Heya Folks, ANNSQuake here.
For starters, I know there is probably a huge amount of irony in the fact that I am putting this in a pastebin considering this has been the number 1 source for drama and dox leaks on the server. Sorry if I confused anyone.
I'm writing this to tell you guys that as of today, I will be leaving Aurora. Whether or not this is temporary or permanent I really don't know, but I feel like right now is probably a safe time to do so.

First of all, I'd like to address that I am not leaving because of any sort of bullying/harassment etc. etc. because luckily none of this has ever happened to me on the server continuously and either way I wouldn't be affected by it. This excluding a few things I will lightly touch upon in a moe.

Secondly, I'd like everyone to know that the majority of people on Aurora and on WWC have been really nice to me as both a staff member and a member of Squadron. There were times on this server where I really felt welcomed and happy to be a part of it. But recently this has slightly changed.

Not many people know about how I joined WWC, but I think I may as well tell you now. It was around September last year when I was watching one of Sam's videos and I found a link to the discord server. I had never actually heard of discord before and I was pretty curious to try it out. Joining the voice channels was really scary for me because I'd never gone as far to doing that on the internet before, and for a long time at the beginning, I would actually just join the voice channels, mute my mic and just chat using one of the chatrooms (although this was also to do with my voice problem)

The two people who I first became good friends with on the server were RandomlyTheHunter and Corey/WW, which put me in a pretty good position. Regan/iRexi had also heard of my youtube channel before and therefore decided to give me the trusted role. I was later promoted to Mod and then before I knew it I became a head admin. Because of this, I actually got to know Sam a little better along with the staff members, which was when I was invited to Squadron.

People who've been around this network for a while probably know that Squadron used to be a skype group. The fact that it was on skype actually made me feel pretty nervous sometimes because I wasn't so certain about how my parents would take it and I would often try and hide my screen. As well as this I never showed my face in the calls. The main group of people who I would usually see in the calls were people like AO544, iRexi/Regan, Sam/Red_Eye_Computing, Devon/Da532, RandomlyTheHunter, WindowsLogic, MemphisAnimating and later on some other folks.

At this time, everything seemed pretty swell; I had a group of friends who were always ready to talk on Skype and be appreciative. Although, this is where the drama started kicking in
Anyone who's been on the server for a while would know that both WWC and Aurora have been constantly infested with drama - whether it be involving Max Cross, SSL, TNR, WarriorMinecraft, Sam and Regan or whatnot the news usually spread around like wildfire and it was mildly difficult to deal with. Whilst I'm the type of person who usually tries to either not get involved with this type of drama or to try and sort it out whilst seeing both sides of the story, I sometimes ended up getting involved somehow.

There's a thing that's been said quite a few times before: Drama is fun until you're involved in it.

Whilst most of the drama that happened in discord seemed like it finished after an hour or so, there were certain larger things which really did put me on the edge and it made me worry how everything would seem in the end. I'm prone to being quite anxious about the things people think about me, so I sometimes thought that I'd somehow make the wrong move.
For example, when WWC split into Aurora and WWP, I really didn't know what to think considering the fact that I was friends with both Sam and Corey but in the end most of the people there convinced me into going on Sam's side (which to this day I think is a little debatable) and I felt like being friends with both of them was just a little bit awkward.

Another thing which irritated me about Squadron was the way that they treated people like LukeGames and EpicTeam at certain points because whilst they had their reasons for doing so, I used to often think that Squadron would tend to overreact towards certain things (basically pursuading Luke into making a video about clickbait, etc.) and I couldn't help but feel bad and/or guilty for the people that they hurt. Most of the time I would usually just brush it off though and try and remind myself that they probably just find certain things or jokes more entertaining than offensive.

It was only around February when things started to be directed to me. Even though the majority of Squadron were nice to me, there were certain people in there who would do literally anything for me to get annoyed at them, and they didn't even have any reason for it apart from the fact that my voice was annoying or something along those lines. I started to wonder whether or not the people in squadron were my friends at that point, and even some of my other friends had pointed out that they weren't really including me in everything.

This type of thing has been going on for a while and for a long time I wasn't so sure what to do about it. I've tried to leave Aurora before because of the effect it's had on my life but I've always somehow been pulled back (and I wouldn't be surprised if this happened again). I don't want to directly offend anyone in Squadron or Aurora because I don't want to leave some awkward mess behind, but it's genuinely something I want to do.

After Insomnia ( a bit of a fail on my side ) I actually tried my hardest to distance myself from the server, thinking that one day I could just leave and nobody would really notice. But it was certain things like the Max Cross drama and the split of Aurora and Squadron which brought me back. This is where we get to now.

I don't want to talk about too much of the things happening in Squadron because most of it is done in private chatrooms, and unlike some other people I'm not a douchebag who goes around leaking that kind of thing. So to sum this up, I'm only going to say what I think most of the people in the server know and that is that the tension between the 'two parties' is one of the reasons why I'm leaving. You could just think that I would be able to just leave Squadron (which I have) and ignored the whole thing, but it doesn't really seem to work like that especially considering the fact that both Sam and Devon have their fair share of arguments against each other (if this has somehow been resolved without me knowing then good but this isn't the only thing im gonna talk about)

Second reason is because about half of the active members in Squadron seem to have some salt against me which has generally just not made me want to be friends with them or associate with them. Gonna leave it at that.

Thirdly, the drama on Aurora has thickened so much within the past few months that I feel like it's constantly distracting me from other things I find important in life and I sometimes just can't really deal with it or bother with it anymore.

and Finally, this is just a general statement but I don't really feel as if Aurora is the right type of community for me. Not meaning to sound like a wimp but certain things they do in there are just a little bit OTT and I probably wouldn't have joined the server if I knew what was ahead of me.

That being said though, I don't regret all of the fun times I've had in this community at all. There's been a lot of things that I've learnt technical-wise and social-wise and I'm not going to forget what happened there or the members who really cheered me up sometimes. Thanks to everyone who has supported me during these 9 months (jesus christ that's long lmao)..

I intend to stay friends with some of the members of Aurora and Squadron, but I can't guarrentee that I'll be very active. I just want people to know that it's not everyone's fault ^^

Adios,
- ANNSQuake

(see me on my bad youtube channel)
(also my wifi is going off so if I don't respond for a while then that's why, and I'd appreciate it if you let some other people know)