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Teh EPIK FAIL was an event that occurred on the 21st of May, 2025, where heyuri.nets registrar, Epik, suspended the account of kaguya for an alleged violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1466A, seemingly to due to the hosting of Lolicon content on the respective /l/ board. This led to the heyuri.net domain becoming unresolvable for a period of roughly 18 hours (between the evening of 2025/05/22 & morning of 2025/05/23), as negotations led to the domain being transferred to a different registrar. And also, a good bit of OC!

PANIK!

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Kaguya notified Chat@Heyuri of the email just before 8PM, on the 21st.^[1] While the domain's DNS records would not be changed until approximately 2PM the next day, preperations were already in place to ensure that Heyurians were not to lose their home.

The first action taken by kaguya to help preserve Heyuri's community was to open a bunker board on a different domain, being Gurochan, under it's own URL. A plain html site was also hosted there, updating Heyurians on the status of the heyuri.net domain. Shortly after, a notice was put up by kaguya on all boards (including the overboard!) informing users of the urgent issue.

Kaguya assumed that the offending content that would justify such a brief and firm notice would be everything on the 2D Lolikon & 3D Girls boards, both of which were temporarily shut in response to the suspension email, at 10PM.

A lot of panic ensued, as after the email was sent, there was no real answer as to how long the heyuri.net domain will stay up, nor how many people would see the alert that it was on life support. Of course, it ended up staying alive for an additional day, but with the wording in the email, it was also to be assumed that the domain was to be permanently sat on until Epik lost renewal rights in Feburary 2026, and lots of subsequent reassembly work would needed to be done to move hard links on the site to the old domain to a new one.

Many people also joined the Heyuri IRC channel on rizon, to discuss what'd be happening next further.

However, since only the domain was to be taken down, and not the actual servers hosting the site, it was very easy for many people to simply setup redirects to Heyuri IPs. This resulted in a few other bunkers aside from the Gurochan Bunker being setup, such as the Heyuri.lol domain (managed by pen man) & the cgi.yuisuki.net domain (managed by hachikuji(?)). They're still up as of writing, and will likely stay due to possible future issues.

Heyuri-tan visits guro village

The majority of activity that ensued throughout this period was on the Gurochan bunker, although there was other places Heyurians decided to retreat to. The Gurochan bunker actually implemented a pre-release version of the Kokonotsuba Overhaul, which implemented some features not seen in the instance as of writing, such as post filtering. It also restored several old features, such as email field checkboxes and the "Yeah" counter last seen in 2021 (a clone of Futaba☆Channel's "soudane" (そうだね; a casual/colloquial agreement) feature). There was a few notable things that happened here:

Gurochan Bunker happenings

The bunker was updated midway through the time the domain was to be seized, as kaguya updated the bunker's backend to a newer version of the overhaul that implemented a newer chunk of the code that required some work before it was ready (think it was a database issue). Thanks to this, the bunker was pretty borked for a little while, being about an hour.
There was a Panasonic Lumix GX9 #100 GET on the bunker. The #200 get was on the same thread. Cool right?
Some guy posted a bunch of U15 idols that got deleted. Luckily, Epik couldnt touch Heyuri-tan in Gurochan's house!

The other major bunker was managed by penman. Heyuri.LOL implemented a few features that the Gurochan didn't, being a Webchat & a Gikopoipoi instance (it's actually the instance the CGI uses now, since world2ch's seems to have died), alongside an uptimekuma page, to monitor the status of the domain. A few little things happened here:

Heyuri.lol happenings

Perth of Hakoniwan infamy and claimed responsibility for the domain's seizure and wanted the wiki to be saved. (given he was dumb enough to not realize that the servers were fine, just the domain, it was probably not him... messages are deleted though)

Multiple members of the webchat channel started duplicating and showed up multiple times in the Refugees (n) section of the message log. It is theorized this is a self-preservation measure done by the Heyurian race to ensure any and all genes are passed on to whatever domain name Heyuri is forced to migrate to. (it was actually because there was some sort of bug when the COMCHAT software was used in combination with cloudflare if i remember correctly, but shhh)

The majority of activity was focused on understanding what was actually going on. Lots of crying, hope and despair was concentrated into all... roughly 250 posts on the bunker. Throughout the 24 hours it was mostly active was all about how doomed heyuri.net was to be... Good news were about to set in though, as negotiations between kaguya & Epik were to take place.

Epik LOLI hostages

Behind the scenes, when the first email was sent, kaguya first swiftly responded by asking Epik why the site was taken down, and what the offending content was. The wording of the first email initally gave no answer to any of these, merely stating kaguya's account was indefinitely suspended and the domain was to be seized until expiry.

