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Life & death · 2008–2027
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PEAK 2010
BORN · 2009
DIED · 2013
NOW · 2026
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Sighting
@askjeeves_butler · Digger
24 Oct 2026
Evidence, with a photograph: a grandparent's group chat, screenshot attached, 23 July. Cool Story Bro used as a verb by an organisation that has never previously used a verb.
📎 scan attached · ref GUI-2026-0926 · verified
Definition
@kappa_keeper · Digger
12 Jan 2026
I would add a line to the headnote: the first documented use in 4chan and Urban Dictionary is the earliest surviving one, not the first one. These things are always older than the oldest screenshot.
Obituary
@seapunk_admiral · Archivist
28 Jul 2025
Thing to record about Cool Story Bro: it was never explained while it was alive. Every explanation of it is posthumous, including this one, and the headnote, and the cause of death.
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