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'''fernsy''', formerly known as '''yagton''' or '''Chatrumor''', is an American OWOT user. Since 15 May 2024, | '''fernsy''', formerly known as '''yagton''' or '''Chatrumor''', is an American OWOT user. Since 15 May 2024, he has been one of the [[OWOT Discord|Discord server]]'s admins. On 1 July 2024, he trooned out but nobody cared geg. | ||
== Name == | == Name == | ||
fernsy is a diminutive of Fern, | fernsy is a diminutive of Fern, his post-trooning middle name and nickname. This name was chosen as a tribute to a close troon friend whose middle name is Leaf. | ||
A past name of | A past name of his, yagton, is still in collective memory, though not preferred. It is a blend of his middle name Ashton and the acronym YAGNI ("you aren't gonna need it").{{efn|name=fn1|The name coincidentally spells out "notgay" in reverse.|group=lower-alpha}} | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== Edit the Text(''Pre-OWOT'') === | === Edit the Text(''Pre-OWOT'') === | ||
Fern discovered OWOT from Edit the Text (ETT), a site operated by the | Fern discovered OWOT from Edit the Text (ETT), a site operated by Jews at the CCP. On the site, he made a bot to save a page regularly, reverting any edits made by a certain IP address, though Fern's adversary eventually created a bot to spam writes to the page, defeating him. Fern prevailed in the arms race against this adversary by reprogramming the bot to post a frequently-changing link to a random page, until 2018, when ETT shut down. | ||
ETT had no ratelimits or size limits, leading to the strategy of "nuking", where users would simply upload a large amount of text to a page to prevent it from being loaded by users' browsers. | ETT had no ratelimits or size limits, leading to the strategy of "nuking", where users would simply upload a large amount of text to a page to prevent it from being loaded by users' browsers. | ||
In March 2018, Fern created | In March 2018, Fern created his Discord account. | ||
He first discovered OWOT in April 2018, later joining the OWOT Discord server in August 2021. | |||
=== Campaign for Discord Admin === | === Campaign for Discord Admin === | ||
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- '''AndreiXYZ'''</blockquote>OWOT's lack of adequate moderation, on both the canvas and the Discord server, has been a long standing issue within the community. A major source of criticism was that all of the previous admins were appointed purely on basis of being OG users of the site. This older set of moderators were infamous for being uniformly inactive, and left almost all administrative functions to [[Fp|FP]], who had to balance his responsibilities with IRL obligations and left many problems to run rampant within OWOT. | - '''AndreiXYZ'''</blockquote>OWOT's lack of adequate moderation, on both the canvas and the Discord server, has been a long standing issue within the community. A major source of criticism was that all of the previous admins were appointed purely on basis of being OG users of the site. This older set of moderators were infamous for being uniformly inactive, and left almost all administrative functions to [[Fp|FP]], who had to balance his responsibilities with IRL obligations and left many problems to run rampant within OWOT. | ||
In May of 2024 Fern petitioned to become admin on the Discord specifically, putting forth a proposal for ironing out the server's rules. | In May of 2024 Fern petitioned to become admin on the Discord specifically, putting forth a proposal for ironing out the server's rules. His qualifications included being a long-time user who was active in calling out misbehavior within the community. | ||
The push to install Fern as an admin was met with significant support from the userbase, with [[AndreiXYZ]] in particular rallying users to private their worlds until a new admin is appointed. FP gave Fern moderator permits on 15 May 2024, after which Andrei congratulated | The push to install Fern as an admin was met with significant support from the userbase, with [[AndreiXYZ]] in particular rallying users to private their worlds until a new admin is appointed. FP gave Fern moderator permits on 15 May 2024, after which Andrei congratulated him and expressed optimism for the site's future.<gallery mode="packed" heights="270"> | ||
File:Andrei rant.png|[[AndreiXYZ]] ranting in length about OWOT's need for a new admin(''as captured in the May 11th issue of [[Our World of News]]'') | File:Andrei rant.png|[[AndreiXYZ]] ranting in length about OWOT's need for a new admin(''as captured in the May 11th issue of [[Our World of News]]'') | ||
