Stand by Boys!!!
The chat's fourth name. Set anonymously on 2020-09-30 in the wake of Daniel Miller's three same-day "Stand by boys!" posts. Held for 15 days through 2020-10-15. Roughly 995 messages were sent under this name, including the chat's first foray into Steam-related vocabulary.
Stand by Boys!!!
The chat's fourth name. Set anonymously on 2020-09-30 in the wake of Daniel Miller's three same-day "Stand by boys!" posts. Held for 15 days through 2020-10-15. Roughly 995 messages were sent under this name, including the chat's first foray into Steam-related vocabulary.
Stand by Boys!!! is the chat's fourth name and the second of two anonymous renames in the chat's history (the other being Gay Frogs and their Lizard Brides). The rename is recorded at 2020-09-30 02:39 UTC with sender field Unknown — i.e., a handle iMessage cannot now resolve to a current chat member.
Inspirational text
Unlike Gay Frogs and their Lizard Brides, the Stand by Boys!!! rename has a clear in-chat antecedent — three Daniel Miller posts in the immediately preceding minutes:
"Stand by boys!" — Daniel Miller, 2020-09-30 02:11
"Stand by Boys!!!" — Daniel Miller, 2020-09-30 02:35
"Stand by boys" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-09-30 02:37
The rename arrives two minutes after Evan's confirming post. The capitalization (Stand by Boys!!! with three exclamation points) matches Daniel's second post exactly; the encyclopedia therefore attributes the rename, on a balance-of-evidence basis, to either Daniel Miller or Evan Bbbender (each of whom had clearly endorsed the form). The exact identity of the Unknown handle is, like that of the prior Gay Frogs renamer, not recoverable from chat.db.
Era contents
The Stand by Boys era is brief but transitionally important. Major activity during the period:
- 2020-10-02 — Evan Bbbender posts the corpus's first Steam-as-bathhouse reference ("Can I steam it, and is it funny?") — beginning the chat's longest-running fictional-venue tradition.
- 2020-10-13 — Cullen Conway posts the corpus's first attested 420 blaze it — three weeks before the 420 Blaze It Leaderboard's eventual founding.
- 2020-10-15 — Evan Bbbender sets SNOVID-19, replacing the Stand by Boys!!! name.
Era statistics
- Duration: 15 days
- Total messages: ~995
- Predecessor: The Swillmarillion (Evan, 2020-08-22).
- Successor: SNOVID-19 (Evan, 2020-10-15).