Boom Brigade

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Calendar
Title: Boom Brigade
Publisher:
Contributors:
Date(s): 2022
Medium: PDF, Print
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Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia
Language: English
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Boom Brigade is a 2022-2023 calendar project featuring the Bakusquad, a fan-dubbed name for a group of characters from Boku no Hero Academia consisting of Katsuki Bakugou, Eijiro Kirishima, Mina Ashido, Denki Kaminari, and Hanta Sero. This project, among other projects, was involved in a case of moderator misconduct.

About

The project was announced on March 21, 2021[1]. Its interest check went live on April 5, 2021[2]. The project would be for-profit and contributors would be required to be over 18 years[3]. Interest checks closed on April 28, 2021[4]. A reported 172 responses were received[5].

Contributor applications ran from May 10 to May 31, 2021[6]. The project reported 95 applications submitted[7].

Preorders opened on September 1, 2021, with the following pricing tiers[8]:

  • Pink Acid ($15 USD) - PDF Calendar, Discord Emoji Pack, Wallpapers, Icon Pack
  • Rock Solid ($25 USD) - Print Calendar, Stretch Goals
  • Tape Escape ($35 USD) - Print Calendar, Sticker Sheet, Postcards, Die Cut Stickers, Prints, Stretch Goals
  • Zap Pack ($40 USD) - Postcards, Sticker Sheet, Prints, Calendar Magnet, Die cut Stickers, Charm, Buttons, Stretch Goals
  • Big Boom ($50 USD) - Print Calendar, Postcards, Sticker Sheet, Prints, Calendar Magnet, Die cut Stickers, Charm, Buttons, Stretch Goals

Buyers could include the digital bundle to physical orders for an additional fee. Stretch goals included a star button at 50 orders, washi tape at 75 orders, a shaker charm at 100 orders, and an enamel pin at 125 orders[9].

A giveaway for a full bundle was run from October 5 to October 8, 2021[10]. The winner was Twitter user FallynWriter[11]. The project also ran sales in honor of events such as Eijirou Kirishima's birthday on October 11 [12]. Preorders closed on October 17, 2021 with a reported 208 orders[13]. Digital bundles continued to be sold during the production period[14].

After a controversy involving moderator misconduct and a subsequent cancelling of preorders, the project reopened preorders on November 25 and ended on November 30, 2021[15]. Additional merchandise was included in this round, including some prints of calendar illustrations, a polaroid charm, and more sticker sheets[16].

Orders were shipped out starting on February 8, 2022[17]. Digital orders were sent out on March 3, 2022[18]. Leftover sales ran from March 20 to April 20, 2022[19]. The project was concluded on July 11, 2022[20].

Project Schedule
Start End
Interest Check April 5, 2021 April 28, 2021
Contributor Applications May 10, 2021 May 31, 2021
Preorders September 1, 2021 October 17, 2021
Second Preorders November 27, 2021 November 30, 2021
Shipping February 8, 2022 March 3, 2022
Leftover Sales March 20, 2022 April 20, 2022

Moderator Misconduct

On November 12, 2021, the project's social media account reported that Silver, their finance moderator, engaged in unprofessional behavior, resulting in the jeopardy of this project along with multiple projects, including Thunderstruck, Underdogs, Creati's Craft Compendium, and Plain to Fame[21]. Customers were encouraged to request refunds and cancel their preorders. The project's social media account released a statement on Google Documents and an outline on Silver's behavior. The document included lengthy screenshots of multiple project's Discord servers.

While the project was undergoing its interest check, Seeress, the project's initial finance moderator, announced on Boom Brigade's Discord server that they could not continue serving on the project, citing health and personal reasons. Boom Brigade's moderator team would then bring in Silver, who had reached out to an open call for a new finance role. Months into planning if the project could support making a magnet calendar, Silver began to not respond to queries they were tagged in. Instead, they changed the subject when they were online or quibbled over whether or not other members of the mod team were excluding them. Following this, Silver failing to keep the mod team updated on their contact with a manufacturer.

Another incident included Silver misinforming a merch artist into changing a design for an charm. After another mod discovered a discrepancy about the changed design on the project server, investigation by other moderators revealed that Silver had decided on a new charm design without consulting the rest of the team and confirming the pricing. After much delay in response from Silver, the team discovered the new design of the charm was too costly to support and the merch artist had to return to their original design.

As the project approached its preorders phase, Silver had more unannounced absences and could not answer finance questions from the rest of the team. Despite their failure to maintain reliable connection with the rest of the mods, Silver affirmed that they would still work on the project. Silver also refused to provide finance logins, citing potential exposure of personal information. After preorders ended, the mod team struggled to confirm with Silver that merchandise was in production, despite the fact that Silver was certainly active online on Tumblr and Discord, both of which the other mod team members used to contact them. The mod team released the statement on November 12, 2021, after Silver would not respond to their calls to release the funds. The situation was resolved on November 13, 2021, when Silver agreed to transfer all zine funds to the other moderators[22].

The Google Documents statement also included accounts from other projects who faced a similar situation with this particular mod.

Contributors

The following names were taken from the project's social media account.

Page Artists

Merch Artists

Mods

Former Contributors

Gallery

  • Social Media Banner

  • Front and Back View of Calendar

  • Full Bundle Listing

  • Stretch Goals Listing

  • Additional Merch Listing for Second Preorders

References

  1. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1373795066372894722
  2. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1379219312016261122
  3. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1383465726678245378
  4. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1387409535917297666
  5. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1388890646740709378
  6. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1391749452889739270
  7. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1399709954852986883
  8. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1433084220667318273
  9. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1434256246631280643
  10. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1445401328730222598
  11. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1446545775715143680
  12. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1447539357615804423
  13. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1449722659059687426
  14. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1450462426764304394
  15. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1463827063467651073
  16. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1464606998247485441
  17. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1491177437765709825
  18. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1499437378393493509
  19. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1505653211495120896
  20. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1546545555098173440
  21. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1459206240744222725
  22. ^ https://twitter.com/bakusquadcal/status/1459552130419810306
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