Y2K

Y2Ks are a species of corruption based on the infamous, globally feared Millennium Bug which was present in most software during the year 2000. As with most computing errors, the corruptions were created unintentionally by programmers who coded software to record years by their last two digits to save space, such as 1999 being inputted as "99". Before the 1980s, it was never realized that programs made this way would recognize both 1900 and 2000 as "00" together. It was expected that electronic calculations using such software would produce large enough errors for modern economy and worldwide infrastructure to fall once the 21st century hit.

Great concern for the issue allowed for most world governments to put a total of 448 billion dollars into preparation for the Y2K event. This would've been done through mass waves of software fixes and the general spread of awareness to prevent the apocalyptic, world-ending, scenario that the bug could've potentially caused.



Due to the large investments given to reduce the effects of the Y2K "attack", only minor damages had happened once the date had hit. The worst these were temporary function loss in machines, minor data corruption in systems, and an alarm going off within a nuclear power plant in Japan.

Unfortunately for the Millennium Bug, year 2000 has long passed and there will never be another opportunity for it to be a threat again. However, Y2K will have a successor where 32-bit Unix systems would reset their clocks on January 19th, 2038 due to integer overflow. Said corruption would go by the name Y2K38.

Role in Battle
In Databrawl; Knockoff, the Y2K bug is given another chance to wreck havoc within the dataverse in the form of two-headed killings machines dressed knowing they're in for a good time. Ingame, the corruptions have high health but cannot use boosters and jump pads. Along with brawler fists, they can create a firework display which spawns many fireworks around the user. These explode one-by-one a few seconds after setup and deal incredible damage to any foe who takes every hit. The main downside to using this move is that targets can easily avoid the blast radius of the summoned fireworks, and that the Y2K using it becomes very vulnerable as it is unable to move during the attack.

Trivia

 * Before the update which had introduced Pathogens and Teriophages, Y2K had a confetti bomb attack where a spherical mine would be thrown and stun all enemies caught in the blast. Additionally, the character was unable to jump before this update.