Kelzad

Kelzad Oox is a 22 year old Danish Madness Combat animator and artist who gained massive notoriety within the Madness community for creating the R.E.A.L.M series, be and also because of his various connections to drama. He has even done work on the official Madness Combat series, but his contributions to the series after the Kelzad.mp4 incident seem to be limited. He is also the owner of the notably successful Green Pepper Studios animation group.

Green Pepper Studios
Green Pepper Studios, usually referred simply as "GP" among community members, is a Youtube channel that consisted of grouping together the uploads of various members of the community that previously agreed to be part of the channel. It's a bit hard to have significant evidence to know how the channel started, or how Kelzad gathered all the animators with him, but having a look at the oldest uploads of the channel, we can see that most probably, it started as Kelzad's first personal Youtube channel related to Madness Combat. The first upload of the channel was a Christmas special from Kelzad, in December of 2013 (mirroring its upload on Newgrounds), then around 8 months later, in August of 2014, there was a second upload from the Youtube Channel, which consisted of an animation timelapse by Cethic, followed by another upload a month later by Gibb50. From this, it is safe to assume that Kelzad and the rest of the Green Pepper members made the agreement to start the group in the first half of 2014.

The channel gathered a bunch of animators with a lot of reputation in the community at the time, such as previously mentioned Gibb50 and Cethic, along with others like Gabriel Barsch, Djjaner, DarkSignal, MAN_ticore, DIMB, Stagnant (a.k.a. GrudgyGrunt, Delawares, EdgeOwnz)... Most of the members animated for the channel at some point, or just agreed to have some of their new or old submissions archived in the channel.

Green Pepper had an initial boost in populatiry due to Kelzad's first animated film, "R.E.A.L.M.: Project Oox", mainly for the content of the video: featuring an above-average animation skill at the time of its upload, story with Madness Combat 10 and Madness Project Nexus Classic elements, a music track by Djjaner and the potential for a bigger story and arcs. The movie also came with a short spin off animated by Cethic, which gave viewers more hype for what could be developed from this pilot.

From there, the content provided to the channel would remain consistent: new movies, shorts, timelapses, archived movies... But in September of 2016, Kelzad started broadcasting streams of animation to promote an upcoming short and also having some touch with the community to also promote the new Green Pepper discord. The discord would make the group be more easily exposed to community drama, and even then, the server would do well its first years.

Green Pepper is not really active as the time of writing due to various reasons:
 * The discord server is practically dead due to the creation of another server by Kelzad and Gibb50: Somewhere in Nevada.
 * Kelzad, with each installment of R.E.A.L.M., has taken more time to develop his movies. The first movies were done within a year, but nowdays he needs about 2 years to compensate Kelzad's ambition.
 * The departure of various members from the group due to community drama, inactivity, independecy, and issues inside the team.
 * At the time of writing, the team only consists of 3 people: Kelzad, Gibb50, and MAN_ticore. This quantity of members falls short compared to the amount of members it had back in the mid 2010's. MAN_ticore uploads his movies on his own channel, Kelzad takes a lot of time to upload any movies, and Gibb50 hasn't worked on anything but humor projects, which don't cause any impact in the community.

Experiences with Conference Room of Madness
Kelzad has a long and detailed history with Conference Room of Madness (commonly shortened to CRM). A history so dense that it may be hard to list every incident between him and the server.

Indications of tension between Green Pepper and CRM seemingly began in mid to late 2017 when Kelzad expressed distaste for the server and its owner, Spirit. Though nothing ever came of this and it remained as a cold war scenario between the two servers, who would occasionally sneak rude comments in at each other. At least until 2019 when Kelzad and his at-the-time girlfriend, Cymbourine became moderators in CRM. On the surface and to CRM, things appeared to be getting better regarding tensions between the two, however this couldn't have been further from the truth.

Kelzad, Cymbourine and various other members of the Green Pepper discord server were relentlessly trash talking CRM and it's staff in the private admin channel of the GP discord. A large amount of private information from the CRM admin discussions were leaked to the GP discord admins alongside this, the majority of it further increasing tensions and distaste. It was later found out that Kelzad joined the CRM staff team only in hopes of reaching a high enough position of power to delete the server entirely. This would all reach a boiling point in one fateful admin meeting in a CRM admin voice chat, which would come to be known as The Audanti Incident.

Eventually, both Kelzad and Cymbourine departed from the CRM staff team. Both servers also returned to a cold war like state of tension, though now it was more intense by far. This tension would only worsen on Kelzad's end as time passed by.

In 2020, Kelzad's distaste for CRM grow into an obsessive hatred. This hatred pushed so far that he ended up focusing more on destroying CRM than spending time with Cymbourine when she visited him for three months in the middle of 2020. He also pushed aside many people who told him to calm down, namely at-the-time staff members Gibb50 and Zapchon. A direct result of this was the Kelzad.mp4 incident, which would come back to haunt Kelzad a few months later. It is also said that the Somewhere in Nevada discord (SiN) was created with the main intention being to replace CRM when the server was abruptly deleted in 2020.