September 22, 2014 – May 25, 2016

ironic ♥♥♥♥posting is still ♥♥♥♥posting [web.archive.org] (ＩＳＩＳ) was a Steam group I created to take advantage of the new Steam curator system immediately after the Steam discovery update was released. Its recommendations became very popular, featuring a dry sense of humor approaching a wide range of topics such as anime-bashing, Dota 2, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. During its prime, the group garnered 1790 members and 9640 followers, becoming more popular than other notable curators such as EUROGAMER, MangaGamer, and Joystiq. It even needed a supplemental curator group ( isis 2 ) and a recommendation transfer script [github.com] after reaching the maximum recommendation limit (500). On May 25th, 2016, the group was administratively disabled by Valve for violating the Steam terms of service. Was it the crass reviews? Was it the ＩＳＩＳ clan tag? Steam support wouldn't say, and neither would GabeN—the world may never know.

Most recent snapshot before takedown [web.archive.org]