Cully
A nickname for [[Cullen Conway]], in self- and other-use across the corpus from **2021-01-09** through **2026-05-08**. Across **15 documented mentions**, *Cully* is used as a vocative, a third-person referent, and a notional rhetorical alter ego — most fully in the **2025 "power bottom Cully"** valediction.
Cully
A nickname for Cullen Conway, in self- and other-use across the corpus from 2021-01-09 through 2026-05-08. Across 15 documented mentions, Cully is used as a vocative, a third-person referent, and a notional rhetorical alter ego — most fully in the 2025 "power bottom Cully" valediction.
Cully is the chat's stable nickname for Cullen Conway. It is, by some distance, the most-used nickname in the chat — substantially more frequent than Dan's reduction or any other shortening — and is unique in being readily used by Cullen himself in self-reference. The nickname is attested across 6 different members and 6 calendar years.
Origin
The earliest documented use is by Kyle Derrick on 2021-01-09, in a five-word post:
"That's called it's always sunny in cully" — Kyle Derrick, 2021-01-09
The construction "it's always sunny in cully" is a play on the FX television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — and is one of the corpus's earliest examples of using Cully as a stand-in for Cullen in a fully formed proper-noun construction.
Self-reference
Unlike most chat nicknames, Cully is freely used by Cullen Conway in the first person. The earliest self-referential use is 2022-01-13:
"See, that right there is Cully gets fired level stuff" — Cullen Conway, 2022-01-13
By 2022-05-29 the form has stabilized into Cullen's preferred rhetorical alter-ego:
"And then put a line of coke in my cully hole" — Cullen Conway, 2022-05-29
By 2024 he is using the form as a complete subject pronoun:
"If yall are fuxing then Cully is gonna fux" — Cullen Conway, 2024-05-27
Cully's bachelor party
The corpus's most consequential single Cully invocation is on 2025-07-25, when Cullen reframes that day's hoen lunch in real time:
"Fuck it, today's hoen lunch is Cully's bachelor party" — Cullen Conway, 2025-07-25
This is the only documented case in the corpus of an in-chat hoen lunch being re-categorized in flight as a different event class, and is the sole example of Cully being used as the explicit subject of a third-person bachelor-party honorific.
"Power bottom Cully has the watch"
The corpus's most-quoted Cully-referencing single message is from 2025-09-27:
"Rest now, brother. Power bottom Cully has the watch, and I will see you in Valhalla." — Cullen Conway, 2025-09-27
The valediction — addressed to no specific recipient — is in the chat's preferred Norse-saga register and is the only attested use of the modifier power bottom in the corpus. The encyclopedia treats it as the canonical late-period Cully utterance.