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crystalelemental · 2 years

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Unit Teambuilding - Drake

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful grid.

General Overview Drake was right up there with Roxanne and Liza as one of those big name commons before the grid war. People have waited a long time to see how he turned out, which...can I just say, baffles me? People always dunk on the actually good defensive supports like H!Caitlin, but Drake, whose defense and special defense buffs are separate, is good? BP Morty outperforms him in literally every way that matters. The defensive buffs are tied together, he has a Potion, he has a high flinch rate one-bar spam move, he can Confuse when that matters. All Drake had side from these buffs was Dragonbreath for an okay paralysis chance. But hey, maybe the grid will save him?

Haha...hahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA-

It did not.

Drake’s grid is an abomination. Much like Liza, tools are spread out so badly that you almost can’t access anything. If you take just the MPRs, and the only critical trait of Team Sharp Entry, you are left with 11 energy. That’s just enough to take one of Sync Cure, Sync Regen, Unbending or Stalwart, or Lithe. You can’t even reach Quick Tempo or Hostile Environment without giving one of those three baseline necessities up. There is no pop healing. There is no offense buffing or speed buffing at all. There’s honestly just nothing. His grid is a barren wasteland of failed and inaccessible tools.

Oh, but he got EX. Glacia didn’t. But he did.

Drake officially bothers me. I don’t want him to, he’s a cool old seafaring dude, but what is this? What do I do with it? The EX is cute, but in the same way it was cute when they gave it to Thorton. It’s like the least important option you could have handed it to. And this is coming from someone who loves defensive supports.

But you know why defensive supports are good? It’s because they have healing. They have Endure, or built-in Vigilance. You know, staying power. And/or, they have at least some minor offensive buffing potential, or a gimmick to play to reliably, or are at least efficient in getting total bulk up. Drake is absolutely none of these things. He is a man who slowly buffs one defensive stat at a time, provides one (1) buff to crit at the outset, and then...nothing. Like, if they’d given him Mega Salamence with this update, Team Sharp Entry stocks would skyrocket, and I’d probably have to respect the base stats a bit. But...they did not do that. So here you go I guess. EX Drake, with all nothing he accomplishes.

Team 1: Drake, SS Serena, Calem This is an anti-Uxie team I used pre-grid. As you can tell, it’s good because it has SS Serena on it. I chose Drake for the matched Dragon theme skill, and because hell, I guess the defense buffs were nice for her, since she doesn’t want for anything. Calem can provide paralysis, while Serena’s Restrain counts as a status change for the second and third bar. But hey, that was pre-grid! What does Drake offer now? Actually, this is the one and only thing I think he can do reliably. That one point of crit matters, because now Serena only needs two turns of buffing, and can apply Restrain before first sync. That’s it. That is the role his grid has provided. You know who else can do that, and also gets to have a grid that applies status at a good rate, buffs speed to cap in two turns, and also got Terrify 1? Marley. You’re losing to Marley, bro. If it weren’t for that theme skill you’d be an objective downgrade. Also you know how he’s got the EX buff? You find me one situation in history where SS Serena isn’t taking that sync.

Team 2: Drake, Wikstrom, Nanu/Tech Farfetch’d Wikstrom is very self-sufficient as a buffer, but misses one point of crit. While he has Sharp Entry, Drake can alleviate that pressure and give him full crit benefits in those opening turns, freeing up energy for something like Superduper Effective 3. Or, more realistically, MGR, because Drake is hella slow, and you know who can also do this and buffs speed so gauge is never an issue? You guessed it, it’s Marley!

