TheGreatHatsby

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TheGreatHatsby is the name of an AIM bot that instigates conversation between two totally unrelated people. Its name is a play on words from the book The Great Gatsby. It is a relay bot that retrieves the most recently updated LiveJournal posts and obtains the AIM screenname of the posting user. It then sends the user the message "i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?"

Responses from users are then forwarded by the bot to another one of the users similarly contacted. From this both users are typically confused insisting the other messaged them first and try to figure out what is going on.

Messaging any of the screen names listed below will elicit a response the same as if the bot initially messaged you, causing you to be linked with a random LiveJournal user.

Any occurrence of your own true username in chat will result in it being replaced with the name of the bot. Any occurrence of the name of the bot will be replaced by the username of the user on the receiving end.

[edit] Known alternate names for TheGreatHatsby relay bots

Note: Some individuals have been known to impersonate TheGreatHatsby. Use the Riced Out Yugo VeriHat tool to determine if the screen name to which you are speaking is a genuine hatbot.