A Midsummer Night's Steam
The chat's longest-running name in its history. Set by [[Kyle Derrick]] on **2023-06-13** as the third in a same-day three-rename Shakespeare-correction sequence, and held for **~710 days** through **2025-05-23**. Roughly **32,752 messages** — about **29%** of the entire corpus — were sent under this name.
A Midsummer Night's Steam
The chat's longest-running name in its history. Set by Kyle Derrick on 2023-06-13 as the third in a same-day three-rename Shakespeare-correction sequence, and held for ~710 days through 2025-05-23. Roughly 32,752 messages — about 29% of the entire corpus — were sent under this name.
A Midsummer Night's Steam is the chat's fourteenth distinct name and its longest-tenured name in the chat's full history. It is named after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the noun Dream replaced by Steam (the chat's Portland-bathhouse running reference; see Steam). The name replaces an unstable two-day window of three earlier Steam-themed names and itself stays in place for nearly two calendar years.
Founding sequence
The name is the third version of the same Shakespeare reference, with Kyle Derrick iteratively correcting his own typesetting in three rename events on 2023-06-13 within a single 49-second window:
| # | Time (UTC) | Form |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17:34:46 | A midsummers night Steam |
| 2 | 17:35:26 | A Midsummer night's Steam |
| 3 | 17:35:59 | A Midsummer Night's Steam |
iMessage records each rename as a discrete event. Reading the sequence in order, the encyclopedia notes, leaves the impression of a man editing a press release in real time, because that is what was happening. The third version is the form that holds.
Era contents
The Midsummer Night's Steam era covers the bulk of the chat's mid-period. It includes:
- The full development of the Hoen Lunch institution (the founding "Hoen lunch today?" fell in the prior era; the establishment of Blutos as the default came in this one).
- Brian Ambuel's addition to the chat on 2023-06-16, three days into the era.
- 15 of the 19 published 420 Blaze It Leaderboard editions, including the all-time peak of Kyle Derrick at 220 (2024-11-25).
- Cheeky Pint's coinage by Brian on 2025-10-05.
- Hoencession's first use (Matt, 2025-09-05).
- Charlie Kirk's shooting on 2025-09-10 and the chat's full early Kirk discourse.
- The two-year political arc covering both the 2024 and 2025 Iran exchanges (see Iran war discourse).
Era statistics
- Duration: ~710 days (1 year, 11 months, 10 days)
- Total messages: ~32,752 (~29% of the entire corpus)
- Successor: Much Ado About Nutting (Evan Bbbender, 2025-05-23) — preserving the Shakespeare register and the About construction.
- Predecessor: dickless little babies (Evan, 2023-06-11).
Relationship to subsequent names
The Midsummer Night's Steam era is the chat's steady state — the name under which its mid-period institutions (Blutos, Hoen Lunch, the 420 Blaze It Leaderboard cadence, Cheeky Pint) all consolidated. The 2025 transition to Much Ado About Nutting marks the transition from the steady state to the chat's late period, in which renames begin accelerating again — culminating in the four-rename burst of 2026-01-12 → 2026-01-14 (Zynfidels → Render Unto Steeler → Render Unto Steezer) and finally to the current Newfound Glory Hole on 2026-05-09.