The first notable Flash Crew was the Clock Crew, who were a group of users who were interested in the humour of the spam author StrawberryClock in 2001. They started producing submissions together, contributing to each others' work with a theme developing around the avatar of StrawberryClock. In 2003, a splinter group broke away from them called the Lock Legion, then an avalanche of other crews started appearing with a certain pattern of names in a parody of the Clock Crew, then in a parody of each other. Thus the Glock Group begat groups which were not another 'ocks' but various guns- the Pistol Patrol, the Uzi Union, the Socom Squad and the Luger League. These groups were often bitter rivals, voting each others' submissions down and attacking the website forums of their rivals. There hav