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.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec wolrah · 2025-04 · 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 · 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.