Tennis Staff: Difference between revisions

Per RabbitSnore's whimsical "cafe/restaurant/bar" theming around "The Poop Tennis Cafe" thread and its staff, it's become something of a lighthearted tradition to imagine the tennis staff as caretakers, baristas, and any-sorta-food-service-worker-related-symbolism-you-can-think-of. They have always been recognized by yellow colored names and forum insignia, consistent through forum sites and the [[The Tennis Isles]] discord group.

There have been 31 total members to have served as part of the Tennis/Cafe Staff, 32 if Emperor Ing is counted amongst its ranks.

|+ List of Tennis Staff, as of 4-12-2025

| {{Letycjusz S.}}|| Yes || 2025-present || First staff appointed on YellowTealPurple

| {{system128}}||Yes || 2022-present ||

| {{Vidtens443}}||Yes || 2019-present||  

|{{mrdoognoog}} ||No || 2019-2022 || First staff appointed during the post-YouChew era. Runs this website!

|{{dani}} || Yes || 2019-2020, 2024-present || First staff, along with infinitysnapz, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore

|{{Zekii}} ||No || 2020-2024 ||  

|{{strong414bad}} || No || 2008-2012 || Holds record for youngest staff appointment (at 13/14)

|{{TheChutley}} ||Yes  || 2010-2016, 2024-2025 ||

|{{Nuthead}} || No || 2008 || The only member of the staff to be banned from the YouChew forums

|{{Stuart K. Reilly}}||No || 2014 || Technically a "fuck by proxy"; was initially a Janitor on the Youchew Forums until the Tennis Staff and Janitors were combined to make the Cafe Staff. Never played a full tennis match of his own

(this will be a really cool piece of wiki tech that has the lines of every staff member and how long they served, though for now, it is just a screenshot of a spreadsheet)

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The chronology of the Tennis Staff has been organized by relatively arbitrary "generations" since 2019, with {{dew}} conceptualizing the original designations of generation. While dani originally organized these by a combination of relative group size (shooting for as close to seven members for each) and spans of time apart between additions, The generations were revised on February 27, 2025 by infinitysnapz, who organized them more by closeness in join dates for each group. This has additionally allowed the resignation of RabbitSnore and TINS from YouChew leadership to be better considered as a major pivot point between specified generations.  

The staff has since undergone many changes in its lineup of members, beginning as soon as 5 days later when NS2 would be promoted by majority vote of YouChew staff to a moderator position. {{GameBop}} would become the next addition to the Staff on June 23, 2008 upon request for the purpose of managing the 2nd Tennis Chain and being able to edit the original post created by ShadowWario/FancySanta. During this era, the "Collaborations" subforum of YouChew would be created for the first time, and would be added to tennis staff jurisdiction. Moogle would join next on November 18, 2008. {{MycroProcessor}} would join by popular demand on February 27, 2009, essentially acting as the fill-in for Nuthead who had become removed from the staff after significant inactivity, and would become the longest serving member of the staff with 10 years and 7 months in the position. {{theHappyFungus}} would become a moderator on March 1, 2009, though would revert her name back to tennis staff colors briefly during the [[Tennis Season]]. {{DaftPunkYoshi}} would also be added to the Staff on June 25th, 2009, later becoming a moderator of the forum on August 18, 2011. {{NS2}} would resign and return to being a moderator in April and October 2009 respectively, then resign permanently on August 6th, 2010 to return to being a full time Cafe Staff member, although activity wise would be very sparse. theHappyFungus would retire from her moderator position on the same day, and mysteriously vanish from the internet entirely.

Together, {{dew}} and infinitysnapz were instrumental in the construction, opening and current leadership of the [[YellowTealPurple]] forums, a site with which the tennis community served as an initial foundation of its active userbase. This has made them both technically the first since RabbitSnore to serve in an official capacity as both site admins and official tennis staff members. Letycjusz S. became the first member of the tennis staff to be added during the era of this site on March 1, 2025, as chosen by {{dew}} and TheChutley. TheChutley stepped down again from staff on April 12, 2025 followed by nm41 on May 29, 2025.

The active staff as it stands today is made up of {{VidTens443}}, Letycjusz S., infinitysnapz, AngryLuigi23, {{dew}}, Nubman41, and {{system128}}. On the Youchew archive, RabbitSnore remains displayed as a staff member in order to recognize the staff's roots of creation and his contributions to the tennis section overall during his active period on the forum.  

The Poop Tennis Café as it stands today now exists on YellowTealPurple, referred to as the Video Tennis Cafe. While it still retains some activity, it reaches no where close to where the Tennis Cafes of old used to reach as the result of the community currently being split between the forum and the discord group The Tennis Isles, which previously acted as a refuge in lieu of YTPMania losing the interest of almost everyone. The Café thread had 4 original iterations on the Youchew Forums: the first opened on January 28, 2008 and was locked on March 31, 2008 after 104 pages due to the switch from the vanilla forums to the phpbb forums, marking the moment when site leadership was turned over to RabbitSnore and TINS. The second was opened on April 2, 2008 and closed on January 8, 2010 after 883 pages, the third opened on January 8, 2010 and closed on October 11, 2012 after 842 pages(with about 4 months of posts in early 2011 lost as a result of Youchew's infamous "Oz incident"), and the fourth and final iteration opened on October 13, 2012 and lasted until the closure of the YouChew Forums on September 29, 2018 after 494 pages. RabbitSnore upon briefly returning to the Youchew forums in January 2013 expressed his complete disbelief that the then current version of the thread continued to persist. The Café Thread on YTPMania was first opened on August 21, 2018, and lasted for 1999 posts before being closed with the rest of the site at the end of the year (there are no pages in this version due to the unusual interface of the YTPMania forums). The current cafe thread on the YellowTealPurple forums opened on November 18, 2024 (with its first post being made as early as November 5 in order to establish its presence with the site's opening), and has seen a respectable 31 pages as of present. Skype versions of the Café have also existed, which has at times seemed to subtract from the discussion of the original threads, but the Café thread proper remains with a reputation of being more relaxed, controlled, and easy to follow conversation-wise nature, being considered much more refreshing and comfortable.

=Tennis Fuck Choice Award=

The "Tennis Fuck Choice Award" was an award given by the staff "once a month" for outstanding tennis achievement. Not much is known about the award today, other that who it was awarded to. Likely created around mid to late 2009<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-video-tennis-cafe-today-i-opened-the-gate-and-was-about-to-begin-modifications-when-a-figure-suddenly-appeared-on-the-other-side.30/post-25695</ref>, fifteen players received the award before it went defunct - many of whom were staff themselves. It was also potentially possible to win the award multiple times.