ATK

ATK (c. 2015/2016) is a group made up of several people who devote their current personal lives to gaming, making memes, experiment on current topics and have fun in general. Formerly just a group of three to five friends which later spread to an entire Discord server.

Background
While most of the specifics are now unclear, it was known that ATK was an unofficial group since the actual friendship of Aman, Tarun and Chris. This friendship started since 2015, but they knew each other since their first schooldays in 2012. However, the ordering of what the group was supposed to represent happened in 2016, shortly after Minecraft PE implemented an official way to play multiplayer on mobile platforms through Xbox. While the ways of communication have been vastly changed through time, the consistency of activity was in 2016, being counted as the official year of the group's foundation. Before all of this, the group also called themselves the EXO-Group, which was more or so a fictional version of the group which Aman had imagined. The group had remained their own little thing until 2018, when two others also came into contact, being Fardeen and Amar. This further spread in 2020 because of the lockdown with Shaniel and also started growing way more with the implementation of a proper Discord server and due to Among Us. While many are just affiliated members, the active ones are more or so the official members at this point.

Members
While the group was started as a group of three, it is obvious that there must be an order of things. Aman is regarded as the first ever member of the group, the one who manages most of the important stuff in the group and makes the most changes in general, such as making this wiki as an online archive of sorts. Chris is the second member, because he was the one who interacted with Aman secondly. While he doesn't make the most changes, he's assuming position due to his longevity. The third member and who was also the most active back in the day was Tarun. While he sometimes does help Aman with certain things that require a lot of help, he isn't the most active anymore but is still present for many things on an unspecified schedule. The fourth member is Fardeen, who currently has a very chaotic reputation but is here to stay. He is known to be very impulsive, sometimes for questionable reasons. The fifth unofficial member is Amar, who isn't usually affiliated with the group but is known to have accompanied them for a long while. Shaniel can be considered an official fifth member and Timothy a sixth one, these two both arrived in a short timespan in the beginning of 2020. There had been several other members in 2018, but have been regarded as unofficial and are currently not that important to the group. Following 2020, many new members of the group have joined and are all in the Discord server, being too many to list here at the moment.

Early Minecraft
Aman didn't have any significant friends until the year of 2015. While he wasn't the most social person, he was one who interacted with some kids from class. Eventually he did find the friends he had wanted, those who expressed interest in the online world and the growing gaming genre. These two were Tarun and Chris. They had somewhat the same way of thinking, and while they at first didn't interact that much their bonds grew and eventually they attempted playing a very popular game together, Minecraft. While they were all on the mobile version of the game, they had no direct way of playing with each other. Aman attempted to make a sort of server so they could play together on. This server was very laggy so Aman discarded it, but he did interact with Chris a little bit. Aman saw Chris's name, he mistyped the word 'Koning' as in king in Dutch, and wrote 'Konin' instead. Since there was an ongoing trend in the Minecraft community of usernames ending with '-Craft' and '-YT', these three also decided to go with it and make it their names. The original usernames now being AmansCraftYT, TarunsCraftYT and KoninsCraftYT. Since making own cheap servers was very laggy, they decided to play on the provided servers instead. One of these was Lifeboat, which had a pretty good reputation at the time. Since Tarun was currently in his Agar.io phase, a phase which is now sort of shaded in the dark, didn't play a lot of Minecraft at this point in time, while Aman and Chris were trying to convince him.

Minecraft Servers
Because of Tarun's slight inactivity in playing games together, he was still communicating with the other two about IRL events and such. Chris had recently found out about a new game mode on Lifeboat called Bounty Hunter, which played a major role in Aman and Chris's development. They both started playing it after the summer break started and they sometimes also called each other, much to Aman's fear because his parents were sort of over protective. Besides that, Chris and Aman both wanted very powerful opponents and didn't want to be separated. They found a certain way of constantly being on the same server at all times, changing the IP-address from bh.lbsg.net to bh8.lbsg.net, now having no way to randomize. This server was specifically special because the same people were also found on this version of the server and it was prominent in hackers. Aman and Chris fought constant battles with them, but also befriended a few. This is more elaborated in the main page. While Tarun did come online to play on the server a few times, he was quickly overpowered by not having that much knowledge about the maps and the way that players fought, so he quickly lost interest. After Xbox Live accounts were implemented into MCPE, the different ways to play multiplayer quickly vanished and servers at the time were losing players. Eventually Aman and Chris also stopped playing the server in mid-2016, because of that reason and also because the IP they were using bh8.lbsg.net was shut down due to too many hackers.

