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→The floodgates burst (April 22-May, 2017)
When did the demonym "migrant" for those who signed up (and the term "migrant number" for the number each was given at registration) for the TSUKI Project first appear? The answer is, surprisingly late. It is not used in the earliest threads, before the boards were created; the Compendium thus represents its first extant use<ref>"Will us migrants get a special status in LFE? You migrants will definitely be seen as some sort of elite group."</ref>.
When did the demonym "migrant" for those who signed up (and the term "migrant number" for the number each was given at registration) for the TSUKI Project first appear? The answer is, surprisingly late. It is not used in the earliest threads, before the boards were created; the Compendium thus represents its first extant use<ref>"Will us migrants get a special status in LFE? You migrants will definitely be seen as some sort of elite group."</ref>.
To top it off, two incidents occurred which would sow the seed for internal dissent to the TSUKI Project.
The first was a brief article entitled "The Burden of Truth". This was an attempt by Tsuki to explain why he did not provide proof for the existence of Systemspace. He stated that "if there were absolute truth of Systemspace being real, everyone would edge towards signing up" but "if there were truth of Systemspace being fake, everyone would edge towards calling me off as a schizophrenic." He therefore reasoned that "a balance of real and fake" was needed "to make a choice that truly represents what you wish to believe." To do that, he stated that he had "given tiny hints of proof, which are easily warded off by people who do not believe" and "slightly 'lied' to the community of sorts" and "'slipped up' as you may call it, which can also be warded off by people who believe."<ref>https://classic.systemspace.network/dataverses/Thoughts/Truth/?old</ref>. This ignited a furor.
The next day, he altered the text of this article by replacing "slipped up" with "instilled doubt" and adding a new section declaring that "I try to (and believe to have succeeded to) never lie."<ref>https://classic.systemspace.network/dataverses/Thoughts/Truth/</ref>. Yet the damage was done. A group named the Apollo Society had struck while the iron was hot and made much hay of the change<ref>https://apollobase.neocities.org/images/burden_change.png</ref>.
The website gained interest from the internet community after being featured in numerous YouTube videos. Several theories were born from it as some said it was a hoax, others a death cult or even a marketing stunt for the release of a new game/TV series. Most information on the website was purposely cryptic with links leading to images of static and black and white pixels, leading even more theories about encrypted messages hidden on the website.
The website gained interest from the internet community after being featured in numerous YouTube videos. Several theories were born from it as some said it was a hoax, others a death cult or even a marketing stunt for the release of a new game/TV series. Most information on the website was purposely cryptic with links leading to images of static and black and white pixels, leading even more theories about encrypted messages hidden on the website.
