The Hev1 War/Gollum

I never thought this day would be upon us. But alas, here it is: The Hev1 War.

(NOTE: This is from my perspective so please refrain from changing it)

Gathering Storm
Gollum's distaste for Hev1 began on December 12th, 2017 when Gollum made a thought out comment thinking about Nate's future. Years from now, as he’s being lead out of court, on trial and found guilty of murder, the reporters will ask this psychopath: “When did it start Nate?” to which Nate would reply: “Well it happened a while ago. When I was in middle school, I wanted to give my social studies teacher a heart attack. Then began the homicidal dreams. I knew one day I’d get even with her. One day…” Breaking Bad theme plays -Gollum, December 12th, 2017.

He received 8 likes.

Hev1 on the other hand, received 22 likes and featured comment for this work of art: Nate is heartless -Hev1, December 12th, 2017.

This infuriated Gollum. Not because he put quite a bit of effort into his comment but because some guy with the cult of personality could get so many likes for doing nothing. "Jeez," thought Gollum "This guy needs to be parodied, all he does is state the obvious!"

 Then on December 14th, 2017 Gollum came out with his parody of a Hev1 comment : "I love this strip! It is such high-level humour. The line “Oh how I detest her” while not only being a change from Nate’s usual “Oh how I hate her” it also is in itself a cryptic reference to the book, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1886. To the line: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” This explains the whole underlying subtext of Big Nate. He’s just a misunderstood genius and his plans are always thwarted by a evil stone hearted villain. I had no idea that Lincoln Peirce was a fan of Russian literature but o-ho I stand corrected! He is truly a modern genius. His works mention the concept that Dostoyevsky explained, the Dunning-Krueger effect, schadenfreude, and many more. This is all a part of my essay on Big Nate that you can read at a wonderful website called tydavidsonblog.wordpress.com  "-Gollum, December 14th, 2017

Nothing like a bit of shameless self-promotion!

The parody comment received about 3 likes while Hev1 pulled his usual party trick and got a ton of likes and featured comment. Gollum racked his brains. What was the problem? Why did the comment flop? Was it because it sounded nothing like Hev1? Do people not know who Dostoevsky is?

An embarrassing mistake on Gollum's part, so he decided to rectify it.

At the same time, the noble commenter BiggerNate91 had an interesting theory: "Have you ever noticed how all the same people reply to Hev1? The Antithesis, Mrs. Godfrey, FallenUser001, Arena Closer and ProCuber always seem to be here."-BiggerNate91, December 14th, 2017.

A user named Marty Wright responded saying:"Really fishy"-Marty Wright, December 14th, 2017.

This pissed off a guy named ExtremeHackerBot001, who said to Marty Wright:"You nearly always say something negative on hev1’s comment. “Really fishy…” “Stop spamming” “There trying to feature hev1” “Stop making so many replies” “Why is hev1 always featured?”"-ExtremeHackerBot001, December 14th, 2017.

The next day, Gollum posted another Hev1 related comment that got a SUBSTANTIAL (and I mean substantial) amount of likes:"How to make a Hev1 comment: Step 1: Notice the most obvious thing about the strip. Step 2: Type a paragraph about the obvious thing. Step 3: Sprinkle in mature words like “frivolous” and “assessing” that the average Big Nate commenter would not know. Step 4: Mention something high concept about psychology and life. Step :. Post comment. Step 6: Get them sweet likes and featured comment." -Gollum, December 15th, 2017.

