The Blockland forums may have come down with a case of TDS, or Tony Derangement Syndrome, when discussion stopped being about the game and started being about Tony himself. People began reacting to the idea of Tony rather than what he actually said or did.
On forums like Blockland, small communities made grudges last forever, so one user could become the center of constant drama. Every thread somehow turned into a debate about him, with people either defending him or attacking him no matter the topic.
At that point, Tony stopped being just a user and became forum mythology. The obsession became bigger than the original issue, and the drama fed itself.
