Destiny Lore Iceberg

The D.GG LORE Iceberg is filled with lore and memes that are relevant to DGG chat, Destiny, etc. Destiny has briefly reacted to this meme.

For information on cataloged Arcs, see List of Destiny Arcs.

Normie

Entry	Brief Description
Twitch Streamer	Destiny used to be a prolific Twitch streamer and is one of the first streamers to earn a living from full-time streaming.
YouTube personality
Debates	Destiny is known for debating.
Video games	Destiny is was a prolific video game player. Destiny's favorite game is Final Fantasy Tactics for the original PlayStation.
Left-leaning
Philosophy	Destiny is interested in Philosophy and frequently engaged in Philosophical discussions. Destiny breaks down his moral system here.
Politics	Destiny is a political streamer.
Boyfriend of famous streamer Melina	Destiny formerly dated and was married to Melina before their divorce in 2023. It was a common joke that Melina was made increasingly more famous by dating/marrying Destiny.
Pokimane drama reviewer	This is a combination of Events where Destiny covered drama that involved Pokimane. Mostly focusing on him going hard against Pokimane and other members of OTV for their treatment of TheAlbertChang (aka sleightlymusical) cheating on Lily Pichu and the covering of the drama between Pokimane and Fedmyster (Fed) that started off with the removal of Fed of OTV for alleged sexual assault, and ended with Poki, needing to defend she was not manipulating the situation in her favor, by blaming Fed for more than he thought he was guilty of and friend-zoning Fed after they dated for a short 2 month period in 2018, but acting like there was a possibility that they could come back together.
Real name: Steven Kenneth Bonell II	Self-explanatory.
Son named Nathan	Self-explanatory.

YouTube Fan

Entry	Brief Description
Omaha, Nebraska	Destiny hails from Omaha, Nebraska. He is frequently referred to as Nebraska Steve whenever he exhibits old behaviors.
StarCraft 2	Destiny was formerly a Semi-Professional StarCraft II player.
JonTron debate	An infamous debate between Destiny and JonTron where Jon exposes himself to be a white supremacist.
League of Legends	Popular MOBA game by Riot, and Steven's seccond big game after StarCraft II. Famously Duo Qued with: DariusIRL, LilyPichu, MrMouton and Kelly_Jean.
Alt-right deradicalizer	Destiny is frequently credited by his chatters and others as being one of the main influences in de-radicalizing them from far-right politics (and sometimes far-leftt politics.)
Jesse Lee Peterson debate	Famous appearance on the JLP (radio) Show. Spawning memes like AMAZIN and "Do you love Black People?". Inspired the Song Black lover and somewhat popularised the term "beta" on Twitch.
Cuban heritage	Destiny's mother is Cuban. Hasan Piker and other Leftist communities frequently call Destiny a Gusano (slur) as they claim his family came from the slave-owning class in Cuba.
Advocate of LGBTQ+ rights
Opposes systemic racism
Ardent capitalist
Atlanta, GA canvassing	Destiny has organized several canvassing events and mobilized his audience to aid him in these events.
Has a site (destiny.gg)
Piano	Can play the piano.
Composition challenges
D&D campaigns	Destiny has played in multiple campaigns all led by Koibu as a DM. These include: "Gnomes, Tomes & Catacombs", "Of Dice And Men D&D" and "Tombs of Scoria".
LilyPichu	Good friend of the Destiny and the stream. Likes the Blubstiny emote. One of Destiny's few remaining Trump-supporting friends.
OfflineTV	Destiny is decent friends (or friendly) with many of the people in OfflineTV, namely Pokimane and LilyPichu, among others.
Vaush	Vaush (previously known as IrishLaddie) was originally a DGG Chatter who spun off into his own brand focusing on Leftist and Socialist politics as opposed to Destiny who is primarily concerned with Liberal politics and policies. Vaush and Destiny have developed an intense rivalry over the years and the two rarely speak anymore.