Final Thoughts That is, quite literally, all I can think to do for him. Almost everyone else I can think to utilize with him would be better served by someone else. In the situations where I can think of a use, it’s specifically thanks to Team Sharp Entry, and the overall role is done worse than Marley. Having absolutely no healing, on a pure defensive support, is devastating. Having no offensive buffs at all, is devastating. The fact that he somehow lost to Liza, despite how bad her grid was, is devastating. Like, you got an EX as a support, this should automatically be huge, why is it so painfully difficult to get you to operate? Usually, supports get the longest breakdowns, because I can think of a bunch of different applications or utility for them, but Drake...really doesn’t simplify anything for anyone. This feels like an unending disaster, and I’m just so glad they gave him the EX instead of Glacia, who’s a five star gacha unit who has waited over two years to have a single thing go right in her life. She better be getting one with the anniversary, or I’m gonna be Bothered.

#pokemon masters #drake #unit teambuilding

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marlsbuck · 4 years

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— && guests may mistake me as ( haley lu richardson ), but really i am ( marley buckley + cisfemale + she/her ) and my DOB is ( 6/13/1994 ). i am applying for the ( vet tech ) position as part of the EHP and would like to live in suite ( 211 ). i should be hired because i am ( witty & empathetic ), but i can also be ( indecisive & absent-minded ) at times. personally, i like to ( dance, knit & volunteer at the zoo ) when off the clock, but that won’t interfere with work.

hi pals! we’re back with a marley mae revamp! our favorite lil cowgirl is getting the makeover she deserves, so let’s get started, shall we?

before we get too into it, though, we have a stats page and a pinterest (which is also getting a revamp before too long bUT...i digress).

lil tw moment: abuse, alcohol, drug, death mention tws. per usual, i went a little heavy on the tws just to be safe!

- marley mae buckley was born june 13th, 1994 to finnegan and shailene buckley.

- her father is a chief exec at an oil company and her mother was a stay at home mom and socialite, the latter of which she preferred.

- the family moved to billings, montana shortly after marley was born so her father could be more involved with work. this meant her mother had more time on her hands and more time to attempt to mold marley into the perfect daughter.

- except marley liked dirt, climbing tress, and pretending to ride the family dog like a rodeo bull.

- needless to say that did not go well????

- substance abuse tw early in marley’s life, her mother mixed prescription pills and pinot, which only made the tension between the two more intense.

- abuse tw baby marls never understood why her mother would want to self medicate, essentially checking out and missing a majority of her only child’s life, until one night after her father came home after a day of ‘meetings’. smelling like expensive scotch and cigar smoke, marley saw her father hit her mother for the first time.

- abuse tw she didn’t witness the actual abuse often, but marley started noticing the signs more and more often. bruises around wrists, large sunglasses when it wasn’t sunny out, concealer caked around her eyes and jaw. for a while, she begged her mother to take her and leave, but marley’s mother refused - firm in her belief that she wouldn’t be able to make it on her own.

- so they endured. more often than not, marley’s mother took her pain and frustration out on her daughter. it didn’t take long for marley’s parents toxicity to turn her into an angry, resentful person. marley was around 8 when she started acting out - “accidentally” breaking things around the house, saying out of pocket things at her father’s work events or fancy dinner parties. marley was 10 the first time she left home and didn’t come back for hours on end, only to come back and realize no one had really noticed she was gone.

- when she was about 13, marley really started acting out and rebelling. she started hanging out with a rougher group of kids who were significantly older than her. even though she never took part in the more intense stuff, marley did manage to get herself into some trouble that finally managed to catch her parents’ attention.

- one night, while out with that older, rougher group of friends, marley was arrested for a destruction of property charge. since she was a minor, her parents were called immediately and, after making a sizable donation to billings pd, made the whole thing go away.

- officially done dealing with marley and the whole “mothering” of it all (if you can call it that), her parents shipped her back to their hometown of big timber to live with her paternal grandparents.

- she tried to run away a few times (even going so far as to steal her grandfather’s work truck - even tho she didn’t get far because she didn’t know how to drive stick yet) because rebellious, but after paw made her stay and help one of their cattle give birth, marley fell in love.

- marley fell in love with every animal on the ranch - all their quirks and distinct personalities. it quickly became the home marley’d never had. it was warm and loving and full of joy and life. her grandparents became the only parents she’d ever really known.