File:Fern application.jpg|Fern's application for Admin. | File:Fern application.jpg|Fern's application for Admin. | ||
File:Fern proposal.jpg|Fern's memorandum. | File:Fern proposal.jpg|Fern's memorandum. | ||
File:Andrei yagton.jpg|Andrei congratulating Fern after | File:Andrei yagton.jpg|Andrei congratulating Fern after he is made admin on the OWOT Discord(''15 May 2024'') | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
=== Actions as Discord Admin === | === Actions as Discord Admin === | ||
As the result of a community poll, Fern made the <u>#ideas</u> and <u>#questions</u> channels into thread-only channels during April of 2025. | As the result of a community poll, Fern made the <u>#ideas</u> and <u>#questions</u> channels into thread-only channels during April of 2025. He later replaced them with forum channels according to the results of a later poll in May. | ||
=== Miscellaneous Discord Activities === | === Miscellaneous Discord Activities === | ||
Fern is a cat enthusiast and runs a thread named "''a large amount of cats,''" which has accumulated cat photos for over a year is the server's most active thread by far. Since then the thread has inspired a truly massive amount of copycats; similar threads such as [[Jan soweli Asike|Fox's]] "''a large amount of foxes''" and [[D9eoead|D9eoead's]] "''a large amount of sea creatures''" have been catalogued in a master thread named "''a large amount of 'a large amount of' threads.''" | Fern is a cat enthusiast and runs a thread named "''a large amount of cats,''" which has accumulated cat photos for over a year is the server's most active thread by far. Since then the thread has inspired a truly massive amount of copycats; similar threads such as [[Jan soweli Asike|Fox's]] "''a large amount of foxes''" and [[D9eoead|D9eoead's]] "''a large amount of sea creatures''" have been catalogued in a master thread named "''a large amount of 'a large amount of' threads.''" | ||
Fern is also active in the "''trans discussion''" thread, which was started by [[AndreiXYZ|Andrei]] to document | Fern is also active in the "''trans discussion''" thread, which was started by [[AndreiXYZ|Andrei]] to document his trooning. | ||
== Relations to Other Users == | == Relations to Other Users == | ||
Fern is generally well-respected within the community, even among those who take issue with | Fern is generally well-respected within the community, even among those who take issue with him being a troon. | ||
=== AndreiXYZ === | === AndreiXYZ === | ||
Andrei has been friends with Fern for years and petitioned strongly for | Andrei has been friends with Fern for years and petitioned strongly for him to be made a moderator on the [[OWOT Discord]]. | ||
He was also the first person in OWOT to learn of | He was also the first person in OWOT to learn of his trooning, and playfully hinted at it for months before the big reveal. After the reveal he organized all information about Fern's trooning into a thread in the <u>#trash</u> channel. | ||
Since | Since his promotion to Discord admin, Andrei has stood with Fern on most moderation issues and helped him gather evidence against misbehaving users. Notably, however, he has criticized him for not taking action against [[Lemuria]] despite repeated cases of rage-baiting. | ||
=== FP === | === FP === | ||
Fern has taken care of most administrative functions on the Discord ever since | Fern has taken care of most administrative functions on the Discord ever since his appointment in 2024, though he would still report issues to FP on certain circumstances. | ||
=== Jamel === | === Jamel === | ||
Throughout early 2025, Fern had timed out [[JamelBurger|Jamel]] multiple times for his opinion on | Throughout early 2025, Fern had timed out [[JamelBurger|Jamel]] multiple times for his then-keyed opinion on trannies and faggots. This had contributed to a long running animosity between the two, though by the end of May Jamel fell off and had resolved to be more accepting of the LGBTQ community. | ||
=== Lemuria === | === Lemuria === | ||
[[Lemuria]] values Fern for | [[Lemuria]] values Fern for his attention and would frequently call to him for validation, or for support in Discord drama. | ||
On | On his part Fern has historically been more patient with Lemuria than other members of the userbase. In the past he had repeatedly given him constructive criticism and advice about his attention-seeking tendencies. | ||
