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When was the "golden age" of xo?

Imo around 2015 when halford and boom and j shad and johnsme...
wild chestnut nowag
  03/15/26
I agree with this. Add in Julia and that one druggy guy from...
Exhilarant half-breed
  03/15/26
You also had the luis and Earl rivalry which was hilarious.
Exhilarant half-breed
  03/15/26
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swashbuckling elite orchestra pit son of senegal
  03/15/26
I've seen a lot of acclaimed old threads from back then and ...
wild chestnut nowag
  03/15/26
there were far more niggerthreads than today
adulterous party of the first part
  03/15/26
nah not really. you had people using humor and talking about...
Deep Parlour Trump Supporter
  03/15/26
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Histrionic sapphire meetinghouse wrinkle
  03/16/26
7PM-3AM on Election Night 2016. If you were there you wil...
Ebony provocative travel guidebook
  03/15/26
An incredible night
wild chestnut nowag
  03/15/26
Incomparable
Ebony provocative travel guidebook
  03/15/26
nothing in life was better than seeing the needle go from hi...
kink-friendly plaza
  03/15/26
Only thing remotely close was watching my kids be born and i...
Ebony provocative travel guidebook
  03/15/26
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Mewling Geriatric Stead
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wild chestnut nowag
  03/15/26
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shaky talented filthpig tanning salon
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Mewling Geriatric Stead
  03/15/26
i was on xoxo and watching the needle as i sat in a lib bar ...
Flickering Sanctuary Gay Wizard
  03/15/26
the colbert show live lmao
Blathering international law enforcement agency
  03/15/26
hillary getting a refund on the fireworks
kink-friendly plaza
  03/15/26
the whole election cycle, from escalator to hung over hillda...
Magical chest-beating site factory reset button
  03/15/26
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Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
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Supple Famous Landscape Painting
  03/16/26
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Excitant bronze space
  03/16/26
2009-2012 or so lots of high value effortpoasting, lots o...
adulterous party of the first part
  03/15/26
yeah I think all the way up to 2016 though then after that i...
Deep Parlour Trump Supporter
  03/15/26
There was a huge surge in xo quality when Halford really too...
Ebony provocative travel guidebook
  03/15/26
yeah the Halford era was something that can really never be ...
Deep Parlour Trump Supporter
  03/15/26
2006-8 when there were actually law students here, including...
Confused Federal Sandwich
  03/15/26
why would you want to talk to "law students" at ag...
Deep Parlour Trump Supporter
  03/15/26
law students are fags
wild chestnut nowag
  03/15/26
It's a bit staggering how there is zero chatter about prefti...
Hot state legal warrant
  03/15/26
yeah because everyone is old as fuck now
Deep Parlour Trump Supporter
  03/15/26
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Histrionic sapphire meetinghouse wrinkle
  03/16/26
We are literally not even from the same millennium as curren...
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
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adulterous party of the first part
  03/16/26
I get that but if I went to HYS I'd probably go out of my wa...
Hot state legal warrant
  03/16/26
NOT if you went to Y, New Haven is a dump, absolutely misera...
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
Well even if you don't look back on it all that fondly it's ...
Hot state legal warrant
  03/16/26
I liked it for what it was, but my bro who went to NYU has a...
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
I started coming here about 2004 or 2005 and got great advic...
Curious principal's office mad cow disease
  03/16/26
law students/lawyers being here has always been a bug, not a...
shaky talented filthpig tanning salon
  03/16/26
The golden age is always now, because it alone is the one yo...
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
*poops diaper*
adulterous party of the first part
  03/16/26
Woah, seems like a hot new meme, friend
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
there were several. the original phase from '04 to the laws...
mahogany fragrant voyeur
  03/16/26
...
Multi-colored slippery office
  03/16/26
2014-2020/2021. it's always remained pretty good, but i ...
drab clown
  03/16/26
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  03/22/26


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Date: March 15th, 2026 1:57 PM
Author: wild chestnut nowag

Imo around 2015 when halford and boom and j shad and johnsmeyer and evan39 were all alive and poasting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745534)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Exhilarant half-breed

I agree with this. Add in Julia and that one druggy guy from California (I rememberer, harrison).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745893)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: Exhilarant half-breed

You also had the luis and Earl rivalry which was hilarious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745897)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 1:59 PM
Author: swashbuckling elite orchestra pit son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745542)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 2:01 PM
Author: wild chestnut nowag

I've seen a lot of acclaimed old threads from back then and they're chungus safe lib humor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745545)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:22 PM
Author: adulterous party of the first part

there were far more niggerthreads than today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745841)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:45 PM
Author: Deep Parlour Trump Supporter

nah not really. you had people using humor and talking about topics without being as politics fixated back then. but also that was before shitlibs ruined America so that was easier to do back then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745886)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 1:11 PM
Author: Histrionic sapphire meetinghouse wrinkle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49748307)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: Ebony provocative travel guidebook

7PM-3AM on Election Night 2016.