- they were the only reason marley agreed to go back to her parents. they’d made a deal that if she behaved at “home”, she’d be able to spend the rest of her summers at the ranch.

- so marley went back to her parents and did the dance classes, and dinner parties, and even did the whole debutante thing and “came out” to society.

- at 16 she petitioned to be emancipated and a judge granted said petition. she promptly moved into the renovated barn at the ranch that her grandparents had rented out while she finished school.

- marley ended up graduating early and began attending classes at the local community college, eventually getting her associates in science all while still working on the ranch when she could.

- at 19, marley began classes at montana state, majoring in microbiology as a pre-vet track.

- death tw shortly after she finished her first year at msu, marley found out her mother passed unexpectedly. when she went to attend the services, her father effectively disowned her (even though they hadn’t spoken in years) and blamed her for her mother’s issues and death.

- marley came back to the ranch more depressed than she’d ever been and instead of dealing with the hurricane of emotions she felt, marley dropped out of school and ran

- marley drove all along the west coast, eventually settling on a cattle farm in texas.

- there, marley met literally the worst thing to ever happen to her. only a month or two after settling in texas, marley started dating wade because mess attracts mess. duh. his parents owned the farm she was working on and he gave her attention. that’s it. that’s all it took.

- abuse tw it didn’t take long for the gas lighting, lying, and cheating to start. a short six months into their relationship was when the physical abuse started. growing up, she’d always told herself that she’d never allow a man to treat her the way she’d watched her father treat her mother - that she’d be stronger than her mother and leave after the first time. finally, though, marley realized the battle her mother had fought to endure all those years of abuse and just how hard it was to muster the courage to leave.

- to this day, marley carries around the guilt of spending years blaming her mother for being weak and missing the opportunity to apologize while she was still alive.

- eventually paw caught on and WASN’T having any of it. so he snuck down with maw in the middle of the night while wade was out on a bender and packed marley’s shit and took her back home to the ranch like the knight in shining armor that man is.

- two years of animal therapy and literal therapy, marley applied to finish her bachelors in chicago after maw suggested it. she was accepted and once again left her home behind, but this time it was to chase her dream and we’re all v proud.

- she’s been at the mlanati now for two years and has finished her bachelors and is a certified vet tech. she’s currently in her last year of undergrad and is getting ready to start applying to vet schools officially.

hcs!

- marley is a jeeple. she owns a 2008 black jeep wrangler x. 100% named it ringo. definitely has a black jeep of the family bumper sticker and let me tell you, this girl is SO proud.

- y’all will never catch this girl in shoes. she will start the day in shoes and by the time lunch rolls around she’s barefoot. the only pair of shoes she enjoys wearing are her justin boots or her vvv worn out vans.

- she knits when she’s anxious, which is more often than not now that she’s in a new place. but it also means she’s giving out cute lil beanies and scarves to her new frens.

- loves and i mean LOVES westerns. tombstone and gunsmoke were staples growing up.

- also probably the worlds biggest dolly parton fan. if it involves dolly, marley is in.

- ALIENS, MAN. your girl loves aliens and most space things. roswell (the og and new shows) are her jam bc...y’know....cowliens.

- she has three tattoos: some wildflowers on her upper left ribs, “worthy” in her grandpa’s handwriting on her upper right forearm, and the silhouette of big timber peak at the nape of her neck.

- marley is also one of those people that doesn’t need a ton of sleep? 4-5 hours max and she’s golden.

- cold brew coffee also runs through her veins. her coffee order is a trenta cold brew with hazelnut and almond milk, thanks. it’s also probably one of the reasons she never stops moving....ever.

- big time questioning her sexuality. marley’s only ever been with men, but uuuuuhhhhh WOMEN y’know? also nb folx are v nice. we do not discriminate in this house.

