [[Sapphire#Demographics|Founders/Co-Founders]]
*[[Emanuel Cicortas]]
*[[Mohammad Bhatti]]
*[[Michael McGloin]]
*[[Caleb Duke]]
*[[Ole Martin Fiska]]
| defunct          = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| defunct          = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| location        = Hollywood, FL, United States
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| locations        = <!-- Number of locations, stores, offices &c. -->
| area_served      =  
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| key_people      = See [[Staff]]
| key_people      =  
| products        = Media
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| services        = [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3]], Game Servers, Tournaments
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| lowest          = Bronze II
| highest          = [[File:ChallengerLeague.png|20px]] Challenger I ([[Jimmy]])
| highest          = [[File:DiamondLeague.png|20px]] Diamond I ([[Jimmy]])
| csgo            = [[File:Globalelite.png|35px]] Global Elite ([[t3sla]])  
| csgo            = [[File:Badge.png|35px]] Distinguished Master Guardian ([[t3sla]])
| parent          =  
| parent          =  
| allies          = [[Dirty Gaming]], [[Hong Bros Holdings]], [[Hong Bros Mining Co]], [[Hong Bros Boosting Co]], [[Plasker Boosting]], [[Jerry Boosting Incorporated Corporation]]
| allies          = See [[Sapphire_Development#Subunits and Affiliated Groups|this]]
| divisions       = [[Sapphire Gaming]], [[Sapphire Movies]], [[Team Oblast]], [[Bank of Sapphire]], [[Keyboard Warriors Association]], [[Low Orbit Ion Soldiers]], [[Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America]], [[Dirty Gaming]] (previously)
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| homepage        = {{URL|http://sapphiredev.org}} <!-- {{URL|examplesite.com}} -->
| homepage        = {{URL|http://sapphiredev.org}} <!-- {{URL|examplesite.com}} -->
| footnotes        =  
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| aka              = [[The Circle]]
| aka              = *Sapph
*"[[the Circle]]"
*[[Sapphire#Dark_Ages|Void]]
*Sapphire Development
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'''Sapphire Development''', more commonly known as '''''Sapphire''''', '''''[[the Circle]]''''', '''''dik inc''''', or simply '''''the group''''', is a social and gaming organization. Sapphire is mainly exclusive, as it is composed of friends and mutual friends. It was originally intended to be a dedicated media/developer hence the name Sapphire ''Development'' but has since become merely a group of friends. The most common hangout place for the group is [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3]].
'''Sapphire''' refers to the friend group that originated as a [[Sapphire Development#Backstory|a group of players from the ArmiTunes Minecraft server in 2011]]. The name was coined haphazardly by [[Bryan]] after he saw a commercial for [https://creditcards.chase.com/rewards-credit-cards/sapphire Chase Sapphire credit cards].
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== The History of Sapphire ==


=== Pre-Sapphire ===
==== October 2010 - September 2011 ====
[[File:Seaport.png|375px|thumb|Seaport, the place where it all started.]]


The group originated on a Minecraft server called ''ArmiTunes Freebuild'', and was formed officially in September of 2011. However, the earliest traces of Sapphire can be found in 2010, when '''[[Bryan Gregory]]''' and '''[[Emanuel Cicortas]]''', also known as '''[[t3sla]]''', found the server on a Minecraft server list, whilst looking for the legendary "Sexy Town" which was mentioned in SeaNanner's (a famous YouTuber) interview with the creator of Sexy Town. By mistake, they thought ArmiTunes was the server which held the Sexy Town. People ''falsely confirmed'' this with them, and so they began the search for Sexy Town on ArmiTunes. It wasn't found, however, ArmiTunes proved to be a fun place, therefore Bryan and t3sla became regular players. Eventually a town called Seaport was established, in which the gang begun.
== History ==
=== Backstory ===
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'''October 2010 {{en dash}} December 2011'''
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[[File:Seaport.png|375px|thumb|Seaport, the capital city created by bry4n2378 and t3sla on ArmiTunes.]]


=== The Originals ===
===== ArmiTunes =====
==== September 2011 - December 2011 ====
About a year later, the basic foundation of the group had formed: Bryan, t3sla, along with new members '''[[Mohammad Bhatti]] ([[Funky]]), [[Caleb Duke]] ([[Slar3xSpr33]]), [[Ole Martin Fiska]] ([[Cydax]])''', and Jjhawk152, who did not stick around with Sapphire.


The server had a procedure to follow when a new Minecraft update broke the server's plugins and configurations. It was to back up the normal map and replace it with a temporary map, until the plugins were updated. This temporary map was survival (as opposed to the regular creative/freebuild). Naturally, it got chaotic. By this  time, Bryan, t3sla, and JJ had become moderators under Armitage (the administrator). Therefore, they helped ensure that the procedure happened smoothly.
In October 2010, two kids, '''[[Bryan]]''' ('''bry4n2378''') and '''[[Emanuel]]''' ('''[[t3sla]]'''), played ''{{wiki|Minecraft|Minecraft}}'' for the first time after having discovered it via YouTuber '''SeaNanners'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ''Minecraft'' series. In a video, SeaNanners gave a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtvIKHt2Ysw tour of a certain multiplayer Minecraft base, "Sexy Town"], which intrigued [https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/4sh32w/comment/d596v0f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button many viewers], including Bryan and Emanuel, who sought out the server. However, in [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Columbian#English Columbian fashion], the server they landed on was not the Sexy Town server, but rather [https://web.archive.org/web/20101216200945/http://www.armitunes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=50933 '''ArmiTunes Freebuild'''], an open freebuild server. Despite realizing their mistake, Bryan and Emanuel continued to play on ArmiTunes for months, working on building projects, one of which was "Seaport", a union of cities scattered throughout the server. Through this project, the two managed to gain friends and notability.


On one temporary map, fellow players '''[[Jack Campbell]] and [[James Lockwood]]''' joined the group in building a great underground fortress known as Keldagrim. Cydax also brought his Norwegian friends '''[[Sindre Boe]] and [[Tor Thorkildsen]] (AKA Sarim)'''. In order for the construction to work out as planned, there must have been some sort of coordination. They first talked over Skype. After a few shy introduction, everyone began to befriend each other. Note: JJhawk152 did not participate in this.  
During this time, both Bryan and Emanuel gained interest in Minecraft modding and programming in general. They worked on projects under the meme name [https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/resource-packs/1224224-16x-1-7-3-team-cakes-reskinnage-pack-wip '''Team Cake''']. There was an incident where [https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/1272592-v1-3_01-bryans-mods-v1-1 Bryan asked Emanuel to make a mod for him, and then released it under his own name].


Keldagrim was a brilliantly designed. It had a red herring fortress on the surface with shops and farms and a large wall. At the front gate, there was a gate system with a defense mechanism designed by Jack and James. This was Surface Keldagrim. This created time for the development of Underground Keldagrim, which was dug out from two crossing ravines, with a half-water, half-lava river remaining, revealing the original outline of the ravines.
Tragedy struck the ''ArmiTunes'' server when unknown [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grief#Verb ''griefers''] took advantage of the "open freebuild" server policy and destroyed many players' builds. This caused the server administration to shift towards a "proving grounds" policy that implemented a soft whitelist, requiring prospective players to be approved before building in the main world. Bryan and Emanuel, now moderators of ''ArmiTunes'', held the responsibility of scouting the Proving Grounds and reporting notable talent to the administrator, '''armitage64'''.  


During this time, the group began to take form with leaders to light the way for the group. Bryan assumed a general leader position while Cydax became a financial leader. They asked t3sla to take charge of Technical inquiries. Caleb was assigned to be the leader of the community (which was later passed to Mike), and Funky was assigned Art & Media leader.
During their time on ''ArmiTunes'', Bryan and Emanuel befriended players such as '''JJhawk152''', '''Skapke''', '''MugenMasamune''', '''[[Cydax]]''', '''[[Sarim]]''', '''[[Sindre]]''', '''[[Funky]]''', '''[[Caleb]]''' ('''Slar3xSpr33'''), '''[[Mike]]''', '''[[Jack]]''', and '''[[James]]'''.


Sometimes, working on Keldagrim was a bit boring for the group. They became quite fond of a griefing group called Team Avolition and decided to follow them. To kill some time, they asked t3sla to begin developing a Minecraft griefing client similar to Team Avolition's ''Reliant'' client. The group used this client to ''redecorate'' some servers. Today, these things are '''the things that shan't be spoken of'''. The client was eventually called ''SapphClient'' and continued to receive updates for a long while after.
In August 2011, the Minecraft griefing sensation [https://www.youtube.com/@teamavolition '''Team Avolition'''] became a fashionable topic between Bryan and Emanuel. Feeling inspired, Emanuel began working on the '''''[[SapphClient]]''''', which would become the debut project of the emerging group. It was first released on August 22, 2011.
After the Keldagrim project, the group decided to stay together and frequently meet over Skype. After another temporary map was placed on ArmiTunes, the group began to act malevolently. They began to grow impatient of waiting for the plugins to update. Therefore, they ''redecorated'' the entire spawn area of the temporary map, and Bryan performed an act known as ''The Punisher'' which is still renowned today. ArmiTunes was taken offline, "for maintenance and will be back up shortly". It never returned.


[[File:Sappserver.jpg|350px|thumb|The original Sapphire Minecraft server.]]
===== Keldagrim =====


The group had many mixed feelings: confusion, anger, anxienty. They decided to start their own server, as an ArmiTunes legacy server project. Initially, Bryan hosted the server. This is about the time when the group decide to pave its pathway to success. They were now named '''Sapphire Development'''. They started a YouTube channel and began advertising their server. Funky brought his friends '''[[Michael McGloin]] (aka [[Mike]]), [[Ethan Schulze]] ([[lilfizzhead]]), and [[Alexander Thomas]]''' in order to aid the popularization of the server. Cydax offered to start paying for a dedicated server, to increase interest in the server.
Later that month, Mojang released a significant update for Minecraft, breaking ''ArmiTunes''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s plugins and configurations. As a result, the server was switched into survival mode on a temporary world, which was a common practice at the time while awaiting plugin updates. By this time, Bryan and Emanuel had established voice communications with Caleb, Funky, and Mike using ''{{wiki|Skype|Skype}}''. Meanwhile, Cydax had done the same with his friends Sarim and Sindre (the Norwegian faction). According to Cydax, Sarim petitioned for the merger between Skype calls, which led to the formation of a supergroup that also included Jack, James, and Funky's friends '''[[lilfizzhead]]''' and '''[[Alexander]]'''. The supergroup initiated a collaborative building project, '''Keldagrim''' (named for the [https://runescape.wiki/w/Keldagrim dwarf settlement] in RuneScape), a complex underground fortress located beneath a mountain valley range that had been developed into a decoy fortress. The decoy fortress comprised of false shops, farms, and a large gate equipped with a "defense mechanism" (designed by Jack and James, the English faction). Underground, the real Keldagrim had been excavated from two intersecting ravines, containing both water and lava rivers.  


The server didn't get too far and eventually the group turned back to ''redecorating'' other servers for fun. The group eventually stumbled upon an "ungriefable" server. It was not griefable because  griefing ''was encouraged''. It was a HardCore PvP server called Darkholm, where the next chapter of Sapphire began.
Beyond the Keldagrim project, members of the emerging group undertook the "hobby" of griefing random Minecraft servers with the newly released ''SapphClient'', uniting under the banner of '''Sapphire Development'''. It was initially agreed upon that ''ArmiTunes'' itself would never be targeted, however, one day, armitage64 replaced the world containing the Keldagrim project with a new temporary world, which enraged members of the call, feeling as if their work had been discarded. In an event infamously known as the ''Punishment'', members turned their wrath towards their home server and griefed the spawn area of the new temporary world. Following this incident, for reasons unrelated, ''ArmiTunes'' went offline and never resurfaced.
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=== Darkholm Age ===
==== Sapphire Minecraft Server ====
==== December 2011 - May 2012 ====
[[File:Sappserver.jpg|350px|thumb|The spawn area of the original Sapphire Minecraft server.]]
Darkholm was not a welcoming place. In fact, Ethan and Alex had already left because they lost interest in the group right after the decline of the Sapphire server. The group split into two sub-groups united by one "faction" (which was a group plugin on Darkholm which allowed the protection of the group's land from other people). At first it was Bryan & Caleb and Cydax, Sindre, & Sarim. t3sla began to stray away from the group at this point. Mike and Funky were dealing with in real life issues at the time.
[[File:Retro.png|225px|thumb|The original logo of Sapphire (2011 {{en dash}} 2013).]]


The faction's first de facto leader was Cydax. Only donators to the server could start a faction, therefore Cydax (being the rich person he is) was able to get the faction started. It was named Void, as Bryan suggested it should have been. The faction quickly gained opposition and before they knew it, had a bounty on its head. After many base moves, Void's HQ was at a far away sanctuary.
In the time after the fall of ''ArmiTunes'', Bryan established the Sapphire website and forums (initially at the URL [https://sapphire.t15.org sapphire.t15.org]) to promote unity of the newly formed group. After taking time to reflect, in November of 2011, the group decided to open the Sapphire Minecraft Server, in honor of ''ArmiTunes'', as well as a [https://www.youtube.com/@SapphireMovies YouTube channel] to advertise the server. Initially hosted by Bryan, the server world ownership was transferred to Cydax and Sindre, in a strategy change that aspired to attract new players via the use of a dedicated server infrastructure.
One of the main goals of Darkholm was to PvP. There was a PvP designated zone at the spawn. Frequently, people would leave their most prized posessions at their faction bases, get equipped, and go to the PvP Zone. While in the PvP zone, Void attracted the attention of a devout warrior [[Nick Zaslav]] whom was known as [[Creasingwolf]]. Creasingwolf was instantly an enemy to the faction. After much shit-talking, the battle against him ended in a draw.


The encounter with Creasingwolf only made the situation worse. He was apart of a faction with some great PvPers who were out to eliminate Void. As more hatred grew towards Void, they decided to just embrace it by forcefully destroying factions who opposed them. It picked up some lost individuals who contributed greatly to the faction. Tybljo was a great addition to the team, who always located the bases of anti-Voiders. He was picked up after his home base was destroyed by Void. Alas, Void had to keep moving.
The server was predominantly populated by Sapphire members, only occasionally gaining public players, such as '''[[JokarGirl]]''', who randomly joined the server and was nearly instantly given the rank of server moderator. Interest in the server declined after a few weeks, which led Alex and Ethan to become inactive. The Sapphire server remained online for a while longer, however, interest ultimately died out.  


Bryan had met another Minecraft player at his school (in real life). His name was '''[[Jerry Plasker]]'''. He was interested in the whole Void business, and joined in. Ever since Jerry joined Sapphire, there has been a rise in conflict within Sapphire. He would either be friends with the group or decide to leave and then later come back.
It was still common practice at the time for Sapphire members to grief other servers for amusement. After a series of successful griefing campaigns, some members stumbled upon the so-called "ungriefable" server, [https://www.planetminecraft.com/server/darkholm-factions-pvp/ '''Darkholm'''], a hardcore PvP server, which captured the group's interest.


Eventually, Void settled on an island. It was temporarily renamed to RedStoners and was now led by Caleb. Cydax, Sarim, and Sindre began laying low and stopped associating with RedStoners. They reserved the name Void, just incase it would someday return. Caleb's plan did not turn out well. People discovered that RedStoners was the new Void. A new foe from Creasingwolf's unknown faction, turned up: [[Kenan Heath]], known in-game as SpecialK.
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SpecialK was thought to be a friendly figure, until it was discovered that he was showing bandits the way to RedStoner's newest base on the island. The bandits raided and destroyed the base. One figure, [[Dakota Warner]] (known as hyprman33 in-game) was revealed to be the warlord controlling Creasingwolf and Specialk. RedStoners began to fall.
=== Dark Ages ===
'''December 2011 {{en dash}} May 2012'''
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===== Void Faction =====
Upon joining the ''Darkholm'' server, Sapphire members created a [https://mcserversminigames.fandom.com/wiki/Factions faction] called [https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Void '''Void'''] consisting of Bryan, Caleb, Cydax, Sindre, and Sarim. Emanuel, Mike, and Funky became inactive at the time, while Jack and James played briefly before also becoming inactive. Cydax earned his position as the leader of the faction by becoming the first player in the group to attain VIP status on the server, by donating real life money to the administrator of Darkholm, '''astidonius'''. Void briskly expanded its power, often by engaging in player-versus-player (PvP) combat or base hunting, consequently gaining notoriety and adversity. Void initially employed a nomadic playstyle, but eventually established its first territorial base.
 
The PvP meta of Darkholm centered around the PvP-designated zone on the perimeter of spawn, making it difficult for new players to set out. Experienced players would often go there, equipped with disposable PvP gear. One day, Void PvPers met the attention of a PvPer known as '''[[Creasingwolf]]''' ([[Nick]]), who had begun to engage them in combat frequently.
 
Void began a campaign to destroy opposing factions and impose its will on the server world. It annexed other factions, recruiting displaced players such as '''Tybljo''', a talented base hunter. Meanwhile, in real life, Bryan recruited a classmate, '''[[Jerry Plasker]]''', into the Void cause.
 
===== Void Divided =====
Following an armed conflict, Void was forced to re-settle on a remote island. Cydax transferred faction ownership to Caleb, who shifted the faction's strategy. To evade attention drawn to the "Void" name, the faction was covertly renamed to '''RedStoners'''. Due to disagreements, the Sapphire Norwegian arm (Cydax, Sarim, and Sindre) separated from RedStoners and created a second Void faction. '''[[Kenan|SpecialK]]''', a spy from Creasingwolf's faction, uncovered the true identity of "RedStoners", leading to the destruction of the island base. The leader of Creasingwolf's faction was revealed to be a player named '''[[Dakota|hyprman33]]'''.


[[File:league.png|250px|thumb|"Playing" League of Legends.]]
[[File:league.png|250px|thumb|"Playing" League of Legends.]]


At about this time, Darkholm's VIP system was revamped. Instead of three simple donator ranks, there were about five. Ranging from Squire (5 dollars) to King (100 dollars), they were extremely over powerred and were in high demand. A ten year old rich boy named 74 became famous for spending money on everyone he saw. He was exploited, even by RedStoners, to gain power.
After the destruction of RedStoners, Darkholm's VIP system was restructured by astidonius. The original three-tier rank system was replaced with a five-tier system (ranging from "Squire" for $5, to "King" for $100) that gave donors privileged abilities. A ten year old known as '''741852963358''', son of a real life ambassador, became infamous for gifting money to players, many of whom took advantage of his gratuity, including Void members.
After countless trials, RedStoners was still showing decline. Caleb decided he would step down from leadership and split off making his own faction called ''Onyx'', while making a mockery of Sapphire. Caleb leaves not only the faction, but Sapphire as a group.


Void was back to Cydax's leadership. Bryan decided to stick with Cydax, while tybljo and Jerry went with Caleb. There were often fueds between Void and Onyx. This went on for months until eventually Caleb crossed the line. He united with the master of Creasingwolf and Specialk, hyprman33. Effortlessly, Void was wiped out, again. One of the tallest standing nations on the server, destroyed by one man.
Caleb stepped down from his position as faction leader, left the faction, and created a new faction called '''Onyx'''. Beyond ''Minecraft'', Caleb took a hiatus from Sapphire in response to intense criticisms he received over Skype. Cydax reached out to Bryan to reunite the original Void faction. Upon reaching an agreement, they merged RedStoners back into Void. In the process, Tybljo and Jerry defected to Onyx, leading to frequent feuds between the factions. After some time, Caleb allied Onyx with hyprman33, whom he would later begin playing ''League of Legends'' with. The hyprman33-Onyx alliance led a successful campaign to destroy the united Void.
Caleb reduced his Minecraft hours, as Dakota (hyprman33) showed him a new game, League of Legends. Void saw an opportunity to rebuild. After inviting Creasingwolf, Specialk, and their other two friends [[Woods Connell]] and [[Will Messick]] (AKA weyrt), they agreed to merge, making one superfaction, positioning Bryan as Supreme Chancellor of the Void Empire.
 
===== Void Empire =====
 
In the reconstruction of Void, it recruited notorious PvPers Creasingwolf, Specialk, '''[[Woods]]''', and '''[[weyrt]]''' to create the server's first "superfaction", the ''Void Empire'', anointing Bryan as Emperor.


[[File:xd.jpg|250px|thumb|The final Void base.]]
[[File:xd.jpg|250px|thumb|The final Void base.]]


The requirements to join the new superfaction was at least Baron (a 50 dollar VIP rank) or King (100 dollar VIP rank). Putting together all the building material the ranks gave, the Void Empire was born. The Headquarters at the core was an obsidian box which contained all of Void's goodies. This obsidian box was surrounded by a lava moat. Both this box and the moat were also encased in another obsidian box.
The Void Empire required new members to possess at least Baron status ($50 VIP rank), but preferably King status ($100 VIP rank). Void's new strategy relied on its members' patronage, via their VIP ability to spawn armor and items. This gave Void the resources and manpower to build its final fortress, a massive obsidian fortress located directly outside of spawn. It was surrounded by a lava moat, and the interior contained a smaller obsidian structure with Void's principal stashes and reserves.
Void by itself was one of the largest factions the server has ever witnessed the rise of, especially in such a short time span. Now, being merged with about five other huge powers, it ''definitely'' became the largest faction. Meanwhile, hyprman33 decided to lay low for the time being.


The main anti-Void powers were the followers of Glen, a rebel who was tired of being crushed by the Void Empire. There was no calm before the storm. It was obvious that many soldiers lined up against the walls of Void ready to knock it down. While the battle started, Bryan snuck out to make sure the HQ was locked down. Just then, hyprman33 appears inside the base. He entered through ''illegitimate'' means. Since he was already inside, Void decided to run a self-destruct sequence to make sure that if they couldn't have their treasure, he couldn't either. Thus that ended the Great Void Wars.
====== Void Wars ======


After all that, '''[[Nick Zaslav]] ([[Creasingwolf]]), [[Will Messick]] ([[Weyrt]]), and [[Dakota Warner]] ([[hyprman33]])''' became Skype regulars, and Caleb had made a return to Sapphire. They focused less on the factions, and more on getting staff positions on Darkholm. After a long campaign, Caleb and Cydax both became moderators. However, due to the obvious corruption in the server, the group decided to withdraw from the server. During this time, the group began to transition from Skype to Raidcall, in hopes of better voice communication service. Caleb and hyprman33 also persuaded the entire group to play League of Legends, which brought t3sla back. One final note to make is that Jerry brought two new members to the group: '''[[Jimmy Hong]] and [[Jessenia Otalora]]''', who were already League of Legends veterans. Finally, a new chapter shall be started.
A legion of anti-Void forces began to gather, led by a player known as '''Glen''', a rebel who was tired of the Empire's oppression. One night, the anti-Voiders marched towards the walls of the Void Empire determined to bring them down. During the battle, Bryan defended fortress. But suddenly, hyprman33 appeared inside the base, having entered via ''illegitimate'' means. Due to this compromise, Bryan initiated a self-destruction sequence to keep Void's arsenal out of the "wrong hands". These events triggered the decline of the superfaction Void.
 
