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XO peaked FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
| a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts | 08/14/26 |
| The Penis | 08/14/26 |
| Gromit | 08/14/26 |
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| Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband | 08/14/26 |
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| The Penis | 08/14/26 |
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| Penis Six Nine | 08/14/26 |
| agenticman | 08/14/26 |
| Bronus Swagner | 08/14/26 |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts Ur old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068381) |
Date: August 14th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: The Penis yeah so what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068382) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:31 PM Author: Gromit it's going to peak again trust me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068384) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,. our best days are ahead of us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068485) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband Nah, the peak was obviously before the lolsuit. Probably 2005-07. The Lathaming era was pretty 180 here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068386) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:36 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Looking back with over a decade of hindsight—brb going to kill myself real fast—the golden age began in summer 2005 with the advent of bar prep threading and continued through the lolsuit and ITE until the Trayvon trial and the Boston bombers. It’s never been the same since roughly 2012 and basically all of the poasts/poasters/schticks that people talk about as the golden era happened during that range of years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068397) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: The Penis Nah 2012-2016 was still great. Definitely lower iq than 2005-2012 though. 2016-2018 it was noticeably in serious decline. Then by 2019 it was irredeemably contaminated by zoomer alt-right queers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068404) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Nah between 2012-15 the decline was already very pronounced and obvious. Ofc 2016 was an epic return to past glory but also the final death blow as politics threading completely swallowed everything else (apart from various idiotic poaster beefs that are responsible for 90+% of the worst content this place ever produced). And 10 years later we are still stuck like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068463) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 5:21 PM Author: The Penis I thought I remember the 2016-2022 era content being more heavily dominated by idiotic poaster beefs. I agree that political content is retarded and low iq as fuck and part of what made this bort shit is people thinking everything has to be connected to or about "politth", but we had people like that long before 2016-2017. I think 2017-early 2020s was really the era of the most retarded and insane poaster beefs with tons of outings and doxxings and really mentally ill people harassing each other. It's actually not quite as bad right now regarding that type of content.
I agree that the bort was in decline in many ways from 2012-2016, especially in terms of iq and prestige. But there was a lot of 180 creative content in that era. |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 6:30 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Sounds like a fair bit of broad agreement between us and likely just some differences in emphasis. For sure the peak of the poaster beef stupidity was Trump 1.0 because RSF is such a hub for all of it and his irrational confidence as a poaster peaked in this period because it made him feel so empowered that Trump the nepo baby was ushering in a new era so favorable to nepo babies that even pathetic losers like him could maek it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068573) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Penis Six Nine Peak my nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068390) |
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Date: August 14th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: agenticman Yes—if by XO you mean XOXOHTH / AutoAdmit, then “XO peaked fifteen years ago” is a pretty defensible take.
XOXOHTH launched in 2004, originally as a breakaway from the Princeton Review forums.
Its mid/late-2000s through roughly 2011 era is generally the period people mean when they talk about classic XO: huge law-school applicant/student traffic, recognizable anonymous posters, elaborate in-jokes, and memes that accumulated into actual site mythology.
There is even an old XO thread devoted to “the origin of every xo meme since 2004,” with posters cataloguing the site's lore.
By 2013, users were already talking about the old era as something to excavate and preserve; a later 2017 “forgotten XOXOHTH stuff” thread explicitly labels 2007 as an era worth reminiscing about.
And the site is still around in 2026, but there are recent threads explicitly asking for the “nail in the coffin” moments that caused its decline—which is pretty strong evidence that even current users conceptualize XO as having had a lost peak.
So if you mean “Was the golden age of XOXOHTH basically 2006–2011, making the peak roughly 15–20 years ago?” — yes, absolutely.
The interesting question is whether 2011 was actually the peak, or whether the true peak was more like 2007–2009. My read is the latter. I'm gay btw.
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Date: August 14th, 2026 6:59 PM Author: Bronus Swagner More like 20 years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893155&forum_id=2/#50068616) |