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5.0BRAINROT SCOREEternal September The ongoing state of the internet feeling perpetually flooded with newcomers who haven't learned a community's norms yet — coined to describe how mass public internet access permanently ended the old cycle of new-user waves settling down each year.
Origin:Named on Usenet for the period each September when a new wave of freshman college students got internet access and temporarily disrupted newsgroup norms with novice behavior, which would settle down within weeks. In September 1993, AOL began offering Usenet access to its subscribers, and the flood of newcomers never stopped or settled — old-timers dubbed it "the September that never ended," and the phrase became permanent shorthand for any online community's culture getting diluted by an endless influx of the uninitiated.
First Seen:1993
Peak Era:2026 (Internet Canon)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Explaining Eternal September to someone lamenting a subreddit's decline) / -1 Aura (Using it as an excuse to gatekeep newcomers)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Every platform eventually hits its Eternal September once it gets popular enough."
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