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rather than pollute the lore thread with ai slppage, here's what happened when i asked chatgpt for its 'thoughts':
list all the iconic moments in qbn.com lifetime
If you mean QBN.com (the design-industry community), I can put together a “QBN lifetime greatest hits” list—but I don’t think there’s an official page that catalogs all iconic moments.
QBN has been around since at least 2002, and a community-built search engine called Qooble reportedly contains 20+ years of QBN history, covering more than 5 million replies and notes.
Some of the clearly documented legendary/community-history material includes:
The early QBN era (2002 onward) — the site's history stretches back to December 2002.
The long-running QBN community culture — users describe checking QBN daily for 20+ years and regard it as a uniquely enduring corner of the internet.The “Luv Your Fellow QBNer” thread — a major community-memory thread with 184 responses, including tributes, inside jokes and references to old QBN events.
The State of QBN threads — annual retrospectives such as State of QBN 2023 and State of QBN 2024, which collect memorable happenings and community reactions.
The QBN/Imgur ecosystem — users built tools such as Haasie to archive/search QBN-linked images, with tests involving tens of thousands of links.
Qooble — the community's historical search engine, reportedly indexing over 5 million replies/notes across more than two decades.
But if by “all the iconic moments” you mean the actual QBN lore — legendary users, infamous threads, running jokes, bans/dramas, memorable posts, catchphrases, major community events, etc. — yes, I can dig through the archive and make a proper QBN Hall of Fame, organized chronologically.
That would be much more interesting than just listing the threads currently easiest to find.
please dig through the archive and make a proper QBN Hall of Fame
Absolutely. I dug into the live QBN archive rather than treating “iconic” as simply “most popular threads.” The result is more like a QBN cultural history: recurring characters, legendary bits, community rituals, site mythology, technical disasters, and moments that clearly became part of the site's internal folklore.
One caveat: QBN's archive is enormous and its search/indexing is imperfect, so I wouldn't claim this is literally every iconic event ever. Think of this as the first serious Hall of Fame, with links back to the source threads so we can keep expanding it.