Miss You, Repeated
Miss you, one hundred times over, joined with single spaces and already selected for copying. Two words rather than three, which turns out to matter once you are up against a message length cap.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 899 characters.
Two words instead of three
“Miss you” is 8 characters. “I miss you” is 10. Across 100 copies that two-character gap comes to 200 characters, 899 against 1,099. It sounds like nothing until you meet a hard limit. One Discord message holds 222 copies of “miss you” and only 181 of “i miss you”, so dropping the pronoun buys you 41 more.
What fits where
| Copies | Characters | What that fits |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 152 | One plain text message, at the 160 limit |
| 31 | 278 | One post on X, at the 280 limit |
| 100 | 899 | Any chat box going. This is the block above |
| 222 | 1,997 | The most that will fit in a single Discord message |
| 1,000 | 8,999 | Past every message limit on this list |
| 10,000 | 89,999 | A file, not a message. Use the download |
Where the block usually goes
Straight into a chat, almost always to one person, almost always at a point in the evening when one line would have done. It is worth knowing that the notification only ever previews the first few words, so the size of the thing is invisible until the other person opens it. And if they use a screen reader, every one of the hundred copies gets read out loud in order, with no way to jump to the end.
Nearby phrases
- I miss you — the full three words, 1,099 characters per hundred copies.
- I miss you with emojis — the same phrase with faces attached.
- Good night — also 10 characters, and usually sent about an hour later.