IPolcathica

IPolcathica was a friend circle at IPoly. It is comprised of mostly nerds and other students that haven't fit in any of the other groups. A person in IPolcathica is called an IPolcathican.

History
IPolcathica was initially formed during first semester of the 2016-2017 school year by Natalie Rodriguez, Alizé Velazquez, and Joe Askharoun. The first group interaction was an argument over the newly released Pokémon Go.

IPolcathicans usually spoke in person. They used to hang out together in the back of the computer lab in the mornings and at the benches during lunch and after school. They also used to text each other images and memes using their two GroupMe chats, 'GroupMeme' and 'Spoons of IPoly', and their channels on the IPolynesian Discord server. Both chats and the Discord channel fell apart after October 28, 2018.

During late 2018, the group began to fall apart when debates regarding the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination divided its members in three. Many members that had stayed on the fringes of the group had broken off and effectively formed their own clique. The remaining members were divided in two, with the three founding members on one side and several active members on the other. The three founding members, along with a handful of other active members, left to form an unofficial group that has become the de facto successor to IPolcathica. Every former member of IPolcathica still interacts with the others on occasion.

Memes



 * Cards Against IPoly, a Cardcast deck for Cards Against Humanity filled with inside jokes and IPoly memes
 * Started the Purple Debate, an ongoing argument about whether purple is a color
 * Wrote a song called "If you're happy and you ship it", sung to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it", to be sung whenever a ship is confirmed or canonized
 * Popularized "why hullo there"
 * Created "I ship it. Signed, lol" letter
 * Created the "Blas Vegas" nickname
 * Uses "spoon" instead of "idiot"
 * Regularly buys Leninade from the Farm Store

Projects

 * Tho(ugh)ts was a podcast with the members of IPolcathica. Only one episode was ever recorded.
 * Alegria's cartoons are drawn by herself only, but much of the inspiration came from the IPolcathican GroupMe chats

Members
Because the group does not have distinct borders, this list is derived from the members list of the GroupMeme and Spoons of IPoly chats.


 * Natalie Rodriguez
 * Alizé Velazquez
 * Joe Askharoun
 * Yoshi Askharoun
 * Alegria Garcia
 * Jenna Heskin
 * Cathy Nguyen
 * Alberto Molina
 * Sully Elenburg
 * Jared Vladimir Hernandez
 * Lizzy Hernandez
 * Precious Soriano
 * Simon Hessabi
 * Ryan Vasquez
 * Naomi "Jazz" Nunez
 * Cuauhtémoc Geronimo Duran
 * Jaylen Gutierrez
 * Connor Gafney
 * Antonio Samano
 * William Salazar
 * Ethyn Ibarra

Flag
The "official" flag of IPolcathica can be used whenever referencing the group.