"Stop eating my fucking Klondike bars"
~ A Fucking Idiot, lashing out at his friend for eating his Klondike bars
A Fucking Idiot (generally known by his initials AFI) is a famously vulgar Generation 1 tagger on TF2Tags who is renowned for his goal and achievement of being the first ever (and currently only) tagger to acquire a profile rank of Negative Hale's Own, making him the biggest shitposter there ever was. While temporarily stymied by various roadblocks and shitstorms, he soldiered onward and eventually reached his goal on November 24th, 2015. He has since become a living legend in the tagging community.
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GuESS WhAT HE DOeS!![]
AFI posted his very first submission on the 10th of December 2014; a Nostromo Napalmer ranting about "Burning Fucking Aliens". This submission, alongside the other four he had made that day, was received very negatively, quickly exceeding 30 misses. After posting his fifth tag that day, he made a comment stating that he would be done making those types of submissions. However, after other taggers started copying this style over the next week and a half, AFI decided to keep going. He posted more of his signature tags on December 21st, where Legownz and Fear asked him why he continued to post these tags if AFI knew nobody liked them. AFI simply replied that he likes seeing how many negative points he could get, and that it was funny. AFI continued tagging on the 23rd, and then again on the 29th. A month later, he returned on January 25th, where he continued to tag "regularly" for around two weeks (in quotes because he got temporarily banned numerous times during this period). During this time he got more hate comments from the likes of Relk and Blast, along with some other taggers. On February 3rd, AFI revealed in the comments of one of his tags that his goal was to reach Negative Hale's Own, which is -8500 points. Three days later, AFI made one set of the lyrics of the theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where he ended it with one of his signature "GuESS WhAT HE DOeS!!" tags. This set would go on to be AFI's most conventionally successful tag, not only receiving crits (which only a handful of AFI's tags ever did), but 86 of them. This set, combined with his newly announced goal of reaching Negative Hale's Own, changed many opinions about AFI, such as Sensible Haircut, Blast, Relk, and Timberwoof.
However, after this one point in time, he decided to stop submitting due to his several bannings and getting bored of shitposting. His Fresh Prince set was meant to be the last one before leaving for good. However, he later returned on July 24th (though he may have posted anonymously during the Racist Anon Incident in May) after seeing other users making posts referencing him and his signature style. And so, AFI made a return to keep on doing his thing, as well as asking when all the Gun Mettle items would be added to TF2Tags. Though many were happy for his return, he still had some critics, such as Legownz and (more infamously) BananaSquid. By July 27th, Sensible Haircut admitted that it had gotten to the point where AFI's posts had become legitimately funny, which AFI found disappointing but nonetheless acceptable. He also told BananaSquid to play "single player Russian roulette" after he called him cringy. BananaSquid would continue to leave hate comments on AFI's submissions for a while, which AFI brushed off with insults of his own. Legownz, however, would come around and support AFI shortly after his return.
However, AFI would encounter a roadblock in his path to Negative Hale's, as he was banned by Dr. Dos on July 29th for 10 days. AFI would not be deterred, however, and would pick up tagging again immediately after it was lifted. M3Lucas would show his support for AFI, while the new tagger Makin' Bacon would criticize him for "trying to hard and failing miserably". AFI told Makin' he was a failure at life. Makin' would join BananaSquid in heckling AFI for a few days before realizing just what AFI was going for. AFI would reach a major milestone on August 11th, becoming -LEET.