Beyond ''Minecraft'', [[Nick]] ([[Creasingwolf]]), [[Weyrt]], [[hyprman33]], [[Specialk]] and [[Woods]] joined the ''Sapphire'' call, the latter three of which did not remain active for long. Once the dust settled, Caleb became active in Sapphire again. Some members continued playing on Darkholm with the intent to become server moderators, which Caleb and Cydax both attained, however, due to server's mismanagement, Sapphire decided to cease relations with the server.  
 
During this time, the group made a transition from ''Skype'' to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503074353/http://raidcall.com/ '''Raidcall'''], an early iteration of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) apps specifically for gaming. Caleb and Dakota succeeded in persuading the other members to play ''League of Legends'', which piqued the the interest of the previously-inactive Emanuel. Because of the convergence on ''League of Legends'', Jerry introduced two of his friends into Sapphire: '''[[Jimmy]]''' and '''[[Jessenia]]'''.
 
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=== Golden Age ===
'''May 2012 {{en dash}} May 2013'''
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=== Jimmy Hong and co ===
==== May 2012 - May 2013 ====
[[File:dayzz.png|275px|thumb|DayZ.]]
[[File:dayzz.png|275px|thumb|DayZ.]]
May of 2012 was spent playing League of Legends. The group needed to learn how to play, and the time was right. Caleb left Sapphire for the [[second time]] and eventually came back. As soon as June hit, school broke out. People left on holiday trips. This was something new to Sapphire. It was their first Summer together. Almost everyone had gone out somewhere. In July, when everyone reunited, the group began playing the newest hit game, DayZ. It was a zombie mod of ARMA 2. The group, along with its newest members, had the time of their lives. One notable figure in this section is '''[[El Saviour]]''' which is an armed rescue ranger vehicle, which appears all over in ARMA, who has saved many members of Sapphire from certain doom.
===== DayZ =====
In May 2012, League of Legends became one of Sapphire's staple games. Caleb spent more time away from Sapphire, [[second time|again]], but eventually came back. In June, many members left on holiday trips.  
 
In July, when everyone had returned, the group began playing a new game called '''DayZ''', a zombie survival mod for ARMA 2.
 
In DayZ, Bryan and a few others encountered '''[[El Saviour]]''', an armed rescue ranger vehicle that would appear to save many a Sapphire member from certain doom, becoming a venerated figure in the group.


Eventually August came, giving everyone an unpleasant reminder that school was coming. As soon as school started back up, everyone went back to playing League of Legends. Throughout the school year, Jimmy Hong began to establish himself. He brought in his younger brother, '''[[Johnnie Hong]]''', sometime in late 2012. Around this time is when Caleb made his [[third leave]], which was thought to be the final one.
At the start of August, when school began again, most members returned to playing ''League of Legends'', the new staple of the group. Due to his ''League'' skill, Jimmy began to assert himself within Sapphire. He introduced his younger brother, '''[[Johnnie]]''', in late 2012. Around this time, Caleb made his [[third leave|third hiatus]].


Over the new years, it was settled that Sapphire would upgrade to a 20 slot TeamSpeak server, funded by Bryan. As the transition was being made, Caleb Duke returns to Sapphire. In early 2013, Jimmy Hong brings in a new friend from school named '''[[Ryan Chabot]]''' who didn't do much but talk to the group. Jimmy began to take League of Legends seriously. By this time, most of the group has developed decent skills. During the months of March and April of 2013, the group organized a League of Legends team called ''Sapphire Gaming''. The team had fun and practiced frequently, but it was obvious that the team was dysfunctional and at a decline. [[Bobo]] also frequented the TeamSpeak server around these times.
[[File:Retro2.png|200px|thumb|The second logo of Sapphire (2013 {{en dash}} 2020).]]


=== Callisto raid ===
As 2013 approached, Bryan sponsored the opening of the first ''Sapphire'' '''[[Sapphire's TeamSpeak|TeamSpeak]]''' server. Jimmy also introduced a school friend named '''[[Ryan (New York)|Ryan]]''' who talked in the call but did not play games.
==== April 2013 - May 2013 ====
 
Jimmy debuted in "''professional''" ''League'' and during the months of March and April, Sapphire started its own eSports program, '''[[Sapphire Gaming]]''', led by Jimmy, to play in ''League'' tournaments. Members of the team enjoyed practicing together, but the team was dysfunctional and declined.
 
===== Callisto Raid =====
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[[File:Happening.png|300px|thumb|The Callisto raid, including the other team.]]
[[File:Happening.png|300px|thumb|The Callisto raid, including the other team.]]
''See [[Callistostarianism]] and [[Callistover]] for the full articles.''
''See [[Callistostarianism]] and [[Callistover]].''


Sapphire Gaming was scrimming against a team, when they decided to take it outside of League of Legends. SG had the enemy team join the [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3 | TeamSpeak]] server to have a chat and play some All Random All Mid games together. They eventually befriended each other, for the day. The whole TeamSpeak was shocked by the following: a figure named [[Callisto]] whose voice can only be described as ''divine'' joined the TeamSpeak server for an hour and held a Q&A session. Appropriately, this occurred on 4/20, National Weed Day. That day, the events of [[Callistostarianism]] occurred, and every 4/20 is now also known as a [[Callistover]].
On April 20, the Sapphire Gaming ''League'' team finished a practice match against an amusing opponent team, whom they had subsequently invited to chat with on the [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak|TeamSpeak server]] and play casual ARAM matches together.  


At the request of Callisto, the server became '''''the People's Republic of Callisto [of Sapphire]''''' but is still often referred to by its original name and rarely by its new name. The reason for this is that a few members were not present during these events, and refuse to accept Lord Callisto. Callisto still appears to date, but for very few seconds. All the members of the team which joined the TeamSpeak server left, except for one member who grew fond of Sapphire: [[Brandon Lin]]. He was interested in playing League of Legend with the group, however, the group itself began to lose interest in League of Legends.
Unexpectedly, an unknown figure named '''[[Callisto]]''', whose voice could only be described as ''angelic'', [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8923uHn3Xk joined the TeamSpeak server for an hour and held a Q&A session]. These events led to the development of '''[[Callistostarianism]]''', a way of life that celebrates the 20th of April as the '''[[Callistover]]''', the day of the visitation by the great teacher Callisto.
 
At the request of Callisto, the server became christened the '''People's Republic of Callisto'''. The members not present during the first Callistover became "Callisto doubters".
 
At the end of the first Callistover, all of the members of the visiting team had disconnected from TeamSpeak, except for one person who stayed behind for a while: '''[[Brandon]]'''. He was interested in playing ''League'' with Sapphire's team, however, Sapphire's interest in ''League'' declined, and he became inactive.
 
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=== Jimmy Saga ===
'''May 2013 {{en dash}} December 2013'''
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=== A New Age ===
==== May 2013 - December 2013 ====
[[File:happeningofjimmy.png|290px|thumb|The Happening of Jimmy.]]
[[File:happeningofjimmy.png|290px|thumb|The Happening of Jimmy.]]
The League of Legends team sponsored by Sapphire, ''Sapphire Gaming'' led by [[Jimmy Hong]], was disbanded when [[Jimmy Hong and co]] got into a big argument with the rest of the group. Jimmy, Johnnie, Jessenia, and Ryan all leave. With the fall of [[Jimmy Hong and co]], some room was cleared for new members. The coming of a new age demanded for new culture in Sapphire, and as such the usage of [[Dis Dik]] begins to inflate.  
The Sapphire Gaming ''League'' team was disbanded when [[Jimmy and co]] had a significant argument with the group, leading to Jimmy, Johnnie, Jessenia, and Ryan all leaving. The departure of [[Jimmy and co]] caused a meme vacuum, which forced new memes to manifest, such as '''[[Dis Dik]]''', which became Bryan's best-known catchphrase.
 
During this time, [[Funky]] introduced his friend, '''Usama''' and Caleb introduced his friend, '''[[Chase]]'''. By this time, Sapphire developed a hazing ritual called the '''Sapphire initiation'''. Chase vigorously passed his initiation, overcoming the massive amounts of [[DIK]] by counter-imposing his will. Over the summer, the group took interest to online '''Poker''' as well as an MMORPG called '''Haven and Hearth'''. After the summer holiday trips occurred, the miraculous resurrection of [[Nick]] and [[Weyrt]] followed (at this point, weyrt had become a ''cool kid [[420]]'').
 
During Fall 2013, Jimmy and co, excluding Ryan, returned. Furthermore, they resumed playing with the Sapphire Gaming crew to warm up for Season 4. The TeamSpeak server, at the time provided by '''GameServers''', crashed frequently, and many exploits were found, one of which was used by Jimmy to compromise the server. These events became known as the '''Happening of Jimmy''', prompting Bryan to seek out a new host, '''MainVoice'''.
 
During a fateful One For All match in ''League'', Bryan, Jimmy, t3sla, and Johnnie met [[Blood1310017]]. Although half of the lobby wanted to play Fiddlesticks, and the other wanted Leona, Blood, a ''randy'', picked Malphite and won over the other two suggestions. From watching him play, the group came to the conclusion that he was the ''best player ever''. An [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khT50E09ENk episode of ''THE BEST RIGHT NOW''] was dedicated to the events that occurred with Blood.
 
Later during the year, Sapphire started a rivalry against '''[[TitanClan]]''', previously known as Mantis Clan. Members of Sapphire used to connect to Titan's ''Counter-Strike'' servers, but intolerance for Titan's memes grew and a back-and-forth feud between TeamSpeak servers broke out until a ceasefire was reached. Ever since this '''TitanClan incident''', Sapphire members held a negative view of their rival clan, with the exception of Jerry (due to being a member of both).
 
During Winter 2013, the group briefly played '''Dota 2''', with [[Mike]] and [[Emanuel]] played it exclusively, while the rest of the active group members either juggled playing both games or only ''League''. Around this time, [[Bryan]] invented a new hit meme: ''thumping''. The usage of thumping was over exaggerated and the meme eventually died out.
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=== Changes and Growth ===
'''January 2014 {{en dash}} February 2016'''
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Over the new year, the group began to diversify its gaming interests. t3sla harnessed his old ''Counter-Strike'' skills and focused on ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', re-entering [[Sapphire Development#t3sla mode|t3sla mode]] in the process. He single-handedly kickstarted Sapphire's interest in CS:GO.
 
Jerry began to frequent [[TitanClan]]'s TeamSpeak, although he often split his time between the groups. Meanwhile, the Norwegians (Cydax, Sindre, and Sarim) reserved a channel on TeamSpeak to bring their real-life friends online. Mike and Funky brought their real-life friends, the '''[[DirtyChinx]]''', into the TeamSpeak server, also reserving their own channel.
 
Caleb and Chase went on to introduce some friends into the group: '''[[Ben]]''', '''[[Ryan]]''', '''[[Greg]]''', and '''[[Garrett]]''' (the latter three also being Tennessee boys). The active members of Sapphire at this time were Bryan, Caleb, Chase, Funky & Mike (with the DirtyChinx), Ben, Greg, Garrett, Creasingwolf & Jimmy (semi-active), Ryan, and Emanuel (occasionally).
 
Ben was one of the most controversial members to join the group. He was the first member from the west coast; a pioneer, even. Another problem was that ''everyone in California blazed''. Yet, Ben claimed he was "clean" of drugs.
 
With this new phase, an opportunity to start new memes has opened, especially since ''DIK'' had slowly died off. Nick (Creasingwolf) was a major force in the revival of [[Sapphire Development#Necking|necking]]. He was extremely dedicated to the game and spread it everywhere he went, including school.  


During this time, [[Mohammad Bhatti]] brought a new member, '''[[Usama Riaz]]'''. Caleb Duke recruits a new member, '''[[Chase Jenkins]]''', during the Summer of 2013. Chase Jenkins quickly passed his [[Initiation]] which involved a lot of [[DIK]]. Over the Summer of 2013, the group took interest to online Poker and an MMORPG called Haven and Hearth. After the summer holiday trips occurred, the group reorganized to see each other off to school. This also involved the miraculous resurrection of [[Nick Zaslav]] and [[Will Messick]] who is now a ''cool kid, [[420]]''.
Meanwhile, Bryan and Caleb took the jinxing game to the next level. A jinx, as referred to by the cool kids (and fifth graders), is when two people say the same thing at the same time without having prior knowledge of the fact that the other party would say the same thing as them. However, in Caleb and Bryan's version of this, they would say "Get out of my mind/head!"


During the Fall of 2013, Jimmy Hong and co return, except for Ryan. Furthermore, they have resumed playing with the crew of Sapphire Gaming to warm up for Season 4. The group has shifted its focus primarily back on League of Legends. The TeamSpeak server, at the time provided by GameServers, crashed frequently, and many exploits were found. Jimmy took over the server, with the help of everyone else, and defaced it. These events are known as the '''Happening of Jimmy'''. This prompted the group to switch to a better host. From this point on, the server was provided by MainVoice.
On top of these, many other memes have spread throughout the group, shifting the culture slightly. Among these was [[Sapphire Development#Swag|swag]], bought in by Jimmy and Funky. Sapphire began incorporating teachings from resources such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc this video], which essentially became a textbook for Sapphire culture at the time. Not only does it cover swag, it also covers DIK and many other fundamental topics to a certain extent.


One fateful One For All match in League of Legends, Bryan, Jimmy, t3sla, and Johnnie meet [[Blood1310017]]. Half of the group wanted to play Fiddlesticks and Leona respectively. Yet, Blood, a ''randy'', picked Malphite and won over the other two proposals, Fiddlesticks and Leona. From watching him play, the group came to the conclusion that he is the ''best player, ever''. An [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khT50E09ENk episode of ''THE BEST RIGHT NOW''], '''MALPHITE IS THE BEST RIGHT NOW''', also known as '''The Life of Blood1310017''', centered around the events that occurred with Blood. Meanwhile, a large portion of the group gets together with a few non-members to play Haven and Hearth once again.
On March 10, 2014, Ben was publicly executed and died (in other words, he was votekicked from a CS:GO game and went on hiatus from Sapphire) by [[Bryan]], [[Caleb]], and [[Ryan|Pasta]]. On the third day, Ben was resurrected from the dead (he came back).


During the Winter of 2013, the group began to play Dota 2. [[Mike]] and [[t3sla]] play only Dota 2, while the rest of the active group members either juggle playing both games or only League. A few months back, [[Bryan]] invented a new noise which complemented DIK. The act of making this noise was called ''thumping''. During the month of December 2013, usage of thumping begins to inflate at rates faster than DIK.
It was around this time that Caleb became an active member of '''[[Andy#Andy's Stream|Andy's Stream]]''', meeting people such as '''[[Andy]]''', '''[[Adam]]''', '''[[Aerius]]''', and eventually '''[[Anna]]'''. Caleb also introduced this group into Sapphire sometime later.


=== Return of the Circle jerk ===
The Summer had begun and once again it was a summer of inactivity. However, '''[[Jose]]''' '''([[check0ut]])''' randomly joined the TeamSpeak and befriended members, despite him seeking people that played League of Legends (which at the time, Sapphire did not have).  
==== January 2014 - present ====
Over the new year, the group began to spread out a bit. It is distributing people into separate "''packs''", however the group is still able to unite as one, when necessary. However, t3sla prefers to go solo, but, his influence will still be put onto the group. As t3sla harnesses his old Counter-Strike skills and one-trick pony's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, he has been coming in TeamSpeak not as frequently as before. He has re-entered [[Sapphire Development#t3sla mode|t3sla mode]]. Even though he's back in t3sla mode, he still has contact with the group and has influenced the group to play CS:GO; as suspected, playing CS:GO became a trend in the group.  


Back to migrations, Jerry has gone to hang out with a clan called Mantis, although he often comes back to visit Sapphire. Meanwhile, the Norwegian Pack (Cydax, Sindre, and Sarim) reserves a channel on TeamSpeak to hangout with their real-life friends, and less with the core part of the group. Mike, Funky become less active as they start to hangout with their real-life friends more in Skype. Finally, Slar and Chase begin introducing more friends to the group such as '''[[Ben Thomas]]'''. The remaining core ''pack'' begins to form as Bryan, Slar, Chase, Creasingwolf, Ben, Weyrt, Jimmy, and t3sla (occasionally) remain.
At this time, Caleb brought [[Brad]] into the TeamSpeak, which revived Sapphire's interest in playing RuneScape (lasting only a few weeks, after which Brad became inactive). Emanuel had once again returned from hiatus in ''t3sla mode'' and became more active in the TeamSpeak. Jimmy also turned up every now and then.  


Ben Thomas is one of the most controversial members to join the group. So far, all members are east coast rep'n, but Ben represents the west coast, specifically California. Another problem is that '''everyone in California blazes'''. Yet, Ben is self-proclaimed "clean" of drugs and is determined to demonstrate his above-average Einsteinian IQ.
Later, Funky took Bryan's old meme, '''xDieselfuel''', and blew it up, eclipsing its previous success. Over the summer, Sapphire became a Meme Factory and the overwhelming amount of memes caused the average life span of a meme to drop to five minutes.


With this new age beginning, an opportunity to start new trends has opened, especially since ''DIK'' is slowly dying off. Creasingwolf was a major force in the revival of [[Sapphire Development#Necking|necking]]. He was extremely dedicated to the game and spread it everywhere he went, including school. Meanwhile, Bryan and Slar took the jinxing game to the next level. A jinx, as referred to by the cool kids, fifth graders, and niggas, is when two people say the same thing at the same time without having prior knowledge of the fact that the other party would say the same thing as them. However, in Slar and Bryan's version of this, they would say "Get out of my mind/head!"
Nearing the beginning of school, Cydax left for college and as a result the Sapphire Norwiggas became less active. Garrett and Jose also both began/resumed college around this time. Ryan, ever since graduating high school, went straight into the work grind. The rest of the members were now beginning high school.


On top of these, many other trends have spread throughout the group. Among recent events, the revival of [[Sapphire Development#Swagfags|swagfaggotry]] is one of the greatest things to have happened. The leaders of this revival were Jimmy and Funky, each bringing their own unique techniques to the table. Due to swagfaggotry being integrated into Sapphire, one new graduation requirement of the [[Sapphire Development#Initiation|DIK Academy]] is to study the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL] video, as it is essentially the textbook of Sapphire. Not only does it cover swagfaggotry, it also covers DIK and many other fundamental topics to a certain extent.
As the school year continued, most members became inactive for at least some time. Caleb and Bryan were always in TeamSpeak, except, Bryan was AFK all the time. By the end of the school year in May 2015, Chase had graduated and also began working.


On March 10, 2014, Ben was publicly executed and died (in other words, he was votekicked from a CS:GO game and left Sapphire) by [[Bryan]], [[Slar]], and [[Ryan Costa|Pasta]]. On the third day, Ben Thomas was resurrected from the dead (he came back). Ben, at the time only being in the group for a few weeks, had already left Sapphire once. It is clear that he is well on his way to becoming more like [[Three times|Caleb Duke]].
About this time, [[TitanClan]] was reorganized into an uptight community, '''[[RGN Community]]''', which eventually shut down, causing Jerry to become more active in Sapphire. At the same time, Jimmy made a miraculous return to the TeamSpeak server, and began frequenting it. Funky also returned to the TeamSpeak server, although briefly.
 
Bryan, Caleb, Jerry, and Jimmy briefly brought League of Legends back, even getting Emanuel to play, which was yet another miracle. Simultaneously, Jimmy also led Sapphire into playing Battle Royale on H1Z1. At the same time, CS:GO and League of Legends were still strong second-choice games.
 
It was a relatively successful time period; a fair amount of TeamSpeak activity was maintained. Furthermore, this was when Chase first began playing League of Legends and when Jimmy first tried CS:GO, improving the gaming dynamic in Sapphire.
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=== Advent of Sapphire Trips ===
'''February 2016 {{en dash}} December 2020'''
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[[File:Pax.jpg|200px|thumb|The Sapphire PAX East 2017 Crew]]
 
Beginning with 2016, many members of Sapphire had decided that CS:GO has reached a point where it is simply not playable anymore. However, the TeamSpeak server saw record-high numbers of activity with many Sapphire members, old and new, uniting to play video games together, namely League of Legends.
 
With the introduction of dynamic queue, playing ranked games together was only made easier, and was therefore done several times nearly every day. The group also began playing Black Desert and Stardew Valley as side games.
 
By Spring time, League of Legends was once again declared a cancer game by the active members of Sapphire. The group sought new games to play, and as a result ended up playing a bit of Minecraft - Feed the Beast: Infinity Evolved.
 
Later, when Overwatch came out, nearly every active member of Sapphire began playing it, anxiously waiting for the release of the ranked gamemode. Around July, a quintet composed of Bryan, Emanuel, Jerry, Caleb, and Jimmy began unironically playing World of Warcraft. By the time Fall 2016 came around, League of Legends was declared tolerable once more.
 
In late 2016, TeamSpeak activity boomed again, with the addition of '''[[George]]''' along with his friends into TeamSpeak. Meanwhile, the [[Sapphire Trip Committee]] was established in order to organize a '''Sapphire trip''' to PAX East 2017 and future events, although it was extremely difficult for the details to be ironed out.
 
In March 2017, [[Sapphire PAX Committee#PAX East 2017|a group of members of Sapphire took a trip to PAX East 2017]]. This was the first large-scale interaction between Sapphire's geographical subunits. Through the first quarter of 2017, the TeamSpeak server maintained usual activity in both early and late hours. By this point, Sapphire lingo had become very colorful due to the changing dynamic between new and old members.
 
[[File:Grad.jpg|200px|thumb|Sapphire South Florida Meet Graduation 2017]]
 
In June 2017, Caleb and Chase drove down from Tennessee to South Florida to attend the graduation of Bryan, Emanuel, Jerry, and Komal. This was the first time Emanuel & Komal physically met Caleb & Chase. They hung out and made many memes together. Shortly after Caleb and Chase returned to Tennessee, the Sapphire Trip Committee continued planning more trips.
 