Lemuria was also the author of a large portion of early revisions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern, though [[Rscr]] has since added a significant amount of text themselves since. | Lemuria was also the author of a large portion of early revisions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern, though [[Rscr]] has since added a significant amount of text themselves since. | ||
==== Loss of communication ==== | ==== Loss of communication ==== | ||
The Lemuria-Fern communications blackout began on 19 April 2025, marked by a significant decrease in communications traffic between Fern, an administrator for Our World of Text's Discord server, and Lemuria. Fern continues to communicate with Lemuria in a "professional" context; | The Lemuria-Fern communications blackout began on 19 April 2025, marked by a significant decrease in communications traffic between Fern, an administrator for Our World of Text's Discord server, and Lemuria. Fern continues to communicate with Lemuria in a "professional" context; he takes moderation reports from Lemuria and occasionally gives non-personal replies, but ignores attempts to initiate personal conversations entirely, and the frequency of contact has significantly declined. | ||
Additionally, after reading new versions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern where it was written that Andrei and Fern have been friends, this caused Lemuria to further resent Andrei, due to him suffering a major decrease in the frequency of communication with Fern, and thus, a decrease in attention, and seeing his primary enemy on the site being on good terms with a person who was once the sole source of attention. | Additionally, after reading new versions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern where it was written that Andrei and Fern have been friends, this caused Lemuria to further resent Andrei, due to him suffering a major decrease in the frequency of communication with Fern, and thus, a decrease in attention, and seeing his primary enemy on the site being on good terms with a person who was once the sole source of attention. | ||
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An inactive admin, and one of OWOT's old guard. | An inactive admin, and one of OWOT's old guard. | ||
[[Poopman]] was yet another user who argued with Fern over his opinion on | [[Poopman]] was yet another user who argued with Fern over his opinion on trannies. | ||
=== Sammich === | === Sammich === | ||
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[[Sammich]] protested Tat's ban by sending a series of incendiary messages within the server, including one in which he purposefully misgendered Fern. | [[Sammich]] protested Tat's ban by sending a series of incendiary messages within the server, including one in which he purposefully misgendered Fern. | ||
Fern did not make any public statements about this incident, possibly to avoid admin in-fighting. Alternatively it was possible that | Fern did not make any public statements about this incident, possibly to avoid admin in-fighting. Alternatively it was possible that he talked to [[Fp|FP]] in private, since Sammich's admin rights were revoked soon after. | ||
On his part, Sammich took the whole situation lightheartedly and reminded everyone that he was simply ragebaiting. | On his part, Sammich took the whole situation lightheartedly and reminded everyone that he was simply ragebaiting. | ||
=== Tatejo === | === Tatejo === | ||
In 2023, Tatejo had also argued with Fern over his beliefs about | In 2023, Tatejo had also argued with Fern over his beliefs about trannies. But by late 2024 they had (informally) agreed to put their differences aside. | ||
In May 2025 Fern and Andrei opened an investigation for Tat's past offenses, including offenses of alt abuse, general toxicity, and (possibly) conspiring to take down the website. Tat gave a lengthy appeal in his defense, but ultimately accepted his year-long ban from the server. | In May 2025 Fern and Andrei opened an investigation for Tat's past offenses, including offenses of alt abuse, general toxicity, and (possibly) conspiring to take down the website. Tat gave a lengthy appeal in his defense, but ultimately accepted his year-long ban from the server. | ||
== Personal Life == | == Personal Life == | ||
Fernsy was born in Oklahoma, in the United States, {{circa|2005}}. | Fernsy was born in Oklahoma, in the United States, {{circa|2005}}. He first began programming at the age of 11, {{circa|2016}}. | ||
Fernsy worked at {{wp|Tinker Air Force Base}} in Oklahoma City, where | Fernsy worked at {{wp|Tinker Air Force Base}} in Oklahoma City, where he once lived. | ||
Sometime in October 2024, motivated by Oklahoma's anti-LGBT laws, | Sometime in October 2024, motivated by Oklahoma's anti-LGBT laws, he moved to Chicago. | ||
