The moderators of the official South Park Discord have announced they’re shutting down the server, effective immediately. In a screenshot of the announcement, the volunteer committee shared that over the last two years, regular contact with employees at South Park Digital Studios and parent company Paramount had dried up, going from weekly communications to gaps of up to six months or longer.

“Paramount and South Park Digital Studios have effectively put us in charge of their official property and left us to manage it without consistent support,” the announcement read.

the official south park server has shut down due to the negligence of South Park Studios and Skydance pic.twitter.com/vWtndmGeE3

A recent update to Discord’s bot policies resulted in one of the server’s moderation bots going offline. Restoring the bot required personal information that the team, being volunteers and subject to doxxing incidents in the past, felt was inappropriate to provide and reached out to Paramount for assistance.

“We felt […]Paramount, as the owner, should’ve completed this process. We received no response,” the moderators wrote.

The recent merger between Paramount and Skydance, completed last week, has only complicated the issue. “We have exhausted all available avenues to attempt contact and the formation of Skydance (The Paramount-WBD merger) has made finding contacts now an impossible task.” Kotaku has reached out to Paramount for comment.

The closing of the official South Park Discord is only one of the numerous negatives to come out of the merger. Another event potentially related to the merger (although calling it a “negative” is subjective) is a recent massive leak of Cartoon Network data .

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