On June 11, 2017, Andy recycled his garbage in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and revived his Prime (ain't talkin' Amazon). Upon finishing his plop, he was enlightened, and he revealed his experience to the Fiendship of Sapphire. Shortly after, Bryan departed for Romania to begin a month-and-a-half-long trip. During his hiatus, '''[[Kyle]]''' was initiated into Sapphire and was taken under Caleb's wing.
 
In the Fall of the same year, many of the lads began their first official semesters in college. Emanuel and Komal moved in together in Orlando and both began joining TeamSpeak more frequently than they previously had. They also invited '''[[Vincent]]''' into the TeamSpeak to play CS:GO. Overall, at this point, the TeamSpeak's traffic had reached its prime in terms of consistency. Furthermore, the next Sapphire Trip was confirmed for PAX East 2018.
 
[[File:SBreak18.jpg|150px|thumb|Sapphire Spring Break 2018]]
 
Over the course of the years, the group experienced fragmentation, occasionally needing to put some space between members, and 2018 was no exception. Nevertheless, the beginning of this year seemed to be promising as it started off with fairly spicy memes. Fortnite briefly became a popular game in the group, lasting quite a few months.
 
In February, as proposed by Bryan, the group observed Black History Month and Homie Month. During this time, Caleb perfected [[Sapphire Development#Caleb's trifecta|his trifecta]].
 
On the creative end, many members of Sapphire either began or resumed streaming on Twitch. Andy blessed the Andy Fan Club by bringing back his stream and then briefly rebranding as ''BestWithCoffee''. Among others, Caleb, Adam, Jimmy, Jerry, Ryan, and Kyle also streamed during this time.
 
[[File:Ten.jpg|200px|thumb|Sapphire Tennessee Summer Break 2018]]
 
During Spring Break 2018, [[Sapphire_Trip_Committee#Spring_Break_2018_in_Florida|Nick came down to visit the Florida Boys]]. Shortly following that trip, the events of the Sapphire [[Sapphire_Trip_Committee#PAX_East_2018|PAX East 2018 Trip]] happened, which are detailed in its respective article. At PAX, talks of more trips in 2018 were brought up, which included visiting Andy, the Tennessee boys, and Kyle & Jon.
 
Sometime later, Sapphire began using Discord in parallel to TeamSpeak, some creating servers to complement their respective stream brands, such as Caleb's Red Lotus Discord.
 
In July 2018, Andy went to Comic Con San Diego. After that, Bryan, Jerry and Anna made their way to [[Sapphire Trip Committee#Summer Break 2018 in Tennessee|visit the Tennessee boys]]. Needless to say, afterwards, many suffered from [[Sapphire Post-Meetup Depression]].
 
Through 2019, the members of Sapphire continued congregating between the Sapphire TeamSpeak as well as the Discord servers. Despite this diversification in gathering places, active members still manage to communicate effectively, using means such as the Sapphire Snapchat group.
 
In January 2019, [[Sapphire_Trip_Committee#Chase x Florida Boys 2019|Chase flew into Florida to meet up with Bryan, Jerry, and Emanuel]].
 
[[File:PAXEast19.jpg|200px|thumb|PAX East 2019]]
 
[[Sapphire Trip Committee#PAX East 2019|Another Sapphire Trip occurred in Boston in 2019]], once again for PAX East. This time the trip was done by Bryan, Jerry, Ryan, Chase and his brother '''[[Tristan]]'''. At the end of April, [[Sapphire Trip Committee#Florida Boys x Tennessee Boys 2019|Bryan and Jerry traveled up to see the Tennessee boys once more]]. In July 2019, Andy made his annual pilgrimage to Comic Con. During 2019, Bryan began hosting Minecraft servers for his Romanian friends, thus leading to some affiliation with Sapphire.
 
[[File:DC.jpg|200px|thumb|Washington DC Meetup 2019]]
 
During August 2019, Bryan enacted his plan to travel on the [[Sapphire Trip Committee#Sapphire Grand Road Trip 2019|Sapphire Grand Road Trip]], making stops in Tennessee and Washington DC (where Emanuel joined him), where he notoriously destroyed Mike's mailbox and then proceeded to back into a car. During this time, Jerry also moved into Orlando to attend the same school as Emanuel, leaving Bryan to become the last Florida Boy in South Florida.
 
In Fall 2019, the stars aligned, and a few members gathered in TeamSpeak to reminisce. A few minutes later, a person named Edna comes in invoking the name of the deity Ligma (Legba) and cursed Garrett (he fell asleep on the spot). Edna claims to have been a member of Sapphire that joined in recent times. Chase and Bryan attempted to chat Edna up, but the conversation reached turning point when the two worked together to reveal Edna's location, provoking Edna to disconnect.
 
Heading into the year 2020, many members made big plans to enact. Bryan announced in February that the Sapphire homepage will be brought back and refocused to being more productive all around. Jerry moved to Georgia. Between the releases of ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons'', ''Valorant'', and the final update of ''Terraria'' (among other games), the group became very active and members assembled nearly daily in Discord (and in smaller amounts on TeamSpeak). During the summer, many members began grinding ''OldSchool Runescape'' in order to prevent ''XP wasting''.
 
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, any potential Sapphire Meet-up trips for 2020 were scrapped. Halfway into August 2020, which is now considered [[Sapphire Development#Zen Month|Zen Month]] (declared by Andy), Bryan declared he would be undergoing a three week session of creativity, the "Creative Boom". Bryan unwillingly unleashed destruction upon the Wiki when Sapphire's cloud vendor announced its dissolution in late 2020.
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=== Post-Pandemic ===
'''January 2021 {{en dash}} present'''
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[[File:Boston22.jpg|200px|thumb|Oktoberfest in Boston 2022]]
 
This era is marked by many "coming of ages" in which members started to figure things out in the adult world. While this detracted from online togetherness, it also laid the foundation for future Sapphire meet-ups.
 
The Florida boys visited the Tennessee boys for New Years 2021. In the summer of 2021, Bryan more or less restored the Wiki. During this time, Bryan and Jerry visited the Tennessee boys. Immediately after, Bryan started working and graduated from university. In August 2021, Bryan and Chase visited Emanuel in Boston.
 
In February 2022, Jerry moved in with Caleb, joining the Tennessee boys, and thus starting the first gamer house comprised of Sapphire members. In June 2022, [[Sapphire Trip Committee|there was a Sapphire meet-up at the Tennessee gamer house]]. Eventually, the gamer house arrangement began to break down, culminating in the "Gamer-housegate".
 
In September 2022, [[Sapphire Trip Committee#Boston 2022|Emanuel hosted 6 other members]] at his place in Boston. He did the same for [[Sapphire Trip Committee#New Years 2023 in Boston|New Year's 2023]] although with 4 guests at the time.
 
In March 2023, Bryan visited Europe and used the opportunity to meet [[Cydax]] for the first time, becoming the first member of Sapphire to meet all other core founding members. In May 2023, Bryan and Caleb made a controversial visit to Las Vegas.
 
In the second half of 2023, [[Andrei]] began streaming and became known in the Old School RuneScape Hardcore Ironman section of Twitch. In December, Bryan and Emanuel visited Japan for the first time.
 
[[File:Toronto24.jpg|200px|thumb|Park in Ontario 2024]]
 
In March 2024, there was a [[Sapphire_Trip_Committee#Toronto_2024|meet-up in Toronto]]. In August, Caleb reached out to hyprman33 and reconnected him with the group via Discord. Later in 2024, there was a misunderstanding between Andrei and other members which came to be known by some as the "Monkeygate".
 
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== Demographics ==
 
[[File:Sapphire2.png|300px|thumb|All-time geography of Sapphire members (c. 2019). Members that live in the United States are clustered near the East Coast. [[Ben]] broke this barrier by being the first member from the West Coast. Furthermore, there are also European members from the UK, Denmark, and Norway.]]
 
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:33%;"
|+ Members & associated individuals
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|First acquainted
|-
|[[Bryan]]
|Founder
|-
|[[Emanuel]]
|Founder
|-
|[[Ole Martin]]
|Founder
|-
|[[Caleb]]
|Founder
|-
|[[Funky]]
|Founder
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|[[Michael]]
|Founder
|-
|[[Sindre]]
|Co-Founder
|-
|[[Sarim]]
|Co-Founder
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|[[Jack]]
|Co-Founder
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|[[James]]
|Co-Founder
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|[[Ethan]]
|2011
|-
|[[Alexander]]
|2011
|-
|[[JokarGirl]]
|2012
|-
|[[Jerry]]
|2012 (Honorary Co-Founder)
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|[[Nick]]
|2012 (Honorary Co-Founder)
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|[[Weyrt]]
|2012
|-
|[[Dakota]]
|2012
|-
|[[Jimmy]]
|2012
|-
|[[CobraStrike]]
|2012
|-
|[[Jessenia]]
|2012
|-
|[[Johnnie]]
|2013
|-
|[[Ryan (New York)]]
|2013
|-
|[[Brandon]]
|2013
|-
|[[Chase]]
|2013
|-
|[[Usama]]
|2013
|-
|[[Ben]]
|2014
|-
|[[Ryan (Tennessee)]]
|2014
|-
|[[Greg]]
|2014
|-
|[[Garrett]]
|2014
|-
|[[Brad]]
|2014
|-
|[[Jose]]
|2014
|-
|[[Swydo]]
|2014
|-
|[[Adam]]
|2014
|-
|[[Aerius]]
|2014
|-
|[[Andy]]
|2014
|-
|[[Andrei]]
|2014
|-
|[[Anna]]
|2015
|-
|[[Jason]]
|2015
|-
|[[Trees]]
|2015
|-
|[[George]]
|2015
|-
|[[Tafari]]
|2016
|-
|[[Komal]]
|2016
|-
|[[Kyle]]
|2017
|-
|[[Vincent]]
|2017
|-
|[[Tristan]]
|2019
|-
|[[Paxton]]
|2019
|-
|}
 
=== Subgroups ===
==== Committees ====
*[[Sapphire Trip Committee]]
*''Sapphire Fair Play Committee'' (defunct)
 
==== Programs ====
*[[Sapphire Records]]
*''[[Sapphire Movies]]'' (defunct)
*''[[Sapphire Gaming]]'' (defunct)
*''[[Sapphire Cyberarmy]]'' (defunct)
 
==== Clubs ====
*[[Sapphire Movie Night]]
*[[Sapphire Anime Club]]
*''[[Sapphire K-pop Club]]'' (defunct)
*''[[Sapphire X-Fit Club]]'' (defunct)
*''Sapphire Fiend Club'' (defunct)
 
==== Geo-cultural units ====
*Sapphire Florida Boys
*Sapphire Tennessee Boys
*Sapphire DMV Boys (Maryland-Virginia)
*Sapphire Romanians
*Sapphire Vikings (Norwegians)
*Sapphire Gentlemen (Englishmen)
*Sapphire Leaf Boys (Canadians)
*Sapphire West Coast Boys
 
=== Associated groups ===
*[[Red Lotus]]
*[[DirtyChinx]]
*[[Hong Bros Holdings]]
*[[Jerry Boosting Inc. Corp.]]
*[[Andy#Andy's Stream|Andy's Stream]]
*[[Bryan's Romanian Friends]]
 
== Culture ==
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== Culture of Sapphire ==
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The Sapphire crew hangs out in [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3 | their TeamSpeak server]] virtually every day. A distinct, one might go as far as to say phenomenal, culture is found there known as the ''Circle'' culture (see [[Sapphire Development#Sapphire Related Series | the Circle Podcast]]). The Circle culture is influenced by many factors. The material ''borrowed'' from parts of the Internet goes through [[Sapphirization]], or adaptation to the group. The highest online influence comes from the image board 4chan. The second highest online influence comes from news board Reddit. The remaining influence is from random parts of the Internet. Another large portion of its influence comes from the real life East Coast & school life culture (most members that live in the United States are located near the East Coast). Since [[Sapphire Development#Swagfags|nigga style]] is predominant in the area, it is incorporated into Sapphire culture as well. One video in particular covers most of the culture, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL!]. It's essentially a textbook for the group.
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''See [[the Circle]] for the full article on the name.''
'''Sapphire culture''' (also "''[[The Circle|Circle culture]]''") traces back to the group's tradition of [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak|online voice chatting]], where it developed as a microcosm of early 2010s Internet culture while also being influenced by the various cultural backgrounds of members. It has been described as [[Edginess|edgy]], quirky, autistic, [[Sapphire#Swag|ignant]], ''fast'', ''fun'', and ''easy''. There is an tendency by some members to laud the culture as being "ahead of the curve". The culture comes with its own folklore (see [[Sapphire mythology]]) and unique speech patterns ([[Sapphire Development#Language|Sapphire lingo]]).


=== Bad manner ===
Memes in Sapphire culture generally follow the typical cycle of irony. For example, "troll" is an older term that fell out of fashion, was substituted as "le bait", and then looped back into popular usage.
Within Sapphire, a concept of wrongness exists. It's called bad manner and the term hails from StarCraft II and related games, thus obviously making it is a term [[t3sla]] picked up for the group. Bad manner is often abbreviated as BM. BM is defined as annoying, harassing, making fun of , flaming, pestering, etc. Most of Sapphire agrees that BM is a hate crime and is punishable. Sapphire has odd methods of punishment, however, usually nothing extreme.


==== "It's not BM if it's true" ====
=== Language ===
''It's not BM if it's true'' is a justification of BM which states, quite literally, that it is not BM if it is true.
'''Sapphire lingo''' is the distinct flavor of language spoken within the group, emerging from the clashing of various backgrounds. The exchange of speech patterns resulted in a unique vernacular that continues to grow in nuance.


==== t3sla exception ====
Within Sapphire lingo, there is an ''ignant'' substratum comprising colorful speech patterns broadly related to the Internet trend of incorporating vernacular language.
Credited to [[t3sla]], the ''t3sla exception'' is an exception to the ''It's not BM if it's true'' justification. It states that sometimes it is BM even if it is true.


=== Callistostarianism ===
=== Sapphire trip ===
''See [[Callistostarianism]] for the full article.''
''See [[Sapphire Trip Committee]]''
 
The '''Sapphire trip''' is an event characterized by the gathering of significant amount of members in real life. It had been the subject of speculation since the formation of Sapphire and was romanticized by early members.
 
In 2012, Cydax planned a campaign to visit the Florida Boys, although it was never executed. In 2016, the '''[[Sapphire Trip Committee]]''' emerged as a body that attempts to organize Sapphire meet-ups, sometimes coinciding with larger conventions such as PAX East and later TwitchCon.
 
=== Mythology ===
'''Sapphire mythology''' depicts a hierarchy of figures each renowned for their unique aspects. The mythology is primarily canonized in the [[Book of Diesel]], the [[Callisto Dialogues]], and in some YouTube videos.
 
==== Deities ====
*The [[Sapphire Development#The Void|Void]] (primeval deity)
*[[Gat Almighty]] and [[the Masters]]
*[[Callisto]]
 
==== Saints ====
*[[El Saviour]]
*[[Bobo]]
*[[Blood1310017]]
*Singed420
*Jeff
 
==== Priests ====
*[[Bryan]]
 
==== Ghouls ====
*Princess Moona
*Edna
*[[Birdnose]]
*[[Nolan]]
 
=== Calendar ===
{| class="wikitable" width="65%"
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Date
!colspan="1"|Description
|-
|Black History / Homie Month
|February
|Observing Black American culture & history.<br>Homie Month, in which it is customary for homies to "renew their contracts" and display affectionate homiesexual acts.
|-
|4/20
|April 20
|[[Callistover|Commemorates Callisto's first visit to Sapphire]].
|-
|Pride Month
|June
|Continuation of Homie Month
|-
|No Nut November / New Technique November
|November
|Honing "non-ningen" skills and pride in oneself.
|-
|Norwegian Day
|Fourth Thursday of November
|Thanksgiving substitute created for Cydax and the Norwegians.
|-
|}
 
=== Notable memes ===
 
==== Bad manner ====
Within Sapphire, a concept of wrongness exists: it's called "'''bad manner'''" (shortened: BM). It is a term [[Emanuel]] introduced to Sapphire long before it became mainstream. Sapphire defines BM as actions that are annoying, harassing, making fun of, flaming, pestering, etc. BMing is usually punishable by roast session.
 
===== "It's not BM if it's true" =====
''It's not BM if it's true'' is a justification of BM which states, quite literally, that something is not BM if it is true.
 
===== t3sla exception =====
Credited to [[Emanuel]] (t3sla), the ''t3sla exception'' is an exception to the ''It's not BM if it's true'' justification. It states that sometimes it is BM even if it is true.
 
==== Caleb's trifecta ====
Caleb's trifecta consists of:
*"nam jeFf" (a second-hand bastardized meme)
*"you tryna buss"
*whistling all "s" through your teeth


[[Callistostarianism]] is a ''religion'' in Sapphire and a collection of doctrines which were taught by [[Callisto]]. Callisto randomly joined [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3|the TeamSpeak server]] [[Callistover|one day]] and began to answer questions which are recorded in the [[Callisto Dialogues]] and in [[Sapphire Development#Sapphire Related Series | an episode of the Circle Podcast]]. During the Q&A session, Callisto recited his epic poem, '''''[[I'm not Callisto]]'''''. In addition to Callisto, there are other figures. [[Gatzi Almighty]], involved in Callistostarianism, is mentioned frequently in Sapphire. His name is usually used in vain, ''Oh my gat-almighty''.
Later additions:
*"Damn son"
*Fart noises
*(in fake gay British accent) "Oh God"


=== Cannabis culture ===
==== Callistostarianism ====
Even though no one in Sapphire actually blazes it 420 (well, maybe [[weyrt]]), it is a big part of Sapphire's culture. The most important terms are ''420'' and ''Blaze it faggot'' which are manipulated at an insane rate. The most popular byproducts are ''420 blaze it fgt'' or ''120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 920, 1220, blaze it fgttttt''.
''See [[Callistostarianism]] for the full article.''


Cannabis culture in Sapphire is mainly Sapphirized and used to mock stoners. It is thought to have originated from when the group was heavily interested in '''''That '70s Show''''', which had a circle of pot smokers who regularly ''blazed'' together in a basement.
[[Callistostarianism]] is a philosophy and worldview based on the teachings of [[Callisto]]. A man named Callisto stumbled upon [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3|the TeamSpeak server]] [[Callistover|one day]] and began to answer questions, which are recorded in the [[Callisto Dialogues]] and in [[Sapphire Development#Sapphire Related Series | an episode of the Circle Podcast]]. During the Q&A session, Callisto recited his epic poem '''''[[I'm not Callisto]]'''''.


=== Coke vs. Pepsi ===
==== Coke vs. Pepsi ====
[[File:pepsobm.png|200px|thumb|[[t3sla]] bming Pepsi.]]
[[File:pepsobm.png|200px|thumb|[[t3sla]] bming Pepsi.]]
One of the biggest arguments in the world is Coke or Pepsi? Well, the group is undecided on ''Cok'' or ''Pepso'', but some can agree that ''Dr. Pooper'' is ''master race''. Other popular beverages in Sapphire include tea, water, and others.
One of the most renowned arguments in the world is whether Coke or Pepsi is better. Well, Sapphire is largely undecided on ''Cok'' or ''Lelsi'' (meme terms), but some can agree that ''Dr. Pooper'' is ''master race''. Other popular beverages in Sapphire include tea, water, and others.
 
In the latter years, there has been a movement against soda that caught traction even within Sapphire.


=== "Death" & Mike's Grandfather's Funeral ===
==== Dank memes ====
A very interesting part of Sapphire cultural is the practice of "death". When a member is away from (keyboard announced/unannounced) they "''die''". [[Nick Zaslav]] and [[Will Messick]] are two people who often ''die'' and ''return to life'' months later. [[Michael McGloin]] and [[Mohammad Bhatti]] also died before, but have since been resurrected.
Weed memes are some of the greatest in Sapphire's history. The most important components these memes are ''420'' and ''Blaze it'' which can manipulated at an insane rate. The most popular variations were ''420 blaze it'' or ''x20, blaze it'' (replace x with your desired number). Bryan was a big propagator of weed memes due to his fondness for That 70s' Show.


"Death" was expanded in late 2013 when Mike, after a long time of being active in TeamSpeak, had to go to his late grandfather's funeral (may he Rest in Peace Grandpa McGloin). Mike, being known for a bumpy record of activity in TeamSpeak fluctuating from very active to sometimes off for months, set himself up for a running gag that would run until this very day. After going to his grandfather's funeral, he would rarely show up in TeamSpeak. Whenever he would show up, he would be asked "Mike, are you still at your grandfather's funeral? It's been ''x amount of'' weeks!"
==== "Death" & Mike's Grandfather's Funeral ====
When a member is away for significant time (announced/unannounced) they are said to "''die''". [[Nick]] and [[Weyrt]] were two people who often "''died''" and "''returned to life''" months later. [[Mike]] and [[Funky]] have also "died" before, but have since been "resurrected".


=== Departure of Duke ===
"Death" was expanded as a meme in late 2013 when Mike, after a long time of being active in TeamSpeak, had to go to his late grandfather's funeral (may he Rest in Peace Grandpa McGloin). Mike, known for his rugged record of activity in TeamSpeak fluctuating from very active to sometimes off the grid for months, set himself up for a running gag that would run until this very day. After going to his grandfather's funeral, he would rarely show up in TeamSpeak. Whenever he would show up, he would be asked "Mike, are you still at your grandfather's funeral? It's been ''x amount of'' weeks!"
''See [[three times]] for the full article.''


[[Caleb Duke]], founder, has left Sapphire a total of [[three times]]. Initially, he made his first departure hoping to fool the whole group. It was such a long departure time wise that it was considered an actual leave. The second time was a rather legitimate departure because of the project he started known as [[Dirty Players Gaming]]. Duke, at this point, transitioned his name from '''Slar3xSpr33''' (commonly shortened as ''Slar'' pronounced SLEYR) to '''DirtySpr33''' or just ''Dirty''. This group disbanded rather fast even after being picked up by Sapphire and sponsored. He returned due to the fact that he was bored. The final departure caused him to start his new and success group solely focused on him. He makes videos on YouTube and streams on Twitch. So far he has actually even streamed for Charity. He claims to have "a more successful life" without the group being in his way. More recently, Duke has returned; see [[Three times]] for more information.
The meme was effectively concluded with the start of Sapphire's Transitional Age, when communications became increasingly more decentralized. However, just like a phoenix, the meme was reincarnated by Andy who dubbed it as the '''myth''' phenomenon. According to Andy, Mike and Cydax, among others, are mythological Sapphire members.


