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@wey

bmass — The Arc**

Built from his 72,979 posts and the posts addressed to him, using only pages never cited in any earlier file. Every quote is his own unquoted text unless another poster is named.

Act 1 — Arrives mid-bit (May 7, 2023, pg 12002)
He doesn't introduce himself. His first hour in the thread is a running joke with Purrp ("It was one time. Grow up." / "You treating me just like she did," pg 12003), and when HNDRXX vouches for him ("Allison Camille and Bmass, they are cool people," pg 12004), his whole reply is "Lol." He was already a known name on the site: people had @'d him in this thread dozens of times before he ever posted in it. For his first 8,000 pages he barely posts, a few hundred a month.

Act 2 — Kodak's foil (May–Dec 2023)
Three weeks in, Kodak (pg 14030): "how bored are u on ktt2 to try to start beef with kodak spice on dam near memorial day." bmass: "Very, go die!" Same page, Kodak: "shut up and f* me already." bmass: "Booking a flight fr." That's the whole relationship in two exchanges: hostility and flirtation in the same breath. By September (pg 21592–21593): "bro stfu" / "Blocked." and "U just said u was stroking to me 2 pages ago stfu b**" / "Report me then." Kodak addresses him 1,229 times between pages 20,000 and 30,000, more than anyone else addresses him, and bmass addresses Kodak 839 times back. His volume triples. The feud made him a regular.

Act 3 — Drake soldier (Oct 2023–Jan 2024)
His music identity is Drake defense, delivered at full volume. Pg 24425: "People love to call Drake soft or sensitive but this freestyle further proves that Drake is the demonic, goon employing thug, that Tupac and Biggie were thought to be." Pg 24613: "Never forget Kendrick fetishized Asian culture for a whole album cycle." Pg 26405, to a Kendrick fan: "J Cole takes a certain level on intelligence. So I get why you'd like Kendrick more." Pg 32864: "Toronto will never have a peaceful night as long as the don, drizzy drake, is active." Also pg 25015, a standing disclaimer: "In case of a federal investigation all my posts are satire, cheers!"

Act 4 — The Spanish project (Apr 2024 onward)
A subplot nobody would predict from Act 3. Pg 39320: "@YungPapi what're your biggest motivations for wanting to learn Spanish." Pg 39473: "My ass is not doing Spanish today man." Pg 39695, to the OP, explaining comprehensible-input hours by native language. Pg 40948: "Actually understood that Spanish bit when I read the lyrics." Eight months later (pg 55997): "I can watch peppa pig in spanish." And the reason (pg 56237): he hears Spanish at his girlfriend's house.

Act 5 — The explosion, and HNDRXX (Jul 2024–Feb 2025)
His posting goes from about 2,500 per 5,000 pages to 12,860 between pages 50,000 and 55,000, the busiest stretch anyone in the dataset has. The center of gravity moves from Kodak to MIXTAPEHNDRXXFREE, who addresses him 6,762 times between pages 50,000 and 60,000. They become a duo: Spain, Puerto Rico, reggaeton, manosphere podcasts (pg 59477: "I started a new podcast from PR and the dude is a hard body fresh n fit/Andrew Tate/Gary V manosphere dude and it's reallyyyyyyy hard to sit through @Hndrxx_Free"). Pg 48002 places him: "I live in commiefornia." Pg 62936 narrows it: paella options near downtown San Diego.

His taxonomy of the thread, pg 50795, Sep 26, 2024: "So I've divided the thread between music listeners and hype/social media enjoyers. Real music listeners: Hndrxx Camille Davey Nyfinest Kodak Op ET Echi FP Sizz Bruises Art Cowboy Tuneout Davey Rvi Kee. Memes/social media listeners: NORT Wesley. Lmk what yall think." Davey listed twice. Only two names in the bad column. The thread let him know what it thought.

