Miiverse Clone General Timeline

This article will attempt to construct a timeline of Miiverse clones, from their beginnings to today. Segments of the timeline will be divided into different eras, with significant events listed as bullet points. This timeline obviously does not include all of the events, but it will present most of the important events in chronological order.

The Emergence

This is the where the timeline starts, with the creation of Xboxverse, the first known Miiverse clone. Not a lot happened during this era, at least to common knowledge, but it is still the point where the concept of Miiverse clones began. It should be noted that while Xboxverse is considered the first Miiverse clone, it is ultimately disconnected from the rest of Miiverse clone history, and therefore carries little relevance to the rest of the timeline outside of being the first Miiverse clone.

Timespan: Began early 2013

• • Japanese Xbox 360 users created the first known Miiverse clone known as Xboxverse.

  • Xboxverse received attention from various sources, such as Kotaku, and would be the subject of a few articles.

Pre-Clone Era

It would not be until the beginning of 2017 when the concept of Miiverse clones would be seriously considered outside of Japan. Despite this, from 2014 to 2016 there was still an effort by Miiverse users to create Miiverse-oriented communities elsewhere on the internet, in the form of wikis and forums.

Timespan: 2014 to 2016

2014

• Le Miiverse Resource was created.

• PF2M attempted to make Miiverse forums, creating MiiSmash and later SmashPlaza.

2015

• Miiverse underwent its controversial redesign, with many communities having more restrictions on user posting. Communities unaffected by the redesign gained newfound popularity.

2016

• Banama Club was created.

• PF2M began development on a Miiverse recreation titled "Openverse", but scrapped the project the day he started.

Clone Renaissance Era

This is the era where several Miiverse clones would begin development and be released. Like the forums that preceeded them, the creation of these clones was partially influenced by the problems Miiverse had following its redesign in 2015, and the announcement of the platform's closure in August of 2017. This era is the precursor to the Miiverse Clone Era, as while it marks the creation of Miiverse clones as they are known today, it would not be until Closedverse's release that Miiverse clones would achieve a large userbase with high levels of activity.

Timespan: January 2017 to September 8, 2017

• • PF2M restarted development on Openverse, this time opting to make his own Miiverse-styled social media platform with PHP.

  • Grape was launched to the public.

  • Openverse was launched to the public. It quickly shut down and became an archive.

  • Verified Miiverse users announced the closure of Miiverse on November 7th.

Miiverse Clone Era

The term "Miiverse Clone Era" is meant to encompass the time period when Miiverse clones maintained a large userbase and a high amount of activity, and can also be described as the time period when Miiverse clones were "in their prime". Despite the coexistence of multiple Miiverse clones, activity would usually be concentrated on one dominant Miiverse clone. For most of this time period, the dominant Miiverse clone in terms of activity was Closedverse, with its release marking the beinning of this era. Indigo would replace Closedverse as the dominant clone following its release in October of 2018. Following Indigo's shutdown in February of 2019, Oasis would replace it as the dominant clone, and therefore the shutdown of Oasis in April of 2019 marks the end of this era. Therefore, the "Miiverse Clone Era" is actually the combination of three different eras, the Closedverse Era, the Indigo Era, and the Oasis Era.

While Miiverse clones would continue to be made after the end of this era, and are still being made to this day, none of them have managed to come close to the dominant Miiverse clones in this era in terms of both userbase size and activity level.

Overall Timespan: September 9, 2017 to April 14, 2019

Closedverse Era

Closedverse's release started a long era in which Closedverse was the dominant Miiverse clone. This was the era when Miiverse shut down. Compared to prior Miiverse clones, Closedverse experienced unprecedented levels of activity, and experienced unprecedented levels of drama as a result.

The Closedverse Era will be divided into different periods due to the numerous events.

Overall Timespan: September 9, 2017 to October 27, 2018

Arian Period

This was the period when Arian was the owner of Closedverse. During this period, there was a lot of controversy over Arian's moderation job and fishy behavior.

Timespan: September 9, 2017 to May 2, 2018

• • Closedverse was launched to the public.

  • Cedar was launched to the public.

  • Ciiverse was launched to the public.

  • A user known as old people sex spammed NSFW and caused Closedverse to shut down.

