Sapphire

Sapphire Development

Industry	Gaming, Social
Founded	Hollywood, FL, United States September 20, 2011 (2011-09-20)
Founder(s)	Bryan Gregory Emanuel Cicortas Mohammad Bhatti Michael McGloin Caleb Duke Ole Martin Fiska
Headquarters	Hollywood, FL, United States
Key people	See Staff
Products	Media
Services	Sapphire's TeamSpeak3, Game Servers, Tournaments
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)
Other names	The Circle
Website	sapphiredev.org

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. dik SEgSE

The History of Sapphire

Pre-Sapphire

October 2010 - September 2011

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.

The Originals

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

The original Sapphire Minecraft server.

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.

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.

Darkholm Age

December 2011 - May 2012

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

"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 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 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.

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. 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.

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.

Jimmy Hong and co

May 2012 - May 2013

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.

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.

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.

Callisto raid

April 2013 - May 2013

The Callisto raid, including the other team.

See Callistostarianism and Callistover for the full articles.

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 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.

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.

A New Age

May 2013 - December 2013

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Return of the Circle jerk

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 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.

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.

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 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!"

On top of these, many other trends have spread throughout the group. Among recent events, the revival of 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 DIK Academy is to study the 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.

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 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 Caleb Duke.

Culture of Sapphire

The Sapphire crew hangs out in 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 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 nigga style is predominant in the area, it is incorporated into Sapphire culture as well. One video in particular covers most of the culture, HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL!. It's essentially a textbook for the group.

See the Circle for the full article on the name.

Bad manner

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"

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.

t3sla exception

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

See Callistostarianism for the full article.

Callistostarianism is a religion in Sapphire and a collection of doctrines which were taught by Callisto. Callisto randomly joined 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. 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.

Cannabis culture

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.

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.

Coke vs. Pepsi

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.

"Death" & Mike's Grandfather's Funeral

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.

"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!"

Departure of Duke

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.

DIS DIK

With the 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: DIS DIK which was the real answer to 1x/1. Furthermore, a 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!

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.

Etymology

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

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.

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 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).
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.
DIS DIK: THE MOVIE	To be announced.
DIS DIK: THE SHOW	To be announced.
DIS DIK: THE ALBUM	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 here.

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 troll build that most of the time might fail.

Jimmies and Rustling

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

See Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America for the full article.

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.

Memes

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.

Necking

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 no nothing. Meaning a neck is theirs regardless of self-serve or any other call.
• call self-serve. Giving a cheap swipe to your neck to "self serve" and avoid the gravity of the real thing.
• call teleport/time travel into the past and self-serve.
• 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

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.

Sapphirization

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.

Sapphire Speak

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's and o'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 9GAG.

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.

Snapchat

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).

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

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 DIK Academy. A great video demonstrating a highschool population with a large percentage of swagfags would be HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL!

Characteristics of swagfags are...

• collecting sneakers/shoes/kicks
• use instagram, kik, and/or vine
• listen to rap and hip hop
• act like a pimp
• use swagfaggotric terminology and/or speak in a ghetto accent of English

t3sla mode

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.

