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The '''August 14th Incident''' occurred on August 14, 2022, when the user [[FactionsSaimen]] faked his own death. Saimen had sent a number of strange and ominous messages in DMs the day prior, and then refused to respond to any further messages or calls. He would subsequently join the [[PLA Factions|PLA]] Discord server under an alternate account, and claim that he was found dead in his home, having died by suicide. He would then eventually reveal that he was in fact alive, however the damage was already done and the server collapsed in players by the end of the week, and was subsequently shut down a month later.
The '''August 14th Incident''' occurred on August 14, 2022, when the user [[FactionsSaimen]] faked his own death. Saimen had sent a number of strange and ominous messages in DMs the day prior, and then refused to respond to any further messages or calls. He would subsequently join the [[PLA Factions|PLA]] Discord server under an alternate account, and claim that he was found dead in his home, having died by suicide. He would then eventually reveal that he was in fact alive, however the damage was already done and the server collapsed in players by the end of the week, and was subsequently shut down about two months later.
 
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Latest revision as of 00:38, 12 October 2026

August 14th Incident
DateAugust 14–16, 2022 (2022-08-14 – 2022-08-16)
Duration2 days
TypeFake suicide
MotiveUnknown
PerpetratorFactionsSaimen
OutcomePLA Factions permanently shuts down on October 13, 2022
SentenceFactionsSaimen is permanently blacklisted from all future servers

The August 14th Incident occurred on August 14, 2022, when the user FactionsSaimen faked his own death. Saimen had sent a number of strange and ominous messages in DMs the day prior, and then refused to respond to any further messages or calls. He would subsequently join the PLA Discord server under an alternate account, and claim that he was found dead in his home, having died by suicide. He would then eventually reveal that he was in fact alive, however the damage was already done and the server collapsed in players by the end of the week, and was subsequently shut down about two months later.