The Lost Context Facebook Group

CLC Historical Overview
For a mostly chronological timeline of events, click here

https://lostcontext.fandom.com/wiki/CLC_Timeline

Origin Story
If you trace its roots back far enough, the Lost Context group came out of IGN. Four of IGN's employees left the company to start their own company called Kinda Funny. One of the founding members of Kinda Funny was Colin Moriarty.

But by the end of 2016, Colin Moriarty had a falling out with the group. It was a division which had been building up over time, but ultimately climaxed with a tweet Colin made on Twitter. You can read about that somewhere else because I'm not in the mood to type it up right now because I've been drinking a lot of wine and I'm feeling woozy.

This incident resulted in Colin parting ways with Kinda Funny. He left and started his own group, focusing on politics and history. It was called Colin's Last Stand.

Facebook Groups: CLS to CLC
Colin's Last Stand gained instant popularity, as he had already built up a number of followers since his IGN days, and thus, the Colin's Last Stand (CLS) Facebook group was formed.

The Facebook group had a blend of political discourse, memes, and shitposting. However, there was eventually a day when the admins decided that too many posts were being made without context. People would post links to articles, without sharing their thoughts about said articles, and that would leave the group uncertain of the thread poster's feelings towards the shared link.

This lead to a new rule in the group, stating that any links without context provided, would have the comments locked until context was provided.

Protests ensued, and eventually, many of the members splintered off to make their own meme and shitposting group, where they could freely post whatever they wanted without the need for context. This group was aptly named, "Colin's Lost Context."

Evolution & Creepy Cult
As 2017 went on, Colin's Lost Context (which became known simply as CLC), began to grow and take on its own identity. Even though the members still referred to it as CLC, the Facebook group's name began to change regularly, often with a rhyming structure, such as "Wiki Memes For Savvy Teens". Each name would carry a theme, which would inspire the members to post memes according to that theme.

Gay Porn Thursday & Wholesome Friday
As the group evolved, it also began to develop its own parody religion, using the Kekistani beliefs and the god Pepe as its base. This began, when, one of the group's themes was Gay Porn Memes on a Thursday. The group's feed was flooded with jokingly censored pornographic memes. The following day, the admins declared it to be Wholesome Friday, a day where only wholesome memes could be posted and nobody was permitted to be crude or coarse, lest they get muted. Wholesome Friday became a tradition, which takes place on the first Friday of each month.

From Wholesome Friday, began the new religion based on Kekistani beliefs. CLC, however, added the Christ parody figure of Blake Pobst, who was known for getting Zucc'd (banned from Facebook), and returning some time later when the ban was lifted (a parallel of Christ's resurrection from the dead.) The group also added the parallel of Tanya Renner in the place of the Catholic Virgin Mary, as Tanya was often hailed as a peace-keeping motherly figure in the days of Colin's Last Stand.

Hail Tanya
Religious parody prayers were created, such as the Hail Mary prayer, replaced with Tanya:"Hail Tanya, full of grace.""Pepe is with thee.""Blessed art thou amongst women,""and blessed are those you call your children.""Holy Tanya, Mother of CLC,""pray for us memers,""now and at the hour of our Zuccing.""Amen."

The Lost Context Podcast
In January of 2018, the CLC group launched a YouTube channel and started a group podcast, called The Lost Context Podcast. The podcast had reoccurring regulars, (Brian Bridges, Chris Riley, Blake Pobst, Brody Raney, and Wesley Sullivan) who hosted the show, and each week, featured a couple different members from the group as guests. The Lost Context Podcast is a topical entertainment podcast that opens each episode with a recap of the previous week in the group, and then goes into topics chosen by each of the people featured in the episode.

CLC MeWe Group
In the wake of many members' alt accounts getting banned from Facebook, some admins began looking for a new social media platform, eventually creating a page at MeWe.com. The lack of censorship there inevitably led to lots of pornographic memes and the discovery of a woman named Lisa Spiders, who became a running joke in the group when she began posting her nudes and then got offended when members began making jokes about it. Eventually, the MeWe group fizzled out.

