Walker's Law 

Walker's Law is an adage formulated by strat81 that states, "As an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of someone mentioning Texas, and why it is better, approaches 1."

The term originated at AR15.com and is named after "Walker, Texas Ranger."

Joe - "This restaurant in town makes great pulled pork."

Mike - "Yeah, but it's not as good as Sam's Pork Shack down here in Texas!"

Joe - "Walker's law applies."

Walker's Law by strat81 January 16, 2009

Johnny Walker's law 

Johhny Walker's law occurs when, in an Internet argument, an interlocutor posts an arguement so stupid he winds up pwning himself.

Named for a brand of Scotch which the man who inspired the law was fooled into sending to a fake person for fake information, thereby destroying his chances of ever being taken seriously again.

1. Iain Hall: "John, the facts of the matter are that for all of the Warminista posturing the Australian people are not convinced, check out the two polls that each show more than 70% of the respondents are “unbelievers”."

John: Surname "It’s the idiotic right at work - Iain chooses apparent public consensus on two News Ltd webpolls (which can in no way be rigged by Andrew Bolt and co.), over the scienetific consensus. Why do I get the feeling he just lost that argument on his own? I name this Johnny Walker's law."

2. Iain Hall: "I am not claiming that the Polls are in any way definitive but they are consistent with straw polls that I have conducted myself amongst friends and acquaintances, basically most people do not believe the AGW hypothesis, or they feel that the problem is exaggerated by true believers like yourself."

Sammy Jankin: "Another great example of Johnny Walker’s law in action. “Sure, those polls don’t really mean anything. But I asked my mates, and they don’t believe in AGW, and my mates are a suitable subset of the population from which to draw statistical inferences.”"

Johnny Walker's law by W.A Stalker July 18, 2009

Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law

The Walker Corollary to Godwin’s Law states:

As an online argument gets longer, the probability that somebody dismisses the other person’s point as “AI-generated” approaches 1.

A modern companion to Godwin’s Law, which observes that sufficiently long online arguments eventually produce a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis.

The Walker Corollary describes the increasingly common tendency to accuse someone of using ChatGPT or another AI tool instead of actually responding to their argument — particularly when the other person writes something unusually detailed, polished, well-sourced, or inconvenient to refute.

In practice, “AI-generated” has become the internet equivalent of: “I don’t have a response to what you said, so I’m going to attack how you supposedly wrote it instead.”

After twelve replies back and forth, he stopped arguing the actual point and used the Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law.

Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law by GodwinsCousin September 10, 2026