Hello, Repeated

Hello, one hundred times over, joined with single spaces and ready to copy. Five characters a copy, which puts some genuinely useful round numbers on where the block will and will not fit.

Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times

Text

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100 copies — 599 characters.

Twenty-six copies is the line

“Hello” is 5 characters, and with a space between copies each one costs 6. That puts 26 copies at 155 characters, inside a single 160-character text message. The 27th copy takes it to 161 and the message splits in two. If you are sending this by SMS and want it to land as one, 26 is the number to stop at.

The rest of the counts

100 copies is 599 characters, 1,000 is 5,999 and 10,000 is 59,999. A post on X holds 46 copies. One Discord message, capped at 2,000 characters, holds 333. The 100-copy block above clears every one of those, which is why 100 is the count worth copying and 10,000 is the count worth taking as a .txt file instead.

Where a hello wall usually goes

Nearly always a group chat, and nearly always aimed at somebody who has not replied in three weeks. Two things to weigh first. Chat platforms and individual servers commonly run automatic filters that watch for repeated text, and a wall of one identical word is the exact shape those filters are tuned to catch. And anybody in that chat using a screen reader hears the word one hundred times in a row, in order, with no way to jump past it.

Other greetings

Hi — 2 characters, so a hundred copies is only 299 and 667 of them fit one Discord message.
Bye — 3 characters, and the other end of the same conversation.
Good night — 10 characters, 1,099 at a hundred copies.