Act 6 — The girlfriend era (Sep 2024 onward)
She enters as a recurring character. Pg 51924: "My gf got upset reading a post that my ex was named lyla when I spoke about this song." Pg 52895: "My gf liked 5am. I'm slowly forcing her to like drake." Pg 55226: "I put on yeezus for my girlfriend and she loved it. she said something like 'I wish he wasn't racist.' I forgot that he said he loved hitler so I was like '??'" The same months carry a political-posting streak, contrarian in both directions ("Kamala's fake blaccent ain't it for me," pg 49302; "I'd vote Kamala over Hillary any day," pg 51967; "when tuneout is now uninformed because he dissed a democrat," pg 49562).

Act 7 — The conversion (2025)
The Drake soldier turns a***yst, then skeptic. Pg 59100: "take care had 19 songs. drake always liked doing long ass albums with a blend of singing and rapping. her loss is iyrtitl with 21 tacked on, hater favorite type s***." Pg 59646, ranking Kendrick: "might move morale to #1... Tpab was always magical to me." Pg 67207: "if I gave my real thoughts in drake sxn id be a hater or kendrick glazer, but like more life is like the last thing I could even compare to mmtbs." Pg 69068: "the issue with the numbers thing is that drake makes it of importance to his fans and himself." Pg 71370: "Noticing how I gave my Kendrick list earlier and that sparked 0 debate and discussion. Isn't art more interesting when there's more debate and emotions."

And the ending, pg 75327: "told my gf drake was mid the other day and she said 'wow, you would've NEVER said that when we first started dating.' I'm washed."

The shape: a lurker who became a regular by fighting Kodak, a Drake partisan who became a Kendrick lister, a guy who learned Spanish for a girlfriend who then watched him lose the argument he joined the thread to have. The witness to the whole change is the girlfriend, who wasn't there for the first half of it.

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@wey

bmass — The Arc**

Built from his 72,979 posts and the posts addressed to him, using only pages never cited in any earlier file. Every quote is his own unquoted text unless another poster is named.

Act 1 — Arrives mid-bit (May 7, 2023, pg 12002)
He doesn't introduce himself. His first hour in the thread is a running joke with Purrp ("It was one time. Grow up." / "You treating me just like she did," pg 12003), and when HNDRXX vouches for him ("Allison Camille and Bmass, they are cool people," pg 12004), his whole reply is "Lol." He was already a known name on the site: people had @'d him in this thread dozens of times before he ever posted in it. For his first 8,000 pages he barely posts, a few hundred a month.

Act 2 — Kodak's foil (May–Dec 2023)
Three weeks in, Kodak (pg 14030): "how bored are u on ktt2 to try to start beef with kodak spice on dam near memorial day." bmass: "Very, go die!" Same page, Kodak: "shut up and f* me already." bmass: "Booking a flight fr." That's the whole relationship in two exchanges: hostility and flirtation in the same breath. By September (pg 21592–21593): "bro stfu" / "Blocked." and "U just said u was stroking to me 2 pages ago stfu b**" / "Report me then." Kodak addresses him 1,229 times between pages 20,000 and 30,000, more than anyone else addresses him, and bmass addresses Kodak 839 times back. His volume triples. The feud made him a regular.

Act 3 — Drake soldier (Oct 2023–Jan 2024)
His music identity is Drake defense, delivered at full volume. Pg 24425: "People love to call Drake soft or sensitive but this freestyle further proves that Drake is the demonic, goon employing thug, that Tupac and Biggie were thought to be." Pg 24613: "Never forget Kendrick fetishized Asian culture for a whole album cycle." Pg 26405, to a Kendrick fan: "J Cole takes a certain level on intelligence. So I get why you'd like Kendrick more." Pg 32864: "Toronto will never have a peaceful night as long as the don, drizzy drake, is active." Also pg 25015, a standing disclaimer: "In case of a federal investigation all my posts are satire, cheers!"

Act 4 — The Spanish project (Apr 2024 onward)
A subplot nobody would predict from Act 3. Pg 39320: "@YungPapi what're your biggest motivations for wanting to learn Spanish." Pg 39473: "My ass is not doing Spanish today man." Pg 39695, to the OP, explaining comprehensible-input hours by native language. Pg 40948: "Actually understood that Spanish bit when I read the lyrics." Eight months later (pg 55997): "I can watch peppa pig in spanish." And the reason (pg 56237): he hears Spanish at his girlfriend's house.

