Lets Count

Thread series in the HS Courtyard.

Started by Shelli Selby, "Lets Count" was a thread in which people (mostly) counted up (the original thread started at one (presumably- I will not be verifying this)) and counting one number per message, with no person going twice in a row. (mostly)

History

The original thread simply had the title of "lets count" and was posted on September 12th, 2022. After quite a few messages, it started to get very laggy. If you went to notifications in teams, and the top one was a reply in the counting thread, it would crash teams, if not your whole computer. So, Shelli created a new thread called "Lets count: CONTINUED" on 4/10/23. However, that thread eventually experienced the same problem with lag. Since Shelli Selby had since left NSA, Hallie Griffin took up the mantle and created a thread called "Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued" on 10/15/23. At the beginning of 2024, that thread also began to lag significantly. It lagged so much that the participants started talk of making a new thread. On February 3, 2024, Jacob Grady started a new thread called Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again. After a little over a month, Isaac Rivers decided that Jacob's thread had become too laggy, and so he made a new thread, Lets Count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two. Hannah Robbins soon got fed up with the lag (recurring theme?) and so she made Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two: Round Three. Yet again, Isaac Rivers got tired of the lag, so he made Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two: Round Three: Round Four.

List of Threads

Name	Date posted	Number of messages sent	Number of participants	Number counted to
lets count	9/12/22	4183	79	3610
Lets count: CONTINUED	4/10/23	3121	72	6533
Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued	10/15/23	2621	50	9073
Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again	2/3/24	3544	47	12061
Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two	3/13/24	1965	31	13961
Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two: Round Three	5/13/24	2830	18	16757
Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two: Round Three: Round Four	7/4/24	4795	42	20775

(Update as needed. Last updated 10/29/24 at 12:12 am CST, by Mark Huang.)

Trivia

• In my research into the origin of the thread to fact-check this article, I stumbled across a thread posted by Shelli Selby called "lets count again." It was posted on 1/17/23, apparently because the original thread had died off. However, it only got 122 replies, and didn't seem to have much significance. The thread started over from one, and reached 63. Many of the numbers were sent as GIFs. After 63, Shelli said "i only made this one because i couldn't find the other one but now i did find it so the first one is my main focus XDD"
• On 11/7/22, Daniel Simmons posted a thread titled "LETS COUNT BACKWARDS" It started at 2048, since that was the last number in the normal counting thread. It only reached 1035 before people lost interest. The last message was sent on 11/12/22. It had 24 messages from 7 respondents.
• One interesting thing about these threads is the number of reactions they get. For example, the original "lets count" thread had 30 reactions, of 13 different types. "Lets count: CONTINUED" had 39 reactions, 23 of which were the infinity emoji. "Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued" had 24 reactions with the infinity emoji. (this might be a record for most reactions on a post? I'm not sure.) This is not the largest amount of the same reaction for one post. A post made by Asher Stewart obtained 35 laughing emojis, and one heart emoji.
• The record for the most number of numbers posted in a short period of time was set by Isaac Rivers and Jacob Grady, when they posted a combined total of 534 numbers in ~37 minutes.
• At 8:49am CST on 2/8/2024, the counting thread (Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again) reached its first five-digit number, 10,000. Isaac Rivers sent the message. To accomplish this feat, Isaac Rivers and Jacob Grady sent a whopping 534 numbers in ~37 minutes.
• At some point around two thousand, they began counting backwards - I'm not sure if that is true, or if it is, when they turned around again and started going forwards.
• Lets Count BY SEVENS was a thread created by Isaac Rivers on May 1, 2024. It was based on the popular "Lets Count" thread, and has all of the same rules, with one exception: you have to count by sevens.
• Lets count BACKWARDS was another thread that Isaac Rivers made, posted on May 14, 2024. It started at -1, and is at -2426 as of 9/13/24.
• Let's count- BY PERFECT SQUARES! :D was a thread that Rachel Hinds made on May 17, 2024.
• At 8:57am CST on 9/23/2024, the counting thread (Lets count: CONTINUED: Continued: Again: Round Two: Round Three: Round Four) reached 20,000. Jacob Grady was the one to send it, with help by Isaac Rivers and Sarah McClure.
• Fromage counting thread: On 9/30/24, Asher Pratt posted the following:

  F R O M A G E GUYS AND GALS were gonna put a number then put fromage after the number. Its like counting but better and with fromage

  The most recent reply:

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MS Counting Thread

On 2/5/24, 7th grader Tripp Tamayo posted a thread in the MS Courtyard titled:

"Continue counting until 1000 i changed 10,000

baaaaaahhhhhhh

(GIF of minecraft Alex and Steve)

I need to write smth soooooo baah?"

I think this truly embodies the difference between middle school and high school ._ . Anywayyy, the middle school counting thread started at one, and it currently at 30027. There have been 2084 replies from 28 participants. (as of 6/24/24 at 4:07 pm UTC+8, last updated by Mark Huang) However, this thread does nOT have the unspoken rule that one person isn't allowed to send more than one message in a row, so there are many instances of the same person counting up three or more numbers in a row. In fact, the MSers started counting with multiple numbers in one message, with one message counting from 16504 to 20000. However, I don't think any numbers have been skipped.

Edit: the Counting Thread revived on June 21st, 9am CST, when Mark Huang "bumped" the post. The new goal is 50,000, set by Tripp Tomayo.