He got 16 likes and 16 replies! "Hell yeah!" he said. But he did not get featured comment. Instead Hev1 (with 14 likes) got featured comment. He had 40 replies (most of them consisted of Gollum arguing with Hev1's loyal fan club)."Gollum: What is your secret?""Somebody (actual name): What secret?""Hockey17: The secret to having a huge fan club.""Gollum: And getting featured comment for stating the obvious and using big boy words""Hockey17: Exactly.""Nasty Nas: Please stop replying to Captain Obvious. At this point I don’t know what’s worse polls or stupid insight into a comic.""Gina Hemphill Toms (replying to Gollum): “big boy words”? What’s wrong with sophistication?""Gollum: I was being sarcastic""The Antithesis (completely missing the point): So you’re saying hev1 doesn’t have sophisticated word choice?""Gollum: Good lord, I am pointing out that he is pretentious as anything""The Antithesis: How is he pretentious? Stop thinking the worst of people. It’s not like he’s using sophisticated words to “impress” people (although some people are impressed by his vocabulary). He’s using it because he wants to and there’s nothing wrong with that.""Gollum: Okay buddy whatever you say ;)""Mrs. Godfrey (replying to Gollum): What do you have against hev1?""Mrs. Godfrey (replying to Gollum's comment about Hev1 being pretentious): Where is the proof of that (other than the fact that you just seem to dislike hev1)?""Gollum (replying to Mrs. Godfrey's what do you have against hev1 comment): Nothing, other than the fact that he always gets featured comment for stating the obvious. I don’t have anything against him personally.""Gollum (replying to the dislike hev1 comment): Look at all of his comments, they are very pretentious, at least in my eyes. I mean, the fact that he is giving a fictional character advice is weird on its own""ProCuber: I think of it as an analysis, not “stating the obvious”. Plus, do you want the featured comment?""ProCuber: You haven’t given any evidence that hev1 is pretentious. “Stating the obvious” and “using big boy words” doesn’t make him pretentious, nor does giving advice to a fictional character. It only shows that hev1 is dedicated to the strip (he makes constructive, on-topic comments everyday). You are making the same argument as GinaSays, saying that it’s “weird” how hev1 always makes comments about Big Nate or giving Nate advice. Read the Jonathan W.G.‘s replies to hev1’s comment: http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2017/12/09.""Sagacious Polhistor (a few days later replying to Gollum's comment about Hev1 being pretentious): How so? Could you actually explain why instead of avoiding the question?"The next few days was the same: Make a comment mocking Hev1, get told off by his pissed off fans. On December 18th, Gollum said:"insert “intelligent” and thoughtful comment about why working at a mall changes your psyche"- Gollum, December 18th, 2017.

This was well received by some and not so well received by others. Meanwhile, he made another comment about the new arc saying:"Well the sub storyline was beyond terrible. Come on Peirce! Show us you deserve the 500k subs! Let’s hope this SPG one is funny."-Gollum, December 18th, 2017.

This was a boner on Gollum's part because the sub count is 50k, not 500k. Let me repeat, the sub count is 50k not 500k!Hev1, so graciously corrected Gollum and got 4 likes. Fair enough. Gollum responded by saying:"Ah yes, of course you have to be the one to point it out to me. I’m probably going to die of this irony overdose"It is ironic, right? Anywho, Hev1 seemed to understand so that was good. Unfortunately, Sagacious Polhistor swooped in to "save the day" by schooling Gollum on... I don't know. Gollum was sick of this conflict, he had just fought in Poll War 2, so he was a bit worn out. He was tired of people not getting it:"You answered your own question! It is ironic because I was making jokes about Hev1 and he pointed out my stupid error. Jeez do I have to explain everything to you people? It seems that no one on this site gets jokes."-Gollum, December 18th, 2017.

Gollum saw Hev1's comment (that was featured) and cringed:"School Picture Guy is doing all sorts of odd jobs. It seems like he really needs the money."-Hev1, December 18th, 2017.

It got 10 likes. 10 LIKES. What has this world come to? Gollum was pissed and he went to his blog to do some maintenance work. He came across the "About The Site" page and found a comment from someone familiar:"Nice blog! Good luck writing your graphic novels​. This seems to be a sophisticated and enthralling blog!"-Hev1, September 14th, 2017.

"Oh my God," Gollum thought "Could I be making fun of some guy who complimented me? He seemed like he was interested in what I have to write on my blog."

