Gay Frogs and their Lizard Brides
The chat's second name. Set on 2020-08-22 by an Unknown renamer (per editorial best-guess, the recently-removed Matt O.) and held for a few hours before Evan Bbbender replaced it with The Swillmarillion on the same day. The chat's only same-day chat-name turnover and the only name attributable to a non-current member.
Gay Frogs and their Lizard Brides
The chat's second name. Set on 2020-08-22 by an Unknown renamer (per editorial best-guess, the recently-removed Matt O.) and held for a few hours before Evan Bbbender replaced it with The Swillmarillion on the same day.
Gay Frogs and their Lizard Brides is the chat's second known name and the only one in the corpus's first six years that is attributable to no current chat member. The rename event is recorded in chat.db at 2020-08-22 03:40:49 UTC with the renamer field resolved only as Unknown — a signature in iMessage of a participant whose handle was severed before the message could be cross-referenced.
The Matt O. attribution
The encyclopedia's editorial best-guess attribution is to Matt O. — the chat's only documented removed member, kicked from the thread by Kyle Derrick one day earlier on 2020-08-21 (see Matt O. for the removal record). The argument is structural:
- The 2020-08-22 rename is the only Unknown renamer in the entire 2020-2026 ledger.
- The other Unknown-rename events later in the year (e.g. Stand by Boys!!! on 2020-09-30) are similarly attributable to handles severed by removal.
- The name's content — a left-field political-satire reference to Alex Jones's "they're putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay" — fits the early-cohort sense of humor that informed the Rugged Outdoorsmen era.
The encyclopedia adopts this attribution while acknowledging that the corpus itself does not preserve the renamer's identity.
Brevity and replacement
The name is the corpus's shortest-lived chat name. Evan Bbbender replaces it within hours on 2020-08-22 04:45:07 UTC — about 65 minutes later — with The Swillmarillion. The rapid succession is the chat's only documented same-day chat-name turnover and is the encyclopedia's preferred summary of how the chat handled its post-Matt-O. transition.
Era statistics
- Duration: ~65 minutes
- Total messages: a single-digit number, none of which directly reference the name.
- Successor: The Swillmarillion (Evan, 2020-08-22).
- Predecessor: Rugged Outdoorsmen (Matt, 2020-08-13).