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The Third Renaissance was centered around the demotion and permanent ban of longtime SBC staff member '''Mr. Dr. Professor Patrick''', and was spurred on by increased focus on the details of a past romantic relationship between him and [[Kylie]]. Conflicts between MDPP and the rest of the community began in the early hours of June 29th, and reached their climax with MDPP taking the site down for over six hours on July 1st. Afterwards, [[JCM]] assumed ownership of SBC and its major technical responsibilities.

While SBC had, up to that point, seen more than its fair share of community dramas and scandals, the Third Renaissance's real-life consequences and ramifications, involving an abusive real-life relationship between members with a large age gap, resulted in an unprecedented level of both outrage and unity which persisted for months after the events. Now known simply as "the Renaissance" (and having well overshadowed the [[~~The SBC Renaissance~~|first~~]] [[The SpongeBob Community Civil War|~~two]]), the events of summer 2018 were a watershed moment for SBC as a community, resulting in the strengthening of personal bonds across the site, and seeing a number of inactive users return to the forums in order to show Kylie their support.

While SBC had, up to that point, seen more than its fair share of community dramas and scandals, the Third Renaissance's real-life consequences and ramifications, involving an abusive real-life relationship between members with a large age gap, resulted in an unprecedented level of both outrage and unity which persisted for months after the events. Now known simply as "the Renaissance" (and having well overshadowed the [[Site Incidents|first two]]), the events of summer 2018 were a watershed moment for SBC as a community, resulting in the strengthening of personal bonds across the site, and seeing a number of inactive users return to the forums in order to show Kylie their support.

==History==

===Background (June 25-29)===

The lead-up to the Third Renaissance began on June 25, 2018, when Kylie shared a document she wrote about two different relationships she had with then-admin MDPP. This relationship, involving a large age gap between MDPP and the then-minor Kylie, had already been known to the members of SBC, but had become the center of much discussion in the weeks leading up to the Third Renaissance, due in part to [[Metal Snake]] [[~~Metalgate~~|using events surrounding their breakup as a point to criticize the SBC staff]]. Kylie initially shared the document to members [[Halibut]] and [[Big Meaty Claws]], who helped her spread it across the community's members. The spread of the statement was largely through word of mouth, and for several days, no public statement was made on the subject.

The lead-up to the Third Renaissance began on June 25, 2018, when Kylie shared a document she wrote about two different relationships she had with then-admin MDPP. This relationship, involving a large age gap between MDPP and the then-minor Kylie, had already been known to the members of SBC, but had become the center of much discussion in the weeks leading up to the Third Renaissance, due in part to [[Metal Snake]] [[Site Incidents|using events surrounding their breakup as a point to criticize the SBC staff]]. Kylie initially shared the document to members [[Halibut]] and [[Big Meaty Claws]], who helped her spread it across the community's members. The spread of the statement was largely through word of mouth, and for several days, no public statement was made on the subject.

A copy of the document can be read [[Third SBC Renaissance/Homie's Statement|here]].

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SBC remained down for over six hours, but was later brought back online just after 11:00 P.M. EST. MDPP explained that SBC's return was guided by "outside negotiations," which were later revealed by Kylie to be an e-mail exchange between the former admin and Kylie's own mother regarding SBC. MDPP revealed in this conversation that he had transferred site powers entirely to JCM, vowing to leave SBC alone.

===Censorship===

===Censorship and following months===

On June 30th, during the battle over ownership and control of SBC, MDPP added a number of word filters into the entire site's database, which censored any reference to both his username and his real name to instead say "hilaryfan80". This also retroactively edited existing posts which contained either variation of his name, leading to otherwise completely unrelated posts containing mentions of the name "hilaryfan80". Due to the complexity of the coding used by MDPP to create these censors, they were not removed until many months after the ending of the Renaissance, and many instances of the censored names still remain scattered across old SBC posts and pages to this day.

In addition, this very wiki page was found on July 18th, 2018 to have been mysteriously censored; not only were all mentions of MDPP's name edited out, but links above to the image of his threat and to the image archive of the Resignation thread were deleted as well. In addition, MDPP's name was retroactively removed from this page's edit history, in direct violation of MediaWiki's terms. Due to the nature and method of the removals, this was speculated to be an attack on the wiki's database by MDPP, as both the wiki and main SBC site fall under the same domain.

Despite repeatedly claiming to have "moved on," MDPP would continue to mess with SBC using server backdoors over the next few months. One notable example of this was him deleting the site's security certificate which made it mostly inaccessible at the end of December 2018.