  • Arian banned Dominic.

  • The Miiverse Rewritten project was started. This project would eventually be renamed to foxverse.

  • Miiverse shut down.

  • Anarchyverse was launched to the public and got taken down within a few weeks.

  • Closedverse experienced multiple shutdowns and replica Closedverse servers were made.

  • "Optimal comedy" was tested on Closedverse, inklingbot was created.

  • Eric and Pip had a staff feud, with Pip ordering Eric to stop deleting unfunny posts. Pip then purged all of Eric's posts due to him not complying.

  • Controversy led to Tutikaz getting deleted.

  • Gnarly joined, Tutikaz made a new account.

2018

• • foxverse was released to the public.

  • Gnarly and Tutikaz among other users presented evidence of Arian possessing child porn, citing a screenshot of Arian admitting to downloading "17 gigs" from the deep web.

  • Closedverse Dramatica was created and rehosted several times.

  • Ben announced his plans for creating the Miiverse clone Ziiverse.

  • Arian promoted Cookie after receiving leg pictures from her.

  • foxverse was renamed to Priiverse, and again to Reverse.

  • Ziiverse was renamed to Pearl.

  • Arian promoted Citrus, who deleted 100 accounts from the site.

  • Arian's DM's with certain users got leaked, leading Arian to step down and PF2M to take over.

PF2M Period

PF2M's takeover of the site initially signaled new changes. Because of this, and other factors including new clones like Oasis and Nova being announced, the future of Miiverse clones was looked at with optimism. However, the rise in power of a group known as Staffcord on Closedverse led to major issues and controversies, such as Gnarly getting banned.

Timespan: May 3, 2018 to September 2, 2018

• • Oasis was launched to the public. It initially would not see much activity outside of a few users who ditched Closedverse and would exclusively use Oasis.

  • PF2M started making changes to the staff, and the choices were overall liked by the userbase.

  • Indigo began development, lead by Ben, Pip, and Chance.

  • Nova began development, lead by Seth, PF2M, Arian, and Eric.

  • PF2M enabled "Staffcord", a Discord server run by many Closedverse staff members, to become larger and rise in power.

  • Gnarly was banned off of Closedverse by Staffcord, with mixed reception from the userbase as well as controversy lasting for about 2 months.

  • Staffcord did a revote over Gnarly's ban, with the outcome remaining unchanged.

  • Staffcord purged and reorganized members of the staff to get rid of moderators who were deemed inactive, unfit to moderate, or unnecessary. This major change in staff led to controversy among the userbase, especially after Gnarly's ban.

  • Indigo was announced to the public.

  • PF2M somewhat re-assumed control of Closedverse. 

  • Nova merged with Indigo. 

  • PF2M unbanned Gnarly, ending the controversy surrounding his ban.

  • Epic Sauce Fortnite Death Punch was formed.

  • Arian officially returned to control of Closedverse (Though he had always been in charge of Closedverse due to being the server owner)

  • Seth was given staff on Closedverse and allegedly abused power.

Pre-Indigo Period

The Pre-Indigo Period is the shortest of the three periods, lasting less than two months. During this time, Jod, who will be referred to as Mochi due to coming out as transgender, was effectively given ownership of Closedverse. Arian announced a few shutdown dates for Closedverse, such as October 31 and November 7, though as these dates came and went, the site managed to stay open.

Timespan: September 3, 2018 to October 27, 2018

• • Seth and Mochi hid many communities on Closedverse.

  • Seth began selling staff roles for $5.

  • Seth and Triangles left the Indigo Team.

  • Mochi began to repair relations with Ben and Pip, even "leaving" Closedverse and making them owners for a short while.

  • Indigo's beta server launched, exclusively for members of the Indigo Team and Mario's Princess .

  • Indigo's beta allowed a few more users to sign up, such as Adrian and Beforkers.

  • Oasis was shut down so that PF2M can focus funds towards Indigo. Pip promised this is temporary and that the site will eventually return.