HE FUcKINg bEcOMES GOre-SpaTTerED aND gETs BAnnED!![]
Main articles: The Mobile-Friendly Update and The Banning of AFI
As the majority of people were starting to come onto AFI's side, a great tragedy befell him and the site as a whole. On August 16th, Dr. Dos implemented a major site update onto TF2Tags, called the Mobile-Friendly Update. This update's main aim was to make the site better to navigate on mobile devices (with... less than success). However, other things were done, such as the Halloween 2014 unusual effects finally getting added, a more active usage of the site's Twitter and Tumblr pages, and updating the site's backend to rely exclusively on the TF2 Wiki (which would later come back to bite Dos). However, nobody largely remembers any of this, because the biggest and most hated change was the removal of the misses. Taggers could no longer miss any submissions, and any and all misses were erased from every submission, inflating everyone's scores by hundreds (sometimes thousands) of points. In an instant, AFI had gone from around -1500 points (Negative Rage-Inducing) to around 400 points (Positive Gore-Spattered).
Naturally, AFI was devastated. The entire point of him being on TF2Tags was to reach Negative Hale's Own, which was now impossible. Thankfully, however, Ulysses, Sensible, and Legownz banded together to create the Bring Back Misses movement, which quickly gained other taggers such as Relk, Makin' Bacon, and CP. AFI would shortly join himself, and he became the poster child for the movement, and his goal to reach Negative Hale's became one of the main talking points for the restoration of misses. AFI would start making normal tags spreading the word of BBM (as well as using his representative item, the Voodoo-Cursed Heavy Soul, for the first time), and after two days Dr. Dos relented and restored the miss button and all the misses, bringing AFI back to his original position. As an added perk, because AFI's score catapulted almost 2000 points, he had broken 100 positive points, meaning his daily submission limits would be raised to 10 posts a day instead of 5 (this is also where taggers learned that once you unlocked the higher tiered submission limits, you wouldn't lose them if you went below the needed number of points). AFI would remark on the 19th, when Misses were restored, that it felt amazing to have his misses back.
However, AFI's celebration would not last long. On August 20th, fellow Bring Back Misser CP reported AFI's tags to Dr. Dos with intent to ban him, and subsequently AFI was banned later that day for the remainder of 2016. AFI, in response to this, changed his name on TF2Tags to "A Fucking Idiot (Seeyouin2016)". At 10:39 PM, he made the following comment on his Steam profile: "Welp, I'm banned from tf2tags until next year. I will return". He also updated his wiki page to reflect that he had been banned until 2016. Seven hours later, Le Tryhard Hunter would see this wiki edit and bring it up to the site, and Sensible would corroborate this by finding AFI's Steam profile comment. Sensible would soon after make his own tag memorializing his fallen comrade. In the comments of this tag, CP admitted that he was the one who reported him, now infamously declaring "I deserve credit."
While the site was devolving into confusion over the ban and anger towards CP, AFI himself crafted a very carefully-worded email to Dr. Dos to appeal his ban. After some consideration, Dos granted the appeal and lifted his ban. AFI returned to the site that day, calling CP a "fucking self-righteous dickbag". CP tried to explain that he didn't know who AFI was or understand his humor, and that he thought he was just some simple shitposter. Besides, shitposting was shitposting no matter whether it is liked, so he technically did the right thing. CP's former claims are dubious, given how a) he had been a member of Bring Back Misses and b) had made an AFI-style joke himself during the Racist Anon Incident three months prior. AFI likewise would not accept these explanations, and for the following day would lead the charge of the anti-CP hatewagon, making sets calling him out, spamming his Steam profile calling him a "Raging Cuckold", and potentially missbombing him. They came to verbal blows more than once.
The following day, AFI would forgive CP for his actions and clarifying that he did not hate him, and how he wished things had simply calmed down after he was unbanned. He addressed his supporters, stating that he was worried he had a cult of personality growing around him, which he did not want. He apologized for partaking in the drama and advocated for peace. CP would later apologize himself, stating that he was sorry for reporting AFI and starting all the drama in the first place. He states he shouldn't have contacted Dos so quickly, and that from now on he would jump on the AFI train and help him reach his goal of Negative Hale's Own. The two men metaphorically shook hands, and the drama was over.