===MDPP's 2023 reappearance===

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The events that occurred within the Third Renaissance spurred some of the strongest reactions to any event in SBC history. Due to the extraordinary circumstances behind it, and around MDPP's removal, the Third Renaissance has been referred to as SBC's "Me Too" moment, in reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement the international movement against sexual abuse.]

On the flip side, the unity of SBC members resulting from the Third Renaissance marked a high point for the community. Kylie was made the [[Featured Employee]] for the summer, and a number of older members returned to the site despite inactivity in order to support her. The event culminated in a number of topics and posts being made (notably [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/topic/16068-a-word-about-community-shoutouts/ here] and [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/topic/16067-some-words-on-this-weekend/ here]) in support of Kylie and the community as a whole. A number of members cited the Third Renaissance as strengthening and re-energizing the community after the exhausting events of [[Metalgate]], and ushering in a new, robust era for SBC. The event significantly increased activity on the Discord and the forums.

On the flip side, the unity of SBC members resulting from the Third Renaissance marked a high point for the community. Kylie was made the [[Featured Employee]] for the summer, and a number of older members returned to the site despite inactivity in order to support her. The event culminated in a number of topics and posts being made (notably [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16068-a-word-about-community-shoutouts/ here] and [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16067-some-words-on-this-weekend/ here]) in support of Kylie and the community as a whole. A number of members cited the Third Renaissance as strengthening and re-energizing the community after the exhausting events of Metalgate, and ushering in a new, robust era for SBC. The event significantly increased activity on the Discord and the forums.

As a commemoration of the ending of the Third Renaissance, in the late hours of July 1st, [[tvguy347|tvguy]] released a new SBC skin called [[Together Since '09]], ultimately becoming the final skin he would make for the site. Made entirely of white and pink colors (the latter as a shout-out to Kylie), it also shifted the forum sidebar to the left instead of the right, calling back to [[V6 Shark|SBC's Forumotion era]] as a nod to the community's endurance. The skin remained in use until April 2023, when it was phased out with the release of [[Seahorse 15]].

[[Category:Incidents ~~and events~~]]

[[Category:Incidents]]

[[Category:Events of 2018]]

