The group chat that refuses to die: which of yours has hilariously outlived its reason to exist?

[Undertaker92]

A census of digital ghosts that will not rest. Almost everyone is in at least one group chat that has completely outlived its original purpose and yet stubbornly rolls on, the holiday that ended three years ago, the project that finished, the event that happened, still pinging away with memes and life updates between people who never actually meet

The comedy is in the mismatch between the name and the reality, a chat titled after a 2022 trip that is now the primary communication channel for four people, a wedding planning group that survived the wedding and the honeymoon and shows no sign of stopping, a fantasy league chat where nobody mentions fantasy anything

There is something quietly lovely underneath the absurdity though, because these zombie chats are often where real friendships now live, the practical reason was just the excuse to start talking and the talking became the point, the scaffolding fell away and the building stayed up

So confess your longest surviving pointless chat, what it was originally for versus what it does now, and the etiquette question underneath, has anyone ever successfully renamed one of these to reflect reality, or is the ironic outdated name now load bearing and untouchable

[WWEHarry78]

A chat named after a stag do from 2021 is now where six of us conduct our entire friendship, the stag do lasted a weekend, the chat has lasted years, the name is permanent and beloved

[Tel86]

The name being permanent and beloved is universal, we tried to rename ours once and there was genuine emotional resistance, the outdated name is an inside joke that renews itself daily

[Gaz_60]

Wedding planning chat that survived the wedding, the first anniversary and a baby, at this point it is just our family group with a wildly inaccurate title and we would not change it for anything