- 2 cats! doc (7 y/o himalayan long hair) and ike (2 y/o munchkin). both rescues she met while volunteering at a shelter.

- snake tw would also v much like a colombian rainbow boa pls and thank

- will always make time to take a dance class or book space to just dance all her feelings out. it’s one of the few joys she has that comes without feelings of pressure or stress.

- holds most people at arms length. she’s more than happy to listen and support everyone around her, but is a literal steel trap when it comes to talking about herself and her past.

- alcohol/drugs tw not a drinker. buckley’s don’t have a great track record of being able to handle their liquor (never let her do shots pls), so marley sticks to the occasional blunt. esp when she’s feeling extra anxious, it calms her down and evens her out.

- she do be jumpy af! loud noises (that don’t obviously come from animals) make her anxious and shaky. it’s the *pTsD*.

- marley’s triggers include but are not limited to: grabbing her face/chin, breaking glass, loud noises - specifically yelling, general violence, the smell of vodka or scotch and cigar smoke, being grabbed from behind/picked up without warning.

wanted connections!

- travel pals! : people marley met on her trip from montana to texas! she wouldn’t have stuck around long, but she was a hot ass mess and these would have been people who met her at p close to her lowest? so seeing her at the malnati would be like meeting a whole new person. she’ll probs be hella flustered and embarrassed so, like, we love that.

- hype squaaaaaad! : marley’s self esteem is still.........nonexistent, almost. she’s all about giving the love, but is the worst at accepting it, so obviously we need someone to shove all the love and positive affirmations her way! help ya girl see her worth!

- post hook ups! : likely only one or two! marley isn’t one to hook up unless she’s feeling pretty awful about her self and needs some instant validation. can be awkward or cordial! i’m down to plot specifics!

- crushes! : unrequited or nah (lbr i’d live for unrequited pls) male, female, nb - gimmie it all! babie is ready to give all the love....kinda. from afar. bc trauma. bUT!!! leggo. lololol.

- confidant! : literally probably the only connection that’s limited to one person. they know eeeeverything. every horrid, gruesome detail about marley’s past and all her insecurities. they could be someone that met her when she was on her way to texas/she met in texas or someone she met after and got to witness one of her panic attacks post texas. aka the one person she trusts most.

- scurry folx! : pls gimmie plots where marley is at odds with someone, whether or not it’s because they scare her a lil (aka angry, aggressively loud, bully-ish type someones) or just people who can’t handle her goofy, oddball, pollyanna type personality! i. need. ANGST!! pls. ty.

- chemistry, ofc!

#×○┆ooc⌇a salutation & a farewell #malnatiooc #manatiintro #bc i don't remember which one this goes in lmfao #but honestly if you make it all the way through this #you deserve a drink or candy or something #ily

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rapperkookz · 5 years

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Rush!BTΣ — college!au, borderline crack au w/ @cynoirsure

a story about three friends and their obstacles of relationships, academic probation, and figuring out that international kids aren’t all that bad.

10/35

genre: crack

word count: 1.5k

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YOUR POV

Ever since the last WINGS rehearsal, it was an understatement to say a lot had happened. Following what happened last week with you and Jimin, today was the first time you were out and about for a purpose that wasn’t just eating at the dining hall or going to class. You weren’t feeling the best about yourself but once you walked into the dance studio and saw everyone’s face light up at your appearance, you felt at ease.

“y/n!” Hoseok tackled you in a hug, squeezing you tightly. You laughed, hugging him back with a smile. “How are you feeling? This week was kind of a toll on you, yeah?” Hoseok’s voice didn’t seem to have an underlying tone of anything else like it usually did, so you felt easier around him today. You nodded, pulling away a bit.

“Yeah, it’s been a little rough, but I thought I shouldn’t skip rehearsal because I might miss a lot and you guys make me feel better.” Jimin’s face lit up at this comment, a smile that made his eyes disappear.

