HawkbitAlpha
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| User Info | |
|---|---|
| Registration Date |
March 1, 2018 (Current) October 4, 2012 (IPB 3) May 17, 2011 (Forumotion) |
| Age | 25 |
| Status | Active |
| Group | Cashiers, Loyal Customers |
| Notable Creations | SpongeCraft Frontiers, Community Mixtape |
HawkbitAlpha (formerly ACSBehemothHellcat, Prince Darkstar, and AlphaWarhawk) is an SBC member who originally joined the community in May 2011, but was banned from the site for much of the 2010s until becoming a permanent member in 2018. He is currently one of SBC's three Cashiers, and the admin of SpongeCraft Frontiers.
History
Early years (2011-2015)
Having initially discovered SBC at 11 years old, Hawk's arrival on the site was marked by his immaturity and willingness to constantly argue with other members, which led to him being banned multiple times, then indefinitely in July 2011, after only two months as a member. Later, in October 2012, he was allowed to return, but was banned again in April 2013 for the same reasons. After the first ban, he moved to SpongeBuddy Mania, where he remained as an active member until 2018. While contentious users are nothing new to the community, Hawk became the most notorious and persistent of them in early SBC history, as he made an enemy of many members of both SBM and SBC by repeatedly publicly antagonizing the latter site over the course of several years. This caused him to become a popular choice of villain in numerous Lits between 2011 and 2015.
Changeover (2015-2018)
Hawk's aggressive and increasingly arrogant behavior made him a very polarizing figure in SBC/SBM's shared history throughout much of the 2010s; in his late teen years, this aspect would come to overshadow his previous history on SBC, reaching a peak during his time as the original owner of SBM's Discord. On top of his years-long detachment from SpongeBob as a whole, Hawk's egotistical, self-indulgent attitude, as well as his tendency to start fights and petty dramas, caused a level of controversy to follow him through his entire time on the site. On the other hand, some SBM members praised his efforts in calling out and attacking many of the site's most disliked members, and later pushing the staff team to issue a number of bans in 2017 and 2018. Hawk's management of the SBM Discord was met with similarly mixed reactions, with many praising his work in constructing and managing the server's features, but criticizing his chaotic and often hostile moderation practices.
After five years under a permaban, Hawk's actions on SBM allowed him to be unbanned from SBC for the final time in March 2018, and two months later, he resigned as the SBM Discord's owner out of feelings of disillusionment, solidifying his shift to SBC as a permanent member in the process.
Today (2019-)
While Hawk remains a somewhat combative person to this day, he has mellowed out considerably in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, and has gone on to have a far more peaceful time with SBC than his prior years spent on SBM. The Sharing Time thread "Anger, Debates, Empathy, and Socialism" contains his reflections on his own personality and political views over time. Notably, Hawk has also rekindled something of an interest in cartoons, with his emergence in August 2020 as a "late-bloomer brony" taking many SBCers by surprise. He is also one of the numerous members of SBC's large fandom of The Owl House.
On November 11, 2022, Hawk became the first formerly-banned member in SBC history to be made a Cashier, succeeding Fred Rechid. His primary agenda since being promoted to staff has been to bring more video game-based events to SBC, and his most noteworthy creation in that pursuit is SpongeCraft Frontiers, a hybrid survival/creative Minecraft server which he has led since its launch in July 2023. He organizes the recurring Community Mixtape music project, and in 2023, was the host of the Golden Community Awards XVII. As a moderator, Hawk tends to be the "wild card" of the staff, occasionally acting on his own initiative toward goals both inside of and beyond SBC itself, often without prior input from other staff members; most notably, he was responsible for bringing Zaid back to SBC in August 2024. From February 2023 to October 2024, he also owned an alt account on SBM, known as Myles Sparklighter or StarboyMK.
Hawk is one of SBC's numerous LGBTQ members, having come out to the community as pansexual in 2019, and later as nonbinary in 2023. He was known for several years as SBC's primary progressive voice, and despite slowing down on his participation in political discussions since, Hawk is still known to challenge and test friends and acquaintances on their beliefs, especially outside of the greater SBC community.
One of Hawk's most well-known interests is his passion for aviation, and since 2011, he has had a similarly storied history with the community of the indie flight simulator YSFlight. He is the co-founder and owner of the Virtual Collective of Aerial Performers (VCAP), a group dedicated to hosting virtual airshows in YSFlight since 2021, with Hawk as its organizer, live host, and creative director. He has also lent his voice to other performing acts in platforms such as Digital Combat Simulator World and Roblox.