Lolico

Lolico
Status	Gone
Gender	Male
Nationality	American
Occupation	Imageboard admin Kolyma employee
Years active	2018-2023
Best known for	Creating Heyuri

Riley James Bell, aka Lolico or Deadking is a programmer from the United States. He is most commonly known as the founder of Heyuri and a former long-term rival of Yuri Kuznetsov. As of 2021, he worked for Kuznetsov as a developer for the Kolyma Network. He is arguably the most important person in kuz's story besides kuz himself.

Beginnings

He registered heyuri.cf on December 26th 2018 and founded Heyuri on February 16th 2019 as a basic file uploader. Two days later he promoted it on /g/. Months later he turned it into an imageboard on November 24th 2019. Lolico originally created the site as a way to sharpen his PHP skills and play around with programming, something he was very new to at the time.

Romance

On 9 February 2020 he asked for someone to become a second admin, explaining "I really want to make this imageboard become significantly active but I'm just a developer. I need someone who can do public stuff, draw people to the site, make announcement's and such". On 24 May his famous relationship with kuz began when he made kuz the second admin; kuz only started using Heyuri like 20 days prior and was chosen either because he knew PHP or he was already doing his 9chan shtick, which enticed Lolico to think kuz was some skilled imageboard legend who was best friends with moot in 2005 or something. Kuz would continue to manipulate Lolico by claiming that an influx of users in June was actually him "opening up 9chans old userbase to Heyuri to increase the flow of people to the site" (even though 9channers spoke Russian and it shut down years ago), and Lolico believed it because he was hilariously gullible and naive.

Eventually Lolico and kuz started e-dating on Discord, strengthening their relationship. I wouldn't say kuz dated him purely as a Machiavellian ploy, but it certainly didn't hurt. For one it enabled kuz to continue his takeover by migrating Heyuri to his personal homeserver on 20 June 2020. For Lolico this was just his trusted friend giving him a helping hand, removing Cloudflare and giving Heyurizens higher maximum filesizes, but with the benefit of hindsight it was another concession to someone who wasn't as trustworthy as he thought. During this time Lolico hired Akima who claimed to know PHP (the sole requirement to become a Heyuri developer), and was therefore granted root access to Heyuri's servers. (lel)(most trickable admin ever award)

Tension

Around this period it's probable that kuz was preparing a dossier on Lolico for blackmail purposes.

On 9 July Heyuri's server suffered a "fatal drive error" that corrupted Heyuri's data. In response Lolico "worked tirelessly, for days at a time to try to rework Heyuris scripts". But as Heyurizens would later find out, this was actually caused by sabotage from a script kiddy that Lolico hired called Akima who somehow "gained root access to Heyuri" through "social engineering". After being given permission to diagnose the issue, Akima told kuz and Lolico it was a hardware failure, so On 12 July Lolico restored a backup he made on his old webhost 1 month before.

On 27 July Lolico announced he and the development team were rewriting the original Futaba Channel script from scratch, which is presumably what took up most of Lolico's time at this period. There was also a "sudden and very noticeable drop in activity in the final days of July/first days of August, which caused something of a panic/existential crisis amongst some of the staff and userbase".

Lolico was SNCA even amongst his own users, nobody made OC of him and he allowed heyuri become a kuz fan club. "Behind the scenes, lolico and kuz were regularly clashing on Dicksword over various matters relating to Heyuri; they would frequently disagree with site direction/operations, flame each other, and be reduced to namecalling. Most of these arguments were unbeknownst to the wider Heyuri userbase... Heyuri's users were largely under the impression that lolico and kuz were just occasionally pretending to fight in public for the LOLs". "One common cause of friction between lolico and kuz was the fact that kuz had been given the role of "admin" along with full control over Heyuri and its servers. kuz often made use of these powers to make changes to the site and its contents without asking lolico, or just doing it anyway even if lolico said no. Occasionally users would see something new appear on the site, only for it to mysteriously disappear later." "Lolico expressed annoyance about the fact that kuz was featured in so much OC, yet lolico—the original founder of the site and the one spending hours each day developing it behind the scenes—was rarely mentioned at all. Heyuri users found this very funny, and made some consolation OC for lolico."

On August 23 kuz "suddenly launched several new 2ch-type boards, which were immediately spammed to oblivion. lolico promptly "fired" kuz, and reduced the number of 2ch-type boards. Kuz was enraged and went on a CSS hackathon while ranting about the board baleetions, and in the process he somehow accidentally made all the text on Off-Topic blue." Lolico fired kuz for this disobedience but rehired him later that day for some reason (kuz used his wit and charm o algo). Allegedly, Akima was fanning the flames in Heyuri HQ. Despite all the staff drama Lolico's community was doing well for itself.

Betrayal

But the golden age of Heyuri (their golden age only had 10pph btw, understood kuzzycucks? listen and learn. it's not dead it's just comfy) was not to last as it would come to a close with literal 'cord drama that started the next day.