“We’re gonna start off with an old routine, yeah? You can chill with Kev and Tae for now, I think 2Jin are gonna come a little later, maybe with Joon?” Hoseok pursed his lips, guiding you to where Kevin and Taehyung were sitting. Kevin was on his phone, but nonetheless opened his arms up so he could hug you from behind. Kevin’s arms rested around your shoulders, swaying you along as the trio (3J, they called themselves) started running over some bits that were kind of muddy to themselves. You could barely concentrate on Hoseok and Jimin dancing -- your eyes were focused on how your coconut headed stats partner was in the middle for the first song, his usual bunny smile replaced by a brooding look that could make anyone weak to their knees.

You only snapped out of your trance when you saw a figure open the door and announce she brought some snacks for everyone, but even if your head registered the voice as Jinhee’s, she did not look like Jinhee anymore.

No, instead of the silver it was yesterday when you saw her in the dining hall, her hair was now a bright pink-purple, making almost everyone in the room confused.

“Did you like...give head to a unicorn, what made you dye your hair?” Taehyung asked in awe as you and Kevin gave it a casual lookover and a thumbs up, being used to her random dyeing sprees by now.

“So she’ll give a unicorn head and not me? Boo.” Jimin pouted at Jinhee, who didn’t seem to pay the comment any attention.

“I was just bored of my hair. After my shift last night I just bleached and dyed my hair because I mean, not like I was gonna sleep or anything.” She shrugged, leaving the snack bag and her backpack next to you and Kevin before toeing off her shoes and shrugging off her coat. “I think Seokjin’s coming soon, Joon can’t because he has a meeting with the dean or something.” She plopped herself down, opening the swirl ice cream and casually eating it. You opted for the hot chips in the bag, sharing with Kevin as the three standing started to get into formation. You didn’t even realize Taehyung had gone to do their music until he was running back, the intro of Don’t Wanna Fall In Love by Kyle started playing on the speaker.

You found it really surprising how well the three of them worked together despite their differences in dance style. You noticed that even if Jimin’s dance style lagged a little, it was more sensual and very contrasting to how sharp Jungkook’s movement was.

Speaking of Jungkook, it was hard to make other observations of the others dancing when all you could do was focus on Jungkook. Something about the way he looked really got you in a trance, the way he looked up from his bangs threatening to spill over his eyes, but also the duality when he wasn’t dancing anymore and he gave you the cute little bunny smile that you were used to.

“Jimin! Your dancing was so fluid!” Jinhee seemed to have stars in her eyes when she ran up to Jimin, who only smirked back at her, tilting her chin up maintain eye contact with her.

“Who’s this Jimin, hm? You should follow y/n’s lead and call me oppa.” He swiped his thumb across her lips with a wink, making her tense up and shiver.

“W-what are you talking about?? You’re barely 5 days older than me shut up!” Her face was red as she stomped back to the side, you and Kevin laughing your asses off at how quickly Jinhee had deflected the baffled Jimin. While the two of you were laughing incredibly hard, the door opened once more, and everyone’s attention turned to who had just walked in.

“What’s up with both of the music majors and consistently dyeing their hair?” Jimin furrowed his brows, pointing at Yoongi’s newly dyed mint hair. Once Jinhee and Yoongi met eyes, they almost seemed to have a comedic Spiderman meme moment, pointing at each other confusedly.

“It’s called the depression, Jimin, get on board with it.” Yoongi pursed his lips, sitting closer to Taehyung and Kevin rather than you and Jinhee. Seokjin made a face at Yoongi, before looking at the other musician before snorting.

“Oh cute, they’re grapes” Seokjin laughed at his own observation, taking off his shoes before walking across the marley to meet the ones sitting out. Hoseok had called the rest of WINGS onto the dance floor, beginning to work on new choreography with them. You began to get back into the flow of dancing again, the rest of the group falling back into the routine. Hoseok was busy teaching the choreography to everyone, and occasionally while you guys danced, Seokjin and Jinhee hyped you guys along, some AYY GO OFF Y/N! or OKAAAAAAAYYYYY TAEHYUNG HIT IT! coming from the two in the corner. Yoongi looked like he was losing brain cells by being around them, but the smile on his face really said otherwise.