=== DIS DIK ===
==== DIS DIK ====
With the [[Sapphire Development#A New Age|new age]] rising in Sapphire, the demand for a new fad grew. [[Bryan]] proposed the perfect solution, which wasn't recognized until the new age arose: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc&t=1m47s DIS DIK] which was the ''real answer'' to 1x/1. Furthermore, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9O7bEINwhY&t=0m5s similar solution] was proposed also by Bryan back in 2011. DIS DIK began mutating, as most fads do in Sapphire. From it spawned: DEEZ NUTZ, DIESENUHTZ, DIESELFUUL, SUK MI DIK, SUK MEIN DIK, DISDIK.CUM, DEEZ.NUTZ etc. DIS DIK is also used as a response to most sentences. For example: ''What is the time? DIS DIK!''
During one of Sapphire's [[Sapphire Development#A New Age|meme droughts]], [[Bryan]] propagated a new meme, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc&t=1m47s DIS DIK]", which was the "''real answer''" to the mathematical equation 1x/1. Furthermore, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9O7bEINwhY&t=0m5s similar meme] was propagated by Bryan back in 2011. The DIS DIK meme began to expand and included derivations such as: DEEZ NUTZ, DIESENUHTZ, DIESELFUUL, xDIESELFUEL, etc. DIS DIK is also used as a response to arbitrary sentences. For example:  


'''Dikology''', the study and practice of "DIS DIK", has become one of the most important aspects of culture in Sapphire. So great, that it was heavily involved with the [[Initiation]] of [[Chase Jenkins]], who managed to pass the trials. It is frequently exploited and snipped to be used on audio tracks creating what is known as a ''DIK remix'' or ''DIKmix'', which Bryan's rap career is based on.
*A: ''What is the time?''  
*B: ''It's, uh... DIS DIK!''
*Everyone: <nowiki>*hahahahaha*</nowiki>


==== Etymology ====
"DIS DIK" has become one of the most renowned memes in the history of Sapphire. So great, that [[Chase]] was subject to unholy amounts of it during his initiation. The meme is also designed to be sampled in audio tracks creating what is known as a ''DIK remix'' (also: ''DIKmix'').
The phrase ''DIS DIK'' comes from two origins, as explained previously. From its ancestor, ''Suck my dick!'' and from a descendant ''This dick!''. Following the [[Sapphirization]] of the phrase, it became ''DIS DIK''. ''D-'' replaces ''th-'' and ''-k'' replaces ''-ck''. Furthermore it is also spelled in all caps.


==== DIS DIK: THE FRANCHISE ====
===== DIS DIK: THE FRANCHISE =====
As Bryan foresaw, DIS DIK can be exploited in many ways. He is starting a franchise which is planned to include a game, movie, novel, TV show, and album.
Bryan sought to capitalize on "DIS DIK" and launched a franchise, including a planned game, movie, novel, TV show, and album.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" width="65%"
!colspan="1"|Product
!colspan="1"|Product
!colspan="1"|About
!colspan="1"|About
|-
|-
|DIS DIK: THE GAME  
|[[DIS DIK: THE GAME]]
|Before Bryan went on vacation during the summer of 2013, he mentioned making a game about DIK, ''DIS DIK: THE GAME''. It was supposed to be released in a day after its confirmation, but rather it was decided to be released in waves. The alpha will be released in 8 months (from any given time), the beta in 16 months (from any given time), and the full game in 24 years (from any given time).
|Before Bryan went on vacation during the summer of 2013, he mentioned making a game about DIK, ''DIS DIK: THE GAME''. It was supposed to be released in a day after its confirmation, but rather it was scheduled to be released in waves. The alpha will be released in "8 months", the beta in "16 months", and the full game in "24 years" (all the timeframes being relative to an unspecified date).
|-
|-
|DIS DIK: THE NOVEL
|DIS DIK: THE NOVEL
|On September 21, 2013, Bryan announced a new product of the DIK franchise called ''DIS DIK: THE NOVEL'', which is about a high school student competing with others to see who is the most powerful DIK user.
|On September 21, 2013, Bryan announced a new product of the DIK franchise called ''DIS DIK: THE NOVEL''. It was later scrapped due to poor planning.
|-
|-
|DIS DIK: THE MOVIE
|DIS DIK: THE MOVIE
|''To be announced.''
|''Has not been announced.''
|-
|-
|DIS DIK: THE SHOW
|DIS DIK: THE SHOW
|''To be announced.''
|''Has not been announced.''
|-  
|-  
|[[DIS DIK: THE ALBUM]]
|[[DIS DIK]] (mixtape)
|On Hallowe'en of 2013, Bryan published two tracks of the new 'DIS DIK: THE ALBUM' with promises of more to ''cum'' soon. The playlist can be found [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY6arTSaHgqYVbv8axmaniFIdR8jDTWu&feature=mh_lolz here].
|On Hallowe'en of 2013, Bryan published his first mixtape in spirit of the meme.
|-
|-
|}
|}


=== Funky's Law ===
==== Fake Timezone ====
Due to the time zone difference between members, Bryan started referring to the non-Eastern timezones as "fake timezones". Although he is not sure why they are fake, his running hypothesis is that timezones become more real the further east one goes.
 
==== Funky Conventions ====
The ''Funky Conventions'' are the tendencies of members to show affectionate kindness towards other members who can "do no wrong" in their perception.
 
The Funky Conventions emerged as an unwritten rule in voice chat during tumultuous times, when flaming one another was commonplace. It was agreed upon that Funky, and to some extent Mike, would never deserve to be flamed. It has since evolved into a more decentralized sentiment among members.
 
==== Funky's Law ====
[[Funky]]'s Law of League of Legends states clearly that:
[[Funky]]'s Law of League of Legends states clearly that:


*''To play an AP character, you must build AD.''
*''To play an AP character, you must build AD.''


This law has caused conflict and unleashed massive amounts of BM within Sapphire due to the fact that it is encourage a troll build that ''most'' of the time might fail.
This law has caused conflict and unleashed massive amounts of BM within Sapphire due to the fact that it is encourage a meme build that, ''most'' of the time, would fail.
 
==== Initiation ====
The '''initiation''' into Sapphire is the tradition of hazing new members. It typically involves bombardments of memes that are meant to get an initiate acquainted with Sapphire lore.
 
==== Jerry's Law ====
Jerry's law states that two gays can cancel each other out, however, this theorem lacks a proof.
 
==== Jimmy's microphone ====
 
[[Jimmy]] often eats things loudly, and it often sounds like either soup or something very crunchy.


=== Jimmies and Rustling ===
==== Kyle challenge ====
At a point in time during Sapphire's history, a new meme arose on the Internet: ''That Really Rustled My Jimmies''. According to sources it began as "an image macro of a frowning gorilla with the overlaid text 'That really rustled my jimmies'". It was accepted into Sapphire, as it was an ''okay'' thing and not as bad as other things (9GAG). It began to mutate into many variations, as most fads do in Sapphire. A coincidence is that around this time [[Jimmy]] joined Sapphire.


==== Jimmeology ====
The '''Kyle challenge''' is a thought experiment and philosophy developed by [[Kyle]]. He began by inquiring:
''See [[Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America]] for the full article.''
* What if you just didn't sleep?


As the ''jimmy'' phenomenon was occurring, [[Bryan]] and [[Jerry]] decided to research jimmeology and start the '''[[Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America]]''' as head ''jimmeologists'', hoping to get government-sponsored. As a result of much time and dedication, Dr. Gregory and Dr. Plasker have made many discoveries about the human JNS (jimmeological nervous system). The JNS is closely related to the nervous system. They often work together. The doctors discovered that while most things are felt by nerves, certain, specific actions ''rustle'' the ''jimmies'' which in turn stimulate the nervous system in a certain way that the nervous system alone cannot do. The duo coined the ''jimmeological rustle scales'' which included the ''rage scale''. One of their top experimentees was [[Caleb Duke]], who apparently often had his jimmies rustled.
Kyle's initial best record for consecutive wakefulness was 74 hours. During this time, he experienced some hallucination, but also a good amount of clarity. He used this time frame to grind the living shit out of RuneScape (the EoC version). He concluded that, due to this unprecedented level of productivity, sleep was "literally" unnecessary.


=== Memes ===
==== Necking ====
The average life expectancy of a meme in Sapphire is five minutes, simply because everyone has a problem with overusing them. Most members of Sapphire are firm believers in the fact that most of the Internet's best memes come from 4chan. These memes then eventually reach cancerous websites such as 9GAG where they are metaphorically slain of their value, these would then become the ''bad memes'' also known as ''gags'' to Sapphire. Sapphire produces a fair share of its own memes, the top producers being [[t3sla]], [[Jerry]], and [[Slar]].
In real life common practice, an individual who is confronted with an idiotic statement or situation is obliged to respond with "That's a neck!" and  proceed to get the neck of the offender. When calling a neck, or getting necked, people have the option to:


=== Necking ===
*call "no nothing", which nullifies ALL other calls
When someone commits a mindless, unintelligent act, or says something unintelligent, a Sapphire member should feel obligated to correct them and proceed to get their "neck". Getting a neck is achieved by placing a flat palm on the other person's neck, and swiping it with a varying speed and force. When calling a neck, or getting necked, people have the option to...
*call "self-serve", where a person necks themselves in order to avoid an otherwise worse neck
*call no nothing. Meaning a neck is theirs regardless of self-serve or any other call.
*call "teleport/time travel" in order to call self-serve, which is only overruled by "no nothing"
*call self-serve. Giving a cheap swipe to your neck to "self serve" and avoid the gravity of the real thing.
*call "my big toe". Don't touch it.
*call teleport/time travel into the past and self-serve.
*claim "false neck" when a neck is truly unjustifiable. This results in a counter-neck.
*call my big toe. Don't touch it.
*claim false neck when a neck is truly unjustful. This results in a counter-neck.
Remember, no nothing overpowers all other calls. Brief history: necking originally diffused into Sapphire from Southern Florida, where [[Bryan]], [[t3sla]], and [[Jerry]] all live.


=== Plasker syndrome ===
==== Normies ====
In the history of Sapphire, the ''struggle against Normies'' had been a dominant sentiment amongst members, especially for Bryan, who identified in essence as an '''anti-normie'''.
 
However, the trajectory of history took a turn that led to many cultural convergences via the Internet. Bryan in particular, views the Sigma ideal as a post-anti-normie integration of normie customs within a Sigma grindset.
 
==== Plasker syndrome ====
''See [[Plasker syndrome]] for the full article.''
''See [[Plasker syndrome]] for the full article.''


For the longest time, Jerry could not play games because they would always crash. That was his first symptom of Plasker syndrome (PS) or Black voodoo syndrome (BVS). It was possibly contracted from when a magical African American technician had worked on Jerry's PC, hence "black voodoo syndrome". Besides Jerry, the only other known case is Slar's, but his was fixed rather quickly.
For the longest time, Jerry could not play games because they would always crash on him. That was the first known symptom of Plasker syndrome (PS), also known as Black voodoo syndrome (BVS). It was possibly contracted from when a magical technician had worked on Jerry's PC, hence "black voodoo syndrome". Besides Jerry, Caleb and Emanuel have also had computers infected Plasker syndrome.


=== Sapphirization ===
==== Snapchat ====
Sapphirization refers to the adaptation of certain material to fit the standards or needs of Sapphire. Typically, Sapphirized material is ''memey'' and memes certain things or is simply just more convenient for the members of Sapphire. Most material that cycles within Sapphire is Sapphirized material from 4chan, Reddit, and various parts of the Internet. Some Sapphirized material is created with the purpose of ''meming'' cancerous places of the Internet, such as 9GAG. When material is too ''9GAG'', but is potentially good material, it is sapphirized so that it can be used with ease. An example of this scenario is ''troll''; a term used on 9GAG and just about everywhere where AIDS is prevalent. ''Troll'' was sapphirized to ''le bait'' for more convenient usage.
[[File:frogs.jpg|200px|thumb|Frogs ''playing'' ''StarCraft II'', a quality Snapchat meme taken by Bryan in early 2013.]]
Snapchat is a mobile application in which users can take ''snaps'' (called ''snappers'' by [[Bryan]]), pictures, and send them to another person or group of people for a limited amount of time. The receiver can screenshot, if they're fast enough. Members of Sapphire tend to use Snapchat as a platform in order to create and share original memes. They take bizarre pictures and usually exploit any opportunity they have to get a kek out of something. In an incident, Cydax got mad at everyone for screenshotting his snaps and sending him "retarded" snaps, and therefore blocked Bryan. It has since turned into a meme, for example: Playing CSGO: ''Don't shoot Cydax, he might block you on Steam.''


==== Sapphire Speak ====
==== Swag ====
Sapphirization also refers to ''sapphire speak'', a slang of English (and small fractions of other languages) that is spoken in Sapphire. This includes changing the spelling and sounds of certain words that are commonly used. For example: ''Dick, Suck, Fuck, Shit, Balls'' become ''dik, suk, fuk, sht, bals''. A common rule of thumb is that words usually drop a few consonants and usually are pronounced the same, with some exceptions. ''Dick'' loses a ''c''; it is either pronounced ''dihk'' or ''deek''. ''Fuck'' loses a ''c'', it can either be pronounced ''fook'', ''fyook'', or as originally pronounced ''fuhk''. In the case of ''Shit -> sht'', the ''i'' is dropped but is still implied as a harder pronunciation. Finally, when ''Balls'' loses an ''l'', it goes from being pronounced ''bols'' to ''bals'', the same as it is written. There are many variation just among these words listed, and many more in usage.


One of the most noticeable characteristics in Sapphire speak is that words and phrases are twisted in ridiculous ways. For example, ''i''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s and ''o''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s are mixed around; for example, ''purpose'' may become ''porpoise''. Grammatical rules are extremely lax as the purpose of Sapphire speak is to communicate a thought in a simple yet comical way. Something as simple as ''what happened?'' can become ''wat happen''. Sapphire speak integrates a foreign words in Sapphire speak. For example, since Norwegians make a part of Sapphire, some speech is mixed with Norwegian/Swedish just for the fun of it. One of the most notable examples of foreign words is the sarcastic ''le'' used mainly to make fun of [[Sapphire Development#Memes|9GAG]].
'''Swag''' is the act of having and displaying large amounts of swag. Swag has been integrated into Circle culture due to its comedic value. It is one of the key points taught in the [[Sapphire#Initiation|Initiation into Sapphire]]. Swag is demonstrated by the behavior displayed by the individuals in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc this video].


Occasionally numbers may be factored into sapphire speak. One variation of ''sht'' is ''sh1t''. Numbers usually aren't used as exaggeratedly or seriously in sapphire speak as they are in the common-day leetspeak. The word ''to'' is often replaced by the number 2, in leetspeak. This was sapphirized in a jokingly way to literally any number you can think of. For example: ''Got 2 go'' can become ''got 6 go''. There is a freedom of creativity here in which Sapphire exploits greatly.
Characteristics of a swag are:
*collecting sneakers/shoes/kicks
*using instagram, kik, vine, and/or worldstar
*listening to rap and hip hop
*acting and talking like like dis fam
 
==== t3sla mode ====
From the founding of Sapphire, until the Summer of 2012, [[Emanuel]] (t3sla) never spoke a word over the microphone; he was in ''t3sla mode''. It was considered massive BM and therefore he was forced to start using his microphone. Jimmy once entered t3sla mode for a brief period of time due to [[Sapphire Development#Jimmy's microphone|eating his microphone too much and breaking it]].
 
==== Terraria playthroughs ====
Although at some point members were able to complete a full multiplayer playthrough of Terraria, but they eventually lost the ability to do so, notably after Moon Lord was added to the game. This has become especially frustrating to certain individuals, such as Andy, who are very interested in experiencing the endgame of Terraria. Jerry is typically the player that gets the furthest, which resulted in the meme about his "''speedruns''".


=== Snapchat ===
==== Times Caleb has taken hiatus ====
[[File:frogs.jpg|200px|thumb|Frogs ''playing'' ''StarCraft II'' (GG is a term in StarCraft that stands for Good Game. Image from Biology textbook; the image is actually about genetics).]]
''See [[three times]] for the full article.''
Snapchat is a mobile application in which users can take ''snaps'' (called ''snappers'' by [[Bryan]], and ''snapperoonies'' or ''snapperinos'' by others), pictures, and send them to another person or group of people for a limited amount of time. The receiver can screenshot, if they're fast enough. Sapphire exaggerates its memes on Snapchat. The group also takes many bizarre pictures and usually exploit any opportunity they have to get a laugh out of something and then sharing it with everyone else. More recently, Cydax got mad at everyone for screenshotting and sending "retarded" snaps, and therefore blocked Bryan. It has since turned into a joke, for example: Playing CSGO ''Don't shoot him, he might block you on Steam.''


=== Swagfags ===
[[Caleb]], a founding member of Sapphire, has taken hiatus from Sapphire more than [[three times]]. Initially, he made his first departure hoping to fool the whole group. It was such a lengthy vacation that it was considered an actual leave. He returned, but left a second time to start [[Dirty Players Gaming]]. Caleb, at this point, transitioned his online handle from '''Slar3xSpr33''' to '''DirtySpr33''' or just ''Dirty''. Dirty Players Gaming disbanded, and Caleb returned due to the fact that he was bored. His third departure saw him focus on making videos on YouTube and streaming on Twitch. He befriended the [[Solioz Stream Group]] and brought them into Sapphire upon his third return. Ever since these incidents, he occasionally took breaks to recollect himself when overly stressed out. In 2018, he took more space in order to rebrand his Twitch as [[Red Lotus]].
''No offense to homosexuals. None was intended, anyway.''


'''Swagfaggotry''' is the act of having and displaying large amounts of swag. Swagfaggotry has been integrated into Circle culture due to its proximity to it. It is one of the key points of the [[Sapphire Development#Initiation|DIK Academy]]. A great video demonstrating a highschool population with a large percentage of swagfags would be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL!]
==== "Truth" ====
'''"Truth"''' is an idea developed by Bryan and Adam which proposes that:
*"Truth" exists on an individual basis, informed by one's subjective experiences


Characteristics of swagfags are...
A popular phrase from this development is used as an acknowledgement of other people's bizarre opinions: "Well, if that's your truth!..."
*collecting sneakers/shoes/kicks
 
*use instagram, kik, and/or vine
==== The Void ====
*listen to rap and hip hop
The '''Void''' is the primeval nothingness. It is often referenced within Sapphire culture in various ways, such as the Darkholm-era faction Void led by Bryan.
*act like a pimp
 
*use swagfaggotric terminology and/or speak in a ghetto accent of English
The Void, as an idea, entered Sapphire thought via references in StarCraft II, which was played by Emanuel and to a much lesser extent by Bryan.
 
==== Gallery ====
Some of the greatest visual memes in Sapphire's history.


=== t3sla mode ===
{{Gallery
Before the Summer of 2012, when DayZ became popular in Sapphire, [[t3sla]] never spoke a word over the microphone. Until then, he was in what was known as ''t3sla mode''. It was considered massive BM and therefore he was prompted to start using his microphone. More recently Jimmy has entered t3sla mode since breaking his microphone.
|width=170 |height=170 |lines=5
|align=center
|File:plasker.png
|'''[[Jerry Plasker]]''', c. 2012; G.O.A.T.
|File:starecat.jpg
|'''Stare Cat''', c. 2013; Lives on in the TeamSpeak rank icons
|File:stonercat.jpg
|'''Panda Cat with Bong''', c. 2013; Traditionally on the TeamSpeak banner on 4/20
|File:millhouse.jpg
|'''Milhouse Van Houten''', c. 2014; He really is a meme
|File:steel.png
|'''Joshua Nissan''', c. 2014; Notorious Jewish gamer
}}