DGG-er

Entry	Brief Description
Edgy gamer past
Burnt bridges	Destiny has a habit of choosing principles over friendships and thus many of his allies/friends have stopped being friends with him over some of his stances.
N-word manifesto	also known as the Leftist Manifesto is a lengthy Reddit post about the behavior of several leftists who annoyed Destiny during the MindWaves Big Brain Podcast regarding use of the n-word in private.
Spoilergate	Destiny would message people in the Livestreamfails subreddit spoilers of Game of Thrones in retaliation for their stupid comments.
The DT Podcast	A podcast featuring Destiny and Trihex. It ran for 31 episodes despite nobody watching, at which point it was canceled as a result of their friendship struggling in the wake of the n-word crisis. This bridge was restored approximately one year later.
Slur usage
Leftie arc	The Lefty Arc was a struggle on Twitch Politics between the now-powerful leftist cabal of Hasan Piker, Mike from PA, [[
Twitch bans
Dipshit protesters	Infamous Destiny clip that got him de-partnered from Twitch in which, amidst the BLM riots, Destiny said "The Rioting needs to fucking stop. And if that means, like, white redneck fucking militia dudes out there mowing down dipshit protesters that think they can torch buildings at 10PM, then at this point they have my fucking blessing..."
Weird childhood
Mark Gudgel canvassing	Destiny helped canvass and support Mark Gudgel, a candidate for the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Gudgel withdrew his support after pressure from local media published a story on Destiny regarding the "mowing down dipshit protestors" comment.
Incest	A few times in the past, destiny has challenged people to a debate about incest, claiming that if one doesn't have an argument aside from 'it's gross', then they haven't properly grounded their morals. [citation needed]. It's since became a meme in the community. Examples of some of the incest debates he's had: debate against NoBullshit, debate with unknown caller, debate with a viewer, debate with Gion Thomas, debate with a twitter follower, debate with unknown caller
Startups Podcast	Destiny and Dan hosted a short-lived podcast that covered start up businesses, originated the TonyW emote.[citation needed]
Omniliberalism	Destiny's political label. This is not traditional liberalism but rather a more rational, free thinking, and omnivorous form of liberalism.
Friend's Twitter	Destiny was unbanned from Twitter in January 2023. Prior to this, he would regularly ban evade by using "a friend's account." This would often keep him from being banned instantly, although he was regularly exposed and rebanned.
Rajj Royale	Rajj Royale was a Twitch gameshow hosted by the streamer Austin Show (formerly known as Rajj Patel) in which Destiny was a frequent guest.
MrMouton	Two long time DGGers and some of Destiny's best friends. MrMouton no longer streams and rarely interacts with Destiny on stream. Dan returned from a year-long hiatus from the stream, and currently hosts the Anything Else? podcast with Destiny.
Dan
NFL Long Snapper Taybor Pepper	TayborSnapping is the current Long snapper for the San Fransisco 49ers and has been a long-time chatter.
Polyamorous	Destiny is polyamorous, and this has often been the source of a lot of personal and on-stream drama for him.
positions.destiny.gg	An old page on destiny.gg that listed his personal moral and political positions. Archive available at Positions.
IRL debates (Milo, JLP)	Milo and Destiny have had two debates, the last debate being disastrous for Milo. Destiny also had semi-annual debates with Jesse Lee Peterson.
Notorious debate rivals (Fuentes, Sargon, NoBS, etc.)
10.5g shroom trip	In 2018, Destiny took 10.5 grams, a large dose, of psychedelic mushrooms. The Latter half of the trip was recorded, edited with post-trip commentary, and uploaded.
Controversial self-defense takes	Destiny, when pushed by people like Pisco, has said he would defend blades of grass with lethal force[citation needed]. The rationale being that any extension of property must all be treated the same otherwise it could lead to a slippery slope of being okay with infinite stealing of property. Destiny is in general more pro self-defense than the average person and gets into hot water with his takes.
Gnoming	It was a common practice to place the old "Gnome" meme in media to bait Destiny.
Music school dropout (saxophone)
Casino job
Carpet cleaning
Catholic upbringing
Non-binary and bisexual	Destiny formerly identified as non-binary, and currently identifies as bisexual.
Bob7 drama + manifesto
Black Lover	A song that was submitted to Destiny's Composition Challenge that ultimately lost early on in the culling process, but has since become a meme as many chatters believe it was unfairly dismissed.
Gamestonk coverage + manifesto
D.gg lingo/original emotes (Abathur, GODSTINY, Derpstiny, etc)
Bestiny of Destiny
Destiny & Friends
Food takes
Banned debate topics (veganism, abortion)
Orbiters
Zane Carney
Methstiny	Destiny once accidentally took methamphetamine in Amsterdam from a trusted source. He and Melina stayed awake in their hotel room for hours, thinking the drug was really pure MDMA before gradually realizing their mistake after 38 hours. Destiny is now known as "Meth Guy" in various communities.

