Entity #001 - The Sparkle Phenomenon

Description

Entity #001, also referred to as The Sparkle Phenomenon, was an event that would occur if a player wore one of the hats in the Sparkle Time Fedora series, despite the fact the series of accessories does not emit particles, or if equipping and holding out any gear with sparkles. The event had an estimated 1/10,000 chance to occur whenever sparkles would float out of their hat or gear.

During the event, multiple groups of sparkles spawned from the accessory, floating towards parts around the map/game. Upon the sparkles touching a part, the part would start to decay — becoming unanchored, shrinking, and/or being fully removed. Some parts required multiple sparkles for decay to begin. Multiple instances of sparkles could emit from 2 different items simultaneously, as seen in Image 2.

The event would fully stop only when every part, script, service, and other elements were eradicated from the server, permanently altering the server even after removal of the entity. The sparkles from the event appear to be a prototype version of the sparkle effect, with images of the sparkle itself found in several Roblox clients.

Entity #001 was first discovered around 2 weeks before the feature's release, in a video leaked by former Roblox admin, Scripter, about the sparkle feature. However, the video only showed the first 5 seconds of the event, with the sparkles beginning to float towards parts before cutting off. The entity was removed around 2 weeks after the release of the Red Sparkle Time Fedora, with Roblox officially acknowledging the entity on their blog. Unfortunately, that blog post is lost media and is currently sought by several TREA members.