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Retroactive Jealousy

#retroactivejealousy_Retroactive_Jealousy:reddit.com · channel c2_rim

The chat channel attached to r/retroactivejealousy ran for 542 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 2,662 messages from 159 people.

26 May 2024opened18 Nov 2025last message
542 days · 4.9 msg/day
2,662Messages
159People
9Images
106Reactions
194Replies
171Deleted

Every day the room was open

Activity in the final two weeks ran at 25% of the opening day.

Peak was 536 messages on 12 Jun 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

26 May 202418 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: 44 characters.

TermUses
rj196
feel188
past147
because160
partner112
ex100
things106
relationship79
people151
life94
love93
marriage49
MeasureValue
Median message length44
90th percentile194
Total words16,887
Messages asking a question14.2%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 12 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 18:00–00:00 UTC.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

Almost nobody walked out. They were removed.

Only 63 people ever chose to leave this channel. Another 155 were banned, peaking at 29 in May — a moderation purge, not an exodus. What actually declined was arrivals: 7 joined in the first month, 3 in the last.

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106 reactions

How the room responded

upvote
59
care
33
joy
9
rage
2
wave
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sweat_smile
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cry
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1 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

unknown1

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

Who was in here

159 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 433 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 60 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
alit22343316.3%
[deleted]36613.7%
Mysterious_Act8093 mod27010.1%
Natural-Material44162208.3%
Rambez011726.5%
Additional_Face_47561706.4%
Bk35712.7%
[deleted]602.3%
Popular-Bicycle-5137572.1%
kkuttup511.9%
Automatic_Music_5677501.9%
6406461.7%

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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.

Disastrous_Group_271No but my ex did and it was the dumbest shit to me
Some_Rich_6885Can I get y’all’s opinion?
SecretPermissiongo ahead
Some_Rich_6885Is it possible if I had caught RJ because I don’t wanna know about a guy I see if they’re seeing anyone or if they hookup with anyone before me. I never used to have it until I left a narcissist like a year ish ago
Some_Rich_6885The thought of it upsets me and kinda worries be if the person will be there even when I’m there
Some_Rich_6885I wanna heal it I don’t like the feeling of RJ🥲
whodatboywhohim_isAll Im saying is body count should be hakf your age -7
whodatboywhohim_isYay or nay
Neither_Summer_4469This is torture
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