The head moderator posted two quasi-manifestos, not before putting the entire subreddit on lockdown:

• /r/Toontown is closed.
• "Where are all the posts?"

/u/TwinkletoesKat explained the gist of what led up to the meltdown in her post:

Allow me to explain things since I caused this ♥

Otaku un-modded me, so to get back at him for not wanting to give a shit about actually listening to my reasoning for what I did (that apparently got me removed as a mod) I deleted every post on his toontown.co site. I also changed both him and k0ntra's profile pictures to a Hitler Otaku meme and some badly drawn rule34 ttr pr0n.

Otaku got super butthurt about it and started threatening me and and a previous mod's emails + public IPs for $25 to restore his site, or he would get my "parents and the cops involved." I wasn't that dumb, so I refused to pay.

This is where things got messy - He decides because he can't mess with me, he has to mess with SOMEONE. So he posts stuff about a previous mod, who wasn't even involved in this, to her workplace and gets her fired. This was no joke. This was her actual, physical job.

So from there we basically found his info such as his facebook, he had photos linked to his profile where it tagged family members, and just did a basic, LEGAL search on his family. A lot of what he posted already basically told us his location, but nothing exact.

Someone then made a swat threat, which was someone completely outside of this situation. It wasn't called for, it wasn't asked for, they just sorta did it. Keep in mind this was just a THREAT. The user admitted they weren't going through with it, but did it to spook Otaku.

So that's like the big TL;DR on it. He destroyed friendships, turned basically the entire community against him (again), and still thinks we're after him.. He now just hides away where he builds his "law case" on us.

~ Just a small note, all that we did was not illegal. I went out of my way to contact local police and ask about the situation for advice. The officer told me nothing will happen on either end. We don't have info that would actually hurt him other than MAYBE an address that none of us 16-23yo's will do anything with. He's just salty at this point because I started a Discord Abuse report about him before he could do one on me, so it destroyed his case completely.

TL;DR - Otaku is mad I deleted his site, which he recovered for $30, so he got my friend fired from her job in revenge and now everyone hates him and he destroyed his social media image.