History of dont-break-the-chain

Introduction
The channel #dont-break-the-chain, now archived and left to its successors #dont-break-the-chain-2 and more recently #dont-break-the-chain-3, was a community channel that was active between the 13th August 2020 and the 25th October 2020, the channel was dedicated to trying to keep a string of messages without a user sending a message in the chat which was not equal to the message before it. However, it was inevitable that many people would break the string of messages, generally referred to as “the chain”, multiple times.

The first chains
The chains which occurred early on in the active lifespam of the channel were by far the most unsuccessful, chains usually ended up to be under 10 messages long, however some messages did stand out from the others, some of the first successful chains included the words simply “dont break the chain”.

The first time the chain was broken was one day later, on the 14th of August 2020, when user ‘Guardo’ edited his message to say “just dont break the chain”.

The channel would continue with several unbroken and later broken chains, including the pinned message chain and the “you just got burgered” chain.



The birth and death of the Chain Chomper
The first major chain in the channel began on the 12th of September 2020, when user ‘Salsa’ uploaded a GIF of a Chain Chomper.

The chain chomper reigned as the longest unbroken chain for a while, until user ‘WaffleGuy’ supposedly intimidated the chain chomp, by calling the form “bad”, the chain chomp was then edited to seem as if it was crying, as it had been hurt from this message.

The chain chomper would continue as a chain in its crying form, until user ‘Guardo’ would edit the image to say “hi polugo n donute”.

Death of the Chain Chomper
After this first edit, the image would go on to be transformed by a series of edits by the ‘NotSoBot’ discord bot. By the 18th of September 2020, the chain chomp was unrecognisable, and had simply disappeared and transformed into a black square.

After this devastating transformation, on the 18th of Septemper 2020, Polygon Donut finally announced to the server that the chain chomp was to come back to life, after it had been torn apart with the power of image effects.

The Recovery
After the announcement had been released to the server, a user by the name of ‘Enov’ made the first step of recovery for the chain chomp.

The chain chomp was progressively coming back to life, and a few chains later, the chain chomp was finally restored, with the caption “The first chain”.

Later on, that same day, the chain chomp was finally released, put to rest by the channel and was not to return for the rest of the era surrounding the #dont-break-the-chain channel.

The Era of the Polish cow
The Polish Cow, commonly known as the Dancing Cow, was the longest standing chain of #dont-break-the-chain, the first GIF of the cow being posted on the 4th of October 2020 by user ‘Retroded’ and the last GIF of the cow being posted on the 25th of October 2020. The chain furthermore lasted approximately 21 days.

In the server lore, the polish cow is said to be the most supreme being (supposedly only in the #dont-break-the-chain channel, there have been no references to its power compared to other entities of the server) and continued to be sent as a chain despite many attempts to break it.



Polish Cow adaptations
There were a few adaptations applied to the cow during its reign, one of them being “PASS THE COW”, a GIF which told the user to repost to pass the cow to the next user.

Polish Cow's final goodbye
On the 25th of October, after 21 days of the chain being present in the #dont-break-the-chain channel the owner, Polygon Donut, announced that there would be one last event before the closure of the #dont-break-the-chain chat, this would be that anyone could spam the GIF of the cow in any of the channels for a certain amount of time, and that this final phase would add to the cow’s legacy.



The return of the reformed Chain Chomp
Later on the same day, a reformed version of the original Chain Chomper sent a message into the #dont-break-the-chain channel, in this message it describes how the channel had led itself into its own doom. The new reformed Chain Chomper described how the only way to stop the ‘madness’ was to delete the channel, and prevent the Dancing Cow from doing any more damage.

The Final Chain
The final chain was a replica of the first chain of the channel which was the repeated message of “Dont Break The Chain”. This chain continued through the day of the 25th of October, until the chain was finally finished and channel archived at about midday PST.

The Chain Chomp
The Chain Chomper was the first entity introduced into the #dont-break-the-chain saga. It is a reference to the "Chain Chomps" present in a majority of the Mario franchise.

The Polish Cow
The Polish Cow, also called The Dancing Cow, was the second entity introduced into the #dont-break-the-chain saga. It is a reference to the "Polish Cow" meme which was popular around the late 2020 time.

The Chain Chomp
Concerning this event, the Chain Chomper was the first lore character to be introduced into the channel. From witnessing the event, the Chain Chomper in this form could be said to be feeble or weak, as some messages harmed the Chain Chomper. After the channel was resurrecting the Chain Chomper through the recovery, the Chain Chomper was generally accepted to have been put to rest, there is no later evidence to say that the Chain Chomper had returned, despite a couple of messages after the last of the Polish Cow which shows the Chain Chomper as a reformed character.

The Polish Cow
The Polish Cow was the second entity to be introduced through this channel into the server’s lore. During its reign, the Polish Cow was accepted to be stronger than its ancestor the Chain Chomper. Furthermore, as the popularity of the cow increased, so did its said power. The first instance of which the power of the cow was shown was through the resistance against other chains, despite being the most well-known entity at the time, there were generally a few other chains that tried to rebel against the cow and overcome the cow in superiority, all these attempts failed. As more GIFs of the cow were posted inside the channel, the Polish Cow gained extensive power, however, the cow did not show this power. As a result of this, many thought their attempts to bring the cow to fame had failed. However, on the 25th of October, the cow had finally made a move, and with that, the cow had decided to dominate almost all of the channels inside of the server. The cow could not be stopped like this. As stated, later on, the cow supposedly used the server members for power. The final instance of the cow in this channel was its encounter with the reformed Chain Chomper, who dismissed the cow from its power.

The Chain Chomper (reform)
The reformed Chain Chomper first appeared on the 25th of October. The reformed Chain Chomper was a variation from the original Chain Chomp who had long before this date been forgotten about. The reformed Chain Chomp supposedly got its power from resting through the era of the Polish Cow. After this event, the reformed Chain Chomp was the only being who had enough power to stop the Polish Cow from taking over the server.

Trivia

 * Polygon Donut went on to two videos on these two major events, publicised on his channel as “The History of #dont-break-the-chain” and “The History of #dont-break-the-chain: Dancing Cow Arc” respectively.
 * According to the lore showcased in this video, the dancing [polish] cow was known to be more powerful than the chain chomper. This is disputed however, as the last message showcasing the chain chomper tells that the chain chomper defeated the cow itself.
 * There is no knowledge however of the Chain Chomper’s or the Polish Cow’s superiority compared to the other entities of the servers.
 * The Chain Chomper made it’s final appearance after the last cow message, saying that the Chain Chomper stopped the dancing cow. The user behind the chain chomper told that the channel was only safe if it was deleted [archived].
 * The channel was the third ever channel to be archived, after #counting and the #polycraft channel.
 * The channel was up for a total of 73 days, with an average of approximately 131 messages per day.