Miiverse Clone General Timeline
Notice as of April 2024: This article is currently outdated and in the process of renovation.
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.
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
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.
Ciiverse was launched to the public.
A user known as old people sex spammed NSFW and caused Closedverse to shut down.
Arian banned Dominic.
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.
Eric spammed porn and gets deleted, forcing him to make a new account.
"Optimal comedy" was tested on Closedverse, inklingbot was created.
Eric and Pip have a staff feud, as Pip orders Eric to stop deleting unfunny posts. Pip then purged all of Eric's posts due to him not complying.
Controversy lead to Tutikaz getting deleted.
Gnarly joined, Tutikaz made a new account.
2018
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 Miiverse clones.
Arian promoted Cookie after receiving leg pictures from her. Several months later, Arian promoted Citrus, who deleted 100 accounts from the site.
Arian's DM's with certusers 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
Pip released Oasis, which initially would not see much activity outside of a few loyal 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 begins development, lead by Ben, Pip, and Chance.
Nova begins development, lead by Seth, PF2M, Arian, and Eric.
PF2M enables "Staffcord", a Discord Server run by many Closedverse staff members, to become larger and rise in power.
Gnarly is banned off of Closedverse by the Staffcord, with mixed reception from the userbase as well as controversy lasting for about 2 months.
The Staffcord does a revote over Gnarly's ban, with the outcome remaining unchanged.
The Staffcord purges and reorganizes members of the staff to get rid of moderators who were deemed inactive, unfit to moderate, or unnecessary. This major change in staff lead to controversy among the userbase, especially after Gnarly's ban.
Indigo is announced to the public.
PF2M somewhat re-assumes control of Closedverse.
Nova merges into Indigo.
PF2M unbans Gnarly, finally ending the long-lasting drama.
Epic Sauce Fortnite Death Punch was formed.
Arian essentially returns to control of Closedverse (Although he was always the server owner, and thus technically still in charge)
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 hide tons of communities on Closedverse, causing lots of chaos
Seth begins to sell staff for $5
Seth and Triangles leave the Indigo Team
Mochi begins to repair relations with Ben and Pip, even "leaving" Closedverse and making them owners for a short while.
Indigo's Beta Server launches, exclusively for members of the Indigo Team and Mario's Princess
Indigo Beta allows a few more users to sign up, such as Adrian and Beforkers
Oasis is shut down so that PF2M can focus funds towards Indigo. Pip promises 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 and sadistic behavior.
Oasis is relaunched, due to a new owner.
Tutikaz and Beholder, among other users, founded JSN, a group intended to call out "degeneracy".
Private messages between Nathaniel and Adrian surfaced, causing Adrian to get called out as a pedophile and get banned from Indigo on December 2018.
2019
Uiiverse is 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 move back to Oasis.
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.
FBI tips about Arian's alleged 17 GBs of child porn are sent from numerous clone users, most notably from Reg Gang.
After receiving the FBI tips, Closedverse shut down when the Cobb County Police Department seizes 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 became active on Twitter or Discord.
Vile is outed as a pedophile.
Mochi comes back on Twitter and got called out by former clone users such as Dylan. The account got suspended.
Project ULTIMA is released.
The Closedverse rehost cloned.pizza is released, and following its shutdown the passwords for all of the users that signed up were leaked.
2020
Miiverse Clonapedia is created.
TouhouBoi begins work on Galaxy Plaza.
The Closedverse Out of Context Twitter account is made.
Gnarly starts work on the third album of Epic Sauce Fortnite Death Punch.
Oasis is brought back up as "Oasis Rewritten" as an April Fools' joke.
A group known as the "Limp Bizkit Army" publishes the website "Weeg Sucks At Art".
Clone Forest is created.
Other clones such as Riiverse and Ciiverse Jr. would pop up. The former shut 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.
Weeg deactivated his Twitter account, blaming Stereotypical Russian Boss for harassment.
Coner posts screenshots of a DM from Soul, which escalates into drama. Soul and Michael, among other people, accuse Coner of being a stalker, and one of his Tweets ended up getting ratioed.
The Clone Post was created.
SMF9 creates the Closedverse rehost wakemeupinside.cf.
wakemeupinside.cf gets shut down, and evidence surfaces against SMF9.
Konameme uploads Closedverse Awards v9.
Uiiverse was announced to be shut down, with it being hosted by Pip until July 25, 2020.
Bakayun hosts 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" is reuploaded as an ESFDP song.
SMF9 creates more rehosts of Closedverse and other clones such as Project Ultima throughout 2020, including Nextverse, a rehost of Indigo.
Coner makes multiple tweets about Soul on his Twitter account, including some memes and a video, causing a response by some Miiverse clone users.
Adrian returns following over a year of absence from social media.
Oasis was brought back up as "Election Oasis" the day prior to US Election Day.
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.
More Miiverse clones, including Rewrittenverse and Astleyverse, would be made.