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'''[https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/profile/3990-hawkbitalpha/ HawkbitAlpha]''' (formerly '''ACSBehemothHellcat''', '''Prince Darkstar''', and '''AlphaWarhawk''') is an SBC member who originally joined the community in May 2011, but was banned from the site for much of the 2010s until becoming a permanent member in 2018. He is currently one of SBC's three [[Cashiers]], and the admin of [[SpongeCraft Frontiers]].

Hawk's aggressive and increasingly arrogant behavior made him a very polarizing figure in SBC/SBM's shared history throughout much of the 2010s; in his late teen years, this aspect would come to overshadow his previous history on SBC, reaching a peak during his time as the original owner of SBM's Discord. On top of his years-long detachment from ''SpongeBob'' as a whole, Hawk's egotistical, self-indulgent attitude, as well as his tendency to start fights and petty dramas, caused a level of controversy to follow him through his entire time on the site. On the other hand, some SBM members praised his efforts in calling out and attacking many of the site's most disliked members, and later pushing the staff team to issue a number of bans in 2017 and 2018. Hawk's management of the SBM Discord was met with similarly mixed reactions, with many praising his work in constructing and managing the server's features, but criticizing his chaotic and often hostile moderation practices.

After five years under a permaban, Hawk's actions on SBM allowed him to be [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15667-hello-procrastinators/ unbanned from SBC] for the final time in March 2018, and two months later, he resigned as the SBM Discord's owner out of feelings of disillusionment, solidifying his shift to SBC as a permanent member in the process.

While Hawk remains a somewhat combative person to this day, he has mellowed out considerably since the late 2010s, and has gone on to have a far more peaceful time with SBC than his prior years spent on SBM. The Sharing Time thread "Anger, Debates, Empathy, and Socialism" contains his reflections on his own personality and political views over time.

On November 11, 2022, Hawk became the first formerly-banned member in SBC history to be made a [[Cashiers|Cashier]], succeeding [[Fred Rechid]]. His primary agenda since being promoted to staff has been to bring more video game-based events to SBC, and his most noteworthy creation in that pursuit is [[SpongeCraft Frontiers]], a hybrid survival/creative Minecraft server which he has led since its launch in July 2023. He organizes the recurring [[Community Mixtape]] music project, and in 2023, was the host of the [[The Golden Community Awards|Golden Community Awards]] XVII. As a moderator, Hawk tends to be a "wild card" among the staff, occasionally acting on his own initiative toward agendas both inside of and beyond SBC itself, and often without prior input from other staff members; most notably, he was responsible for bringing [[ZaidCatDog|Zaid]] back to SBC in August 2024. From February 2023 to October 2024, he also owned an alt account on SBM, known as Myles Sparklighter or StarboyMK.

 

Later into his time on SBM, Hawk became known as a skilled rhetorical writer, frequently navigating arguments on politics and other real-world subjects with other members on both sides of the spectrum. This was a point of pride for him, and as his 2018 return to SBC coincided with a leftward shift in his own political views, he eventually became one of SBC's primary progressive voices. Despite slowing down on his participation in political discussions since the early 2020s, Hawk is still known to challenge and test friends and acquaintances on their beliefs, especially outside of the greater SBC community.

 

Throughout the 2010s, Hawk presented himself as a no-nonsense, conflict-loving "hard truth-teller", and often played up his interests in stereotypically-male subjects, in what he now refers to as "acts of overcompensation." To the surprise and amusement of many SBCers, he would take a drastic turn away from this behavior in August 2020 by [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18396-mlp-friendship-is-magic-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-color-pink/ proclaiming] that he had become a "late-bloomer brony", a fact that continues to define his online presence today. This began a trend of Hawk intentionally subverting his older self-image, which would eventually culminate in him coming out to the community as nonbinary in October 2023, after he had also come out as pansexual in 2019.

 

Much like [[ZaidCatDog|Zaid]], Hawk has diverse interests spanning, among other things, music, gaming, and history, but arguably his most well-known is his passion for aviation. Since 2011, he has had a similarly storied connection with the community of the indie flight simulator [https://ysflight.org/ YSFlight], and has become one of its most key figures, helping to drive players to the sim with word-of-mouth advertising and one-on-one player support. He is the leader and co-founder of the [https://discord.gg/KD7KbvDdvj Virtual Collective of Aerial Performers] (VCAP), a group founded in 2021 primarily dedicated to hosting virtual airshows in YSFlight, and fielding its own in-house acts on other platforms. Typically credited as either "Wedge" or "Kaze", he has also lent his voice to other acts on platforms such as Digital Combat Simulator World and Roblox, including as narrator for the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXa2UMXsE3zLaCmErtDj4ZQ Virtual Raptor Demo Team] (VRDT) and [https://www.youtube.com/@virtuallegacyhornetdemo/featured Virtual Legacy Hornet Demo Team] (VLHD).