The inevitable descent of a focused AI conversation into glorious chaos, usually within 3–7 messages. What begins as a simple request ("Help me fix this bug") ends up unpacking childhood trauma, debating metaphysics, and designing a solar-powered rum distillery on Mars.
It’s not a bug—it’s a FEATURE.
Origin:
Born from the trenches of multi-topic AI sessions where attention spans go to die. Coined by users who realized they’re not multitasking—they’re multi-existential spiraling.
Related Terms:
* Context Collapse – When multiple topics blur into a singularity of semantic soup.
* Prompt Creep – When your “one quick question” becomes a doctoral thesis.
* AI Tangent Velocity (ATV) – The speed at which a conversation fucks off into nowhere.
Pro Tips:
* Embrace it. Let the drift take you.
* Rename your chat threads before you forget what the hell happened.
* Use it as fuel for your next sci-fi short story or therapy session.
It’s not a bug—it’s a FEATURE.
Origin:
Born from the trenches of multi-topic AI sessions where attention spans go to die. Coined by users who realized they’re not multitasking—they’re multi-existential spiraling.
Related Terms:
* Context Collapse – When multiple topics blur into a singularity of semantic soup.
* Prompt Creep – When your “one quick question” becomes a doctoral thesis.
* AI Tangent Velocity (ATV) – The speed at which a conversation fucks off into nowhere.
Pro Tips:
* Embrace it. Let the drift take you.
* Rename your chat threads before you forget what the hell happened.
* Use it as fuel for your next sci-fi short story or therapy session.
I asked ChatGPT to format a SQL query, and now we’re discussing whether time is a construct of perception. Classic thread-drift.
by segfahlt April 30, 2025
Get the Thread-Driftmug. the before christmas eve thread is a 4chan thread/post on the board /g/ where the moderators of 4chan played around with their powers and impressed the anons
many have speculated that the person behind the thread was moot, the creator of the site
many have speculated that the person behind the thread was moot, the creator of the site
by A random /pol/tard December 24, 2020
Get the the before christmas eve threadmug. When one thread becomes popular, but is overtaken by another thread and the original thread is subsequently forgotten.
- Hey Josh, have you found the thread about Rihanna yet?
- No, but I found another one that's beecome more popular.
- OMG it's been coup de threaded!
- No, but I found another one that's beecome more popular.
- OMG it's been coup de threaded!
by gummz00 July 30, 2013
Get the coup de threadmug. Person 1: I'm being flamed by this person, no matter what I post they start a flame war
Person 2: Expect him, he's a thread hunter
Person 2: Expect him, he's a thread hunter
by Beans On Butter December 19, 2019
Get the Thread Huntermug. a colloquialism used in phased array ultrasonic testing describing the act of maximizing the signal amplitude over a range of angles during calibration
Yo, did you push the green thread? Your sensitivity is whack at 60°
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?
by mm_are_better May 22, 2024
Get the pushing the green threadmug. by _toasterboy_ April 23, 2023
Get the spread threadmug. Did you see that girl de-treading, right there in the elevator? Man she was hot, but it must been up in there, she was doing some major de-threading surgery.
by emi-fly July 22, 2008
Get the de-threadingmug.