=== | === Trooning out === | ||
fernsy had been aware of | fernsy had been aware of his tranny status since around 2018, but was not in a position to act on it, as his keyed parents were unsupportive and he lived in Oklahoma, a keyed state with several anti-LGBT laws. | ||
[[AndreiXYZ]], a close friend of fernsy, was one of the first to know. | [[AndreiXYZ]], a close friend of fernsy, was one of the first to know. | ||
On 1 July 2024, | On 1 July 2024, he trooned out. | ||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* Despite basing much of | * Despite basing much of his personality around cats, Fern doesn't actually own a cat himself. | ||
** But | ** But he has a roommate with two. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 6 August 2025
| Fernsy | |
|---|---|
 Fern's Discord pfp | |
| Joined | April 2018 (site) April 2021 (Discord) |
| Origin | Edit The Text |
| Aliases |
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| Gender | Male, larps as a female |
| Notable actions/creations | Being an admin |
| Socials | |
| Webpage | fernsy |
| Other general information | |
| Residence | Either Chicago or Oklahoma City; deliberate ambiguity |
| Nationality | American |
| Religion | Irreligious |
| Real name | Lauren Fern[a] |
fernsy, formerly known as yagton or Chatrumor, is an American OWOT user. Since 15 May 2024, he has been one of the Discord server's admins. On 1 July 2024, he trooned out but nobody cared geg.
Name
fernsy is a diminutive of Fern, his post-trooning middle name and nickname. This name was chosen as a tribute to a close troon friend whose middle name is Leaf.
A past name of his, yagton, is still in collective memory, though not preferred. It is a blend of his middle name Ashton and the acronym YAGNI ("you aren't gonna need it").[b]
History
Edit the Text(Pre-OWOT)
Fern discovered OWOT from Edit the Text (ETT), a site operated by Jews at the CCP. On the site, he made a bot to save a page regularly, reverting any edits made by a certain IP address, though Fern's adversary eventually created a bot to spam writes to the page, defeating him. Fern prevailed in the arms race against this adversary by reprogramming the bot to post a frequently-changing link to a random page, until 2018, when ETT shut down.
ETT had no ratelimits or size limits, leading to the strategy of "nuking", where users would simply upload a large amount of text to a page to prevent it from being loaded by users' browsers.
In March 2018, Fern created his Discord account.
He first discovered OWOT in April 2018, later joining the OWOT Discord server in August 2021.
Campaign for Discord Admin
"And from what i've seen, Yagton would genuinely do a pretty good job in keeping this server clean, and while he isn't as active as i am – despite having around the same amount of passion as me in desiring this server to be moderated – he definitely is more active than you are, so that's a plus." - AndreiXYZ
OWOT's lack of adequate moderation, on both the canvas and the Discord server, has been a long standing issue within the community. A major source of criticism was that all of the previous admins were appointed purely on basis of being OG users of the site. This older set of moderators were infamous for being uniformly inactive, and left almost all administrative functions to FP, who had to balance his responsibilities with IRL obligations and left many problems to run rampant within OWOT.
In May of 2024 Fern petitioned to become admin on the Discord specifically, putting forth a proposal for ironing out the server's rules. His qualifications included being a long-time user who was active in calling out misbehavior within the community.
The push to install Fern as an admin was met with significant support from the userbase, with AndreiXYZ in particular rallying users to private their worlds until a new admin is appointed. FP gave Fern moderator permits on 15 May 2024, after which Andrei congratulated him and expressed optimism for the site's future.
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AndreiXYZ ranting in length about OWOT's need for a new admin(as captured in the May 11th issue of Our World of News) -
Fern's application for Admin. -
Fern's memorandum. -
Andrei congratulating Fern after he is made admin on the OWOT Discord(15 May 2024)
Actions as Discord Admin
As the result of a community poll, Fern made the #ideas and #questions channels into thread-only channels during April of 2025. He later replaced them with forum channels according to the results of a later poll in May.
