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What happened to the QBN podcast?
- GuyFawkes7
Finally finished my AI rig, running all my LLM's, Video and image generators local now.
Fuck yo data centers bitch!
Except for Claude code, I still love you (for now)
- Which models are you using?yuekit
- So far, LLMs:
Qwen 3.6 Uncensored
GPT OSS 20B
...GuyFawkes - Voice to text: VibeVoiceGuyFawkes
- Video:
MiniMax H3
Image:
HiDreamGuyFawkes - so far. Looking into a good uncensored image model next after I run a few more tests on HiDreamGuyFawkes
- Nice, interested to hear how it goes!yuekit
- Guy, leave some pussy for the rest of usNBQ00
- LolGuyFawkes
- love itutopian
- What's the little mirror for?NBQ00
- ^
the Elgato keylight?GuyFawkes - Jealous of the sheer cleanliness. My desk is a mess. Nice setup!stoplying
- Rear view mirror in case any bots sneak up behind him.lvl_13
- I will die first for sure, I was constantly calling ChatGPT a waste of RAM to its robot faceGuyFawkes
- so,.... ummm, what do you actually use it all for ?_me_
- All fun and games until the AI escapes containmentyuekit
- ^^ ads man, fucking ads, I'm sick of fuckin ADS!! I want to make more sci-fi slop but I got 5 kids to feedGuyFawkes
- hans_glib0
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.
- hans_glib0
I. The Old Guard
1. The Newstoday → QBN origin storyBefore QBN was QBN, there was Newstoday. The archive contains people talking about discovering the site around 2000–2002, including users who remember the old-school community, old usernames and the infamous “banzored” strike emails.
One particularly memorable account recalls opening Newstoday on a laptop in bed and accidentally blasting the site's “NEWSTODAY!” sound loudly enough to wake his future wife.
This is foundational QBN mythology.
Hall of Fame category: Founding Era
- hans_glib0
2. The 20+ year survival streak
QBN's most impressive “event” may simply be that it refused to die.
The site's ancient threads remain accessible, including discussions dating back more than two decades.
The enormous blog thread has accumulated more than 76,000 responses. In one later discussion, a returning user essentially described QBN as a place where old designers who had been around for decades continued to congregate.
The response was:
“nobody can leave here. Nobody!”
That may be the single best description of QBN.
Hall of Fame category: The Eternal Thread
- hans_glib0
II. The Great QBN Characters
QBN isn't really understandable without its recurring personalities.
Rather than declaring anyone objectively “the best,” these are ranked according to their importance to QBN lore.
1. Sureshot
An absolute institution.
Sureshot appears throughout the older archive and has the quintessential QBN combination of:
brutally concise replies
bizarre non-sequiturs
trolling
genuine useful contributions
jokes that become jokes about themselvesWhen QBN's password system started collapsing, Sureshot immediately declared:
“They are pulling the plug.”
When the site's password-reset system behaved inexplicably, he escalated to:
“I'm calling Scully and Mulder.”
This is classic Sureshot.
Verdict: QBN Mount Rushmore.
2. Nairn
Another central figure in the later QBN ecosystem.
His specialty is essentially weaponized absurdity: he'll take an already ridiculous QBN situation and add another layer.
The 2023 “great debate” saga is a perfect example. Nairn contributed running jokes about the competitors being “Chads,” complained that the promotional graphic had the wrong protagonist, and generally treated the entire thing like a pay-per-view combat event.
Verdict: Modern QBN chaos institution.
3. Palimpsest
Palimpsest gets his own wing.
Not merely because he posts a lot, but because he repeatedly turns ordinary QBN disagreements into elaborate theatrical productions.
The supreme example is the Palimpsest vs. Rendle Great Debate.
We'll get to that.
Verdict: QBN's self-appointed promoter, fight organiser, lawyer, publicist and historian.
Other major recurring figures
The archive repeatedly brings back names including:
utopian, garbage, Continuity, autoflavour, PhanLo, Akagiyama, monospaced, hydro74, neverscared, Krassy, NBQ00, hotroddy, imbecile, sarahfailin, mort_, Gnash, pango, drgs, scarabin, Ianbolton, jagara, canoe, Beeswax, Hayoth, PonyBoy, Bennn, robthelad, milfhunter, exador1 and many others.
The important thing is that QBN's “cast” changes, but there is an extraordinary continuity of usernames across decades.
- hans_glib0
III. The Great Debate
4. Palimpsest vs. RendleThis is unquestionably one of the modern QBN Hall of Fame entries.
It began as an argument involving Rendle, eventually becoming a challenge for a formal debate.
Palimpsest did what any reasonable internet person would do:
He built an entire sporting event around it.
The proposed infrastructure included:
a referee
judges
12 rounds
defined topics
promotional graphics
Twitch streaming
fight commentary
snacks
tomatoes
calculators
potential NFTsThe proposed judging team included scarabin, drgs, Morning_star and utopian, with crazyprick and grafician as commentators.
The topics were going to include:
COVID
5G
evolution
taxonomy
calculators
artificial intelligenceThen came the best possible ending.