=== Dictionary ===
=== Dictionary ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" width="65%"
!colspan="1"|Word
|+ List of terms and phrases that appear in Sapphire culture
!colspan="1"|Definition
!colspan="1"|Term(s) or Phrase(s)
!colspan="1"|Actual Meaning
|-
|-
|''autism''
|acquiesce (v.)
|dumb beyond comprehension
|Kyle says this
|-
|-
|''bad manner, bm''
|ahp, ehp, nahp
|bad manner; annoy, harass, make fun of, flame, pester, etc.; originated from starcraft 2
|[[Sapphire_PAX_Committee#Ahp|Clicc here]]
|-
|-
|''bals dep''
|anime (adj.)
|balls deep
|"Japanese"
|-
|-
|''bent''
|autism, autistic, acoustic, artistic (adj.)
|banned; see also ''rekt''
|silly
|-
|-
|''bitcoin''
|bad manner, bm (n. v.)
|see ''mining''
|to annoy, harass, make fun of, flame, pester, etc. or something that causes annoyance, harassment, etc.
|-
|-
|''blaze''
|bent (adj.)
|see ''420''
|banned
|-
|-
|''book club''
|banana (adj. n.)
|church
|see ''meme''
|-
|-
|''broken''
|black (adj. n. v.)
|'overpowered' or 'underpowered' and sometimes 'dysfunctional'; originated from league of legends
|an "abstract word" coined by Andy and Bryan
|-
|-
|''bryan'', ''pulling a bryan''
|book club (n.)
|dropping from Bronze I to Bronze V
|church
|-
|-
|''clown''
|broken (adj.)
|a dick, to dick around
|something that is overpowered, underpowered, or dysfunctional
|-
|-
|''cok, pepso, and dr. pooper''
|bryan (n.)
|soft drinks
|hill
|-
|-
|''dis dik'', ''deez nuts'', ''suk'', ''etc.''  
|bus (v.)
|see [[Dis Dik]]
|see ''plop''
|-
|-
|''default, default computer''
|cancer (adj. n.)
|office/prebuilt computers
|something that is unbearable
|-
|-
|''doge''
|cancer build (n.)
|see ''shibe'' and ''dogecoins''
|a build on League of Legends that is unconventional (which is usually bad, "unless you're Jimmy")
|-
|-
|''dogecoin''
|clown (n. v.)
|see ''mining''
|a dick, or to dick around
|-
|-
|''down's syndrome'', ''left's syndrome'', ''etc.''
|cok, pepso, and dr. pooper (n.)
|see ''autism''
|soft drinks
|-
|-
|''ecksdee'', ''xD''
|cuck (n. v.)
|a [[dik]] sukking face, used to mock 9GAGers
cucker (n.)
to cuck, to be cucked (v.)
|someone who gets screwed over, or to get screwed over
|-
|-
|''gag''
|dinaut, D-naut
|a bad meme
|someone who explores other dimensions other than the three-dimensional paradigm of human society
|-
|-
|''gay'', ''being gay''
|dingus (n.)
|to sexually interact in a heterosexual way; first started when [[Caleb Duke]] said that "sex is gay"
|silly or <censored>
|-
|-
|''hella''
|dis dik, deez nuts, etc. (n.)
|something [[Ben Thomas|Ben]] says (see ''gay'')
|See [[Dis Dik]]
|-
|-
|''hella noise''
|default (adj.)
|Illinois
default computer (n.)
|office/prebuilt computers
|-
|-
|''hue, huehuehue, kek, kekeke''
|dimagglio (n.)
|chuckles
|damage
|-
|-
|''inb4''  
|doge (n.)
|in before
|See ''shibe'' and
|-
|-
|''jerry'', ''do the jerry''  
|down's syndrome, left's syndrome, etc. (n.)
|a rather interesting sigh that [[Jerry]] does and claims to have obtained it from a Dunkey video.
|See ''autism''
|-
|-
|''jimmy'', ''pulling a jimmy''
|ecksdee, xD (exp.)
|going from 3-17 to a much better score in League of Legends.
|a very funny ironic meme
|-
|-
|''jimmies''
|[[edginess]] (n.)
|the gland in the jimmeological nervous system that is "rustled" by physical or mental contact
|a lifestyle that manifests as edgy tendencies and edgy music
|-
|-
|''le''
|fiber (n.)
|comes before a noun or verb, used jokingly to mock 9GAGers
|One day Bryan got into an argument with others in TeamSpeak over whether or not fiber has an effect on constipation.
|-
|-
|''le baited, to le bait''
|fiending (v.)
|to be trapped, tricked; a sapphirized version of the word ''troll(ing)''
|to exert intense passion
|-
|-
|''let's roll a bowl''
|flip, fast, frick, eff, frank (exp.)
|spoof of the CS:GO "let's roll-oll" soundclip
|meme alternatives for swear words
|-
|-
|''meme'', ''meming'', ''memer''
|gag (adj.)
|1. trend 2. to ''ruse'' 3. a person who memes
|See ''cancer''
|-
|-
|''mfw'', ''tfw''
|gat (n.)
|mfw, tfw
|"god" or "gun", depending on context<br>Exited before the Internet term "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyatt#English gyatt]" but has a similar meaning
|-
|-
|''mining''
|gay (adj. n. v.)
|mining bitcoins, litecoins, dogecoins; an obsession of [[Jimmy]]'s
|to be heterosexual
|-
|-
|''ooo, kill'em''
|grātās (exp.)
|see ''swag'' or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UED4WqwNU1c this]
|congratulations; thank you
|-
|-
|''pasta, doing the pasta''
|hella (adv.)
|wrapping around/flanking the longest way possible in a CS:GO map; named after [[Ryan Costa]] (Pasta) who is notorious for doing the pasta
|something [[Ben]] says (see ''gay'')
|-
|-
|''randy, randies''
|hella noise (adv.)
|a random person among a bunch of premades in League of Legends
|Illinois
|-
|-
|''rekt''
|homie (adj. n.)
|destroyed, banned (on Destiny's chat); see also ''bent''
|a really good friend
|-
|-
|''ruse''
|homiesexuality, homiesexual (n.)
|"an action intended to deceive someone"; usually a good meme
|the love for one's homies
|-
|-
|''rustle''
|hue, huehuehue, kek, kekeke (exp.)
|the act of upsetting the jimmies (see jimmies)
|chuckles
|-
|-
|''sapphire speak''
|inb4 (exp.)
|slang of English used in Sapphire; See [[Sapphirization]]
|in before
|-
|-
|''sapphirization''
| -ino, -ito, -ado, -oonie, etc. (suff.)
|to adapt to the style or needs of Sapphire; See [[Sapphirization]]
|makes a word cancerous
|-
|-
|''scale''
|(nam) jeF (exp.)
|a scale is used to measure something; example: the rage scale, ranging from one to [[Caleb Duke]], etc.
|an Emanuel-Caleb meme
|-
|-
|''shibe, so shibe''
|jimmies (n.)
|[[File:shibe.gif|200px]]
|the gland in the jimmeological nervous system that is "rustled"
|-
|-
|''shots fired''
|kyle challenge
|indicating that shots have been fired; used literally (in ARMA 2: DayZ) and metaphorically with BM
||staying awake for very long times
|-
|-
|''snap, snapper''
|le (artic.)
|an image on snapchat
|comes before a noun or verb
|-
|-
|suffixes: -''ino'', -''ito'', -''ado'', -''oonie'', etc.
|le baited, to le bait (v.)
|makes a word ''cool''; ex: snapper''ino'', band''ito'', report''ado'', blazer''oonie''
|See ''meme''
|-
|-
|''swag'', ''swagfag''
|meme, memeing, memer (v. n.)
|acting like a nigga; sapphirized in a comical way
|you should know what a meme is
|-
|-
|''top kek, top lel''
|mfw, tfw (exp.)
|see ''hue'' and ''kek''
|mfw, tfw
|-
|''t3sla mode''
|communicating strictly through typing, and not via voice chat
|-
|''worth'', ''el wortho''
|the assurance of value in a recently performed action
|-
|''420 blaze it fgt; x20 blaze it fgt''
|cannabis culture; the [[Callistover]] holiday, which is celebrated on April 20
|-
|-
|''9GAG'', ''9FAG''
|mining (v.)
|something that is vile; disgusting; cringe-worthy; a website full of ''faggots'' (see ''autism'')
|to mine bitcoins, litecoins, dogecoins
|-
|-
|}
|neckhurt (n. v.)
 
|a stiffness in the neck, particularly one that emerges after a night of sleep
== Ideals of Sapphire ==
Sapphire functions by being centrally united by certain cultural aspects, yet having every member holding personal ideas. Having personal ideas and not having central personal beliefs allows legitimate arguments to occur, tying the group closer together.
 
=== Religion ===
Most people in Sapphire have some sort of belief. The main identifications in Sapphire are [[Christianity]], [[Catholicism]], [[Islam]], and [[Callistostarianism]].
 
=== Politics ===
Within Sapphire, politics aren't much of a concern. Everyone has a few fundamental political ideas, as everyone else does. But of course, most members would just tell you politics are ''broken'' (see [[dictionary]]).
 
== Staff of Sapphire ==
[[File:Sapphire.png|600px|thumb|Geography of Sapphire members. Members that live in the United States are clustered near the East Coast. [[Ben Thomas]] recently broke this barrier by being the first member from the West Coast. Furthermore, there are also European members from the UK, Denmark, and Norway.]]
The Staff of Sapphire is more commonly known as ''[[The Circle]]'' or ''the group''. A member of Sapphire is defined as a person who is at least one of the following:
*A) a founder of Sapphire
*B) a once-active or currently-active person who regularly interacts/interacted with other members (talk over TeamSpeak, play games together) '''on a friendly basis''' and are acknowledged by other members
*C) or somehow associated with Sapphire (be it Sapphire Gaming, etc.)
The definition of a member of Sapphire has three main aspects (as listed above), however it is subjective. Most members join as mutual friends of current members.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Members
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Joined
|-
|-
|[[Bryan Gregory]]
|ningen (n.)
|Founder
|人間, A Japanese word roughly meaning "human", propagated by Bryan
|-
|-
|[[Ole Martin Fiska]]
|ninja (n.)
|Founder
|a homie
|-
|-
|[[Emanuel Cicortas]]  
|[[Norwegian Day]] (n.)
|Founder
|One Thanksgiving, Cydax was sad that only Americans get to celebrate. Bryan saw this and decided to declare Norwegian Day a holiday for all Norwegians to celebrate alongside Americans and their Thanksgiving.
|-
|-
|[[Michael McGloin]]  
|ooo kill'em (exp.)
|Founder
|See ''swag'' or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UED4WqwNU1c this]
|-
|-
|[[Mohammad Bhatti]]
|pedonia (n.)
|Founder
|<censored>
|-
|-
|[[Caleb Duke]]
|plop (adj. n. v.)
|Founder
|an "abstract word", created by Andy
|-
|-
|[[James Lockwood]]
|pride, proud (adj. n.)
|2011
|abstinence
|-
|-
|[[Jack Campbell]]
|pulling a bryan (v.)
|2011
|dropping from Bronze I to Bronze V
|-
|-
|[[Sindre Boe]]
|pulling a jerry (v.)
|2011
|performing a sigh that [[Jerry]] does and claims to have obtained from a Dunkey video
|-
|[[Tor Thorkildsen]]
|2011
|-
|-
|[[Ethan Schulze]]
|pulling a jimmy (v.)
|2011
|''verb.'' coming back from 3-17 in League of Legends.
|-
|-
|[[Alexander Thomas]]
|pulling a pasta (v.)
|2011
|''verb.'' wrapping around/flanking the longest way possible in a CS:GO map, named after [[Ryan (Tennessee)]] (Pasta) who is notorious for doing the pasta
|-
|-
|[[Ellen Hermansen]]
|randy (n.)
|2012
|a random person among a bunch of premades
|-
|-
|[[Jerry Plasker]]
|rap game (exp.)
|2012
|a transition used to drop mad rhymes
|-
|-
|[[Nick Zaslav]]
|rekt (exp. adj.)
|2012
|destroyed<br/>See also ''bent''
|-
|-
|[[Will Messick]]
|riot runes (n.)
|2012
|secret runes in League given to players by Riot
|-
|-
|[[Dakota Warner]]
|run that back (exp. v.)
|2012
|to restart something
|-
|-
|[[Kenan Heath]]
|ruse (n. v.)
|2012
|a good meme, or to meme good
|-
|-
|[[Woods Connell]]
|rustle (n. v.)
|2012
|the act of upsetting the jimmies<br />See ''jimmies''
|-
|-
|[[Jimmy Hong]]
|sapphirization (n.)
|2012
|process of adapting something into Sapphire's style or according to its needs
|-
|-
|[[CobraStrike]]
|scale (n.)
|2012
|''noun.'' a scale is used to measure something<br />Example: the rage scale, ranging from one to [[Caleb]], etc.
|-
|-
|[[Jessenia Otalora]]
|shibe, so shibe (adj.)
|2012
|[[File:shibe.gif|200px]]
|-
|-
|[[Johnnie Hong]]
|shots fired (exp.)
|2013
|phrase indicating that shots have been fired, used literally or metaphorically
|-
|-
|[[Ryan Chabot]]
|smol (adj. n.)
|2013
|small
|-
|-
|[[lekk]]
|snap, snapper (n.)
|2013
|an image on snapchat
|-
|-
|[[Brandon Lin]]
|stoop (v.)
|2013
|to be posted up somewhere
|-
|-
|[[Chase Jenkins]]
|succ (adj. n. v.)
|2013
|another term that lies within the realm of "abstract words"
|-
|-
|[[Usama Riaz]]
|sumat (pron.)
|2013
|something
|-
|-
|[[Ben Thomas]]
|t3sla mode (n.)
|2014
|phase where a person strictly communicates through typing, and not via voice chat
|-
|-
|[[Ryan Costa]]
|technique (n.)
|2014
|a method or style of doing something, usually a particular one
|-
|-
|[[Greg]]
|thiccc, thicque, thinn (adj.)
|2014
|an ironic meme in reference to the thicc meme
|-
|-
|[[Garrett Brock]]
|thumb (n.)
|2014
|only Caleb and Andy know the true meaning and origin
|-
|-
|}
|TRIGGERED!!!!!!!!! (exp. adj.)
 
|[[Jerry]] yells this when Bryan upsets him
=== Other Figures ===
The ''other figures'' consist of people who are known around Sapphire but are not considered members for various reasons.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Other Figures
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|About
|-
|-
|[[Chris Uptop]]
|unironically (adv.)
|No comment
|as opposed to ironically
|-
|-
|}
|weyrt dinner (n.)
 
|when someone goes AFK in teamspeak for dinner, but comes back in two minutes
=== Legendary Figures ===
 
The ''legendary figures'' of Sapphire are people who are:
*legendary
*often mentioned as folklore in [[Sapphire Development#Snapchat|snapchats]] or in [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3|teamspeak]]
Note: some of these ''legendary figures'' are fake and some are real.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legendary Figures
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|About
|-
|-
|[[El Saviour]]
|worth, el wortho (adj.)
|Rescue vehicle; met Sapphire in ARMA.
|the positive value in a recently performed action
|-
|-
|[[Bobo]]
|2D (n.)
|Black man; randomly joined Sapphire's TeamSpeak.
|Any realm that is two-dimensional, even if it contains three-dimensional models. Some examples include anime, cartoons, and video games.
|-
|-
|[[Callisto]]
|3-2-1 (v.)
|A [[Callistostarianism|deity]]; randomly joined Sapphire's TeamSpeak.
|watching a video at the same time as someone else in order to gain a more dynamic experience
|-
|-
|[[Blood1310017]]
|420 blaze it, x20 blaze it (exp.)
|A professional Malphite player; met Sapphire on League of Legends.
|[[Sapphire Development#Dank memes|Dank memes]]
|-
|-
|[[Gatzi Almighty]]
|9GAG (adj. n.)
|A [[Callistostarianism|deity]]; appeared in a vision of [[Bryan]]'s.
|something that is vile, disgusting, and/or cringe-inducing<br />
|-
|-
|}
|}


=== Membership Process ===
</div>
The '''membership process''' is a list of Sapphire members in order by level of seniority which is split into four parts (from newest to oldest): the '''[[Sapphire Development#Initiation|Initiation]]''', the '''[[Sapphire Development#DIK Academy|DIK Academy]] (DA)''', the '''[[Sapphire Development#University of Deez Nutz|University of Deez Nutz]] (UDN)''', and the '''School board'''.
 
==== Initiation ====
The '''Initiation into Sapphire''' are the first series of trials (usually different for all new members and last different amounts of time) that a newcomer must pass to get into the DIK Academy. Initiation usually involves a lot of [[DIK]], as demonstrated in the Initiation of [[Chase Jenkins]]. The membership process does not have textbooks, but rather an educational video--'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4jcStXKlc HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL!]'''  The main focus is on the fields of '''[[DIK|Dikology]]''', '''[[Sapphire Development#Jimmeology|Jimmeology]]''', & '''[[Sapphire Development#Swagfags|Swagfaggotry]]'''. After the initiation, the initiate will be enlisted as a freshman at the DIK Academy.
 
==== DIK Academy ====
As a DIK Academy student, a member is on trial and will be observed by the upperclassmen. The DIK Academy is typically a few months long. At the graduation from DIK Academy, one's soul has entirely been transferred to the grim reaper of Sapphire, [[Bryan Gregory]], whether they were conscious of this or not, ''the deed is done'', they have become members of Sapphire, and a diploma of the DIK Academy is offered. Furthermore, one can progress into the '''University of Deez Nutz'''.
 
==== University of Deez Nutz ====
As a university student, a member is to participate more often in daily activities and helps in the judging of underclassmen. It is extremely rare for a university student to cross to the realm of the school board, where the Headmasters/Soul Reapers reside.
 
==== Grade levels ====
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Membership Process
!colspan="1"|Time spent
!colspan="1"|Section
!colspan="1"|Grade level
!colspan="1"|Description
!colspan="1"|Examples
|-
!rowspan="1"|Forever
!rowspan="1"|School board
|Administrators
|Reserved for the absolute first member(s) of Sapphire
|[[Bryan]], [[t3sla]]
|-
!rowspan="5"|Months to 1-2+ Years
!rowspan="4"|University of Deez Nutz
|Senior
|Reserved for only the oldest oldfags
|[[Slar3xSpr33]], [[Funky]], [[Cydax]], [[Mike]]
|-
|Junior
|The runner-ups for oldest oldfags
|[[Jerry Plasker]], [[Creasingwolf]]
|-
|Sophomore
|Have between 1-2 years with the group
|[[Jimmy]], [[Chase Jenkins]]
|-
|Freshman
|Recently graduated from the DIK Academy
|[[Ben Thomas]] (also a teacher)
|-
!rowspan="4"|DIK Academy
|Senior
|Has learned most of the basics of Sapphire and has at least a few months if not a year
|[[Ryan Costa]]
|-
!rowspan="3"|Weeks to months
|Junior
|At least a few months
|
|-
|Sophomore
|At least a few weeks or a couple of months
|
|-
|Freshman
|Newly enlisted student who has been around for a few days maybe even weeks
|
|-
!rowspan="1"|Minutes to days
!rowspan="1"|Initiation
|Initiate
|A newcomer who is going through the Initiation trials (to learn the absolute fundamentals)
|
|-
!rowspan="1"|N/A
!rowspan="1"|Other
|Dropouts
|Dropouts are members who dropped out either in the DA or UDN; might still keep in touch with other members
|[[Weyrt]]
|-
|}


== Game Timeline ==
== Game Timeline ==
The history of all major games played in Sapphire. ''Major'' is defined by a group of players that contain 3 or more people and was played for at least a month.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" width="45%"
|+ Games
|+ All-time list of games played in Sapphire
!colspan="1"|Game
!colspan="1"|Game
!colspan="1"|Introduced to Sapphire by
!colspan="1"|Introduced to Sapphire by
!colspan="1"|Time span
!colspan="1"|Importance
!colspan="1"|Time span (or earliest date played)
|-
|-
|Minecraft & Mods
|Minecraft
|Most [[Sapphire Development#Staff of Sapphire|early members of Sapphire]]
|Most [[Sapphire Development#Demographics|early members of Sapphire]]
|September 2011 (Foundation of Sapphire) - May 2012 (Regular Minecraft), <br />September 2012 - August 2013 (Mods)
|'''''Monumental'''''
|'''since''' 2011, '''since''' 2012 (with mods)
|-
|Runescape
|Most members
|Major
|'''since''' 2011, '''since''' 2013 (OSRS)
|-
|-
|Terraria
|Terraria
|Many members
|Many members
|Various amounts of time in 2011, 2012, and 2013
|Seasonal
|'''since''' 2011
|-
|-
|League of Legends
|League of Legends
|[[Jerry Plasker]], [[Slar]], [[hyprman33]]
|[[Jerry Plasker]], [[hyprman33]], [[Slar]]
|February 2012 - present (with various pauses)
|'''''Monumental'''''
|'''since''' February 2012
|-
|-
|ARMA 2 & Mods
|ARMA 2
|[[t3sla]], [[Cydax]]
|[[t3sla]], [[Cydax]]
|June 2012 - present (everyone now and then)
|'''Major'''
|June 2012 - 2013 (DayZ mod included)
|-
|Smite
|[[Funky]], then later [[Garrett]]
|Minor
|August 2012, September 2014
|-
|-
|OMGPOP
|OMGPOP
|[[Funky]]
|[[Funky]]
|Minor
|? 2012 - April 2013
|? 2012 - April 2013
|-
|-
|Counter-Strike:Source
|Counter-Strike:Source
|Many people
|Many people
|Various times,
|Minor
November 2013 - present
|November 2013  
|-
|-
|GMOD
|GMOD
|Many people
|Many people
|Minor
|Various times
|Various times
|-
|-
|Dota 2
|Dota 2
|[[Mike]]
|[[Mike]]
|Minor
|November 2012,  
|November 2012,  
December 2013 - present
December 2013
|-
|-
|ARMA 3
|ARMA 3
|[[t3sla]], [[Cydax]]
|[[t3sla]], [[Cydax]]
|March 2013 - present
|Minor
|March 2013 - ?2013
|-
|-
|Grand Theft Auto IV
|Grand Theft Auto IV
|[[Slar]], [[Chase]]
|[[Slar]], [[Chase]]
|Minor
|July 2013 - August 2013
|July 2013 - August 2013
|-
|-
|Full Tilt Poker
|Full Tilt Poker
|[[t3sla]]
|[[t3sla]]
|Minor
|July 2013 - August 2013,
|July 2013 - August 2013,
December 2013
December 2013
|-
|-
|Haven and Hearth
|Haven and Hearth
|[[Cydax]], [[t3sla]]
|[[Cydax]], [[Sarim]], [[t3sla]]
|Minor
|August 2013 - November 2013
|August 2013 - November 2013
|-
|-
|Battlefield 3 & 4
|Battlefield 3 & 4
|Several members
|Several members
|Minor
|November 2013
|November 2013
|-
|-
|Solstice Arena
|Solstice Arena
|[[Slar]]
|[[Slar]]
|Minor
|November 2013
|November 2013
|-
|-
|Starbound
|Starbound
|[[Slar]]
|[[Slar]]
|Minor
|December 2013
|December 2013
|-
|-
|Counter-Strike: Global Offensive:
|Counter-Strike: Global Offensive:
|Many people
|Many people
|November 2013 - present
|'''Major'''
|'''since''' November 2013
|-
|-
|Rust
|Rust
|[[Cydax]], [[Slar]]
|[[Cydax]], [[Slar]]
|December 2013, <br />April 2014 - present
|Minor
|December 2013, <br />April 2014
|-
|-
|DayZ
|DayZ Standalone
|Almost everyone
|Almost everyone
|December 2013 - present
|Minor
|December 2013  
|-
|ArcheAge
|[[Slar]]
|Minor
|2014
|-
|-
|Clash of Clans
|Clash of Clans
|[[Slar]]
|[[Slar]]
|March 2014 - present
|Minor
|March 2014 - early 2015
|-
|H1Z1
|[[Jimmy]], [[Chase]]
|Minor
|June 2015 - November 2015
|-
|Black Desert
|[[Slar]]
|
|March 2016
|-
|Stardew Valley
|
|
|March 2016
|-
|Overwatch
|
|
|May 2016
|-
|World of Warcraft
|[[Caleb]], [[Jerry]], [[Jimmy]]
|
|July 2016
|-
|Castle Clash
|[[Adam]] and [[Caleb]]
|
|since 2017
|-
|PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
|[[Caleb]], [[Emanuel]], some others
|
|March 2017
|-
|Kritika Online
|[[Andy]]
|
|May 2017
|-
|Mortal Kombat X
|[[Caleb]], [[Adam]], others
|
|June 2017
|-
|Fortnite
|[[Caleb]]
|'''Major'''
|September 2017
|-
|Divinity Original Sin 2
|[[Garrett]]
|
|2018
|-
|VALORANT
|[[Caleb]], [[andy]]
|'''Major'''
|Spring 2020
|-
|-
|}
|}


== Media ==  
== Media ==  
Sapphire produces massive amounts of media and culture. Some members of Sapphire each have solo or partnered projects on YouTube. This allows for a more diverse source of income and reference to Sapphire. The rest of the members either work for a person with the channel or the main Sapphire network itself.