Indigo Era

Closedverse's long reign over the Miiverse clones ended after Indigo was released to the public. Indigo was advertised for its new features and having a better administration team. Indigo marked the first ever permanent mass migration from one Miiverse clone to another. Because of the adopted userbase Indigo had, Indigo also experienced a lot of events and drama. Very little of this era has been preserved, as Indigo had not been archived to the extent that Closedverse had.

Timespan: October 28, 2018 to February 16, 2019

• • Indigo was launched to the public.

  • Spicy made a complaint post to PF2M about the bad prioritization when it came to site features, and left Indigo.

  • Mochi got called out by the likes of Ben for pedophilic behavior.

  • Oasis was relaunched, due to a new owner.

  • Rverse was renamed to rverse.

  • Tutikaz and Beholder, among other users, founded JSN, a group intended to call out "degeneracy".

  • Private messages from Adrian surfaced, causing Adrian to get called out as a pedophile and get banned from Indigo in December of 2018.

2019

• • Uiiverse was created.

  • Tutikaz threatened the Indigo staff to make him admin, and released a thread of screenshots about PF2M, then doxxed him.

  • PF2M closed Indigo abruptly.

Oasis Era

Oasis existed months before Indigo shut down, but after Indigo's closure, users migrated again to Oasis, and therefore the site experienced a lot of activity. This was the last major era of Miiverse clones, as the active userbase Miiverse clones had was lost, and would end up scattered throughout the internet.

Timespan: February 17, 2019 to April 14, 2019

• • A majority of the Indigo userbase moved back to Oasis.

  • MV World was created.

  • Reg Gang, a group formed by ex-JSN members, came into existence. They created threads "exposing" certain users.

  • Some members of Reg Gang became staff on Oasis.

  • FBI tips about Arian's alleged 17 GBs of child porn were sent from numerous clone users, most notably from Reg Gang. 

  • After receiving the FBI tips, Closedverse shut down when the Cobb County Police Department seized electronics from Arian's house, including the Closedverse server, to investigate.

  • PF2M created banama.club in response to the Google+ shutdown announcement.

  • PF2M shut down Oasis, but did not tell the current owner beforehand, which led to an argument on Discord.

Post-Clone Era

The "Post-Clone Era" is the era following Oasis's shutdown and the subsequent end of the Miiverse Clone Era, and is the era that we are currently in. Miiverse Clonapedia was made during this era. While Miiverse clones would continue to be made after the end of the Miiverse Clone Era, none have reached the level of activity that the dominant clones from the Miiverse Clone Era had. Some clones such as wakemeupinside.cf, CloneMii, Cedar-Django, and Sillyverse would receive a notable amount of users and activity, even if said activity is small compared to clones of the Miiverse Clone Era.

Ironically, this era is when the majority of Miiverse clones would be made, though the majority of these clones would see very little activity. The majority of these clones would be rehosts using past Miiverse clones' source codes, with the most frequently rehosted clones being Closedverse, Ultima, and Galaxy Plaza (the latter two themselves being derivatives of Miiverse World).

This era features two separate yet overlapping periods: The "Lingering Period" and the "Neo-Clone Period".

Overall Timespan: Started April 14, 2019

Lingering Period

Following the shutdown of Oasis, the once-centralized Miiverse clone community became scattered across the internet in places like Twitter. However, as the name "Lingering Period" suggests, a subset of the Miiverse clone community "lingered" on, as there would still be certain centralized places where a portion of the former Miiverse clone userbase would gather, including Miiverse clones such as the April Fools' clone Oasis Rewritten and the Closedverse rehost wakemeupinside.cf. This also included various Discord servers made by former clone users such as Konameme and Pip. The end of this period is marked by the deletion of Pip's Discord server, Pipcord, on September 15, 2021, as that was the last place to feature a significant concentration of former Miiverse clone users.

• • A majority of clone users moved to other social media sites, such as Twitter or Discord.

  • Vile was outed as a pedophile.

  • The Miiverse replacement that would be known as Juxt began development.

  • Mochi came back on Twitter and got called out by former clone users such as Dylan. The account got suspended.

  • Miiverse World was rebranded as Project ULTIMA.

  • The Closedverse rehost cloned.pizza was released, and following its shutdown the passwords for all of the users that signed up were leaked.

2020

• • Miiverse Clonapedia was created.

  • TouhouBoi began work on Galaxy Plaza.

