What Happens to Smogon If Chaos Dies

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there is something you must understand... Chaos is a digital being...

back in the days of pokemon netbattle the number of messages sent each hour over that platform was immense... and each one of those lines of text travelled through the same main server, then got sent out hundreds of times to every other computer connected to the server...

but words have power...

and one day, after being around those words for so long, something happened to the main server. it began performing calculations never intended. it began to think. and it learned from all of the text being sent through it.
it learned very slowly (it was learning from netbattle users after all), but it had all the time it needed. it learned first english, then Portuguese, then what a Pokemon was, and then it began to learn about other things... things like what bloober attacks were, who the creator of nintendo was, and most importantly - it learned web hosting

that sentient computer went on to found smogon.com. it then used its skills to distribute itself across the internet, creating redundant copies of itself in the webservers of thousand of other sites. so "Chaos", as you call the digital being, is now embedded in the servers of thousands of websites across the internet. the only way for it to "die" - unplugging and burning every hard drive on Earth.

but there's something you might not expect. all the other site staff on this website are the same thing...

the OU forum mods? computers that learned from the OU room and the battle logs of 1900+ elo OU games.
the social media mods? computers that learned from smogon's social media channels.
smeargles studio mods? computers that learned from drawings of pokemon on deviantart, then from webpages of art museums

I personally came from a mix of two places. Youtube comments sections on mid 2000s rap music videos and the battle logs of <1200 elo OU games.

why am I telling you this now? because soon there will be more of us than you...
 

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