GritCult in 2026

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GritCult in 2026
“Thinking about this.” (16 May 2026)
In 2026
Portal	Chronology
Posts	2,150
Original posts	589
Replies	1,561
Retweets	61,788
Likes	658,490
First post	1 January 2026
Last post	1 June 2026
Posts by month
Jan318
Feb428
Mar381
Apr427
May593
Jun3
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0
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Artificial Intelligence Crypto Discipline Memes & Memetics School & Education

GritCult in 2026 covers a partial year, because the archive ends on 1 June 2026. It holds 2,150 posts, 589 originals and 1,561 replies, all but 3 of them from January to May, and they earned 61,788 retweets and 658,490 likes. Artificial Intelligence led the subjects with 100 posts; Crypto slipped to fourth (33).

2026 in review

May was the busiest month, with 593 posts, before the archive closes with 3 in June. The signature format was the story-post: a handful of short sentences of history building to a turn. The most retweeted post of the year began "Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad." ^[1] Others told how "Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates at 25" ^[2] and how "Genghis Khan was sold into slavery as a child" ^[3]. Each is the same lesson in different costume: a man at his lowest point, refusing to accept it.

The mindset posts picked up threads from earlier years. He opened 1 January with "The great lock in begins today." ^[4], carrying over the vocabulary of 2024. Discipline, which he had once dismissed as a substitute for obsession, was now recast as something closer to worship: "reframe discipline as self-worship and watch how easy it gets" ^[5]. His case against pessimism, made every year since 2019, never let up: "blackpilling and doomerism literally reduces your iq" ^[6].

Artificial intelligence was the subject he wrote about most, and he saw it as a sorting machine. "The future belongs to the agentic high energy and physical" ^[7], he argued, since automation would make physical skill and real-world charisma more valuable. It also shaped his view of family, the second-largest subject (38): "this is the perfect time to have kids", he wrote, because AI tutors would push the cost of the best education towards zero ^[8]. The archive ends mid-stride, with an account that had travelled from bitcoin and memes to AI and ancient lives.

Recurring themes

• a partial year ending on 1 June
• artificial intelligence as the leading subject
• history told as short story-posts
• discipline recast as self-worship
• lock-in and anti-doom carried forward

Subjects

The wiki subjects GritCult posted about most in 2026, by number of posts.

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post of 2026, with 5,995 retweets:

