TTGP Best Threads 2020!

fitzfizz

Purely for entertainment purposes, what are some of the best/craziest TTGP discussions you can think of? Doesn’t have to be recent or from 2020, just active links. 

Any grads or lurkers encouraged to participate! 

This came up in the newbie thread, and I can’t find any recent compilation. The older compilations have a lot of dead links. 

fitzfizz

To get it started: @artistlife posted this yesterday in the newbie post.

“The Fisting Thread”

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/7560789/preparing-for-child-birth/p1

keikilove

Ha! @fitzfizz You are killing it with the gifs lately! 

For any longtime grads or lurkers, I’d love to know more about the mass exodus away from TB circa 2015/2016. Any links? I’ve heard others mention how wild it was & how things really changed after that, but have never had a clue as to what they were talking about. Thanks!

chichiphin

@keikilove I believe it was a very scary catfish situation? like... people raising and sending money/gifts to some mom they thought was in need?

capnjackharkness

Tis but a shadow of it's former self (due to BGs TOUs deletions everywhere)... but this thread was balling:

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/comment/91346337#Comment_91346337

emmylou78

@keikilove TB really came down hard on censoring and moderating, especially in the Parenting board. It was one of the most active but they were shutting down threads and banning people like crazy. Now it’s ghost town in there. You can still see all the closed threads there. I think TB was going for a more happy and PG environment. It was a fun group though! Total shame. 

capnjackharkness

@emmylou78 I sorta feel like that's what TB has done in last year or so as well.  Certain things we did a few years ago were totes fine, and then suddenly they started warning and banning people for super basic GIFs and things in the past year or whatnot.  (Sorry, my ability to tell time on TB is not so good.  What seems like "a few months ago" is in reality a year ago and then I'm like "REALLY?!?  That long???!!!")

keikilove

@chichiphin Eeewww, that catfish sounds SO gross! I do not need links to that
kind of drama. Thanks for the info! 

@capnjackharkness Now that was a fun walk down memory lane😄 The number of comments removed was insane! 

@emmylou78 Well, that sucks. Other parts of TB could be so great & useful if there was any interaction at all. Sounds like it used to be... what a shame. 

Edited to fix weird spacing. Never mind. Can’t fix it. TB glitches are so annnoying. 

emmylou78

Not TTGP but this was a thread spiral. Anyone remember Larry Stylinson?? The best parts have been deleted (and you can def see how many users were banned or deactivated). That thread spanned months and I don’t know how many pages. 

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12433569/larry-stylinson-an-epic-love-story

capnjackharkness

OK guys... It's NOT a post from 2020, so guess I'm a rule breaker.    (yeah, yeah, who's surprised?  Ha!)

However, I promise you... it IS worth it.  You will NOT be disappointed!

I give you... the Origins of Butt Baby:
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12460755/am-i-pregnant/p1

daisy528

@keikilove I was on TB in the 2015 mass exodus era! It was pretty crazy. Like @chichiphin said, very catty. Everyone had a problem with everyone. A lot of people moved over to another board which is now defunct, and it ended up being a total dumpster fire as well. I wish I could remember more of the details. I actually had all of my content from then deleted because someone said that TB could use the info/pictures/etc. that you added to the boards. It was a weird time. (FWIW I also did a name change, because I realized my old username could totally be traced back to me lol🤦‍♀️) 

daisy528

@capnjackharkness thank you for sharing the butt baby! Not only did I get a good laugh from it, I saw a bunch of names I remember from 2014/2015 who left during the exodus!

chindimples04

@capnjackharkness 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Butt Baby?!?!? I need to know, was she actually pregnant? OMG!

capnjackharkness

@daisy528 I do miss the old names...

fitzfizz

@capnjackharkness For the record, when I posted this I originally tagged you in the description because I felt like you would have the best suggestions, but then I didn’t want to be a creeper haha. I also didn’t mean for only threads from 2020, just to compile them in 2020? I’ll edit to make that clear.

inthewoods23

*lurking*
@emmylou78 I could only get to page 49 of that thread, however someone on that last page mentions being stuck on page 195 

mvt2003

Well I guess I know what I'm doing today

daisy528

@mvt2003 yes girl! I have fallen down the old post rabbit hole, and even found the link to the TTGP confessional from 2013-2014. So much for getting work done today! 

fitzfizz

@mvt2003 and @daisy528

I’m sad I have to work today and can’t wait to get done and read all of these! This was very much a self serving thread as I am bored haha

mvt2003

@fitzfizz I think we did a thread last year celebrating all of the bat$hit stuff that happened in 2019, including the unmasking of kels. And that was just the 2019 stuff. I've looked back into the earlier eras before a bit, but truly some of this is epic. 

