Inside the World’s Biggest Group Chat

A Reporter At Large, Trapped in a Big Nothing.

At this very moment, someone is taking their last breath. So I know I should be getting around to cutting off all my distractions and detractors, and finally achieve the dreams I’ve been putting off.

But when someone asks if you’d like to be looped into the world’s biggest group chat, what are you—at least the curious and masochistic side of you—going to do, say no?

I will tell you of the biggest group chat in the world, because I was in there. I was in it. It was terrible and beautiful and anything you want to say about it, it was. Everything that could be said—or will ever be said—was said there, like that infinite monkey~typewriter theorem—except what we produced was far from Shakespeare.

SMS historians will say I’m a liar…but history is written by those who have endured an inescapable, 720,000-member cult.

A Brief History of The World’s Biggest Group Chat

The world’s biggest group chat had humble enough beginnings: in late 2014, eight football buddies in or around Glens Fall, NY—who simply wanted to keep in touch after high school—added each other’s phone numbers, one by one.