No one was safe.

Not Beadle. Not Bayless. Not Wilbon. Not that guy on the NFL Redzone Channel. No one.

/spits out intestines RT @JerkJerkson .@AndrewSiciliano pic.twitter.com/9CXNivMcPq

— fitz (@fitziest) March 25, 2013

@HeatBoner How many of your accounts has Beadle blocked?

— Fes (@fesbutter) June 19, 2013

The hate that descended on Biscayne Boulevard from the rest of the sports-loving world when LeBron James uttered those now infamous words in front of Jim Gray will be forever understated and never forgotten by those who faced it head-on.

No incident was too small to warrant a BREAKING NEWS banner on Sportscenter (a TV show no HEAT fan willingly watched between 2010 and 2014). Remember 9-8? Bumpgate? Crying in the locker room? Mo Williams and his man hug jokes?

It was open season on the HEAT and their fans in 2010, and out of it rose an impenetrable force. A rowdy gang from all corners of the country, living in the isolated, scrutinized world of HEAT fandom suddenly thrust into the center of the basketball universe. #HEATTwitter was born.

I'm so hyped I forgot to shake and pee dribbled so much I had to change mah drawers. Did that before gm 6 too. WE GOT THIS

— fitz (@fitziest) June 21, 2013

If the 2006 HEAT team motto was “Fifteen Strong,” Big 3-era #HEATTwitter could probably claim “Fifty Strong.” Possibly more. It was truly strength in numbers to combat the rationally bankrupt sports media that chose to analyze swiftly and emotionally, ditching logic and numbers for one-liners and the true, original hot takes. But that was just the beginning.

@Neuteufel @Lane_ @jordub @DanGnajerle flying death machine was fun tho.

— Fes (@fesbutter) July 12, 2014

Soon, the HEAT would become bejeweled. NBA royalty as the 2012 NBA Champions, a ring that should’ve come with a diamond encrusted middle finger planted firmly where the Larry O’Brien trophy traditionally sits. Many #HEATTwitter members suggested LeBron have a ring especially fit for another part of him, one that also lent to a colorful nickname that stretched throughout his tenure in Miami.

This whole #CobraDick LeBron thing sure has caught on….Id love it if someone would ask him about it haha

— Ryan Yousefi (@Rizzmigizz) May 4, 2012

@KingJames acknowledge Cobra Dick?

— Ryan Yousefi (@Rizzmigizz) October 19, 2013

LEBRON WITH THE COBRA DICK DAGGER

— N'Kosi Hive (@ryankeelan) October 30, 2013

Once the angst of winning a title was in the rearview mirror, it was time for the victory lap. If #HEATTwitter were a person in the summer of 2012, they’d be a double middle finger-wielding version of Kenny Powers, eviscerating anything and anyone in their path. See, attacking the Miami HEAT on Twitter didn’t just open you up to the sophomoric insults we see on the internet today, it opened you up to the locusts. A relentless, debilitating flood of GIFs, memes, urges to find and contact your father for parental guidance and anything else that could be dug up on you.

Everybody gotta fuck tonight @MiamiHEAT http://t.co/AnPw71NMxf

— Not Slim (@SkinnyMcGhee) June 20, 2013

One of the cornerstones of the entire movement turned out to be the LelBron, an impossibly cartoonish photo of James from 2012 that served as the source of countless photoshops, particularly used to antagonize some of the HEAT’s biggest critics and opponents. The Lelbron was just one of the unlimited weapons in the #HEATTwitter arsenal, proving its versatility on a daily basis.

Sonuvabitch. RT "@EvBalls: Winner!!! /dead RT @DeMcDe: @HeatBoner pic.twitter.com/uARVIgDPLg"

— Alf Sidney (@Alf954) December 10, 2013

GO GET IT DAMMIT! pic.twitter.com/5CDW0DDugc

— Ryan Yousefi (@Rizzmigizz) June 21, 2013

If the first championship season proved to be sweet vindication, the second title run was an embarrassment of riches and, as it turned out, Twitter debauchery. On their way to a 66-win regular season, the HEAT pulverized the rest of the NBA. There was, of course, the historic 27-game winning streak, huge comebacks (particularly on the road in Cleveland) and a team that routinely answered every misguided, forced attempt to knock them off (Barkley’s “jump shooting teams don’t win titles” narrative was born with the HEAT).

/favorites tweet RT @MrBill11: Dear God, If you let me have this tonight, I will get Lerbon's Gryphon tattoo across my chest. Love, Bill.

— ThisIsChucker (@ThisIsChucker) June 20, 2013

The 2013 season was cloaked in intoxicating invincibility. The jokes and vitriol thrown at Miami-Dade County after the Mavericks series was being returned in the most violent and unrelenting of ways. The tweets went from funny to devastatingly hilarious, raunchy and most definitely over the line. Nothing was off limits. And no one was safe. This was the crowning moment for #HEATTwitter, the year it grew its sharpest of teeth and bit back at a mass media that spent every waking second wishing for their demise.

.@NOLA_Dave Meet me in front of Golden Corral pussy

— Eric Lauzin (@Lauzin) June 10, 2013

There would be no demise. 2013 was bound for glory, even when things seemed at their most dire in the Finals. If the knife was already in the HEAT’s detractors, with one shot, Ray Allen twisted it in a little deeper. A historic season poised to come crashing down suddenly breathed new life with a Game 6 win and then a Game 7 coronation to win one of the greatest Finals series ever played. Back to back titles. Infinite ammo for a now-immortal fanbase.

THIS IS BETTER THAN HEROIN /TAPS VEINS

— ThisIsChucker (@ThisIsChucker) June 19, 2013

Its easy. Get a match, BURN A FUCKING BOAT AND STOP BEING A PUSSY! RT "@HeatBoner: I can't do this shit"

— Alf Sidney (@Alf954) June 18, 2013

Many teams and their fans tout the “Us Against the World” cliche.  For some reason, even Cleveland routinely sells “Cleveland Vs. Everybody” t-shirts. Rarely is it ever true.

The Big Three-era Miami HEAT were hated. The players, coaches, management, fans and residents of the city were all despised, shoved into a judgmental box together for the world to stare at and poke continuously to their delight. Much could be written about why, but we’re just here today to talk about the Twitter reaction to such a thing. #HEATTwitter was a direct reaction from all of that. This was us against the entire world.

Ps. I hope MJ was watching. #midol

— Michelle Beadle (@MichelleDBeadle) June 6, 2014

In a time where fans are more likely to glob onto a certain player, this was a large group of passionate, true fans rallying around a team for the most scrutinized run we have ever seen in professional sports. It was first met with anger, then humor, then downright, earned smugness.

Nowadays, #HEATTwitter’s fangs are a lot less visible as the team works towards the next era of greatness. Many outside of Miami seem to be relishing the HEAT’s current downward slide.

What is it that they say about making the same mistake twice?