Dame

The son of Matt and Jen, named after Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard by Cullen Conway on 2021-01-18 and mentioned in the corpus 74 times since. Not to be confused with Damian Lillard himself, who is referenced separately as "Dame Dolla" in the same 2021 thread.

Dame is the son of Matt and Jen. His chat-internal name was negotiated explicitly on 2021-01-18, the day after Matt revealed (via context) that he was expecting a son:

"Can I call him Dame?" — Cullen Conway, 2021-01-18
"Dame Dolla" — Matt (clarifying that Dame in his context is the Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard)
"It's Dame Time every time he shids" — Cullen Conway

Matt did not object to the name. The chat has used "Dame" as the boy's referring expression ever since, even where it occasionally collides with general-purpose references to Damian Lillard.

Early childhood (2021–2024)

The corpus contains routine Dame-status updates from Matt and the chat's reactions to them. Notable early entries:

• 2021-01-31 — Kyle Derrick: "Dame is something else."
• 2021-02-06 — Kyle Derrick: "Baby Dame?" — establishing the convention of baby Dame as a distinct life-stage descriptor.

2026 references

By 2026 Dame is school-age and used as a scheduling variable. Notable references:

• 2026-02-19 — Evan Bbbender: "Heather is having a craft night Friday i think are you dame-free?" — the chat's first attested use of dame-free as a compound adjective meaning available without childcare obligations. Matt confirmed within minutes: "Yeah Dame is staying at grandmas."
• 2026-03-28 — Matt: "Jen is hanging with Heather and dame is going to grandmas so I could be down for a fuckabout if people are around."
• 2026-05-01 — Matt: "My sister and her bf are in town but they may be up in Tacoma seeing his mom so if they aren't around dame and I will probably come."

See also

• Matt
• Cullen Conway
• Maeve
• Shidding