Heyuri

Heyuri
Foundation	16 February 2019 (file sharer), 24 November 2019 (imageboard)
Creator	Lolico
Owner	Kaguya
Major Boards	/a/, /b/, /c/, /f/, /h/, /j/, /jp/, /l/, /o/, /q/, /s/, /sw/, /lounge/
Total posts	190070 (/b/)
Notable Events	Golden Age, Lolico-Kuz drama, revival, kuz era, kaguya era, Heyuri★CGI
Website	https://www.heyuri.net/

Heyuri is an imageboard created by Riley James Bell (better known as lolico) in 2018 It was originally hosted on the Heyuri.cf domain and meant to be a P2P filesharing website, but on November 24th 2019 it was relaunched in it's current form as an imageboard. On February 29th of 2020, the site switched to it's current domain, heyuri.net. It was incorporated into KolymaBBS prior to it's disslolution. kuz calls it his favorite website, which some consider strange since kuz is a fan of soyjak shitposting which is banned on Heyuri. Heyuri also hosts kuz's clone of ayashii world.

kuz fanart from Heyuri, posted in 2020.

On February 9th, Lolico announced he's looking for a second administrator, primarly to take care of public relations and growing the site. On March the 3rd, Cavalier is hired for this job. Kuz took an interest in Heyuri in early 2020 and on the 24th of May, he replaced Cavalier as the site's second admin. In June, the site was transferred to KolymaNET's servers and a new developer was hired - akima. On July 9th, akima sabotaged Heyuri's main server, yukari, by running malicious commands until it fatally crashed, and the data lost was completely unrecoverable. akima claimed it was a hard drive failure. The site goes down until eventually it displays a page explaining what's going on. The page later changes to say that restoration is underway, along with a short writeup by kuz about Heyuri purpose and vision. Lolico restores a backup and kuz makes a news post about everything that happened, and also gives a breakdown of Heyuri growth over the past few months. The news post also showcases Heyrui's activity and growth ever since kuz advertised the site to his 9chan audience. Spam and server issues continue into the following months, allegedly caused by further sabotage from akima.

Lolico and kuz were prone to conflict and on the 27th of July, kuz gets demoted to a manager, which was announced in a news post stating that there will never be a second admin again. kuz also gets briefly fired in august before being rehired on August 23rd, but fighting between the two continues, as well as allegedly being purposfully stocked up by akima, and heats up to the point where kuz threatens to reveal lolico's private information, though he quickly apologizes and asks to be demoted to a mod again, before completely resigning in August 27th. His resignation isn't taken well by some users, and many turn on lolico. Lolico creates a Q&A thread about the retirement on /q/, stating that the reason for kuz leaving is "off limits". He also refuses to state the reason for the recent mod purge, which adds to the anger directed at him by the userbase. kuz posts in the thread, claiming that him and Lolico have been fighting so much to the point where it's clear that they can't work together, and such he agreed to part ways.

Heyuri's front page after akima vandalized it.

In September, following another conflict with kuz and mounting pressure by the community, Lolico creates a page supposedly exposing kuz for threatening him, spamming heyuri and secretly keeping his admin privleges when he demoted himself to a mod. He also leaks private discord conversations he had with kuz. A thread about the drama is made on 3chan.co, a site which Heyuri used to be partnered with before the drama, in which both kuz and lolico make an appearence. Lolico posts his callout page once and leaves, kuz posts several times and openly mocks Lolico by telling users that they "should all be glad you dont have the displeasure of working for him". Following this, akima used his FTP access to spam the site, delete all the files and replace the front page with guro and Lolico's doxx. akima later admits he was responsible for all the spam and server issues, and quickly gets ousted by kuz.

Strawberry heaven's front page.

