Memes and injokes

Over the years, the Longest Johns and their community have gained a fair few injokes and memes. Here are the injokes and memes in the order in which they came to be.

Nailed it: Nailed it existed before the Longest Johns started streaming, and is not specific to the band or its community, but it was adopted quite readily. It was more in use in the early days of livestreaming, but still present as a subscriber emote at both youtube and twitch.

Stringy Planky: In a video of Here's a Health from May 2014 JD refers to his guitar as a "stringy planky". Later, in a livestream, he explained that in the past he would tell students that a guitar is "not a stringy planky" if they play it lying too flat. People from the community picked up the "stringy planky" from the 2014 video as an alternative name for guitars, and have come up with similar names for other instruments.

Adequate: During a livestream on the 22nd of January 2019, the band responded to a song they did as being "adequate". Chat picked that up and started saying "Adequate" after every song to say that it was great. It later turned into a subscriber emote at both youtube and twitch.

Kwaken...: Anything related to Kwakens is related to the Longest Johns "mascot", the Kwaken. It became a subscriber emote on twitch on the 27th of February 2019. Since then it has been encorporated into some other expresstions/words like the much used "kwakenhug".

Father Buckitt: Father Buckitt is a returning RPG character created and played by JD. He made his first appearance in their livestreams of Divinity: Original Sin II starting in late March 2019, and later returned as a character in the currently ongoing D&D livestreams. The other characters from D:OSII deserve honourable mentions too, since the name "Jeff Specifically" is still uttered from time to time, and "Jingleheimer the [...]" had its own counter, for every time Jingleheimer the IV died.

Hype cow: After en expression from Dave in one of the vlogs, the hype cow became a thing. It later became the hype emote for youtube and twitch.

Good timezone: Good timezone is a timezone neutral greeting. Because "good morning" may be morning for the one typing it, but not for the people who are in a different timezone. It was first used in February 2020 but got more frequent use since August/September that year.

Benas: A misspelling of the word "beans" during a game of Jackbox in late April 2020. It became the replacement word for "beans", and occasionaly for "bones" in the song (title) "Bones in the Ocean".

Spongelick: During music livestreams, Andy and JD have often finished songs with the Spongebob lick. It became a so frequently heard feature that around September 2020 its name was shortened to Spongelick, and an emote was added for it.

Thirdy birds: At the end of September 2020 when Andy and Sam were playing The Last Door II, they encountered a statue or a large bird with the enscription "Thirty Birds". This started to live a life on its own in the community. It turned into phrases like "may 30 birds visit you in your sleep". It returned in the character "Trente Vogels" during a playthrough of Scarlet Hollow, who is canonically thirty birds in a trenchcoat.

Goongith: From the same stream that gave rise to Thirty Birds, we got Goongith, which was a misspelling of "goodnight". It is now used for both "goodnight" and as a general farewell.

Octenth: Octenth or October tenth or any variation of that originates from a Sea of Thieves singing stream on twitch, where the Longest Johns had been singing to another crew who typed "10/10" in Sea of Thieves. It was spoken by the text to speech as "October tenth" and now that is known as another way of saying "10/10". It is even suggested that October tenth is Longest Johns day.