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Yesterday, on the 2nd of July, Leader of the Pirate Party Lyoko announced that the party would be dissolved.
In the post announcing the dissolution, he positively talks about all the fun he has had with the other party members roleplaying as pirates and playing the game Sea of Thieves together.
In fact, the party was initially founded not as a serious political faction, but rather as a club for some friends to play games with each other and to have fun. This changed when the party gradually attracted more people and eventually even got some of its members elected into the Senate, and later to the Presidency.
At the beginning of its political career, many heralded the party to be the one to finally put up a real opposition against The Liberty Coalition, a large coalition between the Lemon Party, the Centre and the United Socialist League, that had ruled SimDemocracy for months now.
This goal was successfully achieved when party member Ferris won the 138th Presidential Election against Muggy, a TLC politician, finally ending the month-long reign of the TLC, which grew in unpopularity every day. The Iron League, the coalition the Pirate Party joined, initially planned on running Lucas as its Presidential candidate, but this didn’t end up happening due to Lucas getting elected to the Senate.
But achieving these ends came with a cost: The party gradually became more serious and drifted away from its roots of fun pirate roleplay, and ingrained itself into the regular political landscape of SimDemocracy.
For many members, this must have been the reason for them to leave, as after the 138th Presidential Election the party began to slowly but surely lose member as it became more mainstream.
The following is a quote from Dabose, one of the early members of the party, on why he left it:
“it evolved into something interesting, il give u that, but its base was just a meme, infact[sic] the moment it stopped being a meme, i dipped”
This trend continued until at one point, only Ghost and Lyoko were left, all alone. Lyoko, acting as the party leader, only chose the most sensible and reasonable way forward: To disband the party.