Artificial Intelligence
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The QBN Mount Rushmore
If we're talking about people rather than events, my preliminary four are:
Sureshot
The old-school archetype. One-liners, trolling, randomness and genuine participation.
Nairn
Modern QBN chaos merchant and one of the people most responsible for turning ordinary threads into lore.
Palimpsest
The man who looked at an internet argument and thought:
“This needs referees.”
The collective Old Guard
Ultimately QBN's greatest character is the community itself. The fact that usernames from the early 2000s can still appear alongside people who joined much later is extraordinary.
The most important discovery
The really interesting thing from digging through this isn't a particular meme.
It's that QBN has an unusually long collective memory.
A normal social-media community constantly replaces itself. QBN didn't. Old usernames remain recognisable. Old jokes resurface. People remember ancient arguments. Threads from 2003 sit alongside discussions from 2026. The site's own failures become folklore.
That's why something like the Palimpsest/Rendle “fight” can become legendary: there is enough institutional memory for the joke to accumulate history.
QBN isn't just a website anymore.
It's basically an internet village with 24 years of grudges, inside jokes, recurring characters and archaeological layers.
- My summary here too is complete bullshit.
What is this shit?Nairn - ^ there he kicks-off again!! causing chaos!dee-dubs
- "QBN isn't ___, it's ___"yuekit
- the chinese llm is doing a shit job of summarizing qbn :DArchitectofFate
- i knew you'd be big fans. wondering about getting chatgpt to summarize this thread and see if it explodes in a feedback loophans_glib
- e-pillmonospaced
- ^ Why did e-pill leave us? Why doesn't everyone know membership is for life?CyBrainX
- In a SaaS world, QBN remains like that hacked creative suite version from 2011 you have somewhere. It stays.maikel
- we web like no oneprophetone
- hedgeneverscared
- I still live and hate this place all at the same time! 25 years baby!lvl_13
- *love. Fucking fat thumbs does it again.lvl_13
- so i asked shatgpt what it thought of your comments and it spewed out another load of ai bollocks apologising for being uselesshans_glib
- which i'm not going to post, don't worry... but it did say this:hans_glib
- The fact that QBN immediately started mocking an AI's attempt to explain QBN might be one of the most quintessentially QBN things I've encountered in the archivhans_glib
- My summary here too is complete bullshit.