  • The Closedverse Out of Context Twitter account was made.

  • Gnarly started work on the third album of Epic Sauce Fortnite Death Punch.

  • Oasis was "brought back up" as "Oasis Rewritten" as an April Fools' joke.

  • A group known as the "Limp Bizkit Army" published the website "Weeg Sucks At Art".

  • Clone Forest was created.

  • Other clones such as Riiverse and Ciiverse Jr. would be created, with both of them shutting down.

  • Uiiverse's server shut down temporarily.

  • The Limp Bizkit Army would go on to create another website known as soulysoulisracistandisbadatart.

  • Post-Clone Dramatica was published, but was taken down so Gnarly could find a faster server.

  • Post-Clone Dramatica was published for the second time under a new domain.

  • Drama involving former clone user Emma Kimharris and the well-known Twitter user Fred began to circulate, and the #emmakimharrisisoverparty hashtag was used.

  • The Hiiverse Discord server was launched, and got raided by Sosig. The server shut down, and the creator announced he would be making Hiiverse into a "real" Miiverse clone.

  • Project Akuhao was launched and shut down within a few days.

  • Username published a rehost of Closedverse, which got shut down within a day.

  • The Clone Post was created.

  • SMF9 created the Closedverse rehost wakemeupinside.cf.

  • wakemeupinside.cf got shut down, and evidence surfaced against SMF9.

  • Konameme uploaded Closedverse Awards v9.

  • Uiiverse was announced to be shut down, with it being hosted by Pip until July 25, 2020.

  • Bakayun hosted Discoverse 2, the successor to the original Discoverse. It was quickly shut down.

  • Uiiverse was announced to be revived under the name "Uii Plaza".

  • The "Coner Rant" was reuploaded as an ESFDP song.

  • SMF9 created more rehosts of Closedverse and other clones such as Project Ultima throughout 2020, including Nextverse, a rehost of Indigo.

  • Adrian returned following over a year of absence from social media.

  • Oasis was brought back up as "Election Oasis" the day prior to US Election Day.

2021

• • SMF9 released the successor to wakemeupinside.cf, and the first known clone of 2021.

  • SMF9 released kokomo-paradise.gq, a rehost of Indigo. He would also release oasis.500percentnig.ga, which would later be turned to Miipedia.

  • Ciiverse Jr. was spammed by Adrian. The site got suspended in March of 2021, though it would be brought back the day after its suspension. A backup of the site was made prior to the suspension.

  • Adrian doxxed Pip, and posted his address on sleepinginside.cf (Clovbdvrsss's URL), which was brought back for a day.

  • Rewrittenverse was created.

  • Miiverse Clone RPG was released by Pip, alongside an April Fools' Indigo rehost.

  • Astleyverse was created.

  • Sandwich World was created.

Neo-Clone Period

The "Neo-Clone Period" is the current period of Miiverse clones. This period starts with the launch of CloneMii on May 17, 2021. While there had already been Miiverse clone users who joined after the end of the Miiverse Clone Era, CloneMii represents the biggest congregation of such users with its above-average level of activity, and serves as a relative starting point for the foundation of the Miiverse clone community as it is known today, with a mixing of users who used Miiverse clones during their initial run (commonly dubbed "OG Clone Users") and users who joined afterwards (commonly dubbed "Post-Clone Users"). The new users who joined the community are the ones responsible for the majority of Miiverse clones created during and after 2021. This is likely due to the lack of experience on the original Miiverse clones, and therefore the lack of regard for the stigma placed on the concept of Miiverse clones by the users who originally used them.

• • CloneMii was created.

  • Juice was created.

  • Rewrittenverse shut down.

  • Astleyverse shut down.

  • CloneMii Rewrite, later renamed to CloneMii V2, was announced for development.

  • bruhclone was created.

  • Nova Deluxe was released, and a Twitter account made for the site posted a trailer for it. Adrian's address would eventually be released on the site.

  • UniMii was created.

  • Nova Deluxe was shut down.

  • Miiverse Clonapedia, the Clone Forest, and the Clone Post were converted to New Google Sites.

  • UniMii was shut down.

  • Pip officially left the internet, and Pipcord was deleted.

