Circle of Trust

Circle of Trust was the Reddit April Event of 2018. Every user had one circle, and could invite others to join. But if any one betrayed your circle, it was broken forever.

Mechanics

Every Reddit account created before the launch of the event had the ability to create a circle with a custom title and password. If you did not set a title, it would default to "<username>'s Circle". This created a post on r/CircleOfTrust with a special graphic: a purple circle with one purple dot orbiting inside.

The password could not be changed once chosen and set. Anyone who successfully typed in the correct password into a circle would be presented with the choice to Join or Betray. Joining the circle would grow the circle, and the circle tracked how many people had successfully joined. Members of the circle could see and copy the password of that circle at any time. Betraying the circle would break it, and no more could join.

As more users joined a circle, the color would change, moving through the rainbow from purple up to red.

History

Note that this history is told with a focus on the April Knights.

Launch

In 2018, April First was Easter Sunday. The event did not launch until Monday, the 2nd, confusing many. It ran until Friday.

Factions

Factions focused on Joining

• r/AprilKnights
  
• r/CircleOfPurity
  
• r/NeverBetray
  
• r/TrustyCircles
  

Factions focused on Betrayal

• The Swarm
  

Trophies

Trophies were not awarded for April events until 2019's event Sequence