Dictionary

Word	Definition
autism	dumb beyond comprehension
bad manner, bm	bad manner; annoy, harass, make fun of, flame, pester, etc.; originated from starcraft 2
bals dep	balls deep
bent	banned; see also rekt
bitcoin	see mining
blaze	see 420
book club	church
broken	'overpowered' or 'underpowered' and sometimes 'dysfunctional'; originated from league of legends
bryan, pulling a bryan	dropping from Bronze I to Bronze V
clown	a dick, to dick around
cok, pepso, and dr. pooper	soft drinks
dis dik, deez nuts, suk, etc.	see Dis Dik
default, default computer	office/prebuilt computers
doge	see shibe and dogecoins
dogecoin	see mining
down's syndrome, left's syndrome, etc.	see autism
ecksdee, xD	a dik sukking face, used to mock 9GAGers
gag	a bad meme
gay, being gay	to sexually interact in a heterosexual way; first started when Caleb Duke said that "sex is gay"
hella	something Ben says (see gay)
hella noise	Illinois
hue, huehuehue, kek, kekeke	chuckles
inb4	in before
jerry, do the jerry	a rather interesting sigh that Jerry does and claims to have obtained it from a Dunkey video.
jimmy, pulling a jimmy	going from 3-17 to a much better score in League of Legends.
jimmies	the gland in the jimmeological nervous system that is "rustled" by physical or mental contact
le	comes before a noun or verb, used jokingly to mock 9GAGers
le baited, to le bait	to be trapped, tricked; a sapphirized version of the word troll(ing)
let's roll a bowl	spoof of the CS:GO "let's roll-oll" soundclip
meme, meming, memer	1. trend 2. to ruse 3. a person who memes
mfw, tfw	mfw, tfw
mining	mining bitcoins, litecoins, dogecoins; an obsession of Jimmy's
ooo, kill'em	see swag or this
pasta, doing the pasta	wrapping around/flanking the longest way possible in a CS:GO map; named after Ryan Costa (Pasta) who is notorious for doing the pasta
randy, randies	a random person among a bunch of premades in League of Legends
rekt	destroyed, banned (on Destiny's chat); see also bent
ruse	"an action intended to deceive someone"; usually a good meme
rustle	the act of upsetting the jimmies (see jimmies)
sapphire speak	slang of English used in Sapphire; See Sapphirization
sapphirization	to adapt to the style or needs of Sapphire; See Sapphirization
scale	a scale is used to measure something; example: the rage scale, ranging from one to Caleb Duke, etc.
shibe, so shibe
shots fired	indicating that shots have been fired; used literally (in ARMA 2: DayZ) and metaphorically with BM
snap, snapper	an image on snapchat
suffixes: -ino, -ito, -ado, -oonie, etc.	makes a word cool; ex: snapperino, bandito, reportado, blazeroonie
swag, swagfag	acting like a nigga; sapphirized in a comical way
top kek, top lel	see hue and kek
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	something that is vile; disgusting; cringe-worthy; a website full of faggots (see autism)

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

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.

Members

Name	Joined
Bryan Gregory	Founder
Ole Martin Fiska	Founder
Emanuel Cicortas	Founder
Michael McGloin	Founder
Mohammad Bhatti	Founder
Caleb Duke	Founder
James Lockwood	2011
Jack Campbell	2011
Sindre Boe	2011
Tor Thorkildsen	2011
Ethan Schulze	2011
Alexander Thomas	2011
Ellen Hermansen	2012
Jerry Plasker	2012
Nick Zaslav	2012
Will Messick	2012
Dakota Warner	2012
Kenan Heath	2012
Woods Connell	2012
Jimmy Hong	2012
CobraStrike	2012
Jessenia Otalora	2012
Johnnie Hong	2013
Ryan Chabot	2013
lekk	2013
Brandon Lin	2013
Chase Jenkins	2013
Usama Riaz	2013
Ben Thomas	2014
Ryan Costa	2014
Greg	2014
Garrett Brock	2014

Other Figures

The other figures consist of people who are known around Sapphire but are not considered members for various reasons.

Other Figures

Name	About
Chris Uptop	No comment

Legendary Figures

The legendary figures of Sapphire are people who are:

• legendary
• often mentioned as folklore in snapchats or in teamspeak

Note: some of these legendary figures are fake and some are real.

Legendary Figures

Name	About
El Saviour	Rescue vehicle; met Sapphire in ARMA.
Bobo	Black man; randomly joined Sapphire's TeamSpeak.
Callisto	A deity; randomly joined Sapphire's TeamSpeak.
Blood1310017	A professional Malphite player; met Sapphire on League of Legends.
Gatzi Almighty	A deity; appeared in a vision of Bryan's.

Membership Process

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 Initiation, the DIK Academy (DA), the 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--HOW NIGGAS ACT AT SCHOOL! The main focus is on the fields of Dikology, Jimmeology, & 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

Membership Process

Time spent	Section	Grade level	Description	Examples
Forever	School board	Administrators	Reserved for the absolute first member(s) of Sapphire	Bryan, t3sla
Months to 1-2+ Years	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)
	DIK Academy	Senior	Has learned most of the basics of Sapphire and has at least a few months if not a year	Ryan Costa
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
Minutes to days	Initiation	Initiate	A newcomer who is going through the Initiation trials (to learn the absolute fundamentals)
N/A	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

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.