Silence and Clash Royale
After the days of Bounty Hunter had concluded, there weren't any major games to play that involved multiplayer on mobile. There was the occasional Minecraft here and there, but for the most part this time period was where the members had the most free time, without a very packed schedule. Aman also played some games like BTD Battles with Tarun, but it is unknown what games were played together with Chris. Eventually, Tarun told Aman about Supercell's rising game, Clash Royale. This game was made by Supercell, the developers that made Clash of Clans, a game that Aman didn't quite enjoy at the time after losing his previous account, but decided to give it a try. After playing it, he started enjoying it a lot and continued playing it. Clash Royale had become very popular in Suriname at the time and many personal competitions were held between the group. During this time they were all competing with who was in the highest arena. Clash Royale saw three major eras, the first one was in late-2016 to 2017, and the second one was in the beginning of 2018, which did somewhat aligned with the global stages of its popularity. Somewhere in 2018, someone approached Aman. This was none other than Fardeen, who quickly associated himself with the group more and more, also because he was in the same class as Chris. Aman also sought certain chances to bring his iPad to school to play in his Minecraft world with Chris, showing off certain builds and competing for the best person in parkour. Someone who wasn't as active in the group but did affiliate with them was Amar, who was in the same class with Aman to this day since 2014. They created many clans in Clash Royale, such as BRG, BRG II, A.T.K, Tropical eSports and eventually settled in ATK x BRG, which still doesn't have all of the original members.

Fornite and Second Silence
While the group was still busy with Clash Royale, a new game emerged in the world and took it by storm. This was Fortnite, who would have gotten a mobile platform in March 2018. Tarun got one of the invites and also decided to send one to Aman because Chris possibly couldn't play because of his bad phone. Chris did attempt to play with them by playing on his computer, but it eventually lost its support and he stopped trying. Because of the light schedule, the members could still play many games at the same time without interrupting the other. Aman and Tarun consistently played Fortnite together and did make a lot of purchases like the Battle Pass and many skins along the way. Tarun would've stopped playing by Season 7, but came back for the skins. This is where Tarun started losing initial interest in Fortnite, but did come back sometimes. By now Fortnite was only played partially by the group, and the certain temporary members who came to play Clash Royale had also started to go their separate ways after graduation. Fardeen, however, was here to stay. Now there was another period of silence where there wasn't any major activity in any game. A major impact was actually that Chris had to move and he couldn't come to the same school as us anymore, which was a major impact for the entire group, but they moved on. They still remained in contact with Chris through Messenger, which was their primary messaging application at the time.

Brawl Stars and Realms
After physically separating from Chris, the group started focusing more on school things, and stepped away from the gaming scene a bit because there weren't that many interesting games to play for awhile. Aman and Tarun played Fortnite now and then, but wasn't really a very big thing anymore. Aman played on his own sometimes to capture certain events, but nothing too much. However while being in class one day they decided to rebuild their Clash Royale community because it was getting updated again. This is when they also invited some classmates to help them for clan wars, but nothing changed that much. They continued playing the game together until a new contender came into the scene, Brawl Stars. This game was also developed by Supercell and had launched into global in December 2018. Since they were a group of four and shared the same class, they could easily talk about the game and its updates. During this time contact with Chris was minimal, but that was later revealed to be the cause of his phone breaking. Around mid-2019, it became apparent that Fortnite was in a state of major decline, so Tarun and Aman decided to play a bit more by themselves. While they were still playing Brawl Stars, some members like Amar and Tarun started losing interest in playing the game, even though Aman tried convincing him. Eventually the talk shifted over to Minecraft, where Fardeen had recently downloaded and started a survival world, which the other three would later visit too. Due to issues with the others not being able to join, Tarun created his world, which was easily accessible by the others. They continued playing in this world, even when Aman's iPad broke. After getting a new one, Aman decided to start a Realm. Realms were an easy way of playing multiplayer Minecraft where the owner of it didn't have to be present to join. Aman invited these three to join, and also included Tarun's brother because they had no other members. They continued playing Realms when Chris came back and decided to start playing with them and also with Brawl Stars. The chronology of these Realms is explained in more detail in their own individual pages.