You felt all the stress from the last week dissipate as you danced more, the emotions rolling off of you as well. By the end of rehearsal, you felt way better than how you felt when you walked in. As everyone was getting ready to leave, you gave everyone hugs, thanking them for the hard work.

“Want to walk back to the dorm together, y/n? It’s kinda late and I wanna just run over what we need to know for our stats quiz tomorrow…” Jungkook smiled sheepishly, scratching his head. You nodded, getting your coat on and waving goodbye to everyone else in the dance room.

“Well, I guess we’re up next, yeah?” Hoseok and Seokjin waved to the five left in the room. Seokjin blowing a kiss to Jinhee (who only took it and threw it on the ground, stomping it), and Hoseok just did his signature smile, leaving with his flatmate. Kevin and Taehyung were already talking about their shared Introduction to Neuroscience course, waiting near the door for the other three to be ready so they could do one last check of the room before leaving.

“Let’s drop Jinhee off first, you’re along the way, right?” Taehyung inquired, Jinhee nodding as she tied her laces so that they could leave. Kevin helped her back up from her squat, a small thank you escaping as they all went to put on their coats.

The walk home was relatively quiet for everyone, mainly because they were walking faster than normal through the cold of campus to get to the dorms. Taehyung and Kevin were in a heated discussion about one person in their class who they both just wanted to sock in their class, Jimin and Yoongi were talking about his cat, Killmonger, and Jinhee was trailing behind them, spacing out.

A block away from Jinhee’s dorm (across the street from the other four), Jimin had noticed that Jinhee had been a lot more quiet than usual, making him stop and let her catch up to him and Yoongi. He tilted his head sideways, making her conscious of him looking of her. Her face turned red, she looked away before peeking back at Jimin to see if he ever broke eye contact with her. Jimin chuckled a little, sliding his hand into hers, the two of them forgetting Yoongi being there.

“You okay Jinhee?” Jimin squeezed her hand gently, Jinhee nodding before letting out a yawn.

“I’m just a little tired, is all. I have the night off tonight so hopefully I can sleep tonight.” Jinhee pulled out her ID, since they were stopped in front of her dorm. She squeezed Jimin’s hand back, bidding everyone a goodnight, and additionally, a small apologetic smile to Yoongi, who’s face only flushed at her small gesture. The only person who had caught that besides the two of them was Jimin, and that only made him grin mischievously. Him flirting with Jinhee just got a lot more… interesting, to say in the least.

2-18-19

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viralhottopics · 7 years

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Snapchat’s 10 biggest blunders

Image: Christopher Mineses/Mashable

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., had its big day last week. It filed the paperwork for its long-awaited IPO.

The ephemerally friendly social media app is going public in hopes of raising $3 billion. While a valuation for the whole company has yet to be mentioned, Snap’s IPO is expected to be one of the biggest in tech history.

SEE ALSO: Our first look at Snapchat’s biggest risks and most powerful enemies

Snap’s road to success didn’t come without a few potholes. During this blindingly bright spot in Snapchat’s history, we thought it was just the time to take a look back at the moments Snapchat wishes would disappear.

Here are Snapchat’s 10 most embarrassing stumbles:

1. The frat boy emails

The most famous of all Snapchat blunders was when co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel’s raunchy, sexist emails from his undergraduate career at Stanford were leaked and subsequently published by Gawker in 2014.

Their contents painted Spiegel as a reckless frat boy with a penchant for joking about peeing on women. He also REALLY didn’t want anyone to touch the stripper pole.

Image: Screenshot/Gawker

Spiegel later apologized for the emails, saying that they “in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women.”

2. When Snapchat released “black face” and “yellow face” lenses

Snapchat debuted lenses those beloved digital masks that transform your face in 2015. Since then, it has rolled out not one, but two options that were perceived as racist.

