>>19886048it existed for an entire year before i showed up from /pol/, so my recollection is incomplete, but each season of /bant/ has had an over arching antagonist besides the regular day to day events.
in order there was about a year of MLP spam being forced.
then there was Yonkers saga where he would make 16 threads and talk to himself til they hit bump limit every day, he was the first to make the necrobumped spam template until the mods finally cracked down, since then he got a bunch of cringe lolcow obsessed orbiters that you see in his threads today.
then schizo romania picked up the necrobumped spam template and ran with it for about a year.
then the Anzu poster finally got mindbroken and spammed and acted edgy towards everyone up until they recently disappeared.
then there was the furry/Nick from Zootopia spammer that tried to turn this place into a /trash/2 porn dump, then just spammed because we wanted the board dead, then used a bump bot to try to make the catalog exclusively imported /pol/ threads. (he had the big autism) mods finally got sick of him and started permab&ing his every post on sight.
then the board got caught in a turf war between porn and gore spammers until people took it upon themselves to spam desu/Suiseiseki all over the board to get rid of that cringe.
then there was a small period of relative peace until November 2021, and the rest leads us up til present day.