1st Great Exodus

In the Golden Days of Xbox 360, where nobody played anything but Halo and Minecraft, there was no need for alternative messaging apps.

Around 2013, when the Xbox One console launched, Microsoft stopped applying maintenance updates to all 360 legacy consoles, however they claimed this would not impact online performance.

Many historians equate the dwindling online performance of the Xbox 360 consoles to the election of 44th President of the United States Barack Obama and the death of Apple Co. founder Steve Jobs. Following these unpredictable events, the humans were unable to please T̶̫̺̈́H̴̡̝̊E̶̗͔̽͠ ̵̥̫̇̃O̷̝̼͑L̶͈͗͛D̶͙̜̻͒̿͐ ̵̧͕̩̺͌͆̀͘O̵̥͖̼̤̅̌̕N̵̛̞̘̓͌Ẽ̵͚̋Ś̶̮̽̊, who brought a curse upon Bill Gates and the rest of Microsoft which slowly deteriorated the Xbox Live service for older consoles.

Following the unbreakable curse, many console users downloaded apps like Kik to keep in contact with old friends without having to go through Xbox.