Toike Oike Editor-in-Chief and local degenerate Ryan Williams recently forbid the publication of a niche joke written by one of his many slaves—er, “staff writers”. The writer, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote a news brief titled “Smogon Officially Bans Itself”, poking fun at the notoriously ban-happy online Pokémon battling community. Williams explained that the joke was simply too niche, and that the majority of the readership would not get the joke. “Our readership is already small enough,” said Dinah Pesh, another staff writer. “The last thing we need is a joke only guys who live in their mom’s basements playing Pokémon would get.” Pesh quickly retracted the statement after realizing that the demographic represents 70% of the engineering community.

The writer himself later stated, “I’m sick of being oppressed and deserve some more creative freedom.” He resigned and has gone on to produce no noteworthy literature, as none of it appealed to more than six or seven people (maybe like, eight. Maybe).