Miscellaneous Discord Activities
Fern is a cat enthusiast and runs a thread named "a large amount of cats," which has accumulated cat photos for over a year is the server's most active thread by far. Since then the thread has inspired a truly massive amount of copycats; similar threads such as Fox's "a large amount of foxes" and D9eoead's "a large amount of sea creatures" have been catalogued in a master thread named "a large amount of 'a large amount of' threads."
Fern is also active in the "trans discussion" thread, which was started by Andrei to document his trooning.
Relations to Other Users
Fern is generally well-respected within the community, even among those who take issue with him being a troon.
AndreiXYZ
Andrei has been friends with Fern for years and petitioned strongly for him to be made a moderator on the OWOT Discord.
He was also the first person in OWOT to learn of his trooning, and playfully hinted at it for months before the big reveal. After the reveal he organized all information about Fern's trooning into a thread in the #trash channel.
Since his promotion to Discord admin, Andrei has stood with Fern on most moderation issues and helped him gather evidence against misbehaving users. Notably, however, he has criticized him for not taking action against Lemuria despite repeated cases of rage-baiting.
FP
Fern has taken care of most administrative functions on the Discord ever since his appointment in 2024, though he would still report issues to FP on certain circumstances.
Jamel
Throughout early 2025, Fern had timed out Jamel multiple times for his then-keyed opinion on trannies and faggots. This had contributed to a long running animosity between the two, though by the end of May Jamel fell off and had resolved to be more accepting of the LGBTQ community.
Lemuria
Lemuria values Fern for his attention and would frequently call to him for validation, or for support in Discord drama.
On his part Fern has historically been more patient with Lemuria than other members of the userbase. In the past he had repeatedly given him constructive criticism and advice about his attention-seeking tendencies.
Lemuria was also the author of a large portion of early revisions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern, though Rscr has since added a significant amount of text themselves since.
Loss of communication
The Lemuria-Fern communications blackout began on 19 April 2025, marked by a significant decrease in communications traffic between Fern, an administrator for Our World of Text's Discord server, and Lemuria. Fern continues to communicate with Lemuria in a "professional" context; he takes moderation reports from Lemuria and occasionally gives non-personal replies, but ignores attempts to initiate personal conversations entirely, and the frequency of contact has significantly declined.
Additionally, after reading new versions of the OWOT Wiki article on Fern where it was written that Andrei and Fern have been friends, this caused Lemuria to further resent Andrei, due to him suffering a major decrease in the frequency of communication with Fern, and thus, a decrease in attention, and seeing his primary enemy on the site being on good terms with a person who was once the sole source of attention.
Poopman
An inactive admin, and one of OWOT's old guard.
Poopman was yet another user who argued with Fern over his opinion on trannies.
Sammich
Yet another OWOT old guard.
Sammich protested Tat's ban by sending a series of incendiary messages within the server, including one in which he purposefully misgendered Fern.
Fern did not make any public statements about this incident, possibly to avoid admin in-fighting. Alternatively it was possible that he talked to FP in private, since Sammich's admin rights were revoked soon after.
On his part, Sammich took the whole situation lightheartedly and reminded everyone that he was simply ragebaiting.
Tatejo
In 2023, Tatejo had also argued with Fern over his beliefs about trannies. But by late 2024 they had (informally) agreed to put their differences aside.
In May 2025 Fern and Andrei opened an investigation for Tat's past offenses, including offenses of alt abuse, general toxicity, and (possibly) conspiring to take down the website. Tat gave a lengthy appeal in his defense, but ultimately accepted his year-long ban from the server.
Personal Life
Fernsy was born in Oklahoma, in the United States, c. 2005. He first began programming at the age of 11, c. 2016.
Fernsy worked at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, where he once lived.
Sometime in October 2024, motivated by Oklahoma's anti-LGBT laws, he moved to Chicago.
Trooning out
fernsy had been aware of his tranny status since around 2018, but was not in a position to act on it, as his keyed parents were unsupportive and he lived in Oklahoma, a keyed state with several anti-LGBT laws.
AndreiXYZ, a close friend of fernsy, was one of the first to know.
On 1 July 2024, he trooned out.
Trivia
- Despite basing much of his personality around cats, Fern doesn't actually own a cat himself.
- But he has a roommate with two.