CLC Discord Channel
Part of the reason for MeWe's demise was the creation of a CLC Discord channel, where the members began meeting for voice chats, Jukebox Music sessions, and movie nights, during which, movies would get streamed on a CLC Twitch channel. Additionally, the group formed some D&D groups and began having RPG adventures together.

Cult Collapse
Eventually, people grew weary of having Wholesome Friday at the first of every month, and it died out. Contributing to its death was also the fact that there were some controversial moments that drove off some of the members, such as Blake, who was the Christ figure of the made-up religion, and Tanya, who was the Mother Mary figure. And so, the religion was put to rest, and with it, Wholesome Friday.

CLS Fallout
In its first year, CLC members got along fairly well with CLS, but eventually, some of the key members had a falling out. The CLS admins mostly pulled out of CLC and began banning anyone who advertised CLC or its podcast in the CLS group.

On 6/24/2018, an attempt was made, to reconcile the two groups. Unfortunately, too much damage had been done between the admins of the two groups, and the offer was removed from the table. Particularly after Alex wrote an apology, of a hilariously sarcastic and cynical nature.

Alex's Apology
"Alex Insdorf""June 24 at 6:54 PM" Hey guys, ive decided to apologize to all the CLS admins. Please forward this apology to them if you can. Ive realized ive made mistakes: Dear admins of CLS, Im personally very sorey for calling tanya and all the admins spineless cunts a few months ago. Ive come to the conclusion that it was very rude. I was simpy angry because it felt lik no one was respecting my much, much, much more inferior group, CLC. Ive realized clc is the real big pile of doggie doo doo in the months that have followed. I mean, they may have gained 200 members in the same tim that cls lost 200 members since i was banned very fairly by you cls admins. But they dont respec freeze peach like u guys do in cls. There just a bunch of illegal librul commies. So to tanya, i say sorry. I didnt mean to call you a spineless cunt. It was very immature and i shouldnt have buleed you while you were sending tony calvin nudes. We've all fallen on rough times like that. To rameen, im very sorry for calling you...whatever i called u. I dont remember. Just get a goddamn haircut bro. Bowl cuts went out back in 08. To dan oney, youre an epic british gamer. I think that covers all of the admins. Jorge is nice enough i suppose. Please let me back into the group. I miss wypipo yelling about how dumb i really am. Sincerely, Alexander Insdorf P.S.-there is a 15 dollar fee per word, so please send that to my venmo thanks.

CLC's Birthday
CLC's date of birth is July 14th, 2017.

1-year-old
In July of 2018, the group celebrated its first birthday with a lot of shared memories and an all-day schedule of events.

CLC gets Zucc'd
On September 6th, 2018, the first CLC group got Zucc'd for a group name that Facebook deemed inappropriate. Tony had named the group, "Let's Rape Alex Memes for We Follow Cody's Lead Teens."

Read the full story here.

https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fall_of_CLC?fbclid=IwAR2A_phQ23LguOAluIXEtCoNDr7VFG0sf8zKCKE8k3R2w6sgz95EEQ2Xow0

It happened again, just a few months later, when Alex named the group, "CLC: Joey Getting Pegged Memes For 'It Was Only A Couple Fingers!' Teens"

KJ's Trash Doves
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/KJ_Trash_Doves

A classic moment in CLC's first year, when KJ said he hated the old Trash Dove meme, and people suddenly began spamming the group with them.

CLC Snitch Hunt
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/CLC_Snitch_Hunt

A classic moment in CLC's first year, when the members believed a snitch was lurking in the group, reporting offensive posts. The ongoing hunt led to many accusations and suspicions about various members.

The Pippy Diperson Saga
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/Pippy_Diperson

A member of CLC since day one, the alt account that was Pippy Diperson, caused quite a stir in the group, as people began to question his real identity. It was quite a mystery.

Original Memes
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/Original_Memes

This wiki link will provide you with many of the original and CLC related memes that have been created, and their origin stories

Original Meme Formats
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/Original_Meme_Formats

This wiki link will provide you with a number of the blank CLC meme formats and their origin stories

CLC Reacts Record
https://lostcontext.wikia.com/wiki/CLC_Laugh_Reacts_Record

The Reactions Competition is an ongoing battle, to see who can get the most reacts on a single post.