Epik replied by stating that the contents of the site were in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1466A, the Protect Act of 2003.^[2] What seems to be the specific subsection that Heyuri is in violation of is below:

(b) Additional Offenses.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly possesses a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—
(1)

(A) depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and

(B) is obscene; or

(2)

(A) depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and

(B) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;

Although, this isn't very enforced, and its a bit of a legal conundrum if this is even enforcable, since the art seems to fall under constitutional free speech laws. Regardless, Heyuri isn't in court; just dealing with an Epik conundrum, so Kaguya temporarily hides the /l/ & /s/ boards.

In the same email, Epik states that the decision is final, and that there is NO NEGOTATION!!! Despite this, kaguya sends another email, but simultenously prepares moving Heyuri to a new domain. Luckily, after some more back and forth negotiation, Epik actually gave in, and allowed for kaguya to transfer the domain to a different registrar. He chose Porkbun, a relatively lax registrar, who would allow the transfer for a small fee of $12.50.

Kaguya asked a few people, and openly stated that Heyuri.net was saved, at the cost of $13 (which is why you might see $13, rather than $12.50 quoted in OC here and there. Kaguya added it on top due to transfer fees :D), which he was too broke to cover (he actually just didnt have a bank account that could pay it), so he'd have to find Heyurian investors to help cough up the dosh for it.

Heyuri's desperate GoFundMe

Kaguya asked lolwut, main shareholder of Heyuri, but he was seemingly AFK long term, and couldnt respond. After that, kaguya asked some more people, while also asking the general userbase if they'd be up to paying for the domain. In the end, yakuruto was the one who ended up saving Heyuri from homelessness, gleefully chipping in the 13 USD.

Once transferred, Heyuri.net was officially saved. No hiccups came about during this, and Iruyeh-tan failed once again! Except, due to a config issue with cloudflare, cgi.heyuri.net was unresolvable to a small number of users for a period of time, lasting until 2025/05/23, 8:30pm.

After all was said and done and Heyuri.net was to be transferred and saved after DNS records were updated, a few things of note happened:

The Gurochan bunker was turned into a testboard for kokonotsuba features (isnt that handy?)
A few small gikopoipoi meetups happened, with a bunch of people. I wasn't there, so i dunno... This is also around when that instance became the one linked to on the CGI site, and what will likely be used as the townhall from now on.
A little Bunker-tan was born a few hours after people (mostly myself) forgot about the Gurochan bunker, by Otaku & tokyolord.

Timeline

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2025/05/21 19:43 - Epik sends kaguya the first email
2025/05/21 19:59 - Kaguya reveals in Chat@Heyuri that he received a scary email from Epik
2025/05/21 22:06 - Gurochan bunker is launched (archive.today link)
2025/05/21 22:13 - /l/ and /s/ are temporarily hidden (they seem to be back as of 2025/05/23 14:59)
2025/05/22 02:19 - Pen launches the heyuri.lol bunker, which contains a comchat instance
2025/05/22 03:23 - Pen launches a Gikopoi instance on heyuri.lol
2025/05/22 13:57 - heyuri.net starts to become inaccessible for some users
2025/05/22 15:32 - Kaguya updates kokonotsuba software on bunker and it totally b0rks
2025/05/22 15:59 - Bunker board is unb0rked after re-updating the codebase - some files were failed to update (I suspect I just forgot to do templates/ first time)
2025/05/22 16:07 - HEYURI.NET SAVED! Kaguya receives email saying that he will be allowed to transfer the domain (for a fee of $12.50 USD, which was eventually provided by yakuruto)
2025/05/22 18:57 - Hachikuji sets up a backup URL for Heyuri★CGI
2025/05/22 19:15 - Pen sets up a backup URL for Heyuri★CGI (this is one that gets shared around)
2025/05/22 19:38 - Since the usual benefactor is seemingly AFK longterm, yakuruto steps up and provides the $12.50 USD for the domain transfer fee; thus saving heyuri.net!
2025/05/23 01:51 - The transfer which was said that it could take 5~ days is finished.
2025/05/23 05:53 - Kaguya wakes up and finishes doing nameserver/DNS settings for the new registrar
2025/05/23 07:38 - Heyuri starts to become accessible from the heyuri.net domain (note: it was reported that some users still weren't be able to access as late as 21:23)
2025/05/23 08:09 - Kaguya makes a newspost titled epikFAIL explaining the situation
2025/05/23 08:27 - Kaguya resolves cloudflare config issue, making Heyuri★CGI accessible from cgi.heyuri.net

OC Gallery

epik manko oppression
[HEY-069] Turkish Kuro Princess Begs Me To Save Her Website By Any Means Nessecary. $13 MSRP.
Screencap of Media:KaguyaObjection.swf, which showed up on the /f/ board soon after the EPIKFAIL was over.
EPIK EVICTION NOTICE
The original bunker-tan sketch! Uploaded to Heyuri@Gurochan on May 23rd.