What is the story behind Icon Era?

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I’m sure a lot are also like me. I was on Neogaf from 06-17, Resetera 17-22. I was banned for telling them the ABK deal wasn’t as sunshine and rainbows as they wanted to hear. Then I found iconera, as I didn’t want to return to Neogaf because I find the community to be political.

Damn. I was on GAF from 2006-2017. At some point, I joined Reset Era and got banned for saying something negative about a lunatic lady developer. I joined GAF again, but it turned to shit real soon because you could not say anything remotely negative about cult leader Spencer and his business model without a pack of rabid zealots jumping all over you.
 

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During the beginning of this gen GAF became an incredibly highly astroturfed forum with dozens of xbox evangelist shills ruining every conversation (and sony fans/fanboys countering them). At some point the mod team decided that they would start banning everyone for console warring, you could get permed for relatively innocent comments if a mod woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Funny enough some of the most prominent xbox shills only received temp bans. I suspect the mod team there fully bought into the idea of a gamepass future despite the constant shilling for it on that site, anyone who criticized the business model caught bans. I feel like a lot of the people who came to this site were refugees from that time.
 

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Funny enough some of the most prominent xbox shills only received temp bans. I suspect the mod team there fully bought into the idea of a gamepass future despite the constant shilling for it on that site, anyone who criticized the business model caught bans. I feel like a lot of the people who came to this site were refugees from that time
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This place went up when GAF was at the lowest point. It was like a Phil Spencer pornsite. They were so sure Xbox and GP were going to rule the world.

The scary thing is they still call it SonyGAF 😬
 

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This place went up when GAF was at the lowest point. It was like a Phil Spencer pornsite. They were so sure Xbox and GP were going to rule the world.

The scary thing is they still call it SonyGAF 😬

The resident xbox astroturfers like adam still working hard atacking ps5pro

Imagine doing that to xbox series x back then

Wont last long there
 
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Well discovered this place because fairly well known YouTube whom I interact with occasionally on Twitter kept retweeting the tweets. I eventually checked it out and deiced to join and that's how I joined my first gaming forum.

Though things get a bit tense here at times, I do think the overall community here is pretty decent. A nice little outlet to voice opinions about a shared hobby.

Really? All this time I've been talking to you thinking you're Danja from GAF.

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In think in that case I hope I didn't bother you, although I like and respect GAF's Danja a lot in case you're wondering.

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Really? All this time I've been talking to you thinking you're Danja from GAF.

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In think in that case I hope I didn't bother you, although I like and respect GAF's Danja a lot in case you're wondering.

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That Danja on Gaf had the nicest person tag in their Avatar, which is 100% not our @Danja.

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Gediminas

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Title. Im curious about it, especially when I see some random "founder" post now and then.

What is the story behind this forum? A group of online or real life friends who just decided to start a new site? Or rebel users who didn't know each other from other foums who decided to start their own?

I know that @Bryank75 is from Ireland because he said so himself, @Gediminas seems to lean heavily into playstation games, and @Dr Bass is always a pleasure to read because he is usually one the most level headed users here. How did you all come together to create this place?
Hi. i lean towards Playstation games, but i am playing loads of other games too. i am ACreed, Diablo and Borderlands sucker, non are Playstation games :)

for me, it started around 2019, just before PS5 leaked info, signed up for NGaf, that's where i met @Old Gamer , @Bryank75, @Bo_Hazem, @Gamernyc78, TheLastWord and other Playstation brothers. 💙

at the time, NGaf was very very Xbox leaning, shills were all over the site, making FUD, lies and spinning every bit of information.
Mod highly protected Spencer's name, xbox shills and overall The Message by them. you couldn't critic anything towards xbox anyhow, that was deemed to be console warring, but other way, no problem! Jim is shit, this and that, Playstation doom, sucks etc, you name worst things, it was posted and defended by die hard fans and shills.
Even worse happened when PS5 was revealed, oh man, the FUD, most ridiculous nonsense was thrown around. we even compiled the list of this nonsense ( @Sircaw do your job here, summon the List :D ). xbox shills and die hards create even Discord, where they coordinated and spread FUD and lies, in that discord were plenty of known names, like Buggaga. Playstation fans tried to resist, but that's when the Great Purge of Playstation Fans happened on Ngaf, that's where Green Rats was born.