• kuz: I am on the edge, I am very close to doing things that wont just harm heyuri, but you. You have trampled over me taken advantage of my willingness to help, and abused your power over me again, and again. Now its time i lay out what i have.
  I know your name, adress, and face. I have your past residency and school attendance records. I know your entire familys names and adresses because your stupid uncle. I know everything about you, and i know your personal struggles too, such as employment status, and how you are on the verge of being kicked out of your parents home. I know things about your past like you pretending to be a trap, and all that shit. I know all of your history with 22chan , and i know what you have done and what you are capable of. I know every single detail about your life, and your family.
  I didnt ever want to harm you or heyuri, i still havent and it would take an immense amount of pain for me to do it. You dont understand how much i fucking love heyuri. I suggest communicating with me, because if you block me and fire me again there will be consequences. Im not trying to take over, im not trying to hurt you unless you are going to hurt me or heyuri. But ive tried reason, ive tried compromise, all i have left is threat. This is the 1st stage of my warning, and if you fight back, it only gets worse from here.

What followed was a back and forth where kuz threatened to release the doxx and Lolico threatened to delete the site, and since kuz wanted to badly to take over the site and Kolymaficate it, it was mutually assured destruction. "Your life will be ruined forver if you do this. I will fucking destroy it" -Our dear leader General Secretary Yuri M. Kuznetsov, KHAN of the Kolyma Network, 2020

Soon Lolico made the first move and "kuz was fired for real along with two mods who lolico believed were on kuz's side. Meanwhile, the site was being frequently flooded to death with Rule 8-breaking material by some form of bot. (Editors note: rule 8 bans woahjaks, soyjaks, pepes, soyspeak, greentext stories, and *oomer memes like zoomer boomer or coomer) Lolico was effectively running the site alone at this point, but genuine user activity was lower than ever, and the mood across the site was sour."

"Excerpts of lolico and kuz's Dicksword arguments were being posted everywhere both in and outside of Heyuri (including in faganon's drama thread on 3chan), leading to many users becoming angry towards lolico. Discussions about the drama moved to 3chan, largely because lolico was deleting all mentions of it on Heyuri."

"On September 3, 2020, lolico provided his version of events on a static page on Heyuri, which he would link in the Heyuri drama thread on 3chan. It contained various Dicksword screencaps as well as a link to a purportedly complete log of the private messages between lolico and kuz."

"A couple of days later on September 5, 2020, Heyuri was "hacked" by Akima. Akima deleted the entirety of the Heyuri website, and replaced it with a simple HTML page containing semi-dox of lolico and his family, plus download links for various Heyuri backend files and databases. Lolico eventually managed to regain control of the site and take it all down, and this (temporarily) spelled the end of Heyuri. ;_;"

Aftermath

"After Heyuri's "death", lolico camped Heyuri's domain (heyuri.net) and put up a static page detailing his thoughts on the situation, as well as expressing that he may or may not eventually restore Heyuri. The page would be updated several times over the next couple of months."

"Meanwhile, kuz had retained ownership of Heyuri's former domain (heyuri.cf), and he used it to attempt to revive Heyuri several times in rapid succession; however, each attempt was swiftly thwarted by Akima's skiddie flooding powers. Eventually kuz gave up on reviving Heyuri and instead launched a new site named StrawberryHeaven, which became a refuge for former Heyuri users (although the number of StrawberryHeaven users was small compared to Heyuri's golden age numbers). Akima was unable to flood StrawberryHeaven because his fail scripts didn't work on the Perl-based software (Kareha). CAMELS FTW."

"After a couple of months on StrawberryHeaven, user demand for Heyuri's return remained strong, and kuz stated he was back in talks with lolico to try and organize a true revival of Heyuri. Heyuri would return on December 4, 2020 with kuz as the sole administrator, and lolico would assist with various aspects of Heyuri's backend for a little while before choosing to disappear from the internet."

"Due to the events of "TEH DRAMA"—along with faganon's "I haet Heyuri and here's why you should too" tour that continued across the net—Heyuri, lolico, and kuz's reputations were in the dirt. Any threads on other websites where Heyuri was mentioned would invariably end in flames being fired towards the site and its former staff, along with rampant trolling. This negative reputation would unfortunately be a dark cloud that lingered over Heyuri's head for the next couple of years, which made any kind of traditional promotion on imageboard-adjacent sites nearly impossible. "

Later days

In 2021 and 2022 Lolico was """""""""""""employed"""""""""""" by Kolyma as a developer, mainly working on Kokonotsuba, Kolyma's proprietary imageboard software. In May 2022 kuz described Lolico as "hard to reach nowadays" and on 16 May 2023 Kaguya lost all contact with him. Afterwards, we may assume Lolico has left the internet both publicly and privately.