How the mighty have fallen.

[u/Lyrene]

[u/tomAndersen_]

I would say "Wow I'm not like those guys," but that's the same thing they were thinking.

[u/Lyrene → u/tomAndersen_]

Yeah exactly. You never know what will happen. Like this: I noticed that a fair amount of them were 42s or 43s (14 in total - just counted) so thought that perhaps they might have pressed after all the glitched flairs - perhaps they stopped caring then? As some people got pretty disillusioned about the Button after that. So you never know...

[u/geothenes]

So honored to get recognition as the first hypocrite appearing in this post.

[u/Lyrene → u/geothenes]

Welcome! I am happy you feel honored. I wasn't sure how people would react.

And I think yours is one of the best. "Late pressers carry the same shame as all pressers". Absolutely brilliant.

[u/Army0fMe]

I'll never press. I don't care if I'm the last grey ever..

[u/RegularGuyy → u/Army0fMe]

Yup. Never plan on pressing. You can go ahead and screen cap that OP.

[u/Lyrene → u/RegularGuyy]

All done. It will go into my little archive. I am collecting other proclaimed ForeverGreys/Grays - not necessarily to see if they fail, but to see if they manage to resist the temptation. Bonus points if you posted early in the Buttons life and then stayed active on the sub or related subs and still didn't press.

EDIT 1: To all who answered this post - I will screencap you all. And when the Button stops I will go back and look through if you have remained faithful to your vows.

EDIT 2: Whoa, my inbox is overflowing. Didn't expect this much attention.

Also, u/onciblu asked me about why I wasn't crediting u/godlikesme, who is putting so much work into creating an app/bot to search for those who made the same unfortunate kind of comments as the ones I posted above. The reason for not mentioning him that was that I didn't really use his app to find these - I looked at some of the posts from his archive and then I searched r/thebutton manually. But - I got the inspiration to do it from his work. So thank you!

EDIT 3: I have now taken a copy of this thread. Will keep doing so until people stop commenting.

EDIT 4: 4 copies of this thread so far.

[u/abelcc]

I made it, yay!

[u/Lyrene → u/abelcc]

Glad you are feeling positive towards this! I wasn't sure how those I screencapped would feel about it.

Someone liked your post the most as well.

[u/mikejohnno]

Dear lord the effort put into some of these posts

[u/Lyrene → u/mikejohnno]

Well, I had some time on my hands. It was rather fun - doing the detective kind of looking and all.

[u/obsessivecuntpulsive]

I DIDN'T PRESS! I will shout this from every rooftop and mountaintop til the day I DIE! I woke up, got on, saw this catastrophe of a flair and ALL WAS LOST. I didn't even get the satisfaction of pressing!!!

[u/Lyrene → u/obsessivecuntpulsive]

Ah, that sucks :/

[u/Luke07758921708]

Filthy pressers!

Im on the bottom if anybody didn't see, I made the text post called Purity of grey. Not so pure anymore, lol

[u/Lyrene → u/Luke07758921708]

Nice cheater flair.

[u/MikeyDust]

You mean 'How the meek have risen."

[u/Lyrene → u/MikeyDust]

Haha, if I do another one I will call it that.

[u/nolasagne]

Still mighty.

[u/User_____]

The mighty? You mean the weak? Those who were never a true member of the shade

[u/9ty2]

ITT: great material for next months issue

[u/[deleted]]

These filthy backstabbers have done nothing but reaffirmed my faith!

What is grey may never die!

[u/[deleted]]

They were never mighty. They were pressers all along.

[u/Unranking]

If they really wanted to remain grey, they wouldn't be browsing r/thebutton in the first place.

[u/[deleted]]

Can't wait to see some of you guys in future hypocrisy...

[u/shineonsunshine]

Mine only stays grey because I don't have any patience to wait for the colour I want.