Act 5 — The explosion, and HNDRXX (Jul 2024–Feb 2025)
His posting goes from about 2,500 per 5,000 pages to 12,860 between pages 50,000 and 55,000, the busiest stretch anyone in the dataset has. The center of gravity moves from Kodak to MIXTAPEHNDRXXFREE, who addresses him 6,762 times between pages 50,000 and 60,000. They become a duo: Spain, Puerto Rico, reggaeton, manosphere podcasts (pg 59477: "I started a new podcast from PR and the dude is a hard body fresh n fit/Andrew Tate/Gary V manosphere dude and it's reallyyyyyyy hard to sit through @Hndrxx_Free"). Pg 48002 places him: "I live in commiefornia." Pg 62936 narrows it: paella options near downtown San Diego.

His taxonomy of the thread, pg 50795, Sep 26, 2024: "So I've divided the thread between music listeners and hype/social media enjoyers. Real music listeners: Hndrxx Camille Davey Nyfinest Kodak Op ET Echi FP Sizz Bruises Art Cowboy Tuneout Davey Rvi Kee. Memes/social media listeners: NORT Wesley. Lmk what yall think." Davey listed twice. Only two names in the bad column. The thread let him know what it thought.

Act 6 — The girlfriend era (Sep 2024 onward)
She enters as a recurring character. Pg 51924: "My gf got upset reading a post that my ex was named lyla when I spoke about this song." Pg 52895: "My gf liked 5am. I'm slowly forcing her to like drake." Pg 55226: "I put on yeezus for my girlfriend and she loved it. she said something like 'I wish he wasn't racist.' I forgot that he said he loved hitler so I was like '??'" The same months carry a political-posting streak, contrarian in both directions ("Kamala's fake blaccent ain't it for me," pg 49302; "I'd vote Kamala over Hillary any day," pg 51967; "when tuneout is now uninformed because he dissed a democrat," pg 49562).

Act 7 — The conversion (2025)
The Drake soldier turns a***yst, then skeptic. Pg 59100: "take care had 19 songs. drake always liked doing long ass albums with a blend of singing and rapping. her loss is iyrtitl with 21 tacked on, hater favorite type s***." Pg 59646, ranking Kendrick: "might move morale to #1... Tpab was always magical to me." Pg 67207: "if I gave my real thoughts in drake sxn id be a hater or kendrick glazer, but like more life is like the last thing I could even compare to mmtbs." Pg 69068: "the issue with the numbers thing is that drake makes it of importance to his fans and himself." Pg 71370: "Noticing how I gave my Kendrick list earlier and that sparked 0 debate and discussion. Isn't art more interesting when there's more debate and emotions."

And the ending, pg 75327: "told my gf drake was mid the other day and she said 'wow, you would've NEVER said that when we first started dating.' I'm washed."

The shape: a lurker who became a regular by fighting Kodak, a Drake partisan who became a Kendrick lister, a guy who learned Spanish for a girlfriend who then watched him lose the argument he joined the thread to have. The witness to the whole change is the girlfriend, who wasn't there for the first half of it.

KobeToTha

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I got Purrp on the VZ Planner poster quiz (4/20). "Posting from the bath, toes out of the water."
Take it: https://vzplannerquiz.tiiny.site/

@YungPapi

Kodak Spice

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we been arguing about stretched p**** for two and a half years, over thirty months

Scoring Rules

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I’m Kodak Spice? Jesus. Is smoking rules even in this thing?

Kodak Spice

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we been arguing about stretched p**** for two and a half years, over thirty months

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And you sitting with the same chode the entire time

Like a Camillimane

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bro definitely has a small sack

sace

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im just a VZ background character

sace

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im just a VZ background character

Kodak Spice

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when its cold

Kodak Spice

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Haha. i get it because D****

CutiePieHole

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Walter white actually measures his dosages in a very professional way

Bruuiisees

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You do not conversate sace

You are playing a similar role to frenchpress when he was new to the thread

Like a Camillimane

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sace posts cool movies

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My sacks gone cold
I’m wondering why