hE FUcKINg BeComES NEgATive HAlE's OWn!![]
Following his banning, AFI returned to his status quo. Bloo Kirby would emerge as another anti-AFI tagger alongside Frapple during the AFI/CP drama. Fear would also come out and criticize AFI for filling the site with shitty tags (though he understands his goal), to which AFI would rejoice, stating that his plan was working. During the Banning of Sensible Haircut, AFI was in the middle of a couple days break (from September 6th to the 9th; Sensible was banned on the 8th), so when he returned he was confused as to why everyone was leaving en masse. He ultimately decided it would be best for him not get involved, and instead took a longer break, returning normally on the 16th. Following that day, he would start to lessen his daily activity over concerns even from some of his supporters (such as Legownz) that he was spamming his submissions. He put a self-imposed limit of 3 tags a day on himself, though he did not always adhere to this. On September 23rd, AFI had broke the halfway point to Negative Hale's Own (-4250 points). On October 12th, where some users began to missbomb him to accelerate his reaching Negative Hale's, which he thanked them for. On October 28th, BananaSquid even admitted that he no longer hated AFI.
At the onset of November, AFI had accrued -6100 points, placing him at Negative Epic. Many taggers, excited to see AFI's score so low, began to continuously missbomb AFI throughout the month, increasing his points by hundreds of negative points on some days. Then, finally, on November 24th, 2015, A Fucking Idiot made tagging history. In only 11 months, he had reached the rank of Negative Hale's Own, a feat that no other tagger had achieved before or since. On the announcement tag he made, taggers of both Generations came and celebrated his hard-fought success. The site flooded with posts congratulating AFI.
HE FUcKINg gETs BaNNEd aGAIn AnD BeCOmeS A LiVINg LeGEND!![]
Following the achivement of Negative Hale's Own, AFI's activity on the site dropped considerably compared to before, usually posting only one tag a day through the rest of 2015. On New Years Day 2016, AFI would post a tag to a music album he and his friend on FacePunch made out of boredom. As one may expect from AFI, these songs were all of a shitposty, offensive nature. If one could sit through the ear bleeding, they were quite humorous. Following this, he would not appear again until the 19th. People had grown worried during these two and a half weeks of silence, so when he came back their fears were put to rest. He would then disappear for another 11 days before returning again on February 2nd, where his activity would start to pick up again and taggers would welcome him back once more, such as Bonkspenser and Crimson Blitz. Here, he would start making Vocaroos in his Fallout Ghoul-sounding voice, which people got a kick out of. He would start to post tags that were more Tweet Tag-esque, but with his own AFI spin of course.
On February 20th, a man known only as the Shitposter of 2016 joined the site and began making alt accounts pretending to be different taggers in a shitstorm that would eventually be known as the Attack of the Clones. AFI would be just as confused as everyone else, but would eventually join in with his own shitposty antics. In what is believed to be his biggest shitpost spree ever, AFI made pages of tags consisting of nothing but Valve-quality items named and described "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA". This act would prove to be a fatal mistake, however, for when Dr. Dos was called in to deal with the situation, he banned AFI alongside S16 for this very reason. Unlike all his previous bannings, this time AFI was given the signature ban until 2050, which he told Ulysses, who subsequently relayed it to the site. The news of this ban alongside Dos's revealing his true feelings on the community sent a bone-chilling fright through the community, who vowed (unsuccessfully) to stop the drama and shitstorms. Makin' Bacon was perhaps the most hurt by this ban, as he had become a great fan of AFI's work at that point.
AFI was not by any means dead yet, however, for he was unbanned early on April 2nd, 2016, just in time for April Fools' Week. The community (minus Frapple, the only one who still disliked him) rejoiced at the fallen king's return, and AFI, after declaring the Miss Button to be his waifu, went on a surge of high-quality low-quality April Fools tags. At this point, AFI had gained -10,000 points, making him one of the only 10 taggers to break 10,000 points on either end of the spectrum.
