Weekend at HRMies
The chat's longest-tenured name in its first three years. Set by [[Evan Bbbender]] on **2020-11-19** and held for **~20 months** through **2022-07-30**, with roughly **28,705 messages** sent under it. The name precedes the *hoen* etymology and is replaced by its hoen-derived successor, *Weekend at Hoenies*.
Weekend at HRMies
The chat's longest-tenured name in its first three years. Set by Evan Bbbender on 2020-11-19 and held for ~20 months through 2022-07-30, with roughly 28,705 messages sent under it.
Weekend at HRMies is the chat's sixth name and its longest-running name to that point. The pun — on the 1989 film Weekend at Bernie's and the abbreviation HRM (Her Majesty's, or possibly a workplace acronym) — was set by Evan Bbbender on 2020-11-19 and held without modification for nearly two calendar years.
Significance
The HRMies era is the period during which the chat developed essentially all of its private vocabulary that would later be formalized:
- Hoen is coined under this name. Kyle Derrick's typo "Great, now I'm hoeny" on 2021-10-28 falls inside this era, as does the entire hoeny propagation through 2021 and the first attestation of the contracted verb hoen (Evan, 2022-03-11).
- 420 Blaze It Leaderboard is inaugurated under this name (Evan, 2021-11-15).
- Mmm alcohol is coined under this name (Kyle Derrick, 2022-11-11 — actually just barely outside, falling under the next era).
- Laurelhurst is first mentioned under this name (Cullen, 2021-01-25).
- Steam is first deployed as a venue under this name (Evan, 2020-12-25).
The chat's transition from a venue-and-event group to a vocabulary-and-tradition group occurs entirely within the Weekend at HRMies era.
Era statistics
- Duration: ~20 months
- Total messages: ~28,705 (~25% of the entire corpus)
- Successor: Weekend at Hoenies (Evan, 2022-07-30) — the same Bernie's pun, now with the chat's emerging hoen vocabulary embedded in its name.
- Predecessor: SNOVID-19 (Evan, 2020-10-15).