Starcraft 2 Semi-Pro

Entry	Brief Description
Destiny Realtalks]
Baneling analogy	Destiny once compared banelings to rape.
PEPE vs YEE	An eternal war between frogs and dinosaurs, chatters choose an allegiance and fight for their respective emote.
Middle guy	Host of the Modern-Day Debate podcast, this well-endowed man often looms in the middle of the screen and does very little while ensuring the debates turn out fine.
WingNeoStar15
Aslan	ErisAnn's cat, a beautiful little cutiepie and an emote.
Meme squaring
The Harem	Destiny must hang around many women due to his COOMER nature, and thus there is a fertile harem around him at all times to satisfy his ceaseless need to coom.
exskillsme	A former chatter that no longer comes around thanks to threats from lefties like vaush. Started the "well well well" meme after trump was cleared by an investigation and Destiny has commonly used this phrase since [citation needed]
"Destiny got destroyed in this debate"
Offline chat	This is the chatroom on Destiny.gg that is filled with chatters either waiting for Destiny to go live or watching something else.
nsfw links	The offline chat described above was often filled with NSFW content, usually of sexual nature, spammed by a few particular chatters, before the NSFW ban of 2023.
DGG4LYFE 😎🤙
Visited by the FBI
Secret daughter
The Dark Triad
Denims/Littlefox incident
Rape analogies	It seems to be a rule that as time goes on during a debate with Destiny, the likelihood of an analogy involving rape becomes more likely. This is usually an extreme example meant to test the principles of the opposing debater[s].
Rape reviews
[REDACTED] from [REDACTED]
Killstream appearances
Dono lady
redact.dev
RightToBearArmsLOL
"I'm swearing off all relationships..."	Reference to this reddit post by Destiny
The execution of IrishLaddie
"...in a video game"
"Ohio State student makes thousands..."
Twitch chat rivalry
YouTube oilers (Scott Bradley, Ben MC)
1024 hour bans	Destiny frequently bans people in chat for 1024 hours, originating from a system of an escalating ban timer. For example, the stream starts and the first chatter to get banned might 1 hour, then it would double to 2 hours. This would continue to an exceedingly high number, 128 hours, then 256 hours, then 512 hours and finally 1024 hours. What started out as a lenient system turned into a catastrophe of people being banned for long periods of time immediately.
"Lit, you say?"	Reference to a tweet Destiny made, in response to someone who had previously argued that black people didn't face many issues in the past. [citation needed]
2/7	Destiny regularly performed so poorly during games of League of Legends that he usually had a kill/death ratio of 2/7, which is an obvious sign of poor play. This ratio would become a meme as a reference to his evident lack of skill playing League.
Blue coat	Destiny introduces the blue coat to chat, July 2014.
MrMouton vs Destiny rap battle	MrMouton rapping and Destiny rapping
Twitter squirrel (BibleThump)	Zei Squirrel was a common enemy of Destiny during the Lefty Arc.
Cardboard
He's still drunk (PepeLaugh)
"Cringer" incident	Destiny was saying Cringe-inge-inge-inge-(etc.) and said the n-word.
Notorious libel (abandoning son, CP/pedo allegations, etc.)
Related sites (polecat.me, vyneer.me, RustleLogs, etc.)	Several third-party websites that have become a mainstay for DGG Chat.
The Portal Debate (Sean Carroll GODSTINY)	A reference to the Portal Problem
Shoe-tying photo
Ford Focus RS	Destiny has a very particular Ford Focus model, that is very different from the base model. It is quite rare and he is very proud of his vehicle.
D.GG ripoff sites	WhiteNervose created a co-op called WhiteForest with the formerly open-source Destiny.gg website base. WhiteNervosa makes sites for left-wing streamers like Vaush and DemonMama. Formerly hosted a site for RoseWrist but was dropped over drama with Keffals and RoseWrist being generally friendly to Destiny.
DaryCypher
The Morning Call™
BBDGG
essay_writer	Someone or something that would spam emoticons (not emotes) in chat with their every message. They were eventually put down as the automoderator had gotten so strict that it prevented them from flourishing.
MaxOff-screen sex while live
Naked Ape hit-piece
hi daddd nathanPepe
Full month of facecam-only YouTube streams (Twitch ban)
Father's pyramid scheme
Facebook Live boomer confrontation	Some old lady stopped Destiny and to have a live debate with them on her Facebook.
Get the Glock
Doug of 8k
League with Sodapoppin
Cancer 5v5s
420 dongerhood
Doublelift coaching session
"you could've played that better"
Ministry of Win/Poland Trip/switch from SC2 to League
Balconygate
DJwheat incident
[REDACTED]'s couch abuse	Mike from PA punched a couch after being insulted for a few minutes straight by KiraChats and her chat.
Tinder Moot
cx tech support
-$74 PepeLaugh	After calculating how much money MrMouton would have at the end of the month if he moved to Miami the resulting total was found to be -74$.
The Intelligence
"Where are Dan's logs?"
Leaked dick pics (BlueTea)
Ask Yourself/Discord debatelords (P = U + D)
Looping	Reference to a particular streamer Destiny had an intense feud with a particular individual in 2020. She would loop (i.e. fixate on a particular thing) for several hours on her own stream. Banned meme.
HE MISSPOKE OMEGALUL	Popular meme used whenever someone mis-speaks on stream.
XJ9

