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Brian's Dots
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Brian's Dots refers to the running joke surrounding the appearance, duration, and apparent significance of Brian Ambuel's iMessage typing indicators in the Newfound Glory Hole.
Brian's Dots
Brian's Dots is the chat's recurring focus on the appearance, duration, and apparent semantic weight of the iMessage typing indicators ("dots") that accompany Brian Ambuel's replies in the Newfound Glory Hole. The joke is grounded in the fact that the dots, when they appear, are noticed; when they then go away without producing a message, they are noticed again; and that the entire process is held to be Brian's special and protected practice.
Notable citations
- March 11, 2026 — Matt: "Really wasn't that bad except the dots in the brain for some reason." This is the earliest attested mention of dots in the corpus, though the context — a medical scan — is unrelated.
- April 8, 2026 — Cullen Conway: "Brian's cooking," with Daniel Miller adding "Brian has BEEN cooking." Both statements are widely held to describe an extended dots-cycle on Brian's part.
- May 2, 2026 — Kyle Derrick: "His dots popped up as if composing a message."
- May 13, 2026 — Brian Ambuel, in what is now the canonical defense: "Leave me alone about my dots. I shouldn't have to justify trying to converse with the boys."