Lol we did this in the 80s but it was all, like, zines and word of mouth. @Trashmonkey created Val Veggie's New & Improved Police State based on Discordianism. We probably had ~1000 members across 4 NYC schools. The nerdiest shit before nerd shit was cool. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/style/step-chickens-tiktok-cult-wars.html

OK here's a funny story about a thing that happened with our little police state cult at Stuyvesant HS in 1987. First some backstory: Val Veggie was our Great and Beneficent Leader, a Big Brother figure. We would anonymously post flyers praising him around the school.

Because it was a Discordian cult, our main goal was to confuse people. So whenever the school or an official organization would put up real signs, we would replace them with nonsensical parodies. https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Discordianism

We never used our real names so the whole thing had a secret society vibe to it. Other students assumed (correctly!) we were just weird losers, but if they didn't know our identities or exactly what we were up to, they generally knew of Val Veggie.

One thing we thought was hilarious was to replace random words with FISH. So if the school had a flower sale or put up a Say No to Drugs sign, we made it about FISH. Eventually FISH became our calling card.

OK, now the story. Stuyvesant being Stuyvesant, the school took the annual campaign Student Union President pretty seriously. So we decided to run Val Veggie as candidate, which mostly meant making parodies of the real candidates signs and blanketing the school with them.

Then they announced a school wide assembly for the candidates to give speeches. Of course, we didn't have an actual human candidate, so we came up with a plan. We painted a bedsheet with the single word FISH and we rigged it so that it would unfurl during the speeches. Hilarious!

But during the assembly, while we were up in the balcony preparing the banner, the vice principal spotted us and came up to investigate. We had no choice but to run, leaving the sheet still tied up in place. The candidate speeches went off uninterrupted.

OK, you can't win 'em all. Then a few weeks later, the school announced another assembly: a recruiter from the US Army came to talk to seniors about a career in the military. And that's when we realized our banner was still there.

So while the Army guy is speaking we sneak up and drop the banner. Now I'm sure these guys are prepared for protests so I don't think he would have been phased by No War or Fuck Reagan. But the look on his face when that FISH sign dropped & the whole school burst into laughs...

Let's just say that one moment almost made 4 years of being a complete loser in high school worth it

Anyway, respect to these TikTok kids for taking pointless weirdness to the next level. Val Veggie may have lost his race for student union president, but it looks like he won the culture war.

Based on the lack of engagement from this thread literally no one cares, but for the historical record the Stuy chapter was a spinoff of the group founded at St. Ann's https://twitter.com/Squidocto/status/1265367635950264320?s=20