Billy
A name that operates in the chat across 109 corpus messages as both a generic mock-archetype ("he looks like a billy") and, by 2025, a specific real person who joins Evan Bbbender for TC creamers. Spans 2020-09-13 → 2025-11-15 and all seven members.
Billy
A name that operates in the chat across 109 corpus messages as both a generic mock-archetype ("he looks like a billy") and, by 2025, a specific real person who joins Evan Bbbender for TC creamers. Spans 2020-09-13 → 2025-11-15 and all seven members.
Billy in the Newfound Glory Hole refers to one of three things, often interchangeably:
- The Billy archetype — a face-shape-and-vibe-based archetypal name applied to anyone who "looks like a billy" (Evan Bbbender, 2020-10-13).
- Specific real-world Billys — Billy Turner (Packers OL), Billy Madison, Billy Zane, Billy Dean — referenced in football and pop-culture contexts.
- Evan's friend Billy — a recurring real person who, by 2025, is co-attending Portland bar nights with Evan, principally at TC O'Leary's.
Across 109 corpus mentions spanning 2020-09-13 → 2025-11-15, the chat freely slides between the three referents without disambiguation, and no member has, in the corpus, ever asked which Billy is meant.
The archetype
The earliest "billy archetype" attestation is by Evan Bbbender on 2020-10-13:
"He looks like a billy" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-10-13
Matt confirms within the same minute:
"That's a billy" — Matt, 2020-10-13
The construction "that's a billy" — bare, no antecedent, used to make a face-based identity claim about a third party — has been productive in the corpus ever since. By 2020-11-04 Evan has produced the first composite form ("That's a billy dean") and by 2021-02-14 he has produced what becomes the chat's preferred Billy-as-archetype tautology:
"Billy gone do what billy gone do" — Evan Bbbender, 2021-02-14
Real Billys
The chat's bar-Billy — a real person who joins Evan in person — surfaces by 2025:
"Anyone want to get a beer with me and Billy" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-04-25
"I think Billy and I may get a creamer or two at tc olearys" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-04-25
"It's Billy time" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-05-21
Cullen Conway supplies the chat's standard request to summon the real Billy:
"Can we get Billy back up here for it?" — Cullen Conway, 2025-05-05
"So is this shaping up to be a bike and beer like we did with Billy?" — Cullen Conway, 2025-05-29
The construction "like we did with Billy" implies a stable post-hoc reference event ("the bike and beer with Billy") that the chat has not subsequently re-described.
"My Billy (Craij, who is really not like Billy at all)"
Daniel Miller's 2025-07-22 post is the corpus's only documented case of a chat member nominating a personal stand-in for the real Billy:
"My Billy (Craij, who is really not like Billy at all) wants to attend as well. But also, let's get Billy" — Daniel Miller, 2025-07-22
The construction — my Billy (Craij, who is really not like Billy at all) — confirms that Billy has, by 2025, become a count noun in the chat's grammar (each member can have a Billy of their own; some Billys are more Billy-like than others) and is the encyclopedia's preferred late-period gloss.
"Lake Billy"
A separate sub-thread is the 2021 speculation about a houseboat trip to Lake Billy:
"I think we should try to book that nicer houseboat on lake billy this summer" — Cullen Conway, 2021-03-18
The lake — geography unspecified in the corpus — is the chat's only documented namesake-Billy place reference.