DGG-en

Entry	Brief Description
Kyle	One of Destiny's old IRL and on-stream friends.
Dan's Hawaii story (BBB)
Chris
BasedGod OverRustle NoTears	Do not type in chat. A combination of emotes used years ago as racist humor.
Bombjin
Momo
The Day9 Story
MrMouton groomed	MrMouton started appearing on stream with Destiny in his early teens, despite Destiny being quite a bit older. This has led some to speculate that MrMouton is a victim of intense sexual grooming.
DDOS kid	Destiny's internet was shut off by a kid DDOSing him back in the day when nothing could be done legally, or technically, and still be able to stream. Destiny created a novel solution to the problem and thankfully did not have to resort to violence in order protect his income.
CheekZ	CheekZ was an old friend of the stream and namesake of the CheekerZ emote.
COX threats	Destiny threatened to blow up the COX Communications headquarters because his internet was slow.
BAR BAR BAR	Old school chat gamba
Lost emotes (AUTISTINY, Questiny, Jewstiny, etc.)	Emotes removed/renamed for being too edgy.
D.GG botnetDDOS vectors
Mentally ill emailers	Destiny frequently receives emails from people who write in a very disjointed style, leading him to believe they are mentally ill.
Grandma's dogs	Destiny lived with his grandparents for a time and his grandmother would take in tons of dogs, before killing them.
Planetary Annihilation catfish
Dominick the Donkey
Theresa's dump truck	Reference to MrMouton's mother having a large posterior.
Uncle car crash
Mia Rose
Roof repair stream
Bonnell family printer incident
Steve's siblings	Destiny has many siblings that never appear on stream, although he rarely mentions these siblings because he is not close to his family.
Kicked out of AP exam	When in highschool Destiny was very proficient in his studies when he tried, and was prepared to take an AP exam for college credit, only to be interrupted as his parents had not paid fee to take the exam.
High school work-study	Destiny went to a private Catholic high-school and was enrolled in a work-study program to pay for his schooling.
McDonald's job
nnn debates (DO NOT ENGAGE)
The Koibu story
MrMouton funeral bombing
AWAP/Yumping	AWAP stands for "All Weebs Are Pedophiles" alluding the joke that anime fans like underaged characters, combined with the slogan similar to ACAB (all cops are bastards). AWAP is often followed up by the emote TonyW. "Yumping" is done by chatters when using the emote "miyanoHype", telling chatters to "yump". The animated emote features an anime girl making a jumping motion. These two phrases in conjunction play into the internet clash between weebs and anti-weebs.
Tony Dofat	Tony Dofat was a guest on an episode of the Startups Podcast and is the face of the TonyW emote.
Boobie time
moutonmerch.com
Dog run over while carpet cleaning
strims/angelthump	Movie streaming website often used by dggers
Atlas rage clip
"I've always wanted to [REDACTED BY REDACT.DEV]"	Reference to Dan's company redact.dev.
Making out with high school ride
cane	The most ignored chatter in DGG, and yet someone who appears in every corner of DGG lore.
Meta greentexting
Liberal usage of the word "meme"
WingNeoStar15 debate rivalry with Peter
Speeding ticket with Chris
paula	Some random female chatter that Destiny would randomly ask questions of during stream, treating her as some sort of oracle. She has since appeared briefly on DariusIRL's stream
300 word essay due in 5 days monkaS	People in DGG chat often like to exaggerate their problems, to mock them chat often posts this copypasta, expressing dread at doing a task that is trivial at best.
Gigabyte sponsor withdrawal and manifesto
Orb n-word drama
"gook"-gate/Team Liquid drama	Destiny was dropped from Quantic for calling someone a gook. Destiny's reddit post.
Starcraft dead game manifesto
Miasma's shit links	Miasma is a chatter that always has a link, and it's always bad.
Polish streamer house drama
"I have foreseen" video
"queer"-gate
Infestor hit squad	Reference to an old Destiny clip/strategy in which he would use four Zerg Infestors in Starcraft II as a group of harassers. remembertomorrow0 clip here.
Win against Bomber
Overlord retard magnet
"Destiny" by Ken Ashcorp	Music video sung by youtube musician Ken Ashcorp about Destiny
Quantic team drama
Root and Catz fallout
DAS keyboard
Diablo 3 launch with PhantomLord
Destiny is a Pokemon master
DesRow stories
Korean SC2 gaming house/Naniwa lost jacket
Naniwa/Tigerlily Matrix tweet
Deezer (RATZ STAY RATZ, e-spit)
Maximus black
Remembertomorrow0	This references Destiny's original youtube channel, before he took youtube seriously as a platform.
Cammalleri / Forcefields
own3D TV drama/IRC chat
Bonsai Kitten email .
The one thing Rem was wrong about (continental philosophy)	Trainwreckstv and Rem debate about the difference between continental and analytic philosophy on Destiny's Twitch channel.
Ko names Derpstiny	Ko names is in reference to chatters whose names begin with Ko. Kodaly and kosidius were the main targets of these insults, but others were quickly roped into the meme as more stupid people seemed to appear with ko at the start of their names. User Kogasa is a notable exception.
Bolini
Monday Mail

