What happened was, some folks realized a while back that it was always the same folks who frequented silly threads in Off Topic. And usually posted the same silly answers. So it kind of got to be a regular crew, especially since some of them knew each other in the real world.
There was also a regular ATOT Night Crew. But I think that concept may have died off.
I admit I joined in a few times. We would make insane threads and even worse comments. More often than not, the Mods would come in and ban folks in groups. But we didnt care. We were mad as hatters and loved ourselves because of it.
I still think back to the Night Of A Thousand Nefs with great glee.