Fortnite Revival and Before/After Covid-19
During this time not much was happening, except for the fact that Chris had returned to talking regularly with the group and also started playing Brawl Stars with Aman. Fardeen also started playing the game much more too. After going to the next class, the group was once again separated from each other, and now relied solely on their online communication and also their breaks during school. Fortnite saw a sort of revival during this era, because they had introduced Chapter 2 into the game, getting older players back to play it once again. Aman and Tarun started playing together again, with Aman's classmates Ichiro and Shayel. They also helped Amar with making his Epic Games account so he could play with them too. Aman also bought a skin for him which fit him best. The end of 2019 also marked the launch of Call of Duty: Mobile. The group started playing it together and would play it for awhile until they started losing interest in it. They would still routinely play the game for fun the next year. Around this time the first ever Discord server they would make was created around this period, but they would abandon it after many things in the server had been messed up. They continued playing Fortnite with a mix of Brawl Stars together. Because they had nothing much to do, Aman started with a new set of Realms, and this marked the entry of Shaniel into the group. This Realm would be monumental for the group, as it was the largest up to date, going over 200 MB in size. However, 2020 also marked the major entrance of Covid-19 into the world, and schools were forced to shut, which meant that everyone was at home all of the time, and it quickly became the norm. Because of that lockdown the group had more time to play games and also talk more online. Since they wanted to invite many more people from their school to talk with and play games, they decided to create the second Discord server because they didn't want them in their private Messenger group. During this time the Fortnite hype also started dying down once again, leaving them with almost nothing to play besides the occasional Realm and Brawl Stars. Aman had also created the wiki around this time somewhere, date unknown.

Among Us and Discord Expansion
Among Us had taken the entire world by surprise by its growth in August 2020, becoming one of the most popular games around that time. Because of the games interesting genre and its popularity, the group decided to start playing it as well, but they noticed that they didn't have that many people to play it with. So they went on a little bit of a hunt to find some more people to play the game with. Shaniel invited Saiyan, and old friend of his and Timothy back from primary school. Ichiro, who was also a part of the server invited some other friends of his to play together, but they left after a month. They also asked Daniel and Shawn, who were already in the server for quite a bit. Shaniel also invited Derrel, who would later also play Among Us with them. Aman invited Shiva, someone they indirectly knew through school because of Daniel and had found him in one of his Discord servers. While remaining inactive in the server for quite a bit, he later also started playing. Maniche also joined the server and remained an active member for the most part during that time. Among Us had brought many people into the server, making the activity rise up. While all of this was going on in the Among Us scene, the original group also continued playing Realms together. Among Us was the main center of attention during this period, and Realms remained a bit on the silent side. Mostly because Tarun was inactive in Realms only to play Among Us. Because of the Discord expansion, Aman had to improvise and arrange the server in a better way. He asked Shaniel for some help and they managed to do something for a little while, but later stopped because there were more issues being created than fixed. Because Among US had started to fade near the end of 2020, they decided to play Realms again, but this time with the new members like Derrel, Shiva and Maniche. This went partially successful and they continued with this way of playing Realms, which made it pretty active once again since the Among Us hype had also died down.

Major Activity Growth
By 2021, the activity had spiked a lot, with the Discord server activity becoming way more active than the activity on Messenger, thus leaving it empty for the most while. Aman alongside the rest of the original group decided to vacate the Messenger group and decided to solely use it as an archive of sorts, storing their oldest memories there. The new year saw the rise of primary Discord usage. The group started playing Realms full with people, while this did have many upsides, it also had some downsides. More of this can be read on the respective Realm pages found on the wiki. After a small incident, Aman's Discord account got disabled and they had to leave the server after losing ownership. Aman created another account and also a new server, with a few improvements. The previous members came back pretty quickly, but there are still some which are yet to join. Many events have taken place since then but are all recent, no being a priority to be put on the wiki just yet. It is still something to think that a group that initially started from three friends all the way to an entire Discord server filled with 70 members.