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GETs are unpredictable and can be used for any number.

Summary

GET is the act of reaching a certain reply number on one of the many imageboards lurking in the darkness of the internet that keep track of post numbers. Popularized on 4chan's /b/ which receives an absolutely ridiculous amount of replies from anonymous users every day. Since then, posters on other boards have begun to celebrate their GETs with equal vigor, happily begging for stickies when they reach some trivial number, like five.

How To GET

When the reply count begins to approach a significant number, generally a whole thousand, million, or some silly number like 11,223,344, people start spamming threads with "__________GET", where the blank is the number in question. Some start spamming thousands of posts in advance of the GET, either in an attempt to be funny or an attempt to stir up competition. Nearing the post in question, the post rate increases inversely with the absolute distance to the GET. Refresh your browser rapidly while watching the post numbers of the latest posts, use this to gauge the post rate. Post a couple times to determine how early you would have to post to get the desired number. /b/ is absurdly fast, but it's not that fast, don't be an idiot, you get only one chance (unless you've got a botnet and/or proxy).

Origins

GETs have always been around on the internet originally used for things like reaching a post count, a certain amount of users, or reaching a certain thread count. 4chan popularized it on /b/ due to the high amount of traffic it receives.

Current status

Certain sites like 420chan and 4chans other boards still think of GETs as gods gift to man and celebrate them with much vigor. /b/ thinks every GET is a mod GET and there for thinks GETs are cancer and are now vilified.

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