Much Ado About Nutting
The chat's seventeenth name. Set by [[Evan Bbbender]] on **2025-05-23** as the second consecutive Shakespeare-themed name and held for **~222 days** through **2025-12-31**. Roughly **11,920 messages** were sent under this name, including the chat's full **Charlie Kirk shooting and post-shooting** discourse and the entire **Cheeky Pint / Birdie Time** late-2025 venue rotation.
Much Ado About Nutting
The chat's seventeenth name. Set by Evan Bbbender on 2025-05-23 as the second consecutive Shakespeare-themed name and held for ~222 days through 2025-12-31. Roughly 11,920 messages were sent under this name.
Much Ado About Nutting is the chat's seventeenth distinct name and the second of the two extended Shakespeare-themed names of its mid-late period. It modifies Much Ado About Nothing by substituting the chat's preferred orthography for the noun, in the same way that the prior A Midsummer Night's Steam modified A Midsummer Night's Dream. The name was set by Evan Bbbender on 2025-05-23 and held for ~222 days.
Era contents
The Nutting era is the chat's transition period from the long Midsummer Steam steady-state to the accelerating renames of late 2025 and early 2026. Key events:
- 2025-09-05 — Matt coins Hoencession ("We might be in a recession but we are not in a hoencession") — the first attestation of the term that would, five months later, be re-derived by Evan.
- 2025-09-10 — Charlie Kirk is shot. The chat's entire early Kirk discourse — including the "Bad for KirkCoin" observation by Brian Ambuel within minutes, the "Merced" verb's first use (Kyle Derrick, 2025-11-03), and the entire November 2025 Kirkification arc — falls within this era.
- 2025-10-05 — Brian Ambuel coins Cheeky Pint ("I will attempt to join for a cheeky pint").
- 2025-10-09 → 2025-10-11 — the Oregon Ducks Jerry's-Tavern thread (see Jerry's Tavern) — the chat's first sustained mobilization of that venue.
- 2025-12-25 — Kyle Derrick introduces the henny espresso martini canon ("Was ist das? Espresso martinis?").
Closing
The era ends on 2025-12-31 — New Year's Eve — when Kyle Derrick sets the brief and unprintable My freund ass is always shitting on cum night 🙄 (12 days, ~1,215 messages) en route to Matt's Zynfidels (2 days) and ultimately Evan Bbbender's Render Unto Steezer on 2026-01-14.
Era statistics
- Duration: ~222 days
- Total messages: ~11,920
- Successor: My freund ass is always shitting on cum night 🙄 (Kyle, 2025-12-31), then Zynfidels (Matt, 2026-01-12), then Render Unto Steezer (Evan, 2026-01-14).
- Predecessor: A Midsummer Night's Steam (Kyle, 2023-06-13).