Following this, lolico kills Heyuri for several months, seemingly forever. In the meantime, kuz seizes the heyuri.cf domain and makes it redirect to a bunker on bbs.kolyma.jp, which would later become kolymaBBS. Refugees settle there on 3chan. kuz also makes a short news post about the situation. Akima posts on the bunker the next day, threatening kuz and mocking him. Two days later, kuz makes another news post explaining what's going on and stating that he doesn't want to "be like Lolico". On September 15th, kuz makes another posts saying that heyuri is back for good, restarted under his ownership, as well as retelling what happened inaccurately, blaming the incident on hackers rather then akima. The site is moved off of kolyma.jp and onto heyuri.cf, and kuz makes a, opening sticky. The front page gets redesigned, new boards are added and kuz makes a news post asking people to share any archives and Heyuri banners they might've saved. This is followed by a "welcome back" news post. He also adds a page linking to other sites in the KolymaNET sphere titled Stay in touch with your KolymaNET friends!, based off of the custom subtitle added to 4chan's /qa/ board's title when using the 4chan x extension, which when clicked on leads to various /jp/ spinoffs (the extension also changes /qa/'s name to 2d/random). The next day, kuz takes down the site and replaces it with a page explaining that the bunker has been spammed heavily for the past few days and that he cannnot keep running the site on his own, and will need to assemble a team to continue doing so. He also fully blames akima for what happened to Heyuri.

Several people quickly offer to help, but kuz says it could take a long time before they can properly put the site back together. On September 24th, Lolico revives heyuri.net with a page stating his plans to bring the site back in the future without kuz, who he still blames for what happened, he also mentions that kuz technically still owns Heyuri's trademark. On September 29th, kuz releases strawberryheaven.net, the new Heyuri replacement site, which is announced on KNN. The site also imports a couple of old Heyuri threads. In November, Lolico changes Heyuri's front page again, saying the full revival could take over a year. He later adds an announcement implying that he and kuz are negotiating. kuz makes a news post confirming that they discussed and claiming that Lolicos doesn't want to revive Heyuri while kuz legally owns the trademark. On December 1st, kuz confirms on Strawberry heaven that Heyuri will be relaunched under both him and Lolico again in the end.

A news post announcing Heyuri's return.

The site officially reopens on December 4th, though everything other then the front page was already up and running at least two days prior. consequently, Strawberry heaven is shut down, but on January 6th 2021 it's reopened by kuz for "posterity" before being closed again later that year. kuz makes a thread on /q/ to answer questions in which he reveals that he is now Heyuri's only admin, and Lolico is now a developer. Just a couple days after the relaunch, kuz makes a news post announcing Lolico's full retirement and the transfer of ownership over the heyuri.net domain to him, giving kuz ownership full of the site and that DCP and the Strawberry heaven team will be stepping in to fulfill his role as developers, though Lolico was later rehired by KolymaNET and as of April 2022 works as a developer for Heyuri again. As of April 2022, akima is listed by the NSS as a public enemy of The Kolyma Network, though he's marked as "handled".

Opinions on kuz are generally positive among those who still use the site, though among older users who left or unrelated onlookers it's more mixed. As for lolico, he also earned his fair share of infamy for the debacle, particularly amongst kuz loyalists who disliked lolico's handling of the situation as well as his management of the site in general compared to kuz. As one user wrote following the September 2020 incident-