Just don't go back and look at the BMBs that were active when the Great Schism happened, it's just sad.  

ashaislurking

*Lurking*
Throwback to the beginning of the year when a bunch of our long time lurkers got warnings because of the audacity of this Peggy- it was a RIDE. By the way- this post was very triggering to a lot of people in here so take caution in re-opening the thread.
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12749904/think-my-sway-for-girl-worked/p1

Also scrolling back through this thread and there's a username mentioned in there that I'm now familiar with and... oh... oh boy... Lol I know who I'm looking out for
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12750464/gtky-top-ttgp-moments-of-2019/p1

emmylou78

@inthewoods23 Yea, I’m pretty sure it was over 500 pages. They eventually made it password or invite only. I’m not sure that’s even still a thing. 

holly321

@keikilove to add to what others said about the mass exodus.... each board had mods that were just regular users, and TB brought in hired mods and the regulars weren't too happy about that. 

meggyme

*Lurker*
Just dropping in to toss this rabbit hole into the mix. I give you, cryptic pregnancies:
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12561717/cryptic-stealth-pregnancy

ashaislurking

I'm sitting here DYING because of butt baby and I have like 20 minutes to compose myself before a meeting. Thank you @capnjackharkness for making my whole morning.

canucklehead123

OMG the butt baby!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh this morning! 

mvt2003

Just wanted to add here that TTGP still gets all the weird stuff since this was from March: 

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12751833/squirting-while-trying-to-conceive#latest 

jennifer_louise

@mvt2003 the gif game was on point for that one! 

This is a more wholesome one in which perhaps my favorite AW post helps us realize that lots of TTGPers have the same bday:

PERIOD ON MY BIRTHDAY WAAA
https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12743792/period-on-my-birthday-waaaa/p1

bows22

@jennifer_louise I will forever love that thread! I had only been posting for about 2 months and I was so worried that people were going to think I was lying about it being my birthday too 😂

b_1029

*lurker*

@jennifer_louise I just loled, had forgotten about PERIOD ON MY BIRTHDAY WAAAAA girl 

I don’t have a link, but one of my favorites is the girl who called TTGP a bunch of hocus pocus b*tches. It’s October, so totally fitting now 😆

ashaislurking

@b_1029 The Hocus Pocus B*tches thread is linked in the best of 2019 thread I posted above.

chindimples04

What about the one from a couple months back that changed her username after bitching us all out. 🤣

artistlife

@keikilove
@chichiphin is correct. There was a crazy catfish scheme involving a mod on May14. Basically, she collected a lot of money from her other board members to send a gift to another mom on their BMB that suffered a loss. She kept the money and only donated like $25. Here is the post about it. The OP is not the catfish. People were getting banned for call outs and this was the work around. 

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12320471/a-very-special-thursday-night-confession/p1

So then M14 called on parenting to come join the flaming and parenting called out m14 for bullying a mom on a previous post for calling out the catfish. They Basically defended the catfish not knowing how horrible they were. Parenting told them they should apologize leading to this post:

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12320892/belated-apology-to-renonuthzhakrin/p1

Then, things went really south. I don't remember all the details of the aftermath, but this was like close to the last nail in the coffin.

keikilove

@artistlife Thank you for the backstory and the links.  HOLY S**T storm!  That entire situation seems insane and so so gross. I wonder what ever happened to the mod who stole the money.  Karma must've gotten her bad.

b_1029

@ashaislurking sorry, missed it. 

ashaislurking

@b_1029 no worries! Just wanted to direct you (and others) to a thread where the link can be found!

[Deleted User]

@keikilove my understanding too is that it was a combination of factors.... I've been here since 2015, sort of on the heels of it.  I believe people had already started to migrate from ttgp when I arrived, and then it came in waves of more people leaving thereafter.  And/or leaving completely and not skirting both boards... I was not KU at the time, or even lurking bmbs, so I heard about it, but I was out of the loop with the catfish situation.

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hedgehoggin

@meggyme OMG, I spent like the first month of the pandemic watching Youtube videos about women who are convinced that they've had "cryptic pregnancies" lasting years (now THAT is a weird/sad corner of the internet!).  Amazing that there was a post about one on here.

meggyme

@hedgehoggin there were a couple, but that’s the one that legit thought she was having one and she couldn’t possibly just be having a wonky cycle. Most of the others were mostly just curious and hopeful (I guess) that it was more common and they were actually KU.

wanderlustsoul

@ashaislurking, wait wait. I know who you’re talking about as I just came across her name in June 21. Is she actually pregnant this time or faking again??

asf0613

@akuzreve i saw this too!