Rendle didn't show up.
Palimpsest subsequently issued a mock “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” from Prague declaring victory by forfeit.
The QBN community proceeded to treat the non-event as an actual championship.
Hall of Fame rating: 5/5
Category: Greatest Fight That Never Happened
- hans_glib0
IV. The Tomato–Calculator Wars
5. “Somebody threw a tomato at a calculator”This deserves its own entry because it became a miniature QBN mythology.
The debate saga eventually became entangled with an entirely different dispute involving AI and calculators, plus a bizarre tangent about transgenic tomatoes.
One user returning to the thread asked what the hell had happened.
The explanation was essentially:
somebody threw a tomato at a calculator.
That sentence became shorthand for the whole incomprehensible saga.
And because this is QBN, the proposed debate was sponsored by:
Heinz.
Hall of Fame category: QBN Lore That Cannot Be Explained to Outsiders
- hans_glib0
V. The Nice Crown
6. The “nice crown” and #niceweek mythologyOne of the strangest recurring QBN rituals involves #niceweek and the mysterious “nice crown.”
At one point Palimpsest staged a fake interaction involving Imgur and QBN's live activity feed. People initially weren't sure what was happening.
Then:
“It works! :D”
Someone asked who had the nice crown.
The answer:
“It's pango but he ain't doing shit.”
This is quintessential QBN: a completely meaningless competition somehow acquiring rules, rankings and mythology.
Hall of Fame category: Most Important Award Nobody Can Explain
- hans_glib0
VI. The QBN Death Watch
7. “They're pulling the plug.”There have been multiple periods when QBN seemed like it might finally collapse.
The password-reset disaster is one of the great examples.
The site's “Forgot Password” system broke, producing server errors and broken CSS. Users immediately interpreted this as evidence that QBN was being abandoned.
The thread rapidly became a miniature funeral:
“They are pulling the plug.”
“the mother ship have left us :(”
discussion of a secret alternative meeting place
users wondering whether moderators cared anymore
jokes about hacking QBN to fix itAnd yet:
QBN survived.
Again.
Hall of Fame category: QBN's 47th Death
- hans_glib0
VII. The Google+ Exodus
8. The Google+ migration scareDuring one of QBN's apparent existential crises, someone announced:
“62 QBNers are over there on Google+”
This is historically hilarious because Google+ itself is now dead while QBN is still here.
The thread captures the feeling that QBN might be about to disappear, with users discussing an alternative “secret meeting place.”
In retrospect:
QBN 1 — Google+ 0.
- hans_glib0
VIII. The Homepage Nostalgia
9. The death of the old QBN front pageThe 2019 State of QBN discussion contains an unusually poignant bit of QBN history.
An old member returned and explained that QBN had once been a major source of creative inspiration. They specifically remembered the old homepage, which showed current threads and design news.
They described QBN as something that had kept them thinking at a higher level about design.
Several other old members agreed.
This is important because it captures the transition from:
QBN = design community
to
QBN = whatever the fuck QBN is now.
That transformation is itself part of the lore.
- hans_glib0
IX. Show Me Your Screenshot
10. Show Me Your ScreenshotAn old-school QBN classic.
The thread show me your screenshot reached 65 responses and is a good snapshot of the older community's casual, participatory culture.
These threads matter less for a single punchline than for what they represent:
QBN before social media completely absorbed this kind of behaviour.
People actually posted their lives, desktops, projects and random internet discoveries to a community of fellow designers.
- hans_glib0
X. The Design Nerd Hall of Fame
11. The eternal typography warsQBN's own veterans have explicitly reminisced about arguments such as:
Univers vs Helvetica
Pantone colours
David Carson
typography
logo design
corporate identityIn the 2024 State of QBN thread, one user essentially begged for a return to those arguments instead of the increasingly political discussions.
That is probably the purest description of Old QBN:
“Univers vs Helvetica”
could apparently sustain a community.
And honestly, it still could.
- hans_glib0
XI. The Coffee Van Thread
12. “Q BeaN”The Coffee van name ideas thread is a small but beautiful example of QBN at its best.
Suggestions included:
Wakie Wakie
Motor Oil Coffee
Death Starbucks
Hippie Juice
Carbrewated
Mr Bean
Mcoffee
Bump N' Grind
Q BeaN
Quaffable Bean NectarThe joke escalated through multiple pages until “Q BeaN” became an inevitable QBN pun.
Hall of Fame category: Peak QBN Wordplay
- hans_glib0
XII. The Banderas Incident
13. Antonio Banderas and the PS4/Xbox One reactionThe Banderas laptop-reaction GIF became a notable QBN meme.
A user posted it in the PS4 vs Xbox One discussion, and QBN immediately adopted it.
The thread contains the observation that the GIF had existed beforehand but had been waiting for its moment; its use during the Xbox One backlash helped turn it into a broader reaction meme.
Sureshot delivered the appropriate QBN verdict:
“This is why I love the fucking internet!”
Hall of Fame category: Meme Adoption