Games

Game	Introduced to Sapphire by	Time span
Minecraft & Mods	Most early members of Sapphire	September 2011 (Foundation of Sapphire) - May 2012 (Regular Minecraft), September 2012 - August 2013 (Mods)
Terraria	Many members	Various amounts of time in 2011, 2012, and 2013
League of Legends	Jerry Plasker, Slar, hyprman33	February 2012 - present (with various pauses)
ARMA 2 & Mods	t3sla, Cydax	June 2012 - present (everyone now and then)
OMGPOP	Funky	? 2012 - April 2013
Counter-Strike:Source	Many people	Various times, November 2013 - present
GMOD	Many people	Various times
Dota 2	Mike	November 2012, December 2013 - present
ARMA 3	t3sla, Cydax	March 2013 - present
Grand Theft Auto IV	Slar, Chase	July 2013 - August 2013
Full Tilt Poker	t3sla	July 2013 - August 2013, December 2013
Haven and Hearth	Cydax, t3sla	August 2013 - November 2013
Battlefield 3 & 4	Several members	November 2013
Solstice Arena	Slar	November 2013
Starbound	Slar	December 2013
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive:	Many people	November 2013 - present
Rust	Cydax, Slar	December 2013, April 2014 - present
DayZ	Almost everyone	December 2013 - present
Clash of Clans	Slar	March 2014 - present

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

Sapphire has a Facebook and a Twitter.

YouTube

Channels

Channel	Link
Sapphire Main Channel	SapphireMovies
Bryan's Channel	Bryan Gregory
Funky's Channel	MZAAO
Jimmy's Channel	Jimmy Hong
Cydax's Channel	Cydax
Mike's Channel	Compare To Advil
Slar's Channel	SlaresProduction
Ryan Costa's Channel	OfficiallyBeastly

Twitch

Channels

Channel	Link
Sapphire Main Channel	Sapphire
Bryan's Channel	bryan plays schtuff
t3sla's Channel	thestreamscribe
Slar's Channel	Dirty
Jimmy's Channel	15 Year Old Jimmy!
Funky's Channel	Doing stuff
Cydax's Channel	ShinyPaperClip
Mike's Channel	xICExFROZEN
Chase's Channel	FUNTIME!!!
PASTA's Channel	OfficiallyBeastly

Filmography

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	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

Sapphire Movies

Sapphire Movies, composed of several members of Sapphire, has made several short films/shows together.

Series	Director	About	Link
The Circle Podcast	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).	Playlist
Cooking with Slar3xSpr33	Bryan, Slar3xSpr33	Comedic cooking show starring Slar3xSpr33.	Playlist

Discography

BGREGZ

Mixtapes

• DIS DIK: THE MIXTAPE (2013, prod. by BGREGZ)
• Bad Cop (2014, prod. by BGREGZ)

Albums

• TBA (201?)

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 Fiska.

Teams and Divisions

Sapphire sponsors teams and has divisions.

Sapphire Movies

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

See Dirty Gaming for the full article.

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.

Sapphire Gaming

See Sapphire Gaming for the full article.

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.

Bank of Sapphire

See Bank of Sapphire for the full article.

The Bank of Sapphire regulates the transactions within Sapphire.

Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America

See Institute of Jimmeological Research and Development of America 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.

Sapphire's Flexible Minecraft Server

IP Address	Availability	Location	Operator	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.

Sapphire's TeamSpeak3

IP Address	Availability	Location	Operator	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.

Award	Description
Year Milestones	Every Sapphire birthday of a member they will receive a new Year Milestone. Ex: 1 Year Milestone, 2 Years Milestone, etc.
Tournament Awards	Tournament Winners receive an award on the forums and/or on the TeamSpeak server.
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.

Title	Recipients
Saint (St.) & Sage	Michael McGloin, t3sla
Blessed	El Savior, Gatzi Almighty, Gabe Newell, Blood1310017, Peecock
Lord	Callisto

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 Warner	1st Place February 2013
Caleb Duke	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	1st Place May 2013

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
To be announced	-