As many of you know, Neogaf is closing in on having 100000 members. This is quite an achievement, for what is supposedly a "gaming" forum. After countless sleepless nights and many months of research, I have finally uncovered the truth behind this forum!!!!
Four months ago, I started noticing many unusual things that were happening on this forum. Members were disappearing, their names marked in grey, as if someone was trying to erase them from existence. Some members came back and assumed different identities, the lucky ones came back and resumed their routine like nothing had happen. (were they lucky though? Were they?)
Some members were never heard from again. Others were exiled, left with no place to stay at, and no thread to reply or subscribe to!! Eventually these banished renegades formed their own community, a lawless barren land!!
What happened to the rest of the erased members? What was done to them? Why did the people who came back have no recollection of the event that happened while they were gone? How long has this been going on?
I discovered a handful of secret areas on this forum. It seems that they are highly restricted forums that only a handful of people can access. I was able to access a few of them.
Door number 1: Leads to a hallway that gives you access to doors 2 and 3.
Door number 2:: a place where moderators can study the behavior of gaming nerds towards games.
Door number 3:: Another study takes place here too. Experiment codenamed OT.
Door number 4:: Locked!!
Door number 5:: Locked!!
Door number 6:: the Archive!! I was surprised when I found out that I can access the archives. Here, one can find notable past experiments, the results of the experiments and a list of the survivors and the erased members!! The archives leads to 4 other doors. Doors 7 , 14, 18 and 19.
Door number 8:: People in the same experiments are allowed to interact with each other here. This part of the forum is designed to allow a more focused observation.
Door number 9:: It gives you access to doors number 8 and 15.
Door number 10:: Locked!!!
Door number 13:: A place where interviews are posted. They seem to be focused on the results of the experiments conducted on this forum and elsewhere.
Door number 16:: Locked!!!
What is going behind these locked doors?? What are the moderators hiding behind them? And who is behind these experiments????
Ladies and gentlemen, after further research I found the people responsible behind this operation:
Member #1: gaadmin
gaadmin is supposedly the head of the organization behind these experiments. He joined the organization on May 29th, 2004! He likes to work behind the scenes and rarely ever communicates with the test subjects. Where is he now, and what is he doing?
Member #2: Hitokage
Hitokage joined the company 1 day after gaadmin. He/she is a very hands on person and likes to oversee the experiments.
Member #3: maharg
It is fitting that this member has a bomb as his avatar, simply because what I learned about him is bombshell. He is quite possibly the founder of this organization, and he joined/founded the company on December 31st 1969 Simply unreal!!! What if these experiments have been going on since then? How many lost souls have they claimed?
Member #4: Evilore
You can't spell Evilore without EVIL!!! This administrator/scientist is known for his ruthlessness and strict rules. He joined the company on May 30th 2004, and he is Hitokage's right hand man. He constantly changes the rules of the experiments.
Member #5: Isotropic
Not much is known about this person, except that he joined the company on the 30th of May 2004. It is possible that he simply fund the experiments.
There you have it!!! Everything I have uncovered about this "Gaming community" is right here. What do I benefit from all of this? Nothing.. in fact this might harm me when the administrators find out that someone is ruining their experiments and they might try to erase me from your memories.