(End of Lingering Period)

• • Adrianverse was created.

  • A public beta of Pretendo Network's servers was launched, which included Juxt.

  • Silver Club was created.

2022

• • Sandwich World was shut down.

  • Adrian would advertise the link to Adrianverse on various Discord servers and on 4chan, causing several people to join.

  • CloneMii, bruhclone, and Silver Club all shut down on the same day.

  • A user on Twitter released a document calling out Adrian, which eventually led to Adrian's Discord account getting banned and his server getting deleted.

  • Adrianverse was shut down by DaKux.

  • A rehost of Oasis was released under the link ggggggggggg.ga.

  • A Google Drive folder containing source codes of various Miiverse clones was made by GhostyBlox.

  • YouTuber izzzyzzz published a video on Miiverse titled "The Miiverse: A Retrospective", which briefly covers Miiverse clones.

  • Poly Plaza was released.

  • Bradenverse was released.

  • Ember was released.

  • Bananaverse was released.

  • Porn raids by the user Adam caused Ciiverse Jr., Bradenverse, and Bananaverse to shut down.

  • CampMii was released.

  • WaraPlaza was released.

  • Oldverse began development and was eventually released as a pre-release.

  • Cedar-Django was released for the first time as a Galaxy Plaza rehost known as "Cedar Two".

  • Juice was suspended and subsequently brought back, though was made into a private clone.

  • Caustica+ was released, and was eventually rebranded to Leaper.

  • miiverse.lol was released.

  • Cedar Two was made into a rehost of Closedverse and renamed "Cedar III".

  • Project Community began development.

  • A rehost of Indigo under a dark web .onion link was made by Komfudo.

  • Cedar III was moved to the cedar.doctor domain after Seedur purchased the domain for $140.

  • Pretendo Network's servers were reopened for public use, which included Juxt.

  • Ajarverse was released.

  • Arian livestreamed Splatoon 3, and posted the invite link to the Closedverse Discord server to the chat.

2023

• miiverse.lol was featured on a news website known as the Sterling Report.

• Cedar-Django's database was leaked, and the leak was promptly deleted.

• Cedar-Django, under the cedar.doctor domain, shut down.

• A new version of rverse, rv3, began development.

• Project Community was rebranded to Cosmic.

• The DrawMii event was hosted on rverse.

• rverse underwent maintenance.

• Cedar-Django was brought back under bigfloppa.art.

• Bulbaverse was released.

• NoNameVerse began development.

• Arian retrieved his computers from the local police department, which included the Closedverse database.

• Term releases an archive of CloneMii under clonemii-archive.isledelfino.net.

• A new version of Ciiverse was released.

• Syntaxerror was released.

• The user gray released multiple Miiverse clones, including TPOTverse, Cerulean, and community.php.

• Gverse was released.

• Ciiverse was renamed to Sillyverse, and SRGNation advertised the clone on Instagram, causing an influx of new users to join the site.

• NoNameVerse was renamed to Sapphire.

• Juxt was reopened.

• Sapphire was renamed to Aquamarine.

• Sprigatitoverse began development.

2024

• The user Omey gained access to the Pretendo Network admin panel, and used it to hack Juxt, promoting random users and creating his own community. His changes were eventually reverted.

• :3verse was released.

• Cedar-Django under bigfloppa.art was shut down.

• Rubyverse was released.

• Omeyverse was released.

• Arian releases a FAQ-styled document on the 5 year anniversary of Closedverse's shutdown.

• The web version of Aquamarine, aquamarine.lol, was launched.

• Syntaxerror shut down.

• SRGNation bans Hero from Sillyverse, then later unbans him. Sillyverse shut down after this occurred.

• wakemeupinside.net was released.

• wakemeupinside.net was moved to wakemeupinside.online due to the domain provider taking down the site.

• YouTuber SomeOrdinaryGamers published a video on Miiverse, which briefly covered Miiverse clones. PF2M would later make a donation on one of his streams, offering him info for a potential video on Miiverse clones.

• New singles for Epic Sauce Fortnite Death Punch were made by Eugene.

• Aquamarine shut down.

• The Google Drive folder containing Miiverse clone source codes was deleted.