=== Social Networks ===
=== Social Networks ===
Sapphire has a [http://facebook.com/sapphiredev Facebook] and a [http://twitter.com/sapphiredev Twitter].
*[http://facebook.com/sapphiredev Facebook]
*[http://twitter.com/sapphiredev Twitter]


=== YouTube ===
=== YouTube ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Channels
|+ YouTube Channels
!colspan="1"|Channel
!colspan="1"|Channel
!colspan="1"|Link
!colspan="1"|Link
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|-
|-
|[[Bryan]]'s Channel  
|[[Bryan]]'s Channel  
|[http://youtube.com/user/ferrariboy99 Bryan Gregory]
|[http://youtube.com/user/ferrariboy99 The Notorious B.R.Y.A.N.]
|-
|-
|[[Funky]]'s Channel  
|[[Funky]]'s Channel  
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|[http://youtube.com/user/xICExFROZEN Compare To Advil]
|[http://youtube.com/user/xICExFROZEN Compare To Advil]
|-
|-
|[[Slar]]'s Channel
|[[Caleb]]'s Channel
|[http://youtube.com/user/Slaresproduction SlaresProduction]
|[http://youtube.com/user/Slaresproduction SlaresProduction]
|-
|-
|[[Ryan Costa]]'s Channel
|[[Ryan]]'s Channel
|[http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficiallyBeastly OfficiallyBeastly]
|[http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficiallyBeastly OfficiallyBeastly]
|-
|[[Andy]]'s channel
|[http://https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdGe0zfo8ktCZ9cdDqHjJjw andyoclock]
|-
|-
|}
|}


=== Twitch ===
=== Twitch ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Channels
|+ Twitch Channels
!colspan="1"|Channel
!colspan="1"|Channel
!colspan="1"|Link
!colspan="1"|Link
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|-
|-
|[[Bryan]]'s Channel  
|[[Bryan]]'s Channel  
|[http://twitch.tv/amBryan bryan plays schtuff]
|[http://twitch.tv/amBryan amBryan]
|-
|-
|[[t3sla]]'s Channel  
|[[t3sla]]'s Channel  
|[http://twitch.tv/thestreamscribe thestreamscribe]
|[http://twitch.tv/thestreamscribe thestreamscribe]
|-
|-
|[[Slar]]'s Channel
|[[Caleb]]'s Channel
|[http://twitch.tv/dirtyspr33 Dirty]
|[http://twitch.tv/reddlotus Red Lotus]
|-
|-
|[[Jimmy]]'s Channel
|[[Jimmy]]'s Channel
|[http://twitch.tv/jimmyooo 15 Year Old Jimmy!]
|[http://twitch.tv/jimmyooo Jimmyooo]
|-
|-
|[[Funky]]'s Channel  
|[[Funky]]'s Channel  
|[http://twitch.tv/Funkykong245 Doing stuff]
|[http://twitch.tv/Funkykong245 funkykong245]
|-
|-
|[[Cydax]]'s Channel
|[[Cydax]]'s Channel
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|[http://twitch.tv/xICExFROZEN xICExFROZEN]
|[http://twitch.tv/xICExFROZEN xICExFROZEN]
|-
|-
|[[Chase Jenkins|Chase]]'s Channel
|[[Chase]]'s Channel
|[http://www.twitch.tv/omgitsmorganhd FUNTIME!!!]
|[http://www.twitch.tv/omgitsmorganhd OMGitsMorganHD]
|-
|-
|[[Ryan Costa|PASTA]]'s Channel
|[[Ryan (Tennessee)|PASTA]]'s Channel
|[http://www.twitch.tv/officiallybeastly OfficiallyBeastly]
|[http://www.twitch.tv/officiallybeastly OfficiallyBeastly]
|-
|[[Jose|check0ut]]'s Channel
|[http://twitch.tv/check0ut check0ut]
|-
|[[Andy]]'s Channel
|[http://twitch.tv/KohiBlend KohiBlend]
|-
|[[Adam]]'s Channel
|[http://twitch.tv/okuda Okuda]
|-
|[[Kyle]]'s Channel
|[https://www.twitch.tv/cerebralguy69 Kyle]
|-
|[[Andrei]]'s Channel
|[https://www.twitch.tv/rocky_af Rocky_AF]
|-
|}
|}


==== Filmography ====
==== Popular series ====
[[File:420.png|250px|thumb|The Sapphire banner of 4/20, created the day of the [[Callisto raid]]. It is typically used on the Circle Podcast episodes.]]
[[File:420.png|250px|thumb|The Sapphire banner of 4/20, created the day of the [[Callisto raid]]. It is typically used on the Circle Podcast episodes.]]
Series directly related to Sapphire that are on YouTube.
Series created by Sapphire members, which might involve other members or might make references to Circle culture.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" width="65%"
!colspan="1"|Series
!colspan="1"|Series
!colspan="1"|Creator
!colspan="1"|Creator
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that are accompanied by animations of sorts. Similar to the Circle Podcast.   
that are accompanied by animations of sorts. Similar to the Circle Podcast.   
|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcy0_vjSCN8LOfLIrxtwPBnGc81yst1F Playlist]
|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcy0_vjSCN8LOfLIrxtwPBnGc81yst1F Playlist]
|-
|}
===== Sapphire Movies =====
[[Sapphire Movies]], composed of several members of Sapphire, has made several short films/shows together.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1"|Series
!colspan="1"|Director
!colspan="1"|About
!colspan="1"|Link
|-
|-
|The Circle Podcast
|The Circle Podcast
|[[Bryan]]
|[[Bryan]]
|The Circle Podcast is a series of random recordings by [[Bryan]]. It is focused on capturing the most glorious or dark moments of the Circle (see [[Culture of Sapphire]]).   
|The Circle Podcast is a series of random recordings by [[Bryan]]. It is focused on capturing great moments in TeamSpeak (see [[Culture of Sapphire]]).   
|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY6arTSaHgpe0V01AGUuLj8DkUxXaTjM Playlist]
|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY6arTSaHgpe0V01AGUuLj8DkUxXaTjM Playlist]
|-
|-
|[[Cooking with Slar3xSpr33]]
|[[Cooking with Slar3xSpr33]]
|Bryan, [[Caleb Duke|Slar3xSpr33]]
|Bryan, [[Caleb|Slar3xSpr33]]
|Comedic cooking show starring Slar3xSpr33.
|Comedic cooking show starring Slar3xSpr33.
|[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL25642F54FECECCC6 Playlist]
|[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL25642F54FECECCC6 Playlist]
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=== Discography ===
=== Discography ===


==== BGREGZ ====
==== Sapphire Records ====
 
Sapphire has its own record label, [[Sapphire Records]].
'''Mixtapes'''
*''[[DIS DIK: THE MIXTAPE]]'' (2013, prod. by [[BGREGZ]])
*''[[Bad Cop]]'' (2014, prod. by BGREGZ)
 
'''Albums'''
*''TBA'' (201?)


=== Bibliography ===
=== Bibliography ===


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!colspan="1"|Title
!colspan="1"|Title
!colspan="1"|Author
!colspan="1"|Author
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|[[Poetry]]
|[[Poetry]]
|[[t3sla]]
|[[t3sla]]
|A short poem about [[Ole Martin Fiska]].
|A short poem about [[Ole Martin]].
|}
|}


== Teams and Divisions ==
== Services ==
Sapphire sponsors teams and has divisions.


=== Sapphire Movies ===
=== Bryan's Server ===
[[Sapphire Movies]] is the film production division of Sapphire. It is composed of a several members of Sapphire. It has created some films and shows.


=== Dirty Players Gaming ===
* '''[https://mcstatus.io/status/java/mc.sapphiredev.org mc.sapphiredev.org]''' Vanilla Minecraft
''See [[Dirty Gaming]] for the full article.''
The '''Jit''' is a server box owned and maintained by Bryan. He uses it to host services such as the Minecraft server and this Wiki.


[[Dirty Players Gaming]] was a division of Sapphire which was originally created by [[Caleb Duke]]. It was picked up by Sapphire a few days after the creation. Days later, it was disbanded and Caleb Duke assumed his normal position in Sapphire. Eventually, Caleb Duke picked the project back up.
=== Discord ===


=== Sapphire Gaming ===
* '''https://discord.sapphiredev.org/'''
''See [[Sapphire Gaming]] for the full article.''
The '''Sapphire Server''' (formerly known as the ''Red Lotus Discord'' server) is the currently group-endorsed VoIP solution. It is owned by Caleb.


Sapphire Gaming is the professional gaming division of Sapphire. The head of the division is [[Jimmy Hong]]. It is currently composed of two League of Legends teams: the A Team and B Team.
=== League of Legends Club ===
The group's club is called "'''Sapphire Dev'''" and is owned by Caleb.


=== Bank of Sapphire ===
=== Old School RuneScape Clan ===
''See [[Bank of Sapphire]] for the full article.''
The group's original clan is called '''ATOLL''' (formerly ''BlueSapphire'') and is owned by [[Andrei]], who is transitioning it towards his personal brand.


The Bank of Sapphire regulates the transactions within Sapphire.
=== Smurf Accounts ===
Members with access to the private channel on Discord can find the link to the communal [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smurf_account#English smurf] list.


=== Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America ===
== Projects ==
''See [[Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America]] for the full article.''
''See [[Projects]] for the full article.''
 
The '''Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America''' was started by Dr. [[Bryan Gregory]] & Dr. [[Jerry Plasker]] in effort to research the newly discovered field of jimmeology.
 
=== Team Vision ===
Sapphire also sponsors a European League of Legends team called ''Team Vision''. It is composed of [[Cydax]], [[Sarim Cast]], [[Sindre]], and Sinson.
 
=== Online Militia ===
''See [[Keyboard Warriors Association]] and [[Low Orbit Ion Soldiers]] for the full articles.''
 
Sapphire has two online militias, which should present no threat in actuality considering they're just for sh*ts and giggles. The first would be the ''[[Keyboard Warriors Association]]'' with no apparent commander, however, having [[Caleb Duke]]'s mother as the de facto leader. The second army is called the ''[[Low Orbit Ion Soldiers]]'' who utilize the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and is famous for Platoon 15 Squadron 5 commanded by [[Jimmy Hong]] and includes the war hero Captain [[Creasingwolf]].
 
== Game Servers ==
One of [[Sapphire]]'s main attractions is its game servers. Currently, all funds are paid by [[Bryan]], and previously were paid by [[Cydax]].
 
=== Minecraft ===
Minecraft is where Sapphire started. There is one Sapphire sponsored server available currently.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Sapphire's Flexible Minecraft Server
!colspan="1"|IP Address
!colspan="1"|Availability
!colspan="1"|Location
!colspan="1"|Operator
!colspan="1"|Running
|-
|174.48.154.154
|Up by request.
|Ft. Lauderdale, FL
|[[Bryan]]
|Tekkit, Feed the Beast, vanilla Minecraft.
|-
|}
 
=== TeamSpeak3 ===
''See [[Sapphire's TeamSpeak3]] for the full article.''
 
TeamSpeak3 is a voice communication program that allows members of Sapphire to communicate daily, however, anyone is welcome to join.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Sapphire's TeamSpeak3
!colspan="1"|IP Address
!colspan="1"|Availability
!colspan="1"|Location
!colspan="1"|Operator
!colspan="1"|Running
|-
|ts3.sapphiredev.org:7103
|24/7/365
|Atlanta, GA
|Paid by [[Bryan]], hosted by MainVoice
|20 Slots
|-
|}
 
== Acknowledgements ==
In Sapphire, members are acknowledged by the Board of Directors for their hard work and determination.
 
=== Awards ===
''Awards'' are bestowed upon those who have accomplished something greatly for Sapphire, or simply just a great work. These are usually given to by the Board of Directors.
 
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1"|Award
!colspan="1"|Description
|-
|[[File:1.gif]]
Year Milestones
|Every ''Sapphire birthday'' of a member they will receive a new Year Milestone. Ex: 1 Year Milestone, 2 Years Milestone, etc.
|-
|[[File:trophy.gif]]
Tournament Awards
|Tournament Winners receive an award on the forums and/or on the TeamSpeak server.
|-
|[[File:troll.gif]]
L'art de Trolling
|''L'art de Trolling'' is an award given to those who greatly contributed to the field of Trolling.
|-
|}
 
=== Honors and Titles ===
Members of Sapphire are commended for their great deeds. Title are in hierarchical order and vary in prefixes and suffixes. Some of these are recognized in [[Callistostarianism]].
 
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="1"|Title
!colspan="1"|Recipients
|-
|Saint (St.) & Sage
|[[Michael McGloin]], [[t3sla]]
|-
|Blessed
|[[El Savior]], [[Gatzi Almighty]], [[Gabe Newell]], [[Blood1310017]], [[Peecock]]
|-
|Lord
|[[Callisto]]
|-
|}


== Tournaments ==
== Tournaments ==
Sapphire hosts tournaments, though, not all for a prize pool. Some are purely for fun and/or recognition.
Sapphire hosts tournaments, though, not all for a prize pool. Some are purely for fun and/or recognition.


<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="float:left;">
=== League of Legends ===
=== League of Legends ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" width="20%"
|+ Tournaments
|+ Tournaments
!colspan="1"|Tournament
!colspan="1"|Tournament
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Pool Tournaments are hosted once per month, and the current Prize is an award-recognition. Actual prizes might be sponsored soon. Pool is played on famous mini-game network OMGPOP.
Pool Tournaments are hosted once per month, and the current Prize is an award-recognition. Actual prizes might be sponsored soon. Pool is played on famous mini-game network OMGPOP.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" width="20%"
|+ Winners
|+ Winners
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Date
!colspan="1"|Date
|-
|-
|[[Dakota Warner]]  
|style="width: 10%;"|
|1st Place February 2013
[[Dakota]]  
|style="width: 10%;"|
1st Place February 2013
|-
|-
|[[Caleb Duke]]  
|[[Caleb]]  
|1st Place March 2013
|1st Place March 2013
|-
|-
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Dueling Network tournaments will now be hosted aswell, for similar prizes as to the Pool tournament. It will NOT be on a strict schedule.
Dueling Network tournaments will now be hosted aswell, for similar prizes as to the Pool tournament. It will NOT be on a strict schedule.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" width="20%"
|+ Winners
|+ Winners
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Date
!colspan="1"|Date
|-
|-
|''Never occured''  
|style="width: 10%;"|
|1st Place May 2013
''Never occured''  
|style="width: 10%;"|
-
|-
|-
|}
|}
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During the Summer of 2013, the group began to play online Poker on programs such as Full Tilt and Carbon Poker.
During the Summer of 2013, the group began to play online Poker on programs such as Full Tilt and Carbon Poker.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" width="20%"
|+ Winners
|+ Winners
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Date
!colspan="1"|Date
|-
|-
|''To be announced''  
|style="width: 10%;"|
|''-''
''Never occurred''  
|style="width: 10%;"|
''-''
|-
|-
|}
|}
=== Fantasy Basketball ===
Starting with the 2016-17 NBA season, Sapphire started a [http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/4584 fantasy basketball league for its members].
</div>
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Latest revision as of 23:03, 7 November 2024

sapphire
Founded2011
Founder(s)Founders/Co-Founders
Other names
Websitesapphiredev.org

Sapphire refers to the friend group that originated as a a group of players from the ArmiTunes Minecraft server in 2011. The name was coined haphazardly by Bryan after he saw a commercial for Chase Sapphire credit cards.


History

Backstory

October 2010 – December 2011

Seaport, the capital city created by bry4n2378 and t3sla on ArmiTunes.
ArmiTunes

In October 2010, two kids, Bryan (bry4n2378) and Emanuel (t3sla), played Minecraft Wikipedia for the first time after having discovered it via YouTuber SeaNanners's Minecraft series. In a video, SeaNanners gave a tour of a certain multiplayer Minecraft base, "Sexy Town", which intrigued many viewers, including Bryan and Emanuel, who sought out the server. However, in Columbian fashion, the server they landed on was not the Sexy Town server, but rather ArmiTunes Freebuild, an open freebuild server. Despite realizing their mistake, Bryan and Emanuel continued to play on ArmiTunes for months, working on building projects, one of which was "Seaport", a union of cities scattered throughout the server. Through this project, the two managed to gain friends and notability.

During this time, both Bryan and Emanuel gained interest in Minecraft modding and programming in general. They worked on projects under the meme name Team Cake. There was an incident where Bryan asked Emanuel to make a mod for him, and then released it under his own name.

Tragedy struck the ArmiTunes server when unknown griefers took advantage of the "open freebuild" server policy and destroyed many players' builds. This caused the server administration to shift towards a "proving grounds" policy that implemented a soft whitelist, requiring prospective players to be approved before building in the main world. Bryan and Emanuel, now moderators of ArmiTunes, held the responsibility of scouting the Proving Grounds and reporting notable talent to the administrator, armitage64.

During their time on ArmiTunes, Bryan and Emanuel befriended players such as JJhawk152, Skapke, MugenMasamune, Cydax, Sarim, Sindre, Funky, Caleb (Slar3xSpr33), Mike, Jack, and James.

In August 2011, the Minecraft griefing sensation Team Avolition became a fashionable topic between Bryan and Emanuel. Feeling inspired, Emanuel began working on the SapphClient, which would become the debut project of the emerging group. It was first released on August 22, 2011.

Keldagrim

Later that month, Mojang released a significant update for Minecraft, breaking ArmiTunes's plugins and configurations. As a result, the server was switched into survival mode on a temporary world, which was a common practice at the time while awaiting plugin updates. By this time, Bryan and Emanuel had established voice communications with Caleb, Funky, and Mike using Skype Wikipedia. Meanwhile, Cydax had done the same with his friends Sarim and Sindre (the Norwegian faction). According to Cydax, Sarim petitioned for the merger between Skype calls, which led to the formation of a supergroup that also included Jack, James, and Funky's friends lilfizzhead and Alexander. The supergroup initiated a collaborative building project, Keldagrim (named for the dwarf settlement in RuneScape), a complex underground fortress located beneath a mountain valley range that had been developed into a decoy fortress. The decoy fortress comprised of false shops, farms, and a large gate equipped with a "defense mechanism" (designed by Jack and James, the English faction). Underground, the real Keldagrim had been excavated from two intersecting ravines, containing both water and lava rivers.

Beyond the Keldagrim project, members of the emerging group undertook the "hobby" of griefing random Minecraft servers with the newly released SapphClient, uniting under the banner of Sapphire Development. It was initially agreed upon that ArmiTunes itself would never be targeted, however, one day, armitage64 replaced the world containing the Keldagrim project with a new temporary world, which enraged members of the call, feeling as if their work had been discarded. In an event infamously known as the Punishment, members turned their wrath towards their home server and griefed the spawn area of the new temporary world. Following this incident, for reasons unrelated, ArmiTunes went offline and never resurfaced.

Sapphire Minecraft Server

The spawn area of the original Sapphire Minecraft server.
The original logo of Sapphire (2011 – 2013).

In the time after the fall of ArmiTunes, Bryan established the Sapphire website and forums (initially at the URL sapphire.t15.org) to promote unity of the newly formed group. After taking time to reflect, in November of 2011, the group decided to open the Sapphire Minecraft Server, in honor of ArmiTunes, as well as a YouTube channel to advertise the server. Initially hosted by Bryan, the server world ownership was transferred to Cydax and Sindre, in a strategy change that aspired to attract new players via the use of a dedicated server infrastructure.

The server was predominantly populated by Sapphire members, only occasionally gaining public players, such as JokarGirl, who randomly joined the server and was nearly instantly given the rank of server moderator. Interest in the server declined after a few weeks, which led Alex and Ethan to become inactive. The Sapphire server remained online for a while longer, however, interest ultimately died out.

It was still common practice at the time for Sapphire members to grief other servers for amusement. After a series of successful griefing campaigns, some members stumbled upon the so-called "ungriefable" server, Darkholm, a hardcore PvP server, which captured the group's interest.

Dark Ages

December 2011 – May 2012

Void Faction

Upon joining the Darkholm server, Sapphire members created a faction called Void consisting of Bryan, Caleb, Cydax, Sindre, and Sarim. Emanuel, Mike, and Funky became inactive at the time, while Jack and James played briefly before also becoming inactive. Cydax earned his position as the leader of the faction by becoming the first player in the group to attain VIP status on the server, by donating real life money to the administrator of Darkholm, astidonius. Void briskly expanded its power, often by engaging in player-versus-player (PvP) combat or base hunting, consequently gaining notoriety and adversity. Void initially employed a nomadic playstyle, but eventually established its first territorial base.

The PvP meta of Darkholm centered around the PvP-designated zone on the perimeter of spawn, making it difficult for new players to set out. Experienced players would often go there, equipped with disposable PvP gear. One day, Void PvPers met the attention of a PvPer known as Creasingwolf (Nick), who had begun to engage them in combat frequently.

Void began a campaign to destroy opposing factions and impose its will on the server world. It annexed other factions, recruiting displaced players such as Tybljo, a talented base hunter. Meanwhile, in real life, Bryan recruited a classmate, Jerry Plasker, into the Void cause.

Void Divided

Following an armed conflict, Void was forced to re-settle on a remote island. Cydax transferred faction ownership to Caleb, who shifted the faction's strategy. To evade attention drawn to the "Void" name, the faction was covertly renamed to RedStoners. Due to disagreements, the Sapphire Norwegian arm (Cydax, Sarim, and Sindre) separated from RedStoners and created a second Void faction. SpecialK, a spy from Creasingwolf's faction, uncovered the true identity of "RedStoners", leading to the destruction of the island base. The leader of Creasingwolf's faction was revealed to be a player named hyprman33.

"Playing" League of Legends.

After the destruction of RedStoners, Darkholm's VIP system was restructured by astidonius. The original three-tier rank system was replaced with a five-tier system (ranging from "Squire" for $5, to "King" for $100) that gave donors privileged abilities. A ten year old known as 741852963358, son of a real life ambassador, became infamous for gifting money to players, many of whom took advantage of his gratuity, including Void members.

