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A "'''Forkie'''" is a nickname typically given to someone who maliciously causes destruction or otherwise renders the virtual machines unusable to annoy, intimidate and/or troll users of [[CollabVM]]. They are often unfortunately categorized by CollabVM users via the [[Fags|F-slur]]. It is likely the side effect of the many 4chan raids that took place through the site's history, infecting it with its toxic culture and terminology, creating bad habits in the many of people who would go on to use the site, more likely than not being completely unaware of its derogatory meaning, and forming a toxic community from years of anarchy-like rule.

Although their name derives from the term "[[fork bomb]]" (and was the original definition of Forkie), they do not exclusively run [[fork bomb|forkbomb]]sforkbombs. A forkie may also run an executable which prevents anything from opening, deleting the registry, or other methods of blocking usability on the VM. Sometimes, through various ways.

[[File:ForkieIcon.png|thumb|150px|The logo in question]]

Not too long ago, there used to be a restaurant located in South Africa named "Forkies Real Food Parlour", which sold various things such as baked meals, Cuban-style pressed sandwiches, pizza in different flavors ("Oh My Veggies", "The Pig", "Jamaica Me Crazy", "Signature", "Autograph", ''great names by the way''), and pizza pie ("Fork-Off Chicken"), along with craft beer ("Boston Breweries: '''Naked Mexican?'''", "Darling Breweries: Gypsy Mask", "Jack Black: Lumberjack"), local beer, imported beer, ciders and coolers, whisky, a cocktail ("Cuba Libre"), Brampton wine, craft iced tea and tisers / sparkling/still water / coffee ("Pour-over (Brazilian: Single Origin)").

They had a website, which was infamously used as a "forkie" tool to lag out everybody on the site (at the time this was when the server was still using PNG without any compression to display the VM picture, this was early 1.2.x era) back in 2016. This was because the site has many large, animating graphics which was incredibly CPU intensive (it also lagged the VM in and out of itself out because CollabVM was running on a cheap VPS at the time). Later on, it got mirrored on its own as "Last Resort" on collabvm.org, which used to be a CollabVM portal before it got replaced withwhere the now-deadfirst [[CollabVM AnarchyFTP]] Wiki.before Youit can'twas domade thisofficial aswas much anymorehosted, becausebefore theit servergot asreplaced well aswith the hostingnow-dead hasCollabVM upgradedAnarchy a lot since then. The original forkies.com site also went down as well, so thereWiki.