Community
Fans and contributors to The Instance are invited to join show's U.S. Earthen Ring Server guild named alea iacta est (AIE), which currently has over 6,300 active members making it one of the largest guilds in World of Warcraft. Johnson's main character on AIE, a level 90 orc hunter named Gerp, is a founder and officer of the guild. Notable members have included Curt Schilling, Veronica Belmont, Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt. Johnson is well known in the Utah area both for his online work and as host of the increasingly popular Nerdtacular event, an annual gathering of fans of The Instance and ELR.
In 2007, Johnson was targeted with a cease and desist email by disbarred attorney and American activist Jack Thompson for running a photograph parody contest on the site MyExtraLife.com
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