Gollum was depressed. What had he done? He wrote an apology to Hev1 that same day:"I apologize for my “rude” Hev1 comments. I will try to be less sarcastic."-Gollum, December 18th, 2017.

He immediately received a reply from Sagacious Dickhole which was:"Hence the quotation marks around rude."-Sagacious Polhistor, December 18th, 2017.

This angered Gollum and he told Sagacious Polhistor to "shut up" (hence the quotation marks) and explained why he put them there to begin with. Gollum cleared everything up with Hev1 who said:"No apology necessary. You were just joking."-Hev1, December 18th, 2017.

Everything was okay for a while. Gollum cooled off after a while and was his normal self again. "Yeah, maybe I was taking it too far" he said. All was good.

Right?

The Outbreak Of War
On January 6th, 2018, the unthinkable happened. Gollum got some crazy idea, mixed with pent up frustration at Hev1 and his fanbase. He changed his profile picture to a ghost rider with Gollum's face on it and his name to "Gollum1". He wrote a long comment about how people from different cultures can't speak English initially:"People from other cultures and countries learn any word. They want to broaden their vocabulary and adopt the language that the country speaks. However they do not understand the meaning of some words, like in Arthur’s case. This will lead to many misunderstandings."-Gollum, January 6th, 2018.

Hev1 made his own comment saying:"Words can have several meanings and idioms are always hard to understand when thought of literally (their meaning must be memorized). A word which comprises two separate words may sometimes be hard to understand because it might not have the same meaning as its word components. This is always hard to learn for non-native speakers. However, a word can usually be broken into three parts: the root, the prefix and the suffix. The meanings of common roots, prefixes and suffixes can be memorized to piece together the meaning of a word, which is much easier."-Hev1, January 6th, 2018.

"Ugh," thought Gollum "I came to read a comic not get bored to death with primary school English work."

Gollum decided to reply to Hev1's comment to up the ante. Then this amusing conversation unfolded:

Gollum: I offer you my sincerest contrafibularities, hev1

BigNateRules: What in the word is a contrafibularity?

Gollum: Contrafibularities? Have you not heard? It is a common word up here, am I incorrect hev1?

BigNateRules: I can’t even find it in dictionary.com lol

Gollum: My sincerest apologies, I am so phrasmotic to have even caused you this much bewilderment.

Thinking he would get more replies from members Hev1's fanbase, Gollum was pants crappingly shocked when he saw the Hev1 HIMSELF made a sarcastic (?) reply:"It is not uncommon to not know an unusual word. Think of how many English words there are. Even a university English professor would not know every single word (the meanings of specific phobias and diseases are especially hard to remember). To know every single word would be nearly impossible, but it would be significantly easier if you understand Latin and/or Greek, which are are the languages that form the most common English word roots. A word may seem easy to remember for you but hard to remember for another person and vice versa."-Hev1, January 6th, 2018.

"Oh God," said Gollum "I refuse to believe this is a real human being. Surely he is just joking, right?"

I mean, Hev1's reply got 5 likes from his fan club (MagikarpSays, Sagacious Polhistor, Pro Cuber, Gina Hemphill Toms and The Antithesis).

Gollum wasn't going to give up hope and he replied to Hev1's comment causing further amusing moments:

Gollum: Ah but of course. You understand it what I am attempting to communicate, correct, brethren? If not then this a massive pericombobulation on my part.

BigNateRules: I have no clue what your talking about. Are you using a thesaurus or something?

FallenUser001: He has his English tutor ya know.

Sidenote: My English tutor helps me with my writing, not teaching me useless vocabulary

Gollum: I am an anaspeptic reader, for that is why my vocabulary is so diverse

FallenUser001: You’re using so many lesserknown words that you sound pretentious.