Caleb stepped down from his position as faction leader, left the faction, and created a new faction called Onyx. Beyond Minecraft, Caleb took a hiatus from Sapphire in response to intense criticisms he received over Skype. Cydax reached out to Bryan to reunite the original Void faction. Upon reaching an agreement, they merged RedStoners back into Void. In the process, Tybljo and Jerry defected to Onyx, leading to frequent feuds between the factions. After some time, Caleb allied Onyx with hyprman33, whom he would later begin playing League of Legends with. The hyprman33-Onyx alliance led a successful campaign to destroy the united Void.

Void Empire

In the reconstruction of Void, it recruited notorious PvPers Creasingwolf, Specialk, Woods, and weyrt to create the server's first "superfaction", the Void Empire, anointing Bryan as Emperor.

The final Void base.

The Void Empire required new members to possess at least Baron status ($50 VIP rank), but preferably King status ($100 VIP rank). Void's new strategy relied on its members' patronage, via their VIP ability to spawn armor and items. This gave Void the resources and manpower to build its final fortress, a massive obsidian fortress located directly outside of spawn. It was surrounded by a lava moat, and the interior contained a smaller obsidian structure with Void's principal stashes and reserves.

Void Wars

A legion of anti-Void forces began to gather, led by a player known as Glen, a rebel who was tired of the Empire's oppression. One night, the anti-Voiders marched towards the walls of the Void Empire determined to bring them down. During the battle, Bryan defended fortress. But suddenly, hyprman33 appeared inside the base, having entered via illegitimate means. Due to this compromise, Bryan initiated a self-destruction sequence to keep Void's arsenal out of the "wrong hands". These events triggered the decline of the superfaction Void.

Beyond Minecraft, Nick (Creasingwolf), Weyrt, hyprman33, Specialk and Woods joined the Sapphire call, the latter three of which did not remain active for long. Once the dust settled, Caleb became active in Sapphire again. Some members continued playing on Darkholm with the intent to become server moderators, which Caleb and Cydax both attained, however, due to server's mismanagement, Sapphire decided to cease relations with the server.

During this time, the group made a transition from Skype to Raidcall, an early iteration of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) apps specifically for gaming. Caleb and Dakota succeeded in persuading the other members to play League of Legends, which piqued the the interest of the previously-inactive Emanuel. Because of the convergence on League of Legends, Jerry introduced two of his friends into Sapphire: Jimmy and Jessenia.

Golden Age

May 2012 – May 2013

DayZ.
DayZ

In May 2012, League of Legends became one of Sapphire's staple games. Caleb spent more time away from Sapphire, again, but eventually came back. In June, many members left on holiday trips.

In July, when everyone had returned, the group began playing a new game called DayZ, a zombie survival mod for ARMA 2.

In DayZ, Bryan and a few others encountered El Saviour, an armed rescue ranger vehicle that would appear to save many a Sapphire member from certain doom, becoming a venerated figure in the group.

At the start of August, when school began again, most members returned to playing League of Legends, the new staple of the group. Due to his League skill, Jimmy began to assert himself within Sapphire. He introduced his younger brother, Johnnie, in late 2012. Around this time, Caleb made his third hiatus.

The second logo of Sapphire (2013 – 2020).

As 2013 approached, Bryan sponsored the opening of the first Sapphire TeamSpeak server. Jimmy also introduced a school friend named Ryan who talked in the call but did not play games.

Jimmy debuted in "professional" League and during the months of March and April, Sapphire started its own eSports program, Sapphire Gaming, led by Jimmy, to play in League tournaments. Members of the team enjoyed practicing together, but the team was dysfunctional and declined.

Callisto Raid
The Callisto raid, including the other team.

See Callistostarianism and Callistover.

On April 20, the Sapphire Gaming League team finished a practice match against an amusing opponent team, whom they had subsequently invited to chat with on the TeamSpeak server and play casual ARAM matches together.

Unexpectedly, an unknown figure named Callisto, whose voice could only be described as angelic, joined the TeamSpeak server for an hour and held a Q&A session. These events led to the development of Callistostarianism, a way of life that celebrates the 20th of April as the Callistover, the day of the visitation by the great teacher Callisto.

At the request of Callisto, the server became christened the People's Republic of Callisto. The members not present during the first Callistover became "Callisto doubters".

At the end of the first Callistover, all of the members of the visiting team had disconnected from TeamSpeak, except for one person who stayed behind for a while: Brandon. He was interested in playing League with Sapphire's team, however, Sapphire's interest in League declined, and he became inactive.

Jimmy Saga

May 2013 – December 2013

The Happening of Jimmy.

The Sapphire Gaming League team was disbanded when Jimmy and co had a significant argument with the group, leading to Jimmy, Johnnie, Jessenia, and Ryan all leaving. The departure of Jimmy and co caused a meme vacuum, which forced new memes to manifest, such as Dis Dik, which became Bryan's best-known catchphrase.

During this time, Funky introduced his friend, Usama and Caleb introduced his friend, Chase. By this time, Sapphire developed a hazing ritual called the Sapphire initiation. Chase vigorously passed his initiation, overcoming the massive amounts of DIK by counter-imposing his will. Over the summer, the group took interest to online Poker as well as an MMORPG called Haven and Hearth. After the summer holiday trips occurred, the miraculous resurrection of Nick and Weyrt followed (at this point, weyrt had become a cool kid 420).

During Fall 2013, Jimmy and co, excluding Ryan, returned. Furthermore, they resumed playing with the Sapphire Gaming crew to warm up for Season 4. The TeamSpeak server, at the time provided by GameServers, crashed frequently, and many exploits were found, one of which was used by Jimmy to compromise the server. These events became known as the Happening of Jimmy, prompting Bryan to seek out a new host, MainVoice.

During a fateful One For All match in League, Bryan, Jimmy, t3sla, and Johnnie met Blood1310017. Although half of the lobby wanted to play Fiddlesticks, and the other wanted Leona, Blood, a randy, picked Malphite and won over the other two suggestions. From watching him play, the group came to the conclusion that he was the best player ever. An episode of THE BEST RIGHT NOW was dedicated to the events that occurred with Blood.

Later during the year, Sapphire started a rivalry against TitanClan, previously known as Mantis Clan. Members of Sapphire used to connect to Titan's Counter-Strike servers, but intolerance for Titan's memes grew and a back-and-forth feud between TeamSpeak servers broke out until a ceasefire was reached. Ever since this TitanClan incident, Sapphire members held a negative view of their rival clan, with the exception of Jerry (due to being a member of both).

During Winter 2013, the group briefly played Dota 2, with Mike and Emanuel played it exclusively, while the rest of the active group members either juggled playing both games or only League. Around this time, Bryan invented a new hit meme: thumping. The usage of thumping was over exaggerated and the meme eventually died out.

Changes and Growth

January 2014 – February 2016

Over the new year, the group began to diversify its gaming interests. t3sla harnessed his old Counter-Strike skills and focused on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, re-entering t3sla mode in the process. He single-handedly kickstarted Sapphire's interest in CS:GO.

Jerry began to frequent TitanClan's TeamSpeak, although he often split his time between the groups. Meanwhile, the Norwegians (Cydax, Sindre, and Sarim) reserved a channel on TeamSpeak to bring their real-life friends online. Mike and Funky brought their real-life friends, the DirtyChinx, into the TeamSpeak server, also reserving their own channel.

Caleb and Chase went on to introduce some friends into the group: Ben, Ryan, Greg, and Garrett (the latter three also being Tennessee boys). The active members of Sapphire at this time were Bryan, Caleb, Chase, Funky & Mike (with the DirtyChinx), Ben, Greg, Garrett, Creasingwolf & Jimmy (semi-active), Ryan, and Emanuel (occasionally).

Ben was one of the most controversial members to join the group. He was the first member from the west coast; a pioneer, even. Another problem was that everyone in California blazed. Yet, Ben claimed he was "clean" of drugs.

With this new phase, an opportunity to start new memes has opened, especially since DIK had slowly died off. Nick (Creasingwolf) was a major force in the revival of necking. He was extremely dedicated to the game and spread it everywhere he went, including school.

Meanwhile, Bryan and Caleb took the jinxing game to the next level. A jinx, as referred to by the cool kids (and fifth graders), is when two people say the same thing at the same time without having prior knowledge of the fact that the other party would say the same thing as them. However, in Caleb and Bryan's version of this, they would say "Get out of my mind/head!"

On top of these, many other memes have spread throughout the group, shifting the culture slightly. Among these was swag, bought in by Jimmy and Funky. Sapphire began incorporating teachings from resources such as this video, which essentially became a textbook for Sapphire culture at the time. Not only does it cover swag, it also covers DIK and many other fundamental topics to a certain extent.

On March 10, 2014, Ben was publicly executed and died (in other words, he was votekicked from a CS:GO game and went on hiatus from Sapphire) by Bryan, Caleb, and Pasta. On the third day, Ben was resurrected from the dead (he came back).

It was around this time that Caleb became an active member of Andy's Stream, meeting people such as Andy, Adam, Aerius, and eventually Anna. Caleb also introduced this group into Sapphire sometime later.

The Summer had begun and once again it was a summer of inactivity. However, Jose (check0ut) randomly joined the TeamSpeak and befriended members, despite him seeking people that played League of Legends (which at the time, Sapphire did not have).

At this time, Caleb brought Brad into the TeamSpeak, which revived Sapphire's interest in playing RuneScape (lasting only a few weeks, after which Brad became inactive). Emanuel had once again returned from hiatus in t3sla mode and became more active in the TeamSpeak. Jimmy also turned up every now and then.

Later, Funky took Bryan's old meme, xDieselfuel, and blew it up, eclipsing its previous success. Over the summer, Sapphire became a Meme Factory and the overwhelming amount of memes caused the average life span of a meme to drop to five minutes.

Nearing the beginning of school, Cydax left for college and as a result the Sapphire Norwiggas became less active. Garrett and Jose also both began/resumed college around this time. Ryan, ever since graduating high school, went straight into the work grind. The rest of the members were now beginning high school.

As the school year continued, most members became inactive for at least some time. Caleb and Bryan were always in TeamSpeak, except, Bryan was AFK all the time. By the end of the school year in May 2015, Chase had graduated and also began working.

About this time, TitanClan was reorganized into an uptight community, RGN Community, which eventually shut down, causing Jerry to become more active in Sapphire. At the same time, Jimmy made a miraculous return to the TeamSpeak server, and began frequenting it. Funky also returned to the TeamSpeak server, although briefly.

Bryan, Caleb, Jerry, and Jimmy briefly brought League of Legends back, even getting Emanuel to play, which was yet another miracle. Simultaneously, Jimmy also led Sapphire into playing Battle Royale on H1Z1. At the same time, CS:GO and League of Legends were still strong second-choice games.

It was a relatively successful time period; a fair amount of TeamSpeak activity was maintained. Furthermore, this was when Chase first began playing League of Legends and when Jimmy first tried CS:GO, improving the gaming dynamic in Sapphire.

Advent of Sapphire Trips

February 2016 – December 2020

The Sapphire PAX East 2017 Crew

Beginning with 2016, many members of Sapphire had decided that CS:GO has reached a point where it is simply not playable anymore. However, the TeamSpeak server saw record-high numbers of activity with many Sapphire members, old and new, uniting to play video games together, namely League of Legends.

With the introduction of dynamic queue, playing ranked games together was only made easier, and was therefore done several times nearly every day. The group also began playing Black Desert and Stardew Valley as side games.

By Spring time, League of Legends was once again declared a cancer game by the active members of Sapphire. The group sought new games to play, and as a result ended up playing a bit of Minecraft - Feed the Beast: Infinity Evolved.

Later, when Overwatch came out, nearly every active member of Sapphire began playing it, anxiously waiting for the release of the ranked gamemode. Around July, a quintet composed of Bryan, Emanuel, Jerry, Caleb, and Jimmy began unironically playing World of Warcraft. By the time Fall 2016 came around, League of Legends was declared tolerable once more.

In late 2016, TeamSpeak activity boomed again, with the addition of George along with his friends into TeamSpeak. Meanwhile, the Sapphire Trip Committee was established in order to organize a Sapphire trip to PAX East 2017 and future events, although it was extremely difficult for the details to be ironed out.

In March 2017, a group of members of Sapphire took a trip to PAX East 2017. This was the first large-scale interaction between Sapphire's geographical subunits. Through the first quarter of 2017, the TeamSpeak server maintained usual activity in both early and late hours. By this point, Sapphire lingo had become very colorful due to the changing dynamic between new and old members.

Sapphire South Florida Meet Graduation 2017

In June 2017, Caleb and Chase drove down from Tennessee to South Florida to attend the graduation of Bryan, Emanuel, Jerry, and Komal. This was the first time Emanuel & Komal physically met Caleb & Chase. They hung out and made many memes together. Shortly after Caleb and Chase returned to Tennessee, the Sapphire Trip Committee continued planning more trips.

On June 11, 2017, Andy recycled his garbage in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and revived his Prime (ain't talkin' Amazon). Upon finishing his plop, he was enlightened, and he revealed his experience to the Fiendship of Sapphire. Shortly after, Bryan departed for Romania to begin a month-and-a-half-long trip. During his hiatus, Kyle was initiated into Sapphire and was taken under Caleb's wing.

In the Fall of the same year, many of the lads began their first official semesters in college. Emanuel and Komal moved in together in Orlando and both began joining TeamSpeak more frequently than they previously had. They also invited Vincent into the TeamSpeak to play CS:GO. Overall, at this point, the TeamSpeak's traffic had reached its prime in terms of consistency. Furthermore, the next Sapphire Trip was confirmed for PAX East 2018.

Sapphire Spring Break 2018

Over the course of the years, the group experienced fragmentation, occasionally needing to put some space between members, and 2018 was no exception. Nevertheless, the beginning of this year seemed to be promising as it started off with fairly spicy memes. Fortnite briefly became a popular game in the group, lasting quite a few months.

In February, as proposed by Bryan, the group observed Black History Month and Homie Month. During this time, Caleb perfected his trifecta.

On the creative end, many members of Sapphire either began or resumed streaming on Twitch. Andy blessed the Andy Fan Club by bringing back his stream and then briefly rebranding as BestWithCoffee. Among others, Caleb, Adam, Jimmy, Jerry, Ryan, and Kyle also streamed during this time.

Sapphire Tennessee Summer Break 2018

During Spring Break 2018, Nick came down to visit the Florida Boys. Shortly following that trip, the events of the Sapphire PAX East 2018 Trip happened, which are detailed in its respective article. At PAX, talks of more trips in 2018 were brought up, which included visiting Andy, the Tennessee boys, and Kyle & Jon.

Sometime later, Sapphire began using Discord in parallel to TeamSpeak, some creating servers to complement their respective stream brands, such as Caleb's Red Lotus Discord.

In July 2018, Andy went to Comic Con San Diego. After that, Bryan, Jerry and Anna made their way to visit the Tennessee boys. Needless to say, afterwards, many suffered from Sapphire Post-Meetup Depression.

Through 2019, the members of Sapphire continued congregating between the Sapphire TeamSpeak as well as the Discord servers. Despite this diversification in gathering places, active members still manage to communicate effectively, using means such as the Sapphire Snapchat group.

In January 2019, Chase flew into Florida to meet up with Bryan, Jerry, and Emanuel.

PAX East 2019

Another Sapphire Trip occurred in Boston in 2019, once again for PAX East. This time the trip was done by Bryan, Jerry, Ryan, Chase and his brother Tristan. At the end of April, Bryan and Jerry traveled up to see the Tennessee boys once more. In July 2019, Andy made his annual pilgrimage to Comic Con. During 2019, Bryan began hosting Minecraft servers for his Romanian friends, thus leading to some affiliation with Sapphire.

Washington DC Meetup 2019

During August 2019, Bryan enacted his plan to travel on the Sapphire Grand Road Trip, making stops in Tennessee and Washington DC (where Emanuel joined him), where he notoriously destroyed Mike's mailbox and then proceeded to back into a car. During this time, Jerry also moved into Orlando to attend the same school as Emanuel, leaving Bryan to become the last Florida Boy in South Florida.

In Fall 2019, the stars aligned, and a few members gathered in TeamSpeak to reminisce. A few minutes later, a person named Edna comes in invoking the name of the deity Ligma (Legba) and cursed Garrett (he fell asleep on the spot). Edna claims to have been a member of Sapphire that joined in recent times. Chase and Bryan attempted to chat Edna up, but the conversation reached turning point when the two worked together to reveal Edna's location, provoking Edna to disconnect.

Heading into the year 2020, many members made big plans to enact. Bryan announced in February that the Sapphire homepage will be brought back and refocused to being more productive all around. Jerry moved to Georgia. Between the releases of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Valorant, and the final update of Terraria (among other games), the group became very active and members assembled nearly daily in Discord (and in smaller amounts on TeamSpeak). During the summer, many members began grinding OldSchool Runescape in order to prevent XP wasting.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, any potential Sapphire Meet-up trips for 2020 were scrapped. Halfway into August 2020, which is now considered Zen Month (declared by Andy), Bryan declared he would be undergoing a three week session of creativity, the "Creative Boom". Bryan unwillingly unleashed destruction upon the Wiki when Sapphire's cloud vendor announced its dissolution in late 2020.

Post-Pandemic

January 2021 – present

Oktoberfest in Boston 2022

This era is marked by many "coming of ages" in which members started to figure things out in the adult world. While this detracted from online togetherness, it also laid the foundation for future Sapphire meet-ups.

The Florida boys visited the Tennessee boys for New Years 2021. In the summer of 2021, Bryan more or less restored the Wiki. During this time, Bryan and Jerry visited the Tennessee boys. Immediately after, Bryan started working and graduated from university. In August 2021, Bryan and Chase visited Emanuel in Boston.

In February 2022, Jerry moved in with Caleb, joining the Tennessee boys, and thus starting the first gamer house comprised of Sapphire members. In June 2022, there was a Sapphire meet-up at the Tennessee gamer house. Eventually, the gamer house arrangement began to break down, culminating in the "Gamer-housegate".

In September 2022, Emanuel hosted 6 other members at his place in Boston. He did the same for New Year's 2023 although with 4 guests at the time.

In March 2023, Bryan visited Europe and used the opportunity to meet Cydax for the first time, becoming the first member of Sapphire to meet all other core founding members. In May 2023, Bryan and Caleb made a controversial visit to Las Vegas.

In the second half of 2023, Andrei began streaming and became known in the Old School RuneScape Hardcore Ironman section of Twitch. In December, Bryan and Emanuel visited Japan for the first time.

Park in Ontario 2024

In March 2024, there was a meet-up in Toronto. In August, Caleb reached out to hyprman33 and reconnected him with the group via Discord. Later in 2024, there was a misunderstanding between Andrei and other members which came to be known by some as the "Monkeygate".

Demographics

All-time geography of Sapphire members (c. 2019). Members that live in the United States are clustered near the East Coast. Ben broke this barrier by being the first member from the West Coast. Furthermore, there are also European members from the UK, Denmark, and Norway.
Members & associated individuals
Name First acquainted
Bryan Founder
Emanuel Founder
Ole Martin Founder
Caleb Founder
Funky Founder
Michael Founder
Sindre Co-Founder
Sarim Co-Founder
Jack Co-Founder
James Co-Founder
Ethan 2011
Alexander 2011
JokarGirl 2012
Jerry 2012 (Honorary Co-Founder)
Nick 2012 (Honorary Co-Founder)
Weyrt 2012
Dakota 2012
Jimmy 2012
CobraStrike 2012
Jessenia 2012
Johnnie 2013
Ryan (New York) 2013
Brandon 2013
Chase 2013
Usama 2013
Ben 2014
Ryan (Tennessee) 2014
Greg 2014
Garrett 2014
Brad 2014
Jose 2014
Swydo 2014
Adam 2014
Aerius 2014
Andy 2014
Andrei 2014
Anna 2015
Jason 2015
Trees 2015
George 2015
Tafari 2016
Komal 2016
Kyle 2017
Vincent 2017
Tristan 2019
Paxton 2019

Subgroups

Committees

Programs

Clubs

Geo-cultural units

  • Sapphire Florida Boys
  • Sapphire Tennessee Boys
  • Sapphire DMV Boys (Maryland-Virginia)
  • Sapphire Romanians
  • Sapphire Vikings (Norwegians)
  • Sapphire Gentlemen (Englishmen)
  • Sapphire Leaf Boys (Canadians)
  • Sapphire West Coast Boys

Associated groups

Culture


Sapphire culture (also "Circle culture") traces back to the group's tradition of online voice chatting, where it developed as a microcosm of early 2010s Internet culture while also being influenced by the various cultural backgrounds of members. It has been described as edgy, quirky, autistic, ignant, fast, fun, and easy. There is an tendency by some members to laud the culture as being "ahead of the curve". The culture comes with its own folklore (see Sapphire mythology) and unique speech patterns (Sapphire lingo).

Memes in Sapphire culture generally follow the typical cycle of irony. For example, "troll" is an older term that fell out of fashion, was substituted as "le bait", and then looped back into popular usage.

Language

Sapphire lingo is the distinct flavor of language spoken within the group, emerging from the clashing of various backgrounds. The exchange of speech patterns resulted in a unique vernacular that continues to grow in nuance.

Within Sapphire lingo, there is an ignant substratum comprising colorful speech patterns broadly related to the Internet trend of incorporating vernacular language.

Sapphire trip

See Sapphire Trip Committee

The Sapphire trip is an event characterized by the gathering of significant amount of members in real life. It had been the subject of speculation since the formation of Sapphire and was romanticized by early members.

In 2012, Cydax planned a campaign to visit the Florida Boys, although it was never executed. In 2016, the Sapphire Trip Committee emerged as a body that attempts to organize Sapphire meet-ups, sometimes coinciding with larger conventions such as PAX East and later TwitchCon.

Mythology

Sapphire mythology depicts a hierarchy of figures each renowned for their unique aspects. The mythology is primarily canonized in the Book of Diesel, the Callisto Dialogues, and in some YouTube videos.

Deities

Saints

Priests

Ghouls

Calendar

Name Date Description
Black History / Homie Month February Observing Black American culture & history.
Homie Month, in which it is customary for homies to "renew their contracts" and display affectionate homiesexual acts.
4/20 April 20 Commemorates Callisto's first visit to Sapphire.
Pride Month June Continuation of Homie Month
No Nut November / New Technique November November Honing "non-ningen" skills and pride in oneself.
Norwegian Day Fourth Thursday of November Thanksgiving substitute created for Cydax and the Norwegians.