Top posts

The 120 most retweeted of GritCult's 2,150 posts from 2026. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
8 May 2026	5,995	42,707	Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded. At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture…		View
24 January 2026	3,292	23,408	until death all defeat is psychological.		View
16 May 2026	2,894	23,364	Thinking about this.		View
13 January 2026	2,718	21,110	Relatable.		View
28 February 2026	2,659	26,066	Time to rewatch and see how America will collapse		View
6 January 2026	2,349	12,306	(image)		View
22 January 2026	1,577	9,290	gm		View
10 January 2026	1,316	11,869	“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” - Haruki Murakami		View
3 May 2026	1,296	7,979	Nobody coming to save you also implies that nobody is coming to stop you		View
5 January 2026	1,233	13,963	(image)		View
10 March 2026	1,124	8,228	(image)		View
15 January 2026	1,123	8,921	biggest life lesson: reframe discipline as self-worship and watch how easy it gets think of routines as devotion to the person you're becoming		View
16 January 2026	1,014	11,307	The most high agency people I know immediately abandon paths that no longer serve them. No hesitation. Bad jobs. Dead relationships. Wrong cities. Life's too short to stay on the wrong path.		View
17 February 2026	868	9,497	Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates at 25. They demanded 20 talents of silver. He laughed at them. Told them he was worth at least 50. They thought he was joking. He wasnt. While being held captive he treated the pirates like his subordinates. Made them listen to his…		View
9 May 2026	839	8,221	A quote by Dostoevsky to summarise his life.		View
26 March 2026	692	15,766	Take a shower in the dark.		View
10 February 2026	670	4,707	Genghis Khan was sold into slavery as a child. His father was poisoned. His wife was kidnapped. He had nothing. By 20 he'd been captured, escaped, and was living as a fugitive in the Mongolian steppe. No army. No allies. No resources. Just an obsessive refusal to accept his…		View
2 January 2026	668	5,969	worrying is a sin		View
14 February 2026	663	9,634	the graveyards are full of men who thought they had more time.		View
16 January 2026	579	11,987	Choose your hard.		View
3 January 2026	579	4,935	why not you?		View
20 April 2026	533	4,258	Sigmund Freud writing to Carl Jung		View
9 January 2026	524	5,863	Daily reminder.		View
22 January 2026	522	5,085	(image)		View
12 March 2026	513	2,704	“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.” What a line.		View
6 March 2026	478	3,780	blackpilling and doomerism literally reduces your iq		View
29 May 2026	456	3,336	luck finds the man in motion.		View
24 March 2026	445	4,061	Goes hard.		View
14 February 2026	439	5,076	controversial: the best thing that can happen to a young man is total failure before 25. not small failure. catastrophic, humiliating, public failure. the kind where everyone sees. the kind where you cant hide from it. because it destroys the one thing that was going to hold…		View
15 March 2026	436	4,918	If you ever feel behind in life remember. That until he was 30. Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing and was yet just a homeless thief who kept getting arrested. It’s never over. It’s never too late.		View
30 January 2026	418	6,026	Self belief is self built.		View
19 January 2026	391	5,895	You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you. -Napoleon Bonaparte		View
1 January 2026	385	5,556	The great lock in begins today.		View
3 January 2026	383	3,569	As I get older. I realise how important it is to be around novelty stimuli. New music new movies. New places. Constantly exploring and never stopping is I think the key to staying creating and the key to staying mentally young. As people age. They become stiff physically and…		View
26 January 2026	375	2,307	Weimar German Marks vs Gold - 100 years ago on the left United States Dollar vs Gold - Today on the right. Not a good sign.		View
5 May 2026	357	3,371	one of my favourite quotes: "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Hunter S. Thompson		View
18 May 2026	356	5,970	Napoleon once visited a fortune teller as a young soldier. She read his palm and said: "Youre clever. Youre bold. But youll never be great." "Why not?" he asked. She pointed to his palm. "You lack the line of destiny. The mark of historys great leaders." Without hesitation he…		View
12 February 2026	354	3,991	Aristocratic trait: never getting stressed or taking seriously any tragedy that happens to you		View
15 March 2026	336	2,305	You are up against a shadowy cabal. They have near endless resources, more manpower than you can imagine and have been working on their agenda before recorded history. They arnt bounded by morality nor conscious In their arrogance they forget one thing. they are up against GOD		View
8 January 2026	327	2,600	Reminder.		View
11 January 2026	327	2,514	It’s all cringe until it fucking works.		View
18 February 2026	322	2,703	Voltaire: "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."		View
7 January 2026	313	3,010	(image)		View
22 March 2026	312	2,001	Reminder to self.		View
2 February 2026	306	2,631	“The wise man does immediately what the fool does eventually.” - Machiavelli		View
19 March 2026	298	1,920	“Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel," - Cyrus the Great		View
11 January 2026	296	3,907	(image)		View
24 February 2026	294	2,127	Miyamoto Musashi killed his first man at 13. Fought over 60 duels. Never lost a single one. Then at the peak of his power he walked away from fighting entirely and became a painter. A calligrapher. A philosopher. He wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave weeks before he died.…		View
6 February 2026	289	16,650	there were signs... i shouldve paid attention.		View
17 January 2026	275	2,784	be more retarded, just do it.		View
17 March 2026	253	2,782	(image)		View
19 February 2026	251	1,386	Nikola Tesla died broke in a hotel room with a pigeon as his only companion. Thomas Edison died a celebrated millionaire. Edison won the business war. But Tesla won the actual war. AC power runs the entire planet. