The ExuberantRaptor

The ExuberantRaptor is a fictional God similar to the Abrahamic God of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, inspired by other fictional religions such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He was worshiped on the anonymous social media app 'Candid' by a community comprising of over 68 000 members. He is also referred to as 'The Exuberant One'.

The ExuberantRaptor originated as one of the many randomly generated usernames given to users as a way of keeping anonymity. The name was a combination of the adjective "Exuberant" meaning; "full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness" and the noun "Raptor". The Icon of users given this name was a bright light blue Velociraptor.

Those who were given the username by chance were then treated as a living god on the post/thread that they had that username and everything they said was treated as the absolute truth and all requests were agreed to by his followers, yes, including send n00ds.

The ExuberantRaptor was seen to be a timeless god who created the universe and everything in it after a messy break up with his girlfriend, Cthulhu, to, quote; "Give that bitch some space". He is also believed to be able to possess mortal bodies in order to communicate with other mortals and has been doing so on earth for 66 million years. His arch nemesis is the TrickyPig, basically Satan, who was created on accident when me fucked up a tiny bit of math when creating the universe.

The ExuberantRaptor is very similar to the already existing meme, Raptor Jesus. Often borrowing templates from the Raptor Jesus memes.

The username would not turn into a meme for a few months after the apps launch and use of the username. It would however became notable during the heat of the 2016 American Presidential Election. In October of 2016 a group was set up titled 'Election Debates' where people could talk about the election in progress, and by talk I mean autisticly scream at eachother. It is unknown how exactly it happened but notable meme archaeologists have come to the conclusion that after the creator of the group made a joke about him being the god of the group, having absolute power over it, people in the thread began going along with this banter. His username was by chance ExuberantRaptor and so he changed the group from 'Election Debates' to 'Church of the ExuberantRaptor'.

The Candid community openly embraced the change, faced with the prospect of either voting for Trump or Hillary, they began to worship the ExuberantRaptor. It wouldn't be long before a mythology would develop around the ExuberantRaptor. The usernames SincereWolf and GroundedRaptor were named as Saints of the fledgling religion and the username*TrickyPig* was seen as Satan. However more names would be added to these lists.

However not all were happy with this development and many minor knock off religions were created in an attempt to gain the same success the ExuberantRaptor had, however none were successful. These attempts however would cause the creation of Crusader Military Orders such as the Army of the SincereWolf, the Raptorial Guard and the CreativeLeopard Inquisition to form to fight off the Heretics and Heathens. The battlecry 'Raptus Vult' would be used by their members.

One problem the church faced was how the ExuberantRaptors messages would be Interpreted. Two main groups formed, the Wordists who believed his word should be followed, and the Willists who believed that he changes his mind too much so they will follow what he wants but not what he says he wants. A bloody civil war broke out, and by bloody civil war I mean weeks of angry shitposting, which resulted in an inconclusive result.

The Church would exist for several months, over which time the various Military Orders would unite into 'The Holy Raptorial Empire' and the church would reach a membership count of 68 000 people. But this ended when the app itself was bought out by a rival company and forced to shut down on the 23rd of June 2017. The So called 'Age of Prophecy' had ended and so began the 'Age of Silence'. The Church became scattered across many other Social Medias, never to recover.