Gollum: Don’t be compunctious

Luckily there were some shiners in that reply chain. My bois Rayantarar and 10/10 got the joke and congratulated me. Sagacious Polhistor made an appearance chewing me out:"Insulting others will not change anything, no matter which words you use. It only shows that you have no real counterargument and are resorting to non-civil measures.""“My sincerest apologies, I am so phrasmotic to have even caused you this much bewilderment.”""This comment shows your conceit as well as your egoism; you are flaunting your vocabulary. I will not assume anything, but you could well be using a thesaurus because, as Hev1 has stated, words can have many meanings and you seem to be using several words incorrectly and in the wrong context. You can’t always trust a thesaurus because it does not know which meaning of the word you are searching up you want to use."-Sagacious Polhistor, January 6th, 2018.

Tue Eleng Jensen made, kind of a point (in a repluy to OutCast9033):"Except he isn´t. Considering his past comments I would not be surprised if he is copy pasting from elsewhere. Not to mention he doesn´t actually have a point in regard to the comic. If he has such a big issue with Hev1 – which it seems he does – he could just ignore him. It honestly seem very odd with this fixation on certain commenters."-Tue Elung Jensen, January 6th, 2018.

But here's the catch: contrafibularities, phrasmotic, anaspeptic, compunctious and pericombobulation are ALL MADE UP WORDS!

Sidenote: Be pretentious as you want, claim you have a massive vocabulary but you can't even spot a fake word when it's right in front of you.

Gollum got the idea from one of his favourite TV shows, Blackadder. Watch the sketch and you will get the joke: Oh no, but it doesn't stop there! Gollum made a comment refering to Hev1's main comment that day:"Hev1 has a splendiferous point. Words in the English language are fascinating. Words are often composed of letters and the English language uses the Roman alphabet, which has 26 letters. Many other languages use the Roman alphabet also like, Afar (formerly used the Arabic script), Afrikaans, Albanian, Aragonese, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri (formerly used the Cyrillic script), Basque, Belarusian (also uses the Cyrillic script, and occasionally the Lacinka alphabet), Berber / Tamazight (Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Niger), Bislama, Boholano (formerly used Baybayin), Bosnian (also uses the Cyrillic script), Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cherokee (also uses the Cherokee script), Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Cree, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Fula (Pulaar), Gaelic (Scottish), Galician, German, et cetera."-Gollum, January 6th, 2018.

Sidenote: I copied the list from Wikipedia

Then this began:

Hev1: To better understand the English language, there is no need to be proficient at so many languages. Proficiency at Greek and Latin is enough as they form the most common English word roots. Knowing French is also useful for this purpose.*

* He got 6 likes from his fanclub

Gollum: “Te desiderari in parte” as they would say in Latin. I have found that German is also useful in order to comprehend some words in the English language. For example, the word “man” in English is quite similar to the word “mann” in German. Both have the same meaning but I can assure you dearest hev1, not many people would not know that. I assume just you and I had that knowledge. “Vous êtes un trou du cul complet” as the French say.

Sidenote: Put those phrases into Google translate to see what I said

It was all going well, Gollum hadn't laughed that hard in ages. 0a1s2d3f4g5h made a comment that recieved a bunch of replies:

0a1s2d3f4g5h: Grab the popcorn guys, gollum and hev1 are going at it. I’ll take bets now on the outcome.

Rayantarar: best seat in the house mate my moneys on gollum1 or should i say hev2

OutCast9033: i think that its an even chance on whose the bestsince HEV1 and Gollum1 are doing the samebut grab the popcorn and everything you need for a movie guysthis could be pointing out the obvious vocabulary war

0a1s2d3f4g5h: “The Obvious Vocabulary War” – 1/6/18

Hockey17: This’ll be interesting.

Sidenote: Incoming Hev1 fans with sticks up their butts

Sagacious Polhistor: This will probably result in no change at all.

Tue Elung Jensen: How are “they” going at it? Seems more like you are making a big deal out of nothing.

0a1s2d3f4g5h: Hey don’t you know how to have a little fun in life? Of course this is nothing serious, they are just trolling eachother for fun. We can enjoy it, can’t we?

Sidenote: Excellent point from 0a1s2d3f4g5h