Last year, Snapchat thought it had found a clever way to celebrate April 20, an internationally recognized weed smoking holiday, by giving its users the opportunity to transform into Bob Marley.

Can @Snapchat explain to me why there’s a Bob Marley filter on 4/20? You realize he did more than smoke weed, right? http://pic.twitter.com/xPCOU5uQko

Jack Qu’emi (@jackquemi) April 20, 2016

The lens added dreadlocks, a knit hat in Rastafarian colors, changed the shape of the eyes and noses of users and darkened their skin color.

Snapchat said the filter was built in partnership with the Bob Marley estate, but it still offended because it felt too reminiscent of blackface. It also implied that Bob Marley’s career was solely about weed and failed to highlight his musical contributions.

The second lens, released several months later in August, gave users slanted eyes, exaggerated teeth and puffy cheeks a come-to-life version of racist Asian stereotypes.

Snapchat disabled the filter and offered an explanation: It was meant to be a tribute to anime characters. But for Snapchat users who had experienced racism, the filter instead represented a hurtful stereotype taken to an extreme.

This quite the racist snapchat filter in my opinion http://pic.twitter.com/r9AfqhgZyc

felix (@LiamMGallivan) August 9, 2016

The decision to build the two filters led to speculations that Snapchat might have a larger problem with diversity.

The company hasn’t released demographic data on its employees, breaking custom with other major tech firms like Facebook and Google that regularly release stats on their workforce.

3. That time Spiegel lied to Forbes

In a splashy 2014 cover story for Forbes, Spiegel alleged that he had confidentially brushed off Mark Zuckerberg when the Facebook founder emailed him asking for a meeting.

Spiegel said he told Zuckerberg to come meet him in Los Angeles, where Snapchat is based. In reality, Zuckerberg politely offered to head there himself.

After Business Insider aggregated the back and forth and labeled Spiegel as “arrogant,” the Snapchat co-founder tweeted a screenshot of the correspondence with Zuckerberg (the tweet has since between deleted) to try and derail the arrogant narrative.

The screenshot showed that Spiegel’s actual conversation with the Facebook founder was filled with more smiley faces than you would have expected, given what he said to Forbes.

The magazine was was not happy, and published the transcript of exactly what Spiegel told their reporter J.J. Colao on tape.

In effect, Spiegel caught himself in his own lie. The app boy wonder played himself.

4. Reggie Brown’s grueling court battle

In 2013, Snapchat’s third founder, Reggie Brown sued the company’s other two other co-founders, Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.

Brown said they had taken his original idea, refused to give him credit or compensate him for his contributions, and ultimately pushed him out of the company unfairly.

The lawsuit alleged that Brown was part of the founding team and helped put together Snapchat’s first patent applications. Most crucially, it argued that Murphy came up with the idea that the messages should disappear.

You know, the whole novel part of Snapchat.

When a settlement was first announced in 2014, the financial details of the suit weren’t made public, but the press release from Snapchat did admit that Brown was indeed a cofounder and that the original idea was his.

In Snapchat’s IPO filing last week, we learned the juicy details of the dispute: Spiegel and Murphy paid Brown a whopping $157.5 million to settle the case.

Disappearing pictures is a multi-million dollar idea indeed.

5. When Snapchat lost its high-profile COO

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 16: (L-R) Chief operating officer of Instagram Emily White, CEO of the Home Shopping Network Mindy Grossman and Co-Chair of Disney Media Anne Sweeney speak at “How to create a community in a digital world” session onstage at the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit on October 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for FORTUNE)

Image: Getty Images for FORTUNE

In 2015 Snapchat lost its COO and former Instagram executive Emily White.

Sources told Recode at the time that Spiegel let White go because he wanted more control over the company.

That makes senseSnapchat’s IPO paperwork shows that even when the company is officially public, he and co-founder Bobby Murphy will still retain full control.