"If you really want to know then I'll tell you, but it's nothing you haven't been told before, and most of it's water under the bridge at this point (and hopefully “lessons learned”): You waved off criticism by wrongly assuming that anyone who had developed a negative opinion of you or your actions must be a troll You believed that Heyuri was somehow going to surpass both 4chan and Reddit in size, and even saw that as a desirable outcome, despite proving to be unequipped to manage a site that's only a microscopic fraction of those Contrary to the above belief, you've expressed that Heyuri was better before the main userbase came along - a userbase which was more humorous, more lighthearted, more cancer-free, and more dense with amazing OC creators than any imageboard community I've ever seen. You couldn't have dreamt up a better userbase - rarely ever does any site get to experience such a golden age - and yet you were still unhappy with it, all because we didn't mongle your cock hard enough You got annoyed over people praising and making OC about kuz more often than they did you, even calling it “unfair”, and you threatened to fire everyone or give up Heyuri if it continued. This was despite you being the one who hired kuz to be co-admin and community liaison in your stead, and you rarely ever stepping foot outside of discord to make your presence known on Heyuri (at least beyond reporting that bugs had been fixed from time to time) You showed little to no respect to the people who volunteered their own time and effort to help Heyuri out behind the scenes, and you would frequently fire (or threaten to fire) them for the pettiest of reasons - usually for having the audacity to exercise privileges that you'd given them in the first place. When they would try to do some obvious good (like dealing with repeat rule breakers, running OC contests, creating a positions page to help get more volunteers onboard, or attempting to enable a captcha in the midst of a heavy spam attack), you would shut it down and/or fire them because you hadn't personally reviewed every aspect and given it the greenlight That part was so unbelievably dumb and arrogant that it's worth reiterating: you once fired Heyuri's co-admin/server host because they attempted to enable the captcha during a heavy spam attack without getting your express permission first. Anyone with their head outside their ass would have fired their co-admin for NOT enabling the captcha in that situation, but your head was wedged up there so firmly that I'm surprised you didn't consider selling molds of your head for use as a buttplug To add insult to injury, you'd been warned numerous times before and after that point that having no form of captcha or spam prevention in place on an imageboard in today's internet climate was a massive vunerability, but you chose to either ignore those warnings, or devalued their importance Ultimately, you didn't value the golden egg-laying goose that you'd happened upon, nor did you value much of the contributions made by others to help you rear it, and it ended up dying a violent and perfectly avoidable death Through sheer arrogance, you drove virtually everyone around you away; everyone that is except for notorious thorn in Heyuri's side “faganon”, and a double-agent skiddie who dox'd you and played you like a fool - and who pwned Heyuri beyond repair after you'd conveniently fired all the potential lines of defense for him. And then you had the gall to forgive the skiddie for his actions, while continuing to hold a grudge against your former staff and userbase! That's why I consider the lolico of 3-4 months ago to be an egotistical asshole, and why I hope for yours and everyone else's sake that you've changed since then If you have changed, and you do end up reviving Heyuri with kuz (or something to that effect), I will personally take pole position in the line to suck your cock, and I'll swallow your man juice with pride. Just saying… "

Kuz himself does not seem to share these negative views on Lolico.

The Kaptcha, as it appears on Heyuri.

On March 14th, development is finished on KolymaNET's new closed-source imageboard software - Kokonotsuba. A few days later, Heyuri makes the switch to it from it's old software which is announced with a news post. In May, kuz puts up a recruitment ad for the "50 Cent Army," a group of almost-volunteers interested in doing some basic work for The Kolyma Network. On July 2nd, days prior to the KolymaBBS breakup, kuz made a news post apologizing for "forcing too many KolymaNET things" on Heyuri, such as the aforementioned imageboard software. Heyuri still later began using KolymaNET's captcha, the "Kaptcha", though only for new thread creation. The site was also still staffed with KolymaNET employees. One such employee was "Kutay Demir"' better known as "Kaguya", KolymaNET's "Director of the Content Control Administration". He's a Turkish man who joined the company in September of 2020 and became a moderator on Heyuri, and is a close friend of kuz. He eventually became the most active and involved staff member by far, moreso then kuz as he was keot busy by other things, and often posted with his tripcode. On February 2022, Kaguya visited wapchan.org, a retro-anime themed website, and asked to partner it up with Heyuri for the benfit of both. The admin, ranchan, visited Heyuri and agreed to link up with it, similarly to how it used to be paired up with 3chan, and both sites put up links to one another. On February 7th 2022, following the acquisition of Vidlii, kuz posted a thread on /q/ about potentially putting up ads for Heyuri on the site, asking users how to introduce the new users should be introduced.

On April 25th, kuz announces his resignation from Heyuri on /q/, citing "less time, and less dedication, as well as other things to focus on in life" as the reason for his departure after almost two years working on the site.<ref>kuz's resignation thread on /q/.</ref