some of use got banned, some of us just got tired. me, i was summoned to Discord and we had our own Server. some of us known each other for the last 4-5 years and interact with each other on message boards often.
that's where all this Forum idea have started, and some of us, bravest, decided to fulfill that dream. a forum by gamers, who are truly are gamers. maybe forum is not perfect, as we are still only humans, but we strive that the place would be for gamers.

shoutout to @Sircaw, @Gamernyc78, @TubzGaming, @Cragarmi, @arvfab, @Dr Bass, @PropellerEar, @Heisenberg007, @IntentionalPun. 💙
 
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Hi. i lean towards Playstation games, but i am playing loads of other games too. i am ACreed, Diablo and Borderlands sucker, non are Playstation games :)

for me, it started around 2019, just before PS5 leaked info, signed up for NGaf, that's where i met @Old Gamer , @Bryank75, @Bo_Hazem, @Gamernyc78, TheLastWord and other Playstation brothers.

at the time, NGaf was very very Xbox leaning, shills were all over the site, making FUD, lies and spinning every bit of information.
Mod highly protected Spencer's name, xbox shills and overall The Message by them. you couldn't critic anything towards xbox anyhow, that was deemed to be console warring, but other way, no problem! Jim is shit, this and that, Playstation doom, sucks etc, you name worst things, it was posted and defended by die hard fans and shills.
Even worse happened when PS5 was revealed, oh man, the FUD, most ridiculous nonsense was thrown around. we even compiled the list of this nonsense ( @Sircaw do your job here, summon the List :D ). xbox shills and die hards create even Discord, where they coordinated and spread FUD and lies, in that discord were plenty of known names, like Buggaga. Playstation fans tried to resist, but that's when the Great Purge of Playstation Fans happened on Ngaf, that's where Green Rats was born.

some of use got banned, some of us just got tired. me, i was summoned to Discord and we had our own Server. some of us known each other for the last 4-5 years and interact with each other on message boards often.
that's where all this Forum idea have started, and some of us, bravest, decided to fulfill that dream. a forum by gamers, who are truly are gamers. maybe forum is not perfect, as we are still only humans, but we strive that the place would be for gamers.

shoutout to @Sircaw, @Gamernyc78, @TubzGaming, @Cragarmi, @arvfab, @Dr Bass, @PropellerEar, @IntentionalPun.
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Really? All this time I've been talking to you thinking you're Danja from GAF.

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In think in that case I hope I didn't bother you, although I like and respect GAF's Danja a lot in case you're wondering.

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Well , yeah my first forum. I would read stuff on GaF but never joined, same for Era. This place seemed chilled enough so I eventually just bit the bullet and made an account 😬
 

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So, most of us came from Neogaf and some of us were also on other forums... Reset, Gamespot, VGChartz and various others.

However, Gaf was the connecting point. We all met there and most of us were very big PlayStation fans. Then at a certain point, there seemed to be a purge of PlayStation fans and super fans on Gaf and I believe Garani made a discord.

One by one we all joined as a backup place in case we all got banned.

I believe the guys had tried to make a forum before but it didn't take off.
Eventually I took over admin of the discord and started to throw around ideas for our own forum....

The guys already had a xenforo license and already had servers and knowledge.

So anyone that wanted to be a founder invested a small amount and that's how it got started.

We all have our own histories through that time.... If you want any backstory I haven't mentioned, I'd be happy to expand.
Awesome story tbh... I knew day 1 that this place was amazing and this explains one of the reasons why it's the place to be! (y)