Group Chat Theory is the unofficial theory that all big non-work group chats follow a set structure:
1. A group chat is created that’s just you and your close friends for actual discussion and funny conversations, and all is well and good
2. Your friend eventually insists on adding their friends that you either don’t know or don’t like, but they’re eventually added in, even if you do try to prevent it
3. Those friends either immediately cause chaos, or will just start adding THEIR friends too. Now the group chat is full of randos that are 99% of the time unfunny rude dickheads.
4. Those randos then quickly devolve the chat into the following:
- Bulling someone
- Arguing about beef between each other you either don’t know or don’t care about
- Fill the chat with shitposts instead of actual discussion
- Spam unfunny and illegal shit like gore, porn, drug dealing or more cause they think it’s cool. This then leads to a “Group Chat got leaked…” situation, where the group chat gets leaked to the police or the public, and said unfunny, criminal randos either run away and escape, inevitably to cause another Group Chat Theory in the future, or get caught by authorities and arrested.
5. All of this continues until the group chat meets its metaphorical breaking point, and is either abandoned (otherwise known as a “Dead chat”) or deleted by the owners/taken down by the police.
1. A group chat is created that’s just you and your close friends for actual discussion and funny conversations, and all is well and good
2. Your friend eventually insists on adding their friends that you either don’t know or don’t like, but they’re eventually added in, even if you do try to prevent it
3. Those friends either immediately cause chaos, or will just start adding THEIR friends too. Now the group chat is full of randos that are 99% of the time unfunny rude dickheads.
4. Those randos then quickly devolve the chat into the following:
- Bulling someone
- Arguing about beef between each other you either don’t know or don’t care about
- Fill the chat with shitposts instead of actual discussion
- Spam unfunny and illegal shit like gore, porn, drug dealing or more cause they think it’s cool. This then leads to a “Group Chat got leaked…” situation, where the group chat gets leaked to the police or the public, and said unfunny, criminal randos either run away and escape, inevitably to cause another Group Chat Theory in the future, or get caught by authorities and arrested.
5. All of this continues until the group chat meets its metaphorical breaking point, and is either abandoned (otherwise known as a “Dead chat”) or deleted by the owners/taken down by the police.
“Bro that group chat fell off, everybody’s just being a dickhead on there, we should create a new one”
“Yeah bro, that’s literally Group Chat Theory”
“Jesse what the fuck are you talking about.”
“Yeah bro, that’s literally Group Chat Theory”
“Jesse what the fuck are you talking about.”
by Teamorson November 5, 2024
Get the Group Chat Theorymug. The meme “Chat is this real?” started with live streamers asking their live audience about the legitimacy of obviously fabricated online content. It is now commonly used as a sarcastic reference to obvious fake and AI-generated material.
*sees a picture of well-dressed pigs casually walking upright in a crowd of humans*
"Chat is this real???"
"Chat is this real???"
by Chromo Jakob September 26, 2025
Get the Chat is this real?mug. When someone’s chatting on someone’s name, they are talking about them behind their back (usually in a negative way)
Chatting on someone’s name examples
“Stop chatting on Mike’s name”
“I heard him chatting on my name the other day”
“Stop chatting on Mike’s name”
“I heard him chatting on my name the other day”
by Creativecake March 27, 2024
Get the Chatting on someone’s namemug. I am always busy during the day. The only time that I can get in touch with my friends is when I shit-chat.
by Textretary September 2, 2013
Get the Shit-chatmug. 
Refers to the act of sending a new message in a group chat or messaging platform with the intention of confirming whether a previous message, sent by another member of the group, has been read by one or more recipients. This term is commonly used in messaging applications where read receipts are not directly associated with specific messages, requiring individuals to send their own messages as a way to indirectly monitor the read status of a particular message.
I wasn't sure if anyone noticed Emily's message about the potluck dinner, so I did some chat warding by sending a quick hello. Sure enough, the read receipts lit up, so I knew everyone got the memo.
by arstc October 24, 2023
Get the Chat Wardingmug. I was shat chatting my buddy while on the throne. I decided to snap chat my buddy a picture of my dump. It was hilarious
by Unclebuck April 6, 2014
Get the shat chattingmug.