Notable memes

Bad manner

Within Sapphire, a concept of wrongness exists: it's called "bad manner" (shortened: BM). It is a term Emanuel introduced to Sapphire long before it became mainstream. Sapphire defines BM as actions that are annoying, harassing, making fun of, flaming, pestering, etc. BMing is usually punishable by roast session.

"It's not BM if it's true"

It's not BM if it's true is a justification of BM which states, quite literally, that something is not BM if it is true.

t3sla exception

Credited to Emanuel (t3sla), the t3sla exception is an exception to the It's not BM if it's true justification. It states that sometimes it is BM even if it is true.

Caleb's trifecta

Caleb's trifecta consists of:

  • "nam jeFf" (a second-hand bastardized meme)
  • "you tryna buss"
  • whistling all "s" through your teeth

Later additions:

  • "Damn son"
  • Fart noises
  • (in fake gay British accent) "Oh God"

Callistostarianism

See Callistostarianism for the full article.

Callistostarianism is a philosophy and worldview based on the teachings of Callisto. A man named Callisto stumbled upon the TeamSpeak server one day and began to answer questions, which are recorded in the Callisto Dialogues and in an episode of the Circle Podcast. During the Q&A session, Callisto recited his epic poem I'm not Callisto.

Coke vs. Pepsi

t3sla bming Pepsi.

One of the most renowned arguments in the world is whether Coke or Pepsi is better. Well, Sapphire is largely undecided on Cok or Lelsi (meme terms), but some can agree that Dr. Pooper is master race. Other popular beverages in Sapphire include tea, water, and others.

In the latter years, there has been a movement against soda that caught traction even within Sapphire.

Dank memes

Weed memes are some of the greatest in Sapphire's history. The most important components these memes are 420 and Blaze it which can manipulated at an insane rate. The most popular variations were 420 blaze it or x20, blaze it (replace x with your desired number). Bryan was a big propagator of weed memes due to his fondness for That 70s' Show.

"Death" & Mike's Grandfather's Funeral

When a member is away for significant time (announced/unannounced) they are said to "die". Nick and Weyrt were two people who often "died" and "returned to life" months later. Mike and Funky have also "died" before, but have since been "resurrected".

"Death" was expanded as a meme in late 2013 when Mike, after a long time of being active in TeamSpeak, had to go to his late grandfather's funeral (may he Rest in Peace Grandpa McGloin). Mike, known for his rugged record of activity in TeamSpeak fluctuating from very active to sometimes off the grid for months, set himself up for a running gag that would run until this very day. After going to his grandfather's funeral, he would rarely show up in TeamSpeak. Whenever he would show up, he would be asked "Mike, are you still at your grandfather's funeral? It's been x amount of weeks!"

The meme was effectively concluded with the start of Sapphire's Transitional Age, when communications became increasingly more decentralized. However, just like a phoenix, the meme was reincarnated by Andy who dubbed it as the myth phenomenon. According to Andy, Mike and Cydax, among others, are mythological Sapphire members.

DIS DIK

During one of Sapphire's meme droughts, Bryan propagated a new meme, "DIS DIK", which was the "real answer" to the mathematical equation 1x/1. Furthermore, a similar meme was propagated by Bryan back in 2011. The DIS DIK meme began to expand and included derivations such as: DEEZ NUTZ, DIESENUHTZ, DIESELFUUL, xDIESELFUEL, etc. DIS DIK is also used as a response to arbitrary sentences. For example:

  • A: What is the time?
  • B: It's, uh... DIS DIK!
  • Everyone: *hahahahaha*

"DIS DIK" has become one of the most renowned memes in the history of Sapphire. So great, that Chase was subject to unholy amounts of it during his initiation. The meme is also designed to be sampled in audio tracks creating what is known as a DIK remix (also: DIKmix).

DIS DIK: THE FRANCHISE

Bryan sought to capitalize on "DIS DIK" and launched a franchise, including a planned game, movie, novel, TV show, and album.

Product About
DIS DIK: THE GAME Before Bryan went on vacation during the summer of 2013, he mentioned making a game about DIK, DIS DIK: THE GAME. It was supposed to be released in a day after its confirmation, but rather it was scheduled to be released in waves. The alpha will be released in "8 months", the beta in "16 months", and the full game in "24 years" (all the timeframes being relative to an unspecified date).
DIS DIK: THE NOVEL On September 21, 2013, Bryan announced a new product of the DIK franchise called DIS DIK: THE NOVEL. It was later scrapped due to poor planning.
DIS DIK: THE MOVIE Has not been announced.
DIS DIK: THE SHOW Has not been announced.
DIS DIK (mixtape) On Hallowe'en of 2013, Bryan published his first mixtape in spirit of the meme.

Fake Timezone

Due to the time zone difference between members, Bryan started referring to the non-Eastern timezones as "fake timezones". Although he is not sure why they are fake, his running hypothesis is that timezones become more real the further east one goes.

Funky Conventions

The Funky Conventions are the tendencies of members to show affectionate kindness towards other members who can "do no wrong" in their perception.

The Funky Conventions emerged as an unwritten rule in voice chat during tumultuous times, when flaming one another was commonplace. It was agreed upon that Funky, and to some extent Mike, would never deserve to be flamed. It has since evolved into a more decentralized sentiment among members.

Funky's Law

Funky's Law of League of Legends states clearly that:

  • To play an AP character, you must build AD.

This law has caused conflict and unleashed massive amounts of BM within Sapphire due to the fact that it is encourage a meme build that, most of the time, would fail.

Initiation

The initiation into Sapphire is the tradition of hazing new members. It typically involves bombardments of memes that are meant to get an initiate acquainted with Sapphire lore.

Jerry's Law

Jerry's law states that two gays can cancel each other out, however, this theorem lacks a proof.

Jimmy's microphone

Jimmy often eats things loudly, and it often sounds like either soup or something very crunchy.

Kyle challenge

The Kyle challenge is a thought experiment and philosophy developed by Kyle. He began by inquiring:

  • What if you just didn't sleep?

Kyle's initial best record for consecutive wakefulness was 74 hours. During this time, he experienced some hallucination, but also a good amount of clarity. He used this time frame to grind the living shit out of RuneScape (the EoC version). He concluded that, due to this unprecedented level of productivity, sleep was "literally" unnecessary.

Necking

In real life common practice, an individual who is confronted with an idiotic statement or situation is obliged to respond with "That's a neck!" and proceed to get the neck of the offender. When calling a neck, or getting necked, people have the option to:

  • call "no nothing", which nullifies ALL other calls
  • call "self-serve", where a person necks themselves in order to avoid an otherwise worse neck
  • call "teleport/time travel" in order to call self-serve, which is only overruled by "no nothing"
  • call "my big toe". Don't touch it.
  • claim "false neck" when a neck is truly unjustifiable. This results in a counter-neck.

Normies

In the history of Sapphire, the struggle against Normies had been a dominant sentiment amongst members, especially for Bryan, who identified in essence as an anti-normie.

However, the trajectory of history took a turn that led to many cultural convergences via the Internet. Bryan in particular, views the Sigma ideal as a post-anti-normie integration of normie customs within a Sigma grindset.

Plasker syndrome

See Plasker syndrome for the full article.

For the longest time, Jerry could not play games because they would always crash on him. That was the first known symptom of Plasker syndrome (PS), also known as Black voodoo syndrome (BVS). It was possibly contracted from when a magical technician had worked on Jerry's PC, hence "black voodoo syndrome". Besides Jerry, Caleb and Emanuel have also had computers infected Plasker syndrome.

Snapchat

Frogs playing StarCraft II, a quality Snapchat meme taken by Bryan in early 2013.

Snapchat is a mobile application in which users can take snaps (called snappers by Bryan), pictures, and send them to another person or group of people for a limited amount of time. The receiver can screenshot, if they're fast enough. Members of Sapphire tend to use Snapchat as a platform in order to create and share original memes. They take bizarre pictures and usually exploit any opportunity they have to get a kek out of something. In an incident, Cydax got mad at everyone for screenshotting his snaps and sending him "retarded" snaps, and therefore blocked Bryan. It has since turned into a meme, for example: Playing CSGO: Don't shoot Cydax, he might block you on Steam.

Swag

Swag is the act of having and displaying large amounts of swag. Swag has been integrated into Circle culture due to its comedic value. It is one of the key points taught in the Initiation into Sapphire. Swag is demonstrated by the behavior displayed by the individuals in this video.

Characteristics of a swag are:

  • collecting sneakers/shoes/kicks
  • using instagram, kik, vine, and/or worldstar
  • listening to rap and hip hop
  • acting and talking like like dis fam

t3sla mode

From the founding of Sapphire, until the Summer of 2012, Emanuel (t3sla) never spoke a word over the microphone; he was in t3sla mode. It was considered massive BM and therefore he was forced to start using his microphone. Jimmy once entered t3sla mode for a brief period of time due to eating his microphone too much and breaking it.

Terraria playthroughs

Although at some point members were able to complete a full multiplayer playthrough of Terraria, but they eventually lost the ability to do so, notably after Moon Lord was added to the game. This has become especially frustrating to certain individuals, such as Andy, who are very interested in experiencing the endgame of Terraria. Jerry is typically the player that gets the furthest, which resulted in the meme about his "speedruns".

Times Caleb has taken hiatus

See three times for the full article.

Caleb, a founding member of Sapphire, has taken hiatus from Sapphire more than three times. Initially, he made his first departure hoping to fool the whole group. It was such a lengthy vacation that it was considered an actual leave. He returned, but left a second time to start Dirty Players Gaming. Caleb, at this point, transitioned his online handle from Slar3xSpr33 to DirtySpr33 or just Dirty. Dirty Players Gaming disbanded, and Caleb returned due to the fact that he was bored. His third departure saw him focus on making videos on YouTube and streaming on Twitch. He befriended the Solioz Stream Group and brought them into Sapphire upon his third return. Ever since these incidents, he occasionally took breaks to recollect himself when overly stressed out. In 2018, he took more space in order to rebrand his Twitch as Red Lotus.

"Truth"

"Truth" is an idea developed by Bryan and Adam which proposes that:

  • "Truth" exists on an individual basis, informed by one's subjective experiences

A popular phrase from this development is used as an acknowledgement of other people's bizarre opinions: "Well, if that's your truth!..."

The Void

The Void is the primeval nothingness. It is often referenced within Sapphire culture in various ways, such as the Darkholm-era faction Void led by Bryan.

The Void, as an idea, entered Sapphire thought via references in StarCraft II, which was played by Emanuel and to a much lesser extent by Bryan.

Gallery

Some of the greatest visual memes in Sapphire's history.

Jerry Plasker, c. 2012; G.O.A.T.
Jerry Plasker, c. 2012; G.O.A.T. 
Stare Cat, c. 2013; Lives on in the TeamSpeak rank icons
Stare Cat, c. 2013; Lives on in the TeamSpeak rank icons 
Panda Cat with Bong, c. 2013; Traditionally on the TeamSpeak banner on 4/20
Panda Cat with Bong, c. 2013; Traditionally on the TeamSpeak banner on 4/20 
Milhouse Van Houten, c. 2014; He really is a meme
Milhouse Van Houten, c. 2014; He really is a meme 
Joshua Nissan, c. 2014; Notorious Jewish gamer
Joshua Nissan, c. 2014; Notorious Jewish gamer 

Dictionary

List of terms and phrases that appear in Sapphire culture
Term(s) or Phrase(s) Actual Meaning
acquiesce (v.) Kyle says this
ahp, ehp, nahp Clicc here
anime (adj.) "Japanese"
autism, autistic, acoustic, artistic (adj.) silly
bad manner, bm (n. v.) to annoy, harass, make fun of, flame, pester, etc. or something that causes annoyance, harassment, etc.
bent (adj.) banned
banana (adj. n.) see meme
black (adj. n. v.) an "abstract word" coined by Andy and Bryan
book club (n.) church
broken (adj.) something that is overpowered, underpowered, or dysfunctional
bryan (n.) hill
bus (v.) see plop
cancer (adj. n.) something that is unbearable
cancer build (n.) a build on League of Legends that is unconventional (which is usually bad, "unless you're Jimmy")
clown (n. v.) a dick, or to dick around
cok, pepso, and dr. pooper (n.) soft drinks
cuck (n. v.)

cucker (n.) to cuck, to be cucked (v.)

someone who gets screwed over, or to get screwed over
dinaut, D-naut someone who explores other dimensions other than the three-dimensional paradigm of human society
dingus (n.) silly or <censored>
dis dik, deez nuts, etc. (n.) See Dis Dik
default (adj.)

default computer (n.)

office/prebuilt computers
dimagglio (n.) damage
doge (n.) See shibe and
down's syndrome, left's syndrome, etc. (n.) See autism
ecksdee, xD (exp.) a very funny ironic meme
edginess (n.) a lifestyle that manifests as edgy tendencies and edgy music
fiber (n.) One day Bryan got into an argument with others in TeamSpeak over whether or not fiber has an effect on constipation.
fiending (v.) to exert intense passion
flip, fast, frick, eff, frank (exp.) meme alternatives for swear words
gag (adj.) See cancer
gat (n.) "god" or "gun", depending on context
Exited before the Internet term "gyatt" but has a similar meaning
gay (adj. n. v.) to be heterosexual
grātās (exp.) congratulations; thank you
hella (adv.) something Ben says (see gay)
hella noise (adv.) Illinois
homie (adj. n.) a really good friend
homiesexuality, homiesexual (n.) the love for one's homies
hue, huehuehue, kek, kekeke (exp.) chuckles
inb4 (exp.) in before
-ino, -ito, -ado, -oonie, etc. (suff.) makes a word cancerous
(nam) jeF (exp.) an Emanuel-Caleb meme
jimmies (n.) the gland in the jimmeological nervous system that is "rustled"
kyle challenge staying awake for very long times
le (artic.) comes before a noun or verb
le baited, to le bait (v.) See meme
meme, memeing, memer (v. n.) you should know what a meme is
mfw, tfw (exp.) mfw, tfw
mining (v.) to mine bitcoins, litecoins, dogecoins
neckhurt (n. v.) a stiffness in the neck, particularly one that emerges after a night of sleep
ningen (n.) 人間, A Japanese word roughly meaning "human", propagated by Bryan
ninja (n.) a homie
Norwegian Day (n.) One Thanksgiving, Cydax was sad that only Americans get to celebrate. Bryan saw this and decided to declare Norwegian Day a holiday for all Norwegians to celebrate alongside Americans and their Thanksgiving.
ooo kill'em (exp.) See swag or this
pedonia (n.) <censored>
plop (adj. n. v.) an "abstract word", created by Andy
pride, proud (adj. n.) abstinence
pulling a bryan (v.) dropping from Bronze I to Bronze V
pulling a jerry (v.) performing a sigh that Jerry does and claims to have obtained from a Dunkey video
pulling a jimmy (v.) verb. coming back from 3-17 in League of Legends.
pulling a pasta (v.) verb. wrapping around/flanking the longest way possible in a CS:GO map, named after Ryan (Tennessee) (Pasta) who is notorious for doing the pasta
randy (n.) a random person among a bunch of premades
rap game (exp.) a transition used to drop mad rhymes
rekt (exp. adj.) destroyed
See also bent
riot runes (n.) secret runes in League given to players by Riot
run that back (exp. v.) to restart something
ruse (n. v.) a good meme, or to meme good
rustle (n. v.) the act of upsetting the jimmies
See jimmies
sapphirization (n.) process of adapting something into Sapphire's style or according to its needs
scale (n.) noun. a scale is used to measure something
Example: the rage scale, ranging from one to Caleb, etc.
shibe, so shibe (adj.)
shots fired (exp.) phrase indicating that shots have been fired, used literally or metaphorically
smol (adj. n.) small
snap, snapper (n.) an image on snapchat
stoop (v.) to be posted up somewhere
succ (adj. n. v.) another term that lies within the realm of "abstract words"
sumat (pron.) something
t3sla mode (n.) phase where a person strictly communicates through typing, and not via voice chat
technique (n.) a method or style of doing something, usually a particular one
thiccc, thicque, thinn (adj.) an ironic meme in reference to the thicc meme
thumb (n.) only Caleb and Andy know the true meaning and origin
TRIGGERED!!!!!!!!! (exp. adj.) Jerry yells this when Bryan upsets him
unironically (adv.) as opposed to ironically
weyrt dinner (n.) when someone goes AFK in teamspeak for dinner, but comes back in two minutes
worth, el wortho (adj.) the positive value in a recently performed action
2D (n.) Any realm that is two-dimensional, even if it contains three-dimensional models. Some examples include anime, cartoons, and video games.
3-2-1 (v.) watching a video at the same time as someone else in order to gain a more dynamic experience
420 blaze it, x20 blaze it (exp.) Dank memes
9GAG (adj. n.) something that is vile, disgusting, and/or cringe-inducing

Game Timeline

All-time list of games played in Sapphire
Game Introduced to Sapphire by Importance Time span (or earliest date played)
Minecraft Most early members of Sapphire Monumental since 2011, since 2012 (with mods)
Runescape Most members Major since 2011, since 2013 (OSRS)
Terraria Many members Seasonal since 2011
League of Legends Jerry Plasker, hyprman33, Slar Monumental since February 2012
ARMA 2 t3sla, Cydax Major June 2012 - 2013 (DayZ mod included)
Smite Funky, then later Garrett Minor August 2012, September 2014
OMGPOP Funky Minor ? 2012 - April 2013
Counter-Strike:Source Many people Minor November 2013
GMOD Many people Minor Various times
Dota 2 Mike Minor November 2012,

December 2013

ARMA 3 t3sla, Cydax Minor March 2013 - ?2013
Grand Theft Auto IV Slar, Chase Minor July 2013 - August 2013
Full Tilt Poker t3sla Minor July 2013 - August 2013,

December 2013

Haven and Hearth Cydax, Sarim, t3sla Minor August 2013 - November 2013
Battlefield 3 & 4 Several members Minor November 2013
Solstice Arena Slar Minor November 2013
Starbound Slar Minor December 2013
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: Many people Major since November 2013
Rust Cydax, Slar Minor December 2013,
April 2014
DayZ Standalone Almost everyone Minor December 2013
ArcheAge Slar Minor 2014
Clash of Clans Slar Minor March 2014 - early 2015
H1Z1 Jimmy, Chase Minor June 2015 - November 2015
Black Desert Slar March 2016
Stardew Valley March 2016
Overwatch May 2016
World of Warcraft Caleb, Jerry, Jimmy July 2016
Castle Clash Adam and Caleb since 2017
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Caleb, Emanuel, some others March 2017
Kritika Online Andy May 2017
Mortal Kombat X Caleb, Adam, others June 2017
Fortnite Caleb Major September 2017
Divinity Original Sin 2 Garrett 2018
VALORANT Caleb, andy Major Spring 2020

Media

Social Networks

YouTube

YouTube Channels
Channel Link
Sapphire Main Channel SapphireMovies
Bryan's Channel The Notorious B.R.Y.A.N.
Funky's Channel MZAAO
Jimmy's Channel Jimmy Hong
Cydax's Channel Cydax
Mike's Channel Compare To Advil
Caleb's Channel SlaresProduction
Ryan's Channel OfficiallyBeastly
Andy's channel andyoclock

Twitch

Twitch Channels
Channel Link
Sapphire Main Channel Sapphire
Bryan's Channel amBryan
t3sla's Channel thestreamscribe
Caleb's Channel Red Lotus
Jimmy's Channel Jimmyooo
Funky's Channel funkykong245
Cydax's Channel ShinyPaperClip
Mike's Channel xICExFROZEN
Chase's Channel OMGitsMorganHD
PASTA's Channel OfficiallyBeastly
check0ut's Channel check0ut
Andy's Channel KohiBlend
Adam's Channel Okuda
Kyle's Channel Kyle
Andrei's Channel Rocky_AF

Popular series

The Sapphire banner of 4/20, created the day of the Callisto raid. It is typically used on the Circle Podcast episodes.

Series created by Sapphire members, which might involve other members or might make references to Circle culture.

Series Creator About Link
THE BEST RIGHT NOW Bryan THE BEST RIGHT NOW is a series of films created by Bryan from the perspective of t3sla,

called Draven Knoxville in the videos. They are about the meta-games of League of Legends.

Playlist
Animation Adventures Funky A series of random recordings by Funky

that are accompanied by animations of sorts. Similar to the Circle Podcast.

Playlist
The Circle Podcast Bryan The Circle Podcast is a series of random recordings by Bryan. It is focused on capturing great moments in TeamSpeak (see Culture of Sapphire). Playlist
Cooking with Slar3xSpr33 Bryan, Slar3xSpr33 Comedic cooking show starring Slar3xSpr33. Playlist

Discography

Sapphire Records

Sapphire has its own record label, Sapphire Records.

Bibliography

Title Author About
Callisto Dialogues Bryan The dialogue that occurred on the very first Callistover.
I'm not Callisto Callisto An epic poem on fraud and egoism.
Poetry t3sla A short poem about Ole Martin.

Services

Bryan's Server

The Jit is a server box owned and maintained by Bryan. He uses it to host services such as the Minecraft server and this Wiki.

Discord

The Sapphire Server (formerly known as the Red Lotus Discord server) is the currently group-endorsed VoIP solution. It is owned by Caleb.

League of Legends Club

The group's club is called "Sapphire Dev" and is owned by Caleb.

Old School RuneScape Clan

The group's original clan is called ATOLL (formerly BlueSapphire) and is owned by Andrei, who is transitioning it towards his personal brand.

Smurf Accounts

Members with access to the private channel on Discord can find the link to the communal smurf list.

Projects

See Projects for the full article.

Tournaments

Sapphire hosts tournaments, though, not all for a prize pool. Some are purely for fun and/or recognition.

League of Legends

Tournaments
Tournament Winner
Best Jayce SA Never occurred.
Hallowe'en 2013 1v1s Never finished.

Pool Tournamenets

Pool Tournaments are hosted once per month, and the current Prize is an award-recognition. Actual prizes might be sponsored soon. Pool is played on famous mini-game network OMGPOP.

Winners
Name Date

Dakota

1st Place February 2013

Caleb 1st Place March 2013
Never occured 1st Place April 2013

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournaments

Dueling Network tournaments will now be hosted aswell, for similar prizes as to the Pool tournament. It will NOT be on a strict schedule.

Winners
Name Date

Never occured

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Poker Tournaments

During the Summer of 2013, the group began to play online Poker on programs such as Full Tilt and Carbon Poker.

Winners
Name Date

Never occurred

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Fantasy Basketball

Starting with the 2016-17 NBA season, Sapphire started a fantasy basketball league for its members.