If you were there you will remember it on your deathbed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745824)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: wild chestnut nowag

An incredible night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745827)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: Ebony provocative travel guidebook

Incomparable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745830)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: kink-friendly plaza

nothing in life was better than seeing the needle go from hillary to donald

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745828)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: Ebony provocative travel guidebook

Only thing remotely close was watching my kids be born and it’s still an easy #1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745833)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:22 PM
Author: Mewling Geriatric Stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745836)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:28 PM
Author: wild chestnut nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745853)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 1:01 PM
Author: shaky talented filthpig tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49748269)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:22 PM
Author: Mewling Geriatric Stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745834)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:42 PM
Author: Flickering Sanctuary Gay Wizard

i was on xoxo and watching the needle as i sat in a lib bar in a very lib city. people were getting wrecked and panicky. the bar had MSNBC and CNN on. i was concern trolling everyone in sight.

*sigh*

as far as politics go, i'm not sure i can ever top that night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745879)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Blathering international law enforcement agency

the colbert show live lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745894)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: kink-friendly plaza

hillary getting a refund on the fireworks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745913)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 6:33 PM
Author: Magical chest-beating site factory reset button

the whole election cycle, from escalator to hung over hilldawg conceding the day after the election, was the great bort’s golden age

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49746290)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:33 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747376)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:36 AM
Author: Supple Famous Landscape Painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747394)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: Excitant bronze space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747926)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: adulterous party of the first part

2009-2012 or so

lots of high value effortpoasting, lots of shitpoasting, place was still somewhat relevant with new people coming in. XO WoW Guild.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745831)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:23 PM
Author: Deep Parlour Trump Supporter

yeah I think all the way up to 2016 though then after that it was trash and quickly just got worse 2017 and 2018 were OK but by the time Covid was over this site, the country, and my life were cooked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745844)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: Ebony provocative travel guidebook

There was a huge surge in xo quality when Halford really took off around 2011 and it continued for ~5-6 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745845)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: Deep Parlour Trump Supporter

yeah the Halford era was something that can really never be duplicated. we are all too old now anyway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745847)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: Confused Federal Sandwich

2006-8 when there were actually law students here, including like half of HYSCCN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745846)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:28 PM
Author: Deep Parlour Trump Supporter

why would you want to talk to "law students" at age 50? also most of those people were still here 2009-2012 they just graduated. half the posts during that era were about BigLaw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745854)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: wild chestnut nowag

law students are fags

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49745857)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: Hot state legal warrant

It's a bit staggering how there is zero chatter about preftitious law schools these days considering that's ALL the bort talked about 20 years ago.

No threads debating the best New Haven pizza joint. No reminiscing on living in the Gropius complex.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49746244)



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Date: March 15th, 2026 6:28 PM
Author: Deep Parlour Trump Supporter

yeah because everyone is old as fuck now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49746275)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: Histrionic sapphire meetinghouse wrinkle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49748310)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:34 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office

We are literally not even from the same millennium as current law students lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747386)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:35 AM
Author: adulterous party of the first part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747389)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:50 AM
Author: Hot state legal warrant

I get that but if I went to HYS I'd probably go out of my way to reminisce about it here on the bort.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747436)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:52 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office

NOT if you went to Y, New Haven is a dump, absolutely miserable place to spend three years, I would never do it again.

Feel almost bad for the profs tbh. In theory they're at the absolute peak of their profession, but they have to live and die in New Haven.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747440)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 11:10 AM
Author: Hot state legal warrant

Well even if you don't look back on it all that fondly it's still a flex here on the bort. Yeah it might be gauche to bring up elite schooling IRL. But this isn't IRL.

Also I get that New Haven sucks. But, no grades. Beautiful campus buildings. Lots of really smart peers. NYC not too far.

It can't have been that bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747909)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 2:40 PM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office

I liked it for what it was, but my bro who went to NYU has a career just as good as I do and got to spend those three years actually in NYC. idk brother, Y obvious has great outcomes but the time itself there is a bit of a poison chalice and you have to spend it during what should be peak party years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49748544)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:39 AM
Author: Curious principal's office mad cow disease

I started coming here about 2004 or 2005 and got great advice about applying to law schools. Looking back, that was a fun and exciting era of my life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747407)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 1:02 PM
Author: shaky talented filthpig tanning salon

law students/lawyers being here has always been a bug, not a feature

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49748275)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:33 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office

The golden age is always now, because it alone is the one you can reshape to your will. Everything else is an abstraction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747383)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:35 AM
Author: adulterous party of the first part

*poops diaper*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747391)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 8:36 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office

Woah, seems like a hot new meme, friend

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747392)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:00 AM
Author: mahogany fragrant voyeur

there were several. the original phase from '04 to the lawsuit of summer '07 was its own golden epoch. unrefined, but finding its paths. then there was a lull after the suit, but a strong comeback afterwards during ITE. 2008 through obama's re-election seems like its own era. this was brought to a sharp close by the severance of the pre-january 2012 archives.

the rest of 2012 through 2014 was a bit of a rebuilding era. there was a resurgence and bump in interest in 2016 for political reasons. the great moniker randomization was another cyclical close.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747479)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:33 AM
Author: Multi-colored slippery office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747561)



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Date: March 16th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: drab clown

2014-2020/2021.

it's always remained pretty good, but i have noticed a bad falloff in the last few months. place might really be dying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49747913)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 2:35 PM
Author: charismatic house-broken water buffalo theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5845907&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49761486)