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Henny

Contents
  1. 1 The Henny Chain
  2. 2 The 2020 fantasy stake
  3. 3 "Steamin' at Hennys"
  4. 4 Henny in 2022 (the second peak)
  5. 5 Late-period Henny (2025)
  6. 6 See also

The chat's preferred shorthand for **Hennessy** (cognac) and the namesake of the **Henny Chain** — a cumulative fantasy-football tribute trophy invoked between **2020 and 2022**. Mentioned **81 times** in the corpus across **2020-09-10 → 2025-12-25**, plus a single brief 2022 chat-rename appearance (*Steamin' at Hennys*).

Henny

The chat's preferred shorthand for Hennessy (cognac) and the namesake of the Henny Chain — a cumulative fantasy-football tribute trophy invoked between 2020 and 2022. Mentioned 81 times in the corpus across 2020-09-10 → 2025-12-25, plus a single brief 2022 chat-rename appearance (Steamin' at Hennys).

Henny (Hennessy cognac) is one of the longest-running drink references in the corpus, second only to beer and henny and present in the chat continuously from 2020-09-10, when Cullen Conway posts the chat's first instance:

"More Henny for us" — Cullen Conway, 2020-09-10

By autumn 2020 Henny has begun acquiring its eponymous variants — Chad Henny (Cullen, 2020-09-17), Derrick Henny (Cullen, 2020-10-15) — culminating in the chat's first formal trophy concept.

The Henny Chain

The Henny Chain is a hypothetical hip-hop-style chain awarded to the chat's outstanding fantasy-football performer of the moment. The earliest reference is by Kyle Derrick on 2020-12-05:

"Though he is probably least deserving of acquiring the henny chain" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-12-05

Cullen Conway reopens the file twice in subsequent years:

"He came about 17 yards short from delivering me the Henny chain tho" — Cullen Conway, 2021-01-10

"Kyle, when do I get my henny chain?" "Kyle, please bring the Henny chain tonight" — Cullen Conway, 2022-01-07 / 2022-01-15

The Henny Chain has never been documented in the corpus as a physical object. It is treated by the chat as conceptually existing and physically pending. As of 2026 it has not been delivered.

The 2020 fantasy stake

The corpus's most-cited Henny exchange concerns a stake Evan Bbbender is alleged to have promised on 2020-12-14 for a fantasy matchup:

"Evan has promised Cullen and myself bottles of henny if he win a his fantasy matchup" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-12-14

"Where's my henny for the bills D?" — Matt, 2020-12-14

The next day, after Evan loses:

"So now you're going to buy us henny anyways?" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-12-15 "Why would I buy you guys henny? I lost" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-12-15 "You'll never fully let go of your pain until we are all drinking henny together tho" — Cullen Conway, 2020-12-15 "Well why don't you guys buy some henny then" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-12-15 "I want some henny" — Daniel Miller, 2020-12-15

Evan's reply — Why would I buy you guys henny? I lost — is the chat's most concise statement of the (apparently informal) terms of the wager and is treated by the encyclopedia as the founding text of all subsequent chat sports-betting jurisprudence.

"Steamin' at Hennys"

Henny is the only drink to have been incorporated into a chat name. On 2022-08-08, Evan Bbbender briefly renames the chat to Steamin' at Hennys (held for ~4 months until Pebin' the night away on 2022-12-01; see List of chat names). The construction folds Steam (the chat's longest-running fictional venue) into Henny's possessive form — a synthesis the chat did not pursue further but reflects the prominence of both terms in the early-period vocabulary.

Henny in 2022 (the second peak)

Henny re-enters chat activity in mid-2022 in a sustained Kyle / Cullen drinking arc:

"I'm my last meeting for the day then I'm gonna go buy henny" — Kyle Derrick, 2022-07-15

"We finished a fifth of henny" — Kyle Derrick, 2022-07-17

"Yeah we beat both our rivals and smashed a fifth of henny, as reported by Kale" — Cullen Conway, 2022-07-17

The 2022 peak coincides with the chat's pre-Hoenies drinking culture and is, by message volume, the most active Henny period in the corpus.

Late-period Henny (2025)

By 2025 Henny has been incorporated into the chat's espresso-martini discourse. Kyle Derrick reports on 2025-08-23:

"That after ours place has a henny espresso martini"

And on 2025-11-11:

"Also henny espresso Martini fucks hard af"

The henny espresso martini — neither product nor venue further specified — is one of two specific cocktails the chat has produced an unqualified positive review of (the other being Cullen Conway's 2022 "shockingly awesome" espresso martini at a steakhouse; see Espresso Martini Month).

See also

See also