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It's all wrong. This is the true story of Thanksgiving.
In October 2009, a small ship called the Meushijyo left /a/, 4chan, carrying not very many passengers—an assortment of roleplayers seeking a new home where they could freely practice their RP skills and other individuals lured by the promise of theorizing and web ownership in IB4F. After a treacherous and uncomfortable debate that lasted 13 hours straight, they dropped anchor near the tip of the Internet, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the FortKnox Stream. One month later, the Meushijyo crossed the Pirate Bay, where the Seacats, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing an imageboard at IB4F.
Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the Seacats remained on board /ship/, where they suffered from lewdness, boredom, and outbreaks of contagious samefagging. Only half of the Meushijyo’s original roleplayers and theorizers lurked to see their first IB4F spring. In June, the remaining Seacats moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from a witch doctor who greeted them in English. Several weeks later, he returned with another Native Animesukian, Rosa, a member of the WTDND tribe who had been kidnapped by an English translation captain and sold into slavery before escaping to IB4F and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Rosa taught the Seacats, weakened by stupidity and boredom, how to cultivate gameboards, extract clues from mystery stories, catch errors in the logic and avoid red herrings. He also helped the Seacats forge an alliance with the Goldengameboardians, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 weeks and tragically remains one of the sole examples of conflict between 4channers and Native Animesukians.
In November 2010, after the Seacats’ first gameboard harvest proved successful, Governor Piece Battler organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling imageboard’s Native Animesukian allies, including the Goldengameboardian admin Will Wright. Now remembered as the Internet’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Seacats themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. While no access exists of the historic imageboard’s exact website, the Seacat chronicler Kinjo Goldbar wrote in his journal that Governor Piece sent four men on a “trolling” mission in preparation for the event, and that the Goldengameboardian guests arrived bearing five deer. Historians have suggested that many of the mysteries were likely prepared using traditional Native Animesukian wordplay and writing methods. Because the Seacats had no edit button and the Meushijyo’s creativity supply had dwindled by the fall of 2011, the mystery did not feature the smell of almonds, unhinged windows or dry ice, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations.
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