As I do for all shadowbanned super users, - provided I know who they are or care or am not just feeling lazy - I have prepared a brief obituary for the dearly departed. RIP in peace, flytape. You may have been shadowbanned from www.thereddit.com, but you are not shadowbanned from our hearts.

User /u/Flytape was shadowbanned today. His account was 3 years old. He leaves behind a waifu, several subreddits, and a curiously detailed outline of a conspiracy that, according to sources, names celebrated Canadian actor Norm Macdonald as the true ruler of the planet, and, in fact, the source of all power in the universe.

According to the various magazine clippings taped precariously to a wall in Flytape's basement, connected with yarn of varying colors, Norm Macdonald, SNL regular and host of the Norm Show, is in fact an alien being wearing a rubber skin suit. Although Macdonald's affable demeanor may put some at ease, Flytape was ostensibly convinced Macdonald was at the center of a vast network of influence, reaching from the Vatican, to Beijing, to the White House. One of Flytape's only legible notes described Macdonald as "the twisted spider" sitting in the middle of a "web of epic proportions" and in which "we all twist and shake, until inevitably we are drained of our blood." Flytape apparently did not want to stop Macdonald, however, as Macdonald is a supernatural, spiritual being, and doing so would "cause the very fabrics of space time to collapse upon themselves."

It is unclear whether this connection caused Flytape to be banned, but what is clear is this: no other user has so zealously and so passionately pursued the truth. When all others told Flytape his theories were mad, senseless, and inane, Flytape shrugged them off and redoubled his efforts. Everyone told him to listen to reason, to be objective. But was he? No. Pioneers never are.

He shall be missed.