Hey all,

As an avid follower of the dovic/SecretHDD saga, I'd like to lay to rest what has been an very long series of events. I've now been given verifiable proof of identities of two of the people involved and traded Facebook messages with none other than dovic himself.

This whole thing started with two dumb high school freshman in Minnesota. Apparently, there was an actual hard drive involved, but it was just taken from an old computer at the school. They thought it would be fun to play a prank on reddit and see what happened. Neither expected it to get big.

When it got big, the boy with the account SecretHDD (who was more of an avid reddit user) got scared.

The boy with the account dovic started getting doxxed because he played a lot of Call of Duty and his YouTube (which had some links to his identify) became fairly public information. Several of his IRL friends got tagged and involved by sleuths from this subreddit. That freaked him out and he deleted his reddit account.

The two boys slowly separated in their own social circles. Dovic's family moved away from Minnesota in the middle of their sophomore year of high school.

The boys didn't really ever talk much. The owner of SecretHDD forgot the password they used when they created the account (literally at the school library.)

The subreddit continued on and persevered through the years. Unfortunately, one of the mods early on ended up deleting quite a bit of information that was on the subreddit. I inquired about becoming a mod and was able to restore some of them.

Earlier this year, I made contact with what I thought was a troll account, but after quizzing for proof and basically doxxing him, I was able to confirm his story, found dovic online through his real identity and compared some things he had DM'd us for his AMA, and had discourse which confirmed the story.

Here is a walk back through Dovic-memeory lane:

• The OG Post the started it all

• Update thread. The top post from the deleted user was dovic

• An Original Post from Dovic after my alt account /u/dovichaslied dropped a lot of research on him

• Said doxx-lite comment from my alt that includes Dovic's YouTube page where he posted proof

• Cheddarchezz contacting Dovic - post account deletion

• Great summary video from Justin Whang

• AMA from SecretHDD where I was able to verify a ton of information and then get in contact with the real dovic through it

• AMA from Dovic himself that included picture proof, which I was able to later re-link from an old yearbook from their High School I found online

I think the entire story of dovic has been amazing. Yes, what started out as a troll has led many of us to find courage in the dovic and realize that dovic is more than a boy, dovic is an idea. Dovic is the eternal bond between all of us.

With that said, I think it's best for this subreddit to no longer allow posting. To let it stand as a memorial for what we have all gone through. If someone would like to start another subreddit where you can discuss dovic, please feel free to. Maybe /r/dovicmeta?

Anyway, I hope I am able to provide some closure for you. Much love to you all.

May the dovic be with you brothers and sisters.