Fourth TCR Cold War

The Inner Circle Schism is an ongoing conflict and event between Ghost, the Inner Circle and ex-members of the group who have turned against him and the group's members. This incident directly follows the TCR Chatroom Cold War, as well as the Inner Circle purges that happened frequently throughout 2017 and 2018. This conflict is notable in that not many trolls or other members of the community have participated or are involved, however some have been caught up in it in some form.

Background
Starting in Early 2017, Ghost began purging the Inner Circle of those who were deemed too immature for the group, people who tried to troll the group, or some who tried to ruin their business operations, such as Cryptocurrency. These people were placed on what was dubbed the "Inner Circle Short Bus", and up until June 2017, purges were frequent and many long-time members of the Inner Circle, as well as many long-time fans and members of the community, were removed and placed on this Short Bus. This caused a significant amount of drama that led to the Second TCR Cold War, with several Inner Circle members being doxed by disgruntled ex-members and trolls alike. Following the show's hiatus, the purges died down a bit, however began to pick back up again in Early 2018 following the start of Ghost's Discord.

Ghost's Discord and the Thunderdomes
Main Page: Ghost's Discord

Ghost's Discord is a premium chatroom started by Ghost in February 2018 for $5 a month. This chatroom was initially advertised as being for everyone, with the threat of banning or doxing being shot down very quickly by Ghost and the moderators of the chatroom. However, over time, especially starting in May 2017, an "Anti-Manchild Uprising" began in the chat, as many members of the chatroom, Inner Circle and non-Inner Circle, became fed up with the amount of people joining who were bronies, anime watchers, or people who had sexual interests in cartoons, even if it was for the smallest of reasons, such as an account on a suspicious site. This eventually led to the idea of the "Tard Thunderdomes", a regular event in the chat where members would attempt to confront people who had potential manchild behavior exposed, with most incidents ending in the accused leaving the chatroom.

Over time, this began to cause much controversy, with some members leaving the chat out of disgust for the direction it had gone, whereas others had become tired with the amount of Thunderdomes that were happening. Many of the Inner Circle members who participated in these Thunderdomes would later be the ones banned from the group. With the end of Radio Graffiti, many trolls who had been listening exclusively for the Radio Graffiti and Shoutouts segments left the show, however a few trolls still remained.

Cloning and Inner Circle Purge
During Episode 607, Ghost became frustrated during the show at people cloning InsaneEnergy's name and avatar in the chat, muting and woodshedding anyone who partook in it, followed by rage quitting almost 30 minutes early. The following day, many members of the Inner Circle were purged, or left on their own accord, following the chat logs being purged by the current admin of the chat, KingFish. Ghost would explain on the following show, Episode 608, that these members had formed a group around the "30 year old boomer" meme and the Monster Energy Drink can, talking about the situation that went down in the chat revolving around the members (under pseudonyms), and going off on Millenials in general, as almost all of the involved people had been millenials.

Doxing and Future Drama
Following their banning from the group, many ex-members moved to the former Official TCR Chatroom, where many of them began to make sockpuppet Gab accounts to troll Ghost, and other Inner Circle members. In addition, some of these members cloned Ghost's Discord username and profile picture, raiding the 42 coin chatroom and spamming it to troll Ghost and other Inner Circle members who had remained.

This would eventually escalate on Episode 616, where Ghost talked about "Cyber-stalking" and how he felt many of these people were taking the same approach to him, threatening to release the doxes of some of these individuals on Friday depending on a choice made in the TCR Chatroom. The next show, Episode 617, Ghost would state that he wouldn't release the info publicly, but instead have people pay $5 in crypto per dox of the individuals involved.

After the show however, Kush, a notable former Inner Circle member and admin for both chatrooms, returned to Gab to say he had contacted Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, and that Ghost would be potentially banned from the service if he released the info. Due to this, Ghost did not release it officially, however following posts on 4chan made with InsaneEnergy's dox, Kush's dox would leak out from an unknown source. A few days later, new sockpuppet accounts appeared on Gab, taking the names of other IC members, and joined the TCR Discord to troll, however were swiftly banned by Ghost.

Following this, the drama has seemingly cooled off for the time being, with some Inner Circle members voluntarily leaving the group to avoid getting involved with the drama, as many Inner Circle members that had little to do with the group were doxed during the Second TCR Cold War.

After the midterms, InsaneEnergy left the community.