On April 12th, various taggers would start changing their names to variants of AFI's name after TheOnlyGuyEver and Makin' Bacon called Player 1 + Player 2 "A Fucking Lunatic" for some drama he had caused with Arceus, and the latter changed his name to that. Many taggers decided to turn this into a trend and became cousins of AFI for a day. Around the time of May, AFI would get into Half Life Source modding, which eh would occasionally post pictures of on the site alongside his Vocaroos.
After May, AFI's activity dropped off significantly once more. During the Pyro vs. Heavy update in early July, he was an ardent promoter of Heavy (his TF2 main). Following this, he would not be seen again for 12 days, where he told taggers to go and play Trump Quest on Steam. After this, he would not be seen again until December 9th. Upon his return, Generation 3 had burgeoned, and AFI was introduced to numerous new faces of new taggers who deified him. However, he would not stay long, for after making three tags he disappeared into the aether once again until February 19th, 2017, shortly after Vulture Prime missbombed him to -12,000 points, making people believe missbombing AFI summons him. After this, AFI began to tag somewhat regularly again.
During April Fools' Week 2017, AFI's activity skyrocketed once more, making many April Fools tags. However, following its closure, his activity dropped again, not tagging again until April 21st, and then only once in May and June. After some more activity in July and August, he would vanish and reappear midway through October, where for just over a week he had another stint of constant activity. On October 24th, he would leave again, returning on January 28th, 2018, seemingly in response to the announcement of the Tagpocalypse. Following this return, he had one final long period of constant activity through the rest of January, all of February, and then until March 9th. He posted once on April 15th, and then had a final stint of semi-regular activity from June 25th to August 4th, where he would disappear from the community.
A Fucking Idiot would return to the community on June 5th, 2020, five days after the opening of Tags.tf. He remains in the community to this day, still as venerated as ever for his chill nature and unique tagging style. For his Tags.tf activity, see the appropriate page.
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A Fucking Idiot's style is very... unique. The majority of his submissions tend to have a name that talks about some vague aspect of a chosen item, followed by a description starting with "GUeSS WHaT It DOeS!!", and then referencing the name once again. Said submissions are always filled with excessive exclamation marks and erratic capitalization, as well as lots of vulgarity. The description will almost always contain the word "fucking" at least once.
"GueSs wHAT hE DOeS!! He FUcKInG SHiTPOStS SuBMiSSionS LiKE thIs FOr nO ReASON!!!!!"
While his submissions are reminiscent of a raging 12-year-old Call of Duty player, you'll find he's actually a pretty nice guy if you read the comments he makes. He purposely makes his submissions bad to get misses, however their flagrant anti-humor is often funny regardless.
Other than his signature "GUeSS WHaT It DOeS!!" tags, AFI has some other templates in his style, which are typical shitposts. Whether it's naming / describing a Rocket Launcher "FUCK / ASS" or describing a Panic Attack with "My FUcking COCK!", these shitposts were some next-level shit.
Late in his career, AFI would also start making sets called "Based on a True Story", which were transcripts from various Steam conversations that he had. Blast claims "Based on a True Story 4" is one of the few tags that have made him laugh so hard he nearly fainted.
When he's not making standard shitposts, AFI will use typical grammar and punctuation. This is usually done when he addresses the community, asks a question, or posts links to Vocaroos he has done. In his Vocaroos, he tends to sound exactly as you would expect from his typical tags, which is to sound like a chain-smoking Ghoul from the Fallout series.
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Typically, AFI's relations with taggers went as follows:
- "Who the fuck is this guy and why are his tags so bad? He should just stop and leave."
- "Wait, people actually LIKE this guy? The fuck is wrong with them?"
- "Wait hold on, this is his shtick? He's deliberately trying to be as bad as possible and reach Negative Hale's? Huh. That's actually pretty cool."
- "Haha, there's AFI again with another masterpiece!"