Offline Chatter

Entry	Brief Description
MrMouton soundalike incident
Post TC (Total Cum)
BRAEN GAENG
615403488402210816	he clicked and he got mad. A good way to have a long break from chat.
A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI
True knowledge of the secret memes (REE)
stank created PEPE vs YEE
Offline chat shared delusions (LIVE AngelThump)	Sometimes someone in chat might start pretending Destiny is live and slowly chat will start reacting to imagined things. Things could vary from common orbiters joining the call to pretending Destiny clicked a link etc.
BODGAY
Incomprehensible Gleeb debate	Gleeb was a League of Legends player signed to TSM that was apparently diagnosed with Type I Bipolar Disorder. He and Destiny had a debate and Gleeb was almost entirely incomprehensible.
Nathan exists because of Destiny's consistency	At the time of Nathan's conception/birth, Destiny was avidly anti-abortion and contemplated aborting Nathan but ultimately didn't because he was morally opposed to it.
justin to Twitch transition	Twitch.tv was originally , a site created to host it's creator (Justin Kan's ) "lifecasting." The site would eventually branch of into Twitch for gaming, until eventually transitioning fully into gaming in 2014.
Guns'n Broaches/Gift of GabD
ebo ("Yahtzee" guy)
Homeless sandwich story
Wur9y.gif
raidcall
TalstepRevelatory dreams (abortion truth revealed)
Shavedstiny	Destiny once shaved for a cosplay, creating a truly horrifying image.

Heroic Doser

Entry	Brief Description
Carkinposting	Posting "Carkin said x" in chat to bait a response from Destiny to respond to the claim.
nuke.sys	MrMouton was wondering if DnD would be cancelled if "Iran nukes us." Which Destiny heard as "What if I ran nuke.sys?" A truly moment.
bullettrain's whereabouts (DO NOT RESEARCH)	If you do decide to try and find bullettrain, be careful buddy.
Notfather	MrMouton had his own moment when during DnD Koibu said to MrMouton (who was roleplaying as a preacher type figure) "Of course not, father." MrMouton heard "of course notfather" making him confused.
RTBA's true identity (FORBIDDEN)
PEPE vs YEE is a psyop
Horseshoe theory was always right	A reference to the current anti-establishment bend that both the far-right and far-left have. Also references a meme that was popular online in 2016-2019 that the political extremes are essentially the same ideology, see Horseshoe theory.
Steve's real height (TURN AWAY NOW)
Dan's datacenters
Destiny died in Kenosha (April 24, 2021 Incident)
The Couch (ALWAYS HAS BEEN)	It is theorized that we are actually just figments of Destiny's imagination after his first mushroom trip in which he was recorded expierencing ego-death on Reckful's couch.
The Two Mouton Theory	Reference to a joke reddit post that reads similar to conspiracy theories.
Hell is a never-ending debate with Destiny (FOREVER BOUND TO THE SAMSARIC CURRENT)
Cogito, Ergo Coom
The true identity of Destiny's friend	It's Destiny.