Almost sent
The chat's recurring meta-acknowledgment that a member was beaten to posting a particular tweet, video, or link by another member with overlapping internet habits. Documented across **21 distinct messages** spanning **2020-08-24 → 2026-04-04**.
Almost sent
The chat's recurring meta-acknowledgment that a member was beaten to posting a particular tweet, video, or link by another member with overlapping internet habits.
"Almost sent" is one of the chat's longest-running and most stable subgenres, with 21 documented occurrences spanning nearly six years. It exists to formalize one of the chat's chronic embarrassments: that several members follow the same accounts, so any sufficiently funny tweet will be sent by exactly the member with the slightly faster reaction time, leaving the others to perform — within seconds — the ritualized concession.
Origin
The earliest attestation in the corpus is by Kyle Derrick on 2020-08-24, the chat's Rugged Outdoorsmen era:
"I saw that earlier and almost sent it" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-08-24
Within nine months Matt had adopted the same construction ("Ha I almost sent that too", 2021-05-21), and by autumn 2022 Cullen Conway is using two distinct variants in the same week ("I almost sent this to you Evan", 2022-09-15; "Almost sent y'all an early morning silent rock vidya", 2022-09-24).
Canonical form
The construction is short and stereotyped, with the standard form being "X almost sent that" where X is a first-person pronoun. Notable variants:
- "I almost sent y'all an early morning dick pic" — Kyle Derrick, 2022-09-24 (love-tapped by Cullen Conway).
- "Almost sent that earlier, glad to see it make its way here" — Cullen Conway, 2023-06-10 (love-tapped by Evan).
- "I ALMOST SENT THAT" (all caps) — Evan Bbbender, 2026-03-05. The all-caps escalation is the canonical apex of the genre.
Authorship
Across the 21 documented instances, Evan Bbbender is the most frequent contributor (≈10), followed by Cullen Conway (≈5), Kyle Derrick (≈3), and Matt (≈2). Daniel Miller is on record as having never used the phrase, despite being on Twitter at the same time as the rest.
Theory
The phrase is, viewed in good faith, a confession of being a normal person on Twitter at the same time as five other normal people. Viewed less generously, it is a passive bid to be recognized as having had the same taste in shitposts as the actual sender. Both interpretations have been advanced by members, occasionally in the same message.