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Grug chat

I call it a chat, rhymes with grug. · #grugcult_Grug_chat:reddit.com · channel c2_1zzf

The chat channel attached to r/grugcult ran for 183 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 1,700 messages from 291 people.

20 May 2025opened18 Nov 2025last message
183 days · 9.5 msg/day
1,700Messages
291People
437Images
225Reactions
41Replies
72Deleted

Every day the room was open

Activity in the final two weeks ran at 1% of the opening day.

Peak was 96 messages on 19 Jul 2025. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

20 May 202518 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 23 characters.

The single most-sent message in the room's history is “grug”, typed 102 times.

TermUses
grug789
rhymes431
call358
lifegrug29
grugging35
life103
ryhmes24
gurg15
rhyme28
gruggin8
gruggers7
hendry12
MeasureValue
Median message length23
90th percentile59
Total words4,240
Messages asking a question3.5%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 6 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 22:00–04:00 UTC.

00:0006:0012:0018:0023:00

Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

November is the crossover

November is the month it started losing people faster than it gained them.

05
06
07
08
09
10
11
joinedleftbanned

225 reactions

How the room responded

upvote
54
rage
26
disapproval
18
care
11
no_mouth
8
facepalm
8
thumbs_down
7
cry
7

31 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_tableflip29upvote1snoo_scream1

Reddit's chat reaction and sticker sets were removed with the feature. These are preserved copies.

Who was in here

291 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 101 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 105 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
Dazzling_Letter93801015.9%
[deleted]895.2%
Elements__684.0%
One-City-2147673.9%
Substantial_Kale_895543.2%
[deleted]513.0%
pieofrandompotatoe mod472.8%
EmbarrassedRange1183422.5%
Usual-Ad-2762402.4%
Phyreboi392.3%
obvillion8548392.3%
Authaire1382.2%

Named here because you posted publicly in an open community channel. If you'd rather not be, ask us to remove you.

18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

AthanJHendleWhen does it disappear
DarkMaster98I call it eternal, rhymes with Grug
Tay60003I call it silk, rhymes with song
Littleredfox666I call it the youtube recommendations I got last night for some reason, rhymes with Grug
Littleredfox666image
Fantastic_Papaya_252I call it an old but good meme. Rhymes with gurg
Necessary_Pop_5219I call it my first message. Rhymes with Grug.
monkeydude777image
Fantastic_Papaya_252Rhymes with gurg,
redditWe’re making changes to Reddit Chat to simplify how people connect. As part of these efforts, public chat channels will sunset in mid-November across desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit apps. Learn more(https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15012434519316-What-are-chat-channels)
End of log · 2025-11-18 18:49:06 UTC · no further events recorded

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