History

wip HISTORY

MM = bare minimum to add on the timeline

Highly recommended to add more.

Temporary justifications for eras being seperate added.

NOTE: smaller heading =/= less important or exact subdivision

Age of Inception (2016)

BonziWORLD was first launched on August 22, 2016 by a man named Joseph Judge (a.k.a. jojudge or heyjoeway), under the domain bonziworld.com. During these very early days of BonziWORLD, the community mostly consisted of Vinesauce fans (Vinesauce was the one to revive the BonziBUDDY meme in 2014/2015); and there wasn't as much autism on the site as there is now. BonziWORLD was also very dead a lot of the time because of how unpopular it was in comparison to other meme chatting clients. However, this did not last for long.

Kiddie Invasion

Around late 2016, a notorious Portuguese logosperg by the name of Diogo Miguel Barros Mendes waddled his way into BonziWORLD and immediately started making YouTube videos about it and sharing the link with his buddies; soon enough bringing a lot of autistic logo kids to BonziWORLD and by extension other sperglets with ties to logo kids such as GoFags and objectfags. This caused a demographic shift that some label as the "cancer that is killing BonziWORLD", and irreversibly turned BonziWORLD into a circlejerk for 10-year-old kids obsessed with Battle for Dream Island and GoAnimate to spam their fugly logoslop. A lot of the older community leaves due to this, some stay.

Classic BonziWORLD Era (2017-2019)

Early (Early 2017-Mid 2017)

Defined by the initial mess and clusterfuck on the website, Early Classic BonziWORLD was characterized by its lack of celebrities, except for Diogo. This period has been credited for the start of trends still popular on BW today, such as "BonziWORLD Reacts to...", autistically announcing your mute ("MUTED!!!!!!!!"), "Behh" spam, "oi" spam that was lost to time etc.

Middle (Mid 2017-Mid 2018)

Peak of classic BonziWORLD. Defined by the formation of a more coherent community. The names and infamous personalities mostly established, a lot of BonziWORLD veterans joined during this period. Probably the most coherent era in general due to its stability. The community was still very autistic though; seeing a grounded video made with fucking BonziWORLD of all things was not uncommon.

Late (Late 2018-July 2019)

Also known as BonziWORLD's downfall. It's during that time when skids stumbled upon BW and realized how easy it was to make spambots of it; and is also when the infamous Losky Virus was shat out and Danielius Paulavicius (a.k.a. Onute/Jabba Saulute) first became relevant. The usual autistic grounding spam got quickly replaced by even more autistic botted spam, making the site unusable for 2/3 of the day. BonziWORLD also saw floods, which were inneffective since the public rooms had a user limit of 8.

The Shutdown (July 2019-2021)

After almost 3 years of being the ~~best~~ worst BonziBUDDY meme site in existence, Joseph Judge shut down the original BonziWORLD on July 10, 2019 due to him running out of time to maintain the site (however there is a possibility jojudge actually shut down BonziWORLD due to all the skids). This actually made the underage BFDI spergs addicted to the purple monkey chat site make a million YouTube videos of them raging to BonziWORLD's shutdown; but (un)fortunately this wasn't the end of BonziWORLD. Not long after, an individual by the name of BagelChip took advantage of BonziWORLD being open-source and put up his own instance of BonziWORLD at bonzi.dega.io. Word about the new BonziWORLD revival spread like wildfire among the remains of the community; and by August everyone knew about bonzi.dega.io.

The Scramble for BonziWORLD (Late 2019-Late 2020)

MM: BWR's rise to power, BWR's war with uranohoshi and destruction of bonzi.dega.io, short term bwr dominance.

Unsurprisingly, bonzi.dega.io was a frequent target for skids just like the original BonziWORLD in its later days. Eventually the skid problem on bonzi.dega.io reached a boiling point when then-nobody Seamus Mario55 began injecting his Losky Virus all over bonzi.dega.io; raping the shit out of the site. This got BagelChip to shut down bonzi.dega.io in October 2019 while he tried patching all the exploits. Seamus then took advantage of bonzi.dega.io's shutdown and launched BonziWORLD Revived (a.k.a. BWR) not long after on the 7th of October.

For about two months, BWR remained the most popular server and Seamus effectively ruled BonziWORLD with an iron fist; kicking or banning anyone that even disagreed with him. While Seamus' iron fist rule resulted in a lot of rage videos among kiddies (some of them being unintentionally funny, such as this one), the popular opinion (and an open secret among BWR's userbase) was that Seamus' moderation sucked ass. Everyone hoped an alternative to BWR would show up; and it eventually did.

Around December 21, 2019, BagelChip brought back bonzi.dega.io under the domain bonzi.world; and a new BonziWORLD server (fittingly titled New! BonziWORLD) was launched at uranohoshi.in. While New! BonziWORLD was bloated as fuck with a million Mario recolors, it became very popular thanks to Seamus' love for the banhammer. Seamus could not accept losing his userbase and not long after began raping the shit out of New! BonziWORLD until he got it to shut down. This victory, however, was short-lived, as everyone moved to bonzi.world.

Around March of 2020, BagelChip added the modern UI to bonzi.world; which obviously clashes a lot with the original Windows XP design of BonziWORLD. BagelChip then put up a "classic" version of bonzi.world at classic.bonzi.world; which removes a lot of the features he added to the site such as the modern UI. While bonzi.world was moderated like once a week, classic.bonzi.world was almost never moderated; resulting in it becoming a battleground of autistic children shitting out grounded threats and skids injecting behh floodscripts. Nonetheless classic.bonzi.world eventually overtook the original bonzi.world in popularity.

Common Era (2021-Present)

This is the era that many would call "modern BonziWORLD". Most of the relevant people and servers are well established from having formed during the Scramble.

First Stable Period (2021-Mid 2022)

MM: bonzi.world rise to power and server.erik.red shutdown, overall peace on bonziworld (though it was chaotic on discord anarchies, this does not fit in here).

MM #2: Shutdown of erik's server, rise of bonzi.world.

The Great Repression Period (Mid 2022-Late 2022)

MM: Collaborations between Fune and Seamus, onute.world, removal of decent admins from BWR, power tripping on BWR, creation and abandonment of bonzi.ga, souring attitude towards Seamus from the community.

The Great War (October 2022-December 2023)

The Great War was a (more-than-)one-year-long internet sissy fight between Fune (the owner of bonzi.ga/bonzi.lol/bonziworld.org) and Seamus Cremeens (the owner of BonziWORLD Revived/Community Edition). While the war's fate was effectively sealed all the way back in December of 2022 (when bonzi.ga overtook BWR in average user count), the war continued in one way or another as each side would DDoS or spam all over each other. Toxing was also used as a weapon; though mostly by Seamus' side. The end of the war finally came in late December 2023 as Fune called Seamus' mom; with her eventually forcing her son to shut down BWR for good.

Bonzi.ga's rise to power

MM: Bonzi.ga's revival, short term cooperation, end of cooperation after seamus domains stolen, toxxing of bonzi.ga, toxxing of the VPS, moicing of bwr. Ends in December

Destruction of BWR

MM: AWFOB, wiki's founding, server rewrite, seamus' paragraphs, cosmic's grooming, halagetworld & BWR alliance, DDOSing crisis on bonzi.lol, moving to bonziworld.org, shutdown of BWR by Seamus mother

Second Stable Period (2024)

Nothing to mention, era just started. Marked by end of BWR and peace on BonziWORLD.