Funny incidents
Torn stories about funny incidents, retold from the forum archive with every statement labelled and sourced.
- The clickbait complaint that became its own scam joke
AwakeNoWokeFail [79965] called a disappointing forum click a scam. Readers promptly applied the same joke to the complaint.
Mar 2020 · Funny incidents
- SoupOrNoob Asks Why Players Call Them a Multi
Replies cited level 17 in 17 days, then treated the question itself as further evidence. SoupOrNoob answered with spending, reading and an insult.
Jan 2023 · Funny incidents
- joei’s 32,000 casino complaint
joei said they begged for 32,000, made about 10k on slots, then lost everything at roulette and keno. The replies supplied mockery, advice and an identity theory.
Jan 2020 · Funny incidents
- Weld posts a $47,361 mug result and accepts the insult
Gavin_Dymock posted Voodoo-Chile’s warning against muggers. Weld answered with a claimed $47,361 mug and the brief confession: “I’m a wanker.”
Jun 2019 · Funny incidents
- The CTRL + ALT + F4 Easter egg cheat
Hawk offered CTRL + ALT + F4 as an Easter egg cheat. Other players supplied supposed rewards and further keyboard advice.
Apr 2020 · Funny incidents
- TycheBoxer’s 2025 War Guide Draws Accuracy Challenges and AI Remarks
TycheBoxer posted a faction-war meta guide, then said ChatGPT helped structure it. Respondents challenged its accuracy and answered with AI remarks.
Jun 2025 · Funny incidents
- Ten $1,000,000 bounties landed on the Troll War organiser
Lonestar [1151936] offered 500mil+ in prizes for actions against a target faction. Two replies pointed the blacklist-and-bounty idea back at the organiser.
Apr–May 2018 · Funny incidents
- Hawk [2080065] Files a Multi Alert on ‘Chedburn’ Accounts
A supposed cluster of Chedburn-named test accounts became a forum gag. Torn staff (Admin) bogie [148747] answered the alert with a joke about failed bans and corrupt staff.
Sep 2025 · Funny incidents
- UwU’s case against the alleged Duke–sugarvalves multi
UwU accused sugarvalves of being Duke’s multi. sugarvalves and the replies extended the premise with denials, secret controllers and increasingly implausible identities.
Mar 2018 · Funny incidents
- The false battle-stat prank
UNOSBUENOS said false battle statistics persuaded a player to attack and lose. The forum then assessed both the prank and its telling.
Aug 2018 · Funny incidents
- The island-war correction turned to trout taxonomy
SerenityRain answered an island-war report with moon rackets, faction secrets and a fishy threat. Qfiffle supplied the correction: trout are not sea creatures.
Mar 2023 · Funny incidents
- The Soccer Ball consumer-fraud notice
marmot turned Torn's Soccer Ball description into a mock consumer-fraud warning. The replies supplied disappointment, legal theory and a call to sue Ched.
Aug–Sep 2016 · Funny incidents
- An Open Letter to Fed Meets an Access Problem
KarmaCop [365532] invited people in Fed to describe the experience. Jammed [1531835] pointed out that those players could not access the forum to answer.
Nov 2020 · Funny incidents
- Romarocky's Worst Bronze Chest Challenge
Romarocky reported a $284,187 Bronze chest and offered its contents plus a Xanax for a lower result. Lukicario posted one that Romarocky valued at $189,732.
Dec 2025 · Funny incidents
- Nova put Torn's Easter egg colours on trial
Nova turned unequal Easter egg totals into a mock racism dispute. Players answered with egg theories, insults and further jokes.
Apr 2023 · Funny incidents
- dark95 called for a CaffeineCon prize and received Dumbbells
dark95 demanded a promised CaffeineCon prize for a method requiring 11 months of inactivity. The resulting call-out ended with sugarvalves sending 1x Dumbbells.
Nov–Dec 2021 · Funny incidents
- FreelanceT and the old man in Chedburn's profile picture
FreelanceT turned an entry for Chedburn's profile-image request into a mock forensic investigation. Replies added age objections, Crimes 2.0 complaints and nerf jokes.
May 2020 · Funny incidents
- The scam report that pointed back at 0tsuki
0tsuki said a promised item deal cost them all their money. MikePence answered the request for help by pointing to 0tsuki's own profile as “The scammer.”
May 2020 · Funny incidents
- Ron9’s bonus complaint met MG7’s claimed bounty
Ron9 said a new company member collected 650k in joining and referral bonuses, referred a friend and then left with that friend. MG7 posted a log claiming to have put a bounty on Ron9.
Jan 2025 · Funny incidents
- Titus sought payment after losing a trout attack
Titus said they attacked Marijuana, lost and were owed around 300k. Individual replies proposed another attack, a larger bill and several other dubious remedies.
Aug–Sep 2026 · Funny incidents
- The Rage-Quit Bar in “Ched Robbed Me!”
Twitter complained that a crime narrative left them without the cash they had been handed. The thread answered by defining the increasingly elaborate requirements for a proper rage-quit.
Sep 2019 · Funny incidents
- Joei claims a faction-vault bounty war win; the forum wasn't buying it
In June 2020, joei posted about spending faction vault money to bounty a forum critic they named as Shoob the Noob. The target denied it, and several replies mocked joei instead.
Jun 2020 · Funny incidents
- KingJarvan claims a bounty world record is near; the forum disagrees loudly
A player announced they were nearly a forum bounty world record holder and "one of torns greatest villains." The reply section did not agree.
Oct 2022 · Funny incidents
- The "Chicken Nugget Fraud": Chedburns' Joke Confession Backfires
In September 2021 Chedburns posted a mock "exposé" claiming Natty_Boh paid them to troll the "chicken nuggets" team. Natty_Boh picked apart the faked screenshots, and the thread ran on as banter for weeks.
Sep–Nov 2021 · Funny incidents