Glory hole (term)
A chat-internal noun and the etymological seed of the current chat name Newfound Glory Hole (2026-05-09). Attested 33 times across 2020-12-14 → 2026-05-08, principally as a Steam-themed architectural feature ("multi-level glory holes" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-30) and only finally as the second word in the present chat name.
Glory hole (term)
A chat-internal noun and the etymological seed of the current chat name Newfound Glory Hole (2026-05-09). Attested 33 times across 2020-12-14 → 2026-05-08, principally as a Steam-themed architectural feature ("multi-level glory holes" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-30) and only finally as the second word in the present chat name.
Glory hole in the chat's vocabulary is — like Bussy and Gash — an anatomical/architectural noun the chat treats as load-bearing. It is in the corpus continuously from 2020-12-14 through the 2026-05-08 rename event that produced the current chat name Newfound Glory Hole.
First mention
The earliest in-corpus glory-hole reference is by Evan Bbbender on 2020-12-14, in the context of Steam:
"Some townies call it the glory hole palace" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-12-14
The construction the glory hole palace — definite article, single-word venue type — is the chat's first attested glory-hole-as-named-architectural-feature. It immediately establishes the chat's preferred convention that glory hole is a feature of Steam-class venues rather than a free-floating noun.
"Multi-level glory holes" (March 2021)
The chat's most-extended single glory-hole sub-thread is 2021-03-30, a Daniel Miller-led inquiry:
"Multi level glory holes!" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-30 "Wait, what are multi level glory holes tho?" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-30 "No text message thread should have this many references to 17-year-olds and multi-level glory holes" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-30
The third message — Daniel's meta-comment about the chat itself — is the corpus's most concise statement of the chat's awareness of its own discourse arc and is preserved as the encyclopedia's preferred Daniel Miller summary line.
"Double decker steam glory hole"
A 2022 Kyle Derrick sub-form is the double decker modifier:
"What if we kissed under the double decker glory hole at Steam?" — Kyle Derrick, 2022-05-06
The construction what if we kissed under the [X] recurs in the corpus (e.g., 2025-08-17 "What if We kissed In front of a cybertruck" — see Cybertruck) and is one of the chat's most stable late-period rhetorical templates.
"AOE glory hole room"
The chat's most ambitious single Glory-hole-meets-other-practice combination is by Kyle Derrick on 2021-04-30:
"The AOE glory hole room?" — Kyle Derrick, 2021-04-30
(Referencing Age of Empires II.) This is the corpus's only documented case of glory hole and AOE2 being explicitly conjoined, and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for the multi-practice glory-hole compound.
The "glory hole couple" (2022-05-14)
A specific real-world Glory-hole adjacent event is reported by Matt on 2022-05-14:
"Just advertising that this couple was going to be hitting up the glory holes around town tonight" — Matt, 2022-05-14
Kyle Derrick is, the next day, reported to have spent the night searching for the couple:
"Damn got Kyle searching for the glory hole couple last night" — Matt, 2022-05-15
This is the corpus's only documented case of an in-chat reference triggering a downstream chat-member real-world investigation.
The 2026-02-28 → 2026-05-09 naming arc
The chat's modern glory-hole renaissance is the proximate cause of the current chat name Newfound Glory Hole. Cullen Conway floats the form on 2026-02-28:
"Or maybe glory hole?" — Cullen Conway, 2026-02-28
Kyle Derrick supplies the response that has since been preserved as the chat's institutional motto:
"One drink and straight to the glory hole" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-02-28
Max Lieberman supplies the explicit naming form on 2026-05-08:
"New found glory hole" — Max Lieberman, 2026-05-08
Kyle Derrick formally executes the rename to Newfound Glory Hole the next day. See Newfound Glory Hole and List of chat names for the full naming history.