THE RACE TO 10k

Written by Callan M.

Updated by Julia P.

Written at the time of occurrence

*Que narrative voice* 

It all started on a completely normal Friday night on the 1st of October. Well of course this is a school of many time zones so for some people it was morning and others were asleep, but no one was ready for what was about to happen with a single message. One bored, completely innocent girl sent a message in 9th grade general. The message went like this “We got to keep talking people!! Let’s aim for 50 replies. GO!!!!”

Now this was a simple concept, the 9th grade channel was quite a dead channel and only got a simple question every once and a while but then quickly died again. But this time it was different!

The thread started off with simple conversations and questions like “how are you” and “I am good”, but it soon grew much larger than anyone anticipated. 

As more conversations happened, the replies started racking up more. 100, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000! The thread had become a community center for 9th graders to chat and hang out. That was until Brayden, not knowing what he was doing, wrote this:

“ehhhh just bcuz I feel like beating the record from the previous reply ^ anyone wanna help me get above 2361 replies??”

This was the point in time when thread number 2 also known as the Dark Side started. Brayden started to build his own group for this mission, but one person in particular was Travis… (awesome kid)

Travis enjoyed this Idea of beating the other thread and quickly got to work, but Travis’ ways were different. While the original thread had gotten to their point by conversation, Travis had a liking for spamming. With this spamming The Dark Side quickly ranked up over 500 replies in no time, but after that, it went silent for a while.

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Now as the original thread reached over 2000 replies, people started to realize something special about the thread. It started to become much more than just a place for conversation, it was turning into something that no one expected!

As the replies continued to rack up, everyone who added replies started to feel increasingly connected to the thread. As if it was becoming a part of them and a new idea started to arise. 

What if this thread could go down in history as the longest thread to ever exist?

With this in mind the 9th grade group started to dream of the impossible, but as the replies kept on coming, 2500, 3000, 3500, the dream started to feel more and more like a reality.

The group wanted to share their plans and gather more info on the previous record, so they went straight to student body. Of course, it was a mistake to share their plans because many others felt like it was too dangerous. They tried their best to talk the 9th graders out of it saying they were playing with fire and that it was too dangerous, but the group didn’t care and continued with their plans. 

The replies and conversations kept coming, and the thread started to feel more like a family than anything else. Crazy creatures were invented and the 9th graders were able to get to know each other better than they would have otherwise. Every day the 9th graders would get on Teams to chat on the mega thread.

Soon a chat heard about it. This chat decided to keep a watch on it for dangerous lag. At about 6000 replies going to the thread through activity was nigh impossible so the 9th graders started coming up with ways around this. Purposefully getting gabed so the mega thread wasn’t always on the top of activity and things like that. Some of the people with less storage on their computers were unable to load the thread through activity without their teams crashing and their screens going black. CoughJoeyoureallyneedtoclosethosetabscough

Some of the 9th graders experienced lag in different parts of teams they didn’t have before and attributed this to the mega thread. They didn’t know the danger that could come of such a large thread and carried on but with a little more caution now. They started planning out how they could end it in splendor and each of the 9th graders participating started to prepare a speech they would give right before the thread closed for good.

So far the thread wasn’t having any major lag for those with newer computers. But trouble lurked on the horizon.

An NSA freshman (whose name will not be shared) was secretly keeping track of the mega thread for security reasons. If anything happened, the thread could make teams shut down for days. This student warned CNST, who told Stuco, who was warned when the thread reached about 9000 replies and Stuco began the process of shutting it down. The thread, as one of the longest in NSA history, had the high likely hood of becoming an @tom bomb. No one wanted to accidentally set it off. It was completely shut down by the creator at 9049 messages. This number would become important to NSA history and to the 9th graders.

Some of the 9th graders retaliated and started planning to go to war against Stubo! They began a chat called “9049 messages” or “a really chill gc” (this went through several more name changes, the current one is “Intentional Unintentional Omegathread”), for kids that didn’t want the thread to end. Most of Stubo was asleep so the 9th graders carried on without open resistance.

At this same time a mock-up war was happening in a different part of Teams and everyone was preparing for that. Only a few 9th graders knew of this war on Stubo and they were sure they wouldn’t have any resistance. They thought that while everyone was busy with war and wouldn’t pay attention.

Little did they know that the 9th grader that had warned CNST before was watching them and recording their every move. Only one other 9th grader knew who this person was and both of them were not going to tell anyone unless something completely uncalled for happened. Like open war against Stuco.

On 9/11/2021 the 9th graders decided to start a thread on HS general in retaliation. It was delayed a day because of lack of active people but they planned to start in the morning Asia time. (Which is night in America but the guy planning this was in Asia time so we’ll stick to that.)

Then the 9th graders got distracted by doing face reveals, if you wanna see them dm me u_u

But that is completely aside from the point. Or is it?

The next morning a certain Noah Howard posted this in HS general “Vanilla ice cream is and will always be the staple of society, if Chocolate disappeared from existence, there would be no difference. Change my mind.” The replies quickly ranked up to 300, and for some reason (iNSAneness) the convo changed to dogs.

Anyway, more and more people became involved in the conversation and the 9th graders were getting hopeful about reaching a quick megathread with 1000 replies

On Monday 15/11 they reached 1000 replies. After the 1038th reply, the thread promptly died. No one tried to bring it back for the time being and Stuco didn’t suspect them of anything. After all, 1000 replies on a thread in HS General wasn’t rare in any way. The only different thing was that the thread was mostly posted on by 9th graders, some of which rarely ever did anything in HS. Luckily for the 9th graders most of Stubo was busy with the reading contest, among other things.