THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shared as the definitive retelling of one of the dumbest online arguments ever.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2021 to 2025.
What it is
Jon Bois tells the story of a 2008 bodybuilding forum thread in which users spent a weekend arguing over how many days are in a week. It is episode six of his Pretty Good series for SB Nation.
What people said
Strong rec wolrah · 2025-04 · Hacker News · on “4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak”
> Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online Jon Bois did an amazing video about this one: [this video]
Cites 1_player · 2021-05 · Hacker News · on “●●|●●●●●|●●|●”
LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: [LINK] -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: [this video] * Time Cube: [LINK] -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.