The Great Pickle War

undefined

The Great Pickle War is a long-running gag in WilburSoot's Offline Chat, revolving around The Regulars' opinions on pickles. Two main sides have been noted, those being those for pickles (#wilburofflinechatforpickles), and those against pickles (#wilburofflinechatagainstpickles).

There is a plausible third, undecided division that is currently unexplored, that may come into effect should Wilbur Soot not know his opinion on pickles.

The war is presently still ongoing, with no end in sight. Its efforts are presently on pause due to The Fall of L'Crime Time Chat.

History
The Great Pickle War started around Mid-November, when regular dayabolical asked everyone's opinion on pickles in hopes that all who responded would be against them. Members of the offline chat seemed to have very strong opinions on this subject, and after the coining of the anti-hashtag by regular iightgeneral, the offliners split into teams (#WilburOfflineChatForPickles & #WilburOfflineChatAgainstPickles) to show their side on the debate. This eventually turned out to be something that has been brought up in offline chat multiple times and has continued to be the biggest debate in the offline chat.

Aware of the helpless conflict, The Regulars came together to determine the End Conditions together, hoping for peace to once more fall upon the offline chat. It has become a goal to achieve the End Conditions under any circumstances possible. The Wilbur Online Activity Check (WOAC) was developed partially to help end the war.

Both sides began enlisting Content Creators for their opinions in the war, by entering their offline chats and asking. Four so far have spoken on the debate - Jack Manifold, James Marriott, Ph1LzA, and Ranboo. The Ph1LzA enquiry was a significant event, as the spark of the offliners' curiosity led to even un-initiated Ph1LzA Online Chatters helping the cause.

During an anticipation phase for a stream, on January 3rd, 2021, thanks to an influx of offliner curiosity, the Moderators ran a poll to determine the ranks of each side of the war. The poll ran for a few minutes, and concluded in the favour of the anti-picklers.

In the same stream, while playing Rust, Wilbur acquired some pickles. He voiced his distaste for the item, giving the anti-picklers yet another undeniable edge in the pickle war. Unfortunately, he only referred to ingame pickles, so the instance did not meet the final end condition.

On midnight, the 23rd of January, 2021, Wilbur appeared in offline chat after a Quackity Jackbox stream. When asked about pickles, he ghosted the offliners, and left immediately.

On 30th January 2021, Wilbur became active on reddit, and LiceSlice replied to his post on r/tommyinnit asking his opinion on pickles. The post managed to get a lot of upvotes, leading to speculation that Wilbur has seen it and has chosen not to reply. Wilbur since then has deleted this post.

On 7th February 2021, Wilbur was playing Jackbox over on Jack Manifolds stream. While playing  'Talking Points' , Wilbur's presentation included a pickle in which he talked about Pickle Rick from 'Rick and Morty'. This was considered a close call but didn't get a final decision on pickles as he never stated his actual opinion on them.

On 11th February, 2021, in the anticipation phase for a stream, the pickle war picked up again, and the moderators were coerced into running a second poll, as many key offliners had not been involved. Despite the inflated ranks of voters, the anti-picklers secured a victory for the second time, giving them a further edge in the war.

 

#WilburOfflineChatForPickles

 * 1) WilburOfflineChatForPickles is the tag and identity used by the members of the offline chat to express their approval of pickles. Notable Regular members of this division are krysztalowa_kula, everyrest, and decapitatedducks. Jack Manifold has also been asked whether he likes pickles or not, in which he approves of them, however it is unclear whether this was asked by an offliner or not. Ranboo was also asked his opinion on pickles, in which he approved, however it was probably not asked by an offliner. Screen Shot 2021-01-03 at 12.00.15 PM.png

#WilburOfflineChatAgainstPickles

 * 1) WilburOfflineChatAgainstPickles is the tag and identity used by the members of the offline chat to express their disapproval of pickles. Notable Regular members of this division are iightgeneral, adrinapog, LiceSlice, aeropIane and dayabolical. Notably, every Moderator consulted on the debate so far has sided with this group. James Marriott has also expressed his dislike for pickles after aerodotplane asked his opinion on them on behalf of the WilburSoot Offline Chat.

After a combined effort started by ak2050 and aeropIane from the offliners and later on people from Phils stream, it was discovered that Ph1LzA also does not like pickles.

End Conditions
For this war to come to an end, The Regulars decided it was necessary to get Wilbur Soot's opinion on pickles in REAL LIFE to decide the winning side in the debate. If he declares he likes pickles, those for pickles will declare victory - if he doesn't, those against pickles will instead. Currently, he has yet to give a statement on his opinion.

There is a proposed catastrophic outcome, in which Wilbur's response to pickles is something along the lines of "I don't know." If that happens, it is not yet clear how the war will conclude.

As time progresses, and the chance of the end conditions being met rise, some regulars fear that it will not spell the end of the war as a whole, but merely the end of the first phase of it. The outcome is yet to be known.

Operation: Blind Justice has been developed as one of the last-ditch methods to secure an ending to the War.

Trivia

 * Elliejane_2491, one of the most active offline moderators, made a TikTok joking about The Great Pickle War.
 * It is said that eating strawberry cake will cause pickle eaters to become pickle antis.
 * On Feburary 6th, sophietexas arrived in offline chat and when asked about pickles, stated "the valsic dill??? slaps. half sours? demons from hell" "bread and butter pickles are fucken nasty" and "but the salty ones? poggers" therefore indicating a mixed stance on pickles.