- "ALL HAIL OUR GOD, AFI." (This typically only applies to post-Generation 2 taggers)
That is to say, people generally start of confused and offended by AFI's posts, but have a change of heart as they come to realize his modus operandi. AFI had quite a few enemies on TF2Tags during his early days, but most have since come out in support of him and his unique brand of humor, especially Relk, who went as far as to archive every single one of his tags right before the site died (see the Gallery section bellow). However, some remained unappreciative of his particular brand of humor, most notably Frapple and BananaSquid. At one point of time, BananaSquid made a hate submission criticizing AFI, sparking an argument and establishing the two as enemies. This ended when BananaSquid left TF2Tags on the 14th of August 2015 due to Makin' Bacon. Said post by BananaSquid regarding AFI has been deleted. However, BananaSquid would eventually come to appreciate AFI. Frapple, on the other hand, remains the only tagger that to this day despises AFI.
Generation 3 taggers and those who came after typically deified AFI due to the stories told by older taggers, and when he made his brief appearances throughout 2016, 2017, and 2018, people often referred to him as a god and living legend. Any tags from AFI that have a positive score are likely to get missbombed by those who disapprove of there being a positive score on an AFI tag. Critting any of AFI's submissions was seen as a cardinal sin of TF2Tags even among Gen 1 and 2 taggers. Gen 3 tagger Shakkari is infamous for critting all of AFI's submissions that he posted during his time on the site, not because he disliked AFI, but because he found them genuinely hilarious. Other taggers often yelled and scolded Shak for this, but AFI himself did not seem to care.
In terms of Taggers he is close with, AFI and Ulysses seemed to be quite close for awhile until they drifted apart. He was also on good terms with Legownz and Makin' Bacon before they left the community, as well as Marmot, Expand, and Blast. On Steam, he is also friends with Walumancer, Fancytag, Egg-Z, Ashton Doovis (who invited him back to Tags.tf), Reboot, Ass Ketchup, Le Tryhard Hunter, and Moura. Again, only Frapple has anything against AFI at this point.
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See: A Fucking Idiot/Tag Archive
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- While in TF2Tags he is known as A Fucking Idiot, his Steam (and overall) username is NullenHL2B or Sergeant (Sgt.) Stacker.
- AFI has the lowest crit/tag rate, deeply being in negatives, but since that was his and others' aim, it can also be considered one of the biggest.
- He also has the honor of being the creator of the tenth most Missed tag of all time, that being his very first.
- He is one of the only taggers that actually likes being missbombed.
- Despite his unorthodox style of tagging, AFI is one of, if not the, most praised taggers on the site.
- AFI is often used in various series as a person in a major role, being the main antagonist of the first part of Hon-Hon and Sneky as well as the host and eventual winner of TF2Tags Survivor.
- He really, really likes the Potassium Bonnett.
- AFI is the creator of the Half Life 2 mod Mystery Combat Man, which he describes as "everything a HL2 mod should not be". It is a mod that plunges the player into a world of blaring loud music, no way to progress besides manually selecting the next level, and poorly detailed fullbright maps filled with enemies.
- Its sequel, which was co-developed by CrazyBubba, "made that jackass Tyler McVicker cry tears of disappointment because his viewers were demanding he play it while streaming and they were hyping it up to be the greatest mod ever made only for him to experience sensory overload and give up on the 2nd level".
- Mystery Combat Man and its sequel helped spark a neo-dada HL2 mod and movement of similarly-themed shitpost mods.
- "And like my tag submissions, somehow there are people who like it lmao"
- AFI's posts make TGRobert wet in a matter of seconds. This is especially confusing considering Robert is a man. AFI's powers are truly otherworldly.
- He hates the sweltering heat of Yuma, Arizona, where he lives. He then moved to Phoenix. It's even worse there.
- AFI claims the video Banjo Gyro! is his biography.
- He is an ardent defender of the Brass Beast minigun. His main Heavy loadout is the Brass Beast, Family Business, and Gloves of Running Urgently.
- He likes swimming, sleeping, and gardening.
- He actually dislikes many memes. Also wasps. Fuck wasps.