It all started on the forums. The Something Awful forums were an early internet hotbed of absurdist humor, a wretched hive of scum and shitheads. Having an account there cost you ten bucks and made you a goon.

Soon, goons of similar interest would band together and expand to other communities. They made their mark on Eve Online, they raided Habbo Hotel, some of the more crass specimens founded 4chan and from the very start of World of Warcraft, there were Goon Squads.

YOGS – short for “Ye olde Goone Squade” because RP – lay dormant between Warlords of Draenor and the tail end of Battle for Azeroth as most of the players moved to our Horde sister guild “Goon Squad”. To freshen things up and once again play characters that live in cities built from brick and mortar, some of us are banding together for a YOGS rennaissance in the upcoming expansion Shadowlands.