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The chat channel attached to r/worldpolitics ran for 722 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 463,189 messages from 1,801 people.

28 Nov 2023opened18 Nov 2025last message
722 days · 642.1 msg/day
463,189Messages
1,801People
39,628Images
89,491Reactions
19,082Replies
4,947Deleted

Every day the room was open

Activity in the final two weeks ran at 17% of the opening day.

Peak was 5,386 messages on 19 Dec 2023. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

28 Nov 202318 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: 26 characters.

TermUses
mankie3,024
lol15,369
i'm12,563
fuck8,053
lena4,326
it's10,136
shit7,235
oh8,172
fucking4,989
that's6,295
don't6,574
mtrash901
MeasureValue
Median message length26
90th percentile77
Total words1,497,169
Messages asking a question6.8%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 20 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 15:00–21:00 UTC.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

April is the crossover

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

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89,491 reactions

How the room responded

care
31,965
upvote
26,589
joy
26,120
wave
1,040
sob
308
doge
301
heart_eyes
292
vq7naqwfa7081.gif
275

345 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_hearteyes85snoo_joy31snoo_trollface28snoo_cry28unknown24snoo_dealwithit21snoo_scream20partyparrot15snoo_tableflip14snoo_feelsbadman10

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

Who was in here

1,801 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 58,952 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 567 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
myriclisselle mod58,95212.7%
t-o-m-u-s-a51,62311.1%
Mankie-Desu30,9436.7%
ManicDigressive22,3714.8%
CaulkSmooch21,2224.6%
misslady-deathstarr20,7254.5%
[deleted]19,2424.2%
Dry-Particular-763417,2953.7%
mtrash15,1443.3%
Jamuraan111,1802.4%
kittycatpeach11,1442.4%
politelycaustic9,6422.1%

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.

CaulkSmoochChaos gremlins can’t help it
t-o-m-u-s-aLolololol
CaulkSmoochBut seriously where are my toenail clippers no have a zoom meeting coming up and they want to do camera on…. I really need my toenail clippers
t-o-m-u-s-aBetter hurry!
CaulkSmoochFound them. Right where I put them
myriclissellePrison pocket again?
t-o-m-u-s-aForeskin
Lil_Peachy_FoxForeskin
Lil_Peachy_FoxI think they should let you keep your foreskin like they do your umbilical cord actually
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 19:35:21 UTC · no further events recorded

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