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 The Third Renaissance was centered around the demotion and permanent ban of longtime SBC staff member '''Mr. Dr. Professor Patrick''', and was spurred on by increased focus on the details of a past romantic relationship between him and [[Kylie]]. Conflicts between MDPP and the rest of the community began in the early hours of June 29th, and reached their climax with MDPP taking the site down for over six hours on July 1st. Afterwards, [[JCM]] assumed ownership of SBC and its major technical responsibilities.
-While SBC had, up to that point, seen more than its fair share of community dramas and scandals, the Third Renaissance's real-life consequences and ramifications, involving an abusive real-life relationship between members with a large age gap, resulted in an unprecedented level of both outrage and unity which persisted for months after the events. Now known simply as "the Renaissance" (and having well overshadowed the [[The SBC Renaissance|first]] [[The SpongeBob Community Civil War|two]]), the events of summer 2018 were a watershed moment for SBC as a community, resulting in the strengthening of personal bonds across the site, and seeing a number of inactive users return to the forums in order to show Kylie their support.
+While SBC had, up to that point, seen more than its fair share of community dramas and scandals, the Third Renaissance's real-life consequences and ramifications, involving an abusive real-life relationship between members with a large age gap, resulted in an unprecedented level of both outrage and unity which persisted for months after the events. Now known simply as "the Renaissance" (and having well overshadowed the [[Site Incidents|first two]]), the events of summer 2018 were a watershed moment for SBC as a community, resulting in the strengthening of personal bonds across the site, and seeing a number of inactive users return to the forums in order to show Kylie their support.
 ==History==
 ===Background (June 25-29)===
-The lead-up to the Third Renaissance began on June 25, 2018, when Kylie shared a document she wrote about two different relationships she had with then-admin MDPP. This relationship, involving a large age gap between MDPP and the then-minor Kylie, had already been known to the members of SBC, but had become the center of much discussion in the weeks leading up to the Third Renaissance, due in part to [[Metal Snake]] [[Metalgate|using events surrounding their breakup as a point to criticize the SBC staff]]. Kylie initially shared the document to members [[Halibut]] and [[Big Meaty Claws]], who helped her spread it across the community's members. The spread of the statement was largely through word of mouth, and for several days, no public statement was made on the subject.
+The lead-up to the Third Renaissance began on June 25, 2018, when Kylie shared a document she wrote about two different relationships she had with then-admin MDPP. This relationship, involving a large age gap between MDPP and the then-minor Kylie, had already been known to the members of SBC, but had become the center of much discussion in the weeks leading up to the Third Renaissance, due in part to [[Metal Snake]] [[Site Incidents|using events surrounding their breakup as a point to criticize the SBC staff]]. Kylie initially shared the document to members [[Halibut]] and [[Big Meaty Claws]], who helped her spread it across the community's members. The spread of the statement was largely through word of mouth, and for several days, no public statement was made on the subject.
 A copy of the document can be read [[Third SBC Renaissance/Homie's Statement|here]].
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 SBC remained down for over six hours, but was later brought back online just after 11:00 P.M. EST. MDPP explained that SBC's return was guided by "outside negotiations," which were later revealed by Kylie to be an e-mail exchange between the former admin and Kylie's own mother regarding SBC. MDPP revealed in this conversation that he had transferred site powers entirely to JCM, vowing to leave SBC alone.
-===Censorship===
+===Censorship and following months===
 On June 30th, during the battle over ownership and control of SBC, MDPP added a number of word filters into the entire site's database, which censored any reference to both his username and his real name to instead say "hilaryfan80". This also retroactively edited existing posts which contained either variation of his name, leading to otherwise completely unrelated posts containing mentions of the name "hilaryfan80". Due to the complexity of the coding used by MDPP to create these censors, they were not removed until many months after the ending of the Renaissance, and many instances of the censored names still remain scattered across old SBC posts and pages to this day.
 In addition, this very wiki page was found on July 18th, 2018 to have been mysteriously censored; not only were all mentions of MDPP's name edited out, but links above to the image of his threat and to the image archive of the Resignation thread were deleted as well. In addition, MDPP's name was retroactively removed from this page's edit history, in direct violation of MediaWiki's terms. Due to the nature and method of the removals, this was speculated to be an attack on the wiki's database by MDPP, as both the wiki and main SBC site fall under the same domain.
+Despite repeatedly claiming to have "moved on," MDPP would continue to mess with SBC using server backdoors over the next few months. One notable example of this was him deleting the site's security certificate which made it mostly inaccessible at the end of December 2018.
 ===MDPP's 2023 reappearance===
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 The events that occurred within the Third Renaissance spurred some of the strongest reactions to any event in SBC history. Due to the extraordinary circumstances behind it, and around MDPP's removal, the Third Renaissance has been referred to as SBC's "Me Too" moment, in reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement the international movement against sexual abuse.]
-On the flip side, the unity of SBC members resulting from the Third Renaissance marked a high point for the community. Kylie was made the [[Featured Employee]] for the summer, and a number of older members returned to the site despite inactivity in order to support her. The event culminated in a number of topics and posts being made (notably [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/topic/16068-a-word-about-community-shoutouts/ here] and [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/topic/16067-some-words-on-this-weekend/ here]) in support of Kylie and the community as a whole. A number of members cited the Third Renaissance as strengthening and re-energizing the community after the exhausting events of [[Metalgate]], and ushering in a new, robust era for SBC. The event significantly increased activity on the Discord and the forums.
+On the flip side, the unity of SBC members resulting from the Third Renaissance marked a high point for the community. Kylie was made the [[Featured Employee]] for the summer, and a number of older members returned to the site despite inactivity in order to support her. The event culminated in a number of topics and posts being made (notably [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16068-a-word-about-community-shoutouts/ here] and [https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16067-some-words-on-this-weekend/ here]) in support of Kylie and the community as a whole. A number of members cited the Third Renaissance as strengthening and re-energizing the community after the exhausting events of Metalgate, and ushering in a new, robust era for SBC. The event significantly increased activity on the Discord and the forums.
 As a commemoration of the ending of the Third Renaissance, in the late hours of July 1st, [[tvguy347|tvguy]] released a new SBC skin called [[Together Since '09]], ultimately becoming the final skin he would make for the site. Made entirely of white and pink colors (the latter as a shout-out to Kylie), it also shifted the forum sidebar to the left instead of the right, calling back to [[V6 Shark|SBC's Forumotion era]] as a nod to the community's endurance. The skin remained in use until April 2023, when it was phased out with the release of [[Seahorse 15]].
-[[Category:Incidents and events]]
+[[Category:Incidents]]
 [[Category:Events of 2018]]