White was the third top executive to leave the company in the span of two months.

6. That time Evan Spiegel said diversity is “not the best use of time”

In 2015 Spiegel backed himself into making a series of cringe-worthy statements about diversity at Recode’s second-annual Code Conference.

When Recode’s Walt Mossburg asked Spiegel why he thought diversity was a problem in tech, the billionaire founder deflected, answering that “diversity is a challenge everywhere.” Mossburg pushed on, but Spiegel refused to budge. “I think I’m saying that diversity is a challenge everywhere, including tech. And that’s kind of that.”

The audience grew uncomfortably hushed, and then Spiegel dropped an odd answer that caused them to become dead silent.

Mossburg asked again if Spiegel thought there was a problem specifically with diversity in tech (spoiler: there is) and the former frat boy blurted “There are so many things that feed into diversity and equality that unpacking them on the stage is probably not the best use of time.” Awk.

7. When the stars of early Snapchat sued

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Elizabeth and Sarah Turner filed a lawsuit against the disappearing messages app in 2014, alleging that Snapchat had taken advantage of them by failing to provide compensation for a modeling gig.

The suit said that Spiegel misused the images he had taken of the Turner sisters, effectively turning them into the “face” of Snapchat without their permission.

Spiegel had apparently told the Turners that the images were for a “class project,” instead of, you know, what would become a multibillion dollar company.

The worst part is that the Turner sisters claim one of the photos was cropped and edited by Spiegel or someone else at Snapchat to look like Elizabeth was pulling Sarah’s bathing suit top off.

Snapchat’s IPO paperwork shows that the case is still currently ongoing.

The matter is currently in active discovery. We believe that the lawsuit is without merit and intend to continue to vigorously defend ourselves in this matter. Based on the preliminary nature of the proceedings in this case, the outcome of this legal proceeding remains uncertain, Snapchat writes.

8. That time millions of accounts were leaked

Over New Year’s in 2014, hackers stole and published the user names and private phone numbers belonging to over 4 million Snapchat profiles.

The worst part? It looked like Snapchat blatantly ignored the security vulnerability that allowed for the hack to happen in the first pace.

A week before the hack took place, Gibson Security published exactly how to exploit the security flaw because they were “sick of” Snapchat ignoring their warnings for months.

The icing on the cake was Spiegel’s decision to refrain from apologizing for the hack.

In an interview with NBC’s Carson Daly, Spiegel said “I believe at the time we thought we had done enough. But I think in a business like this and a business that is moving so quickly, if you spend your time looking backwards, you’re just going to kill yourself.”

Snapchat the company but not Spiegel personally eventually issued a very short apology.

Oops.

9. The Sony hack emails

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Leaked emails from the 2014 Sony Pictures hack included correspondence between Spiegel and Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, who now sits on Snapchat’s board of directors.

The emailed painted a picture of Spiegel’s ambitions for then less than 3-year-old company.

The Snapchat CEO was reportedly mortified that the info had gone public, and wrote that he felt like he was “going to cry” in a memo distributed to Snapchat employees and later posted on Twitter (the tweet has since been deleted).

While there wasn’t anything particularly scandalous in the exchanges, they made Snapchat’s overall business strategy uncomfortably public. Yikes.

10. When Snapchat admitted it gave snaps to the police

In a 2013 blog post, Snapchat admitted it had handed over unopened snaps to law enforcement at least a handful of times.

Until a snap is opened, it’s stored on Google’s cloud computing service, which Snapchat uses. When the intended recipient opens it, it’s deleted.

But if the snap is never read, law enforcement can request to see it via search warrant. When that happens, Snapchat revealed, they’re happy to comply.

To be fair, at the time over 350 million snaps were sent on the platform daily, so an incredibly small amount were ever requested and subsequently viewed by law enforcement.

Still, the incident showed that Snapchat, like other big tech players like Facebook and Google, share data with government authorities semi-regularly.

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