Historical Events
From Asaction
Time before recorded history - The First RIF Riots. Many were killed.
- Adult Swim expands from a three-hour, Saturday night programming block to three hours Monday through Thursday nights. Irate fans of Toonami's Midnight run march on Williams Street, only to be turned back by police clad in riot gear, wielding fire hoses and attack dogs.
- The success of the weeknight slot soon causes the block to add a 2 A. M. repeat run immediately following the conclusion of the 11 P. M. run.
Summer of 2003
- "cuz anime is teh s uck!" was created.
- Complaints from fans about current [adult swim] line up.
- Lack of moderators could not prevent constant spamming on the message boards.
October 26, 2003 - Episode 20 of The Big O is aired instead of the season finale. The board activity reportedly increased 300% during the 12 hours after the episode aired. This event became known as the Big Occident I.
November 2, 2003 - [adult swim] aired the beginning of the previous week's episode for about 25 seconds. Before [as] can say, "Sorry, we had to do it," the boards had already received complaint threads.
April 1, 2004 - [adult swim] places mustaches on shows resulting in spam all over the [adult swim] message boards.
April 17, 2004 - Action Saturdays returned, featuring the debut of the Animatrix.
June 17, 2005 - original AD fanclub night
September 17, 2005 - National Day of Feasting and Festivities celebrates the return of Fullmetal Alchemist premiere episodes
December 9, 2005 - AD invades WSC
December 2005 - Bleach characters are assigned to most AD regulars
December 2005/January 2006 - AD regulars elimination - Ghost is triumphant - since she pwns us all
Sometime between January and March 2006 - The RIF Monarchy falls. Real_AirCooledMan attempted to bring it back in IB, but it never caught on.
April 1, 2006 - April Fool's Day farties throw AD into disarray
April 23, 2006 - a glut of Eureka seveN hate threads and flamebaiting escalates into an all-out riot lasting several hours
September 5, 2006 - Big Occident 2: AS skips the penultimate episode of Big O and ADers take to the Fan Reviews folder in protest
October 27, 2006 - The final episode of Inuyasha airs. The military is called in to control riots in AD
November 20, 2006 - The fist AD Wiki was made, and it wasn't up to snuff. AD Wiki has since expanded and much fun has been had. (This really is a lot of fun... we should have done this earlier... it's even made me stop my post whoring for an hour)
March 31, 2007 - Despite April Fool's Day falling on Sunday, the action lineup falls victim to yet another prank as the entirety of the block after midnight (except for Voltron at 5:30) is replaced with a continuous loop of bootleg-style "subbed" Perfect Hair Forever episodes. Most action fans are not pleased, although the furor is not quite as extensive as it had been the previous year.
April 28, 2007 - Mass unrest again takes hold of AD and several other folders as the final episode of Eureka seveN is aired with the beginning and ending scenes cut out. The edits, ostensibly made to save airing time, suggest a certain disregard for the principles of quality storytelling, and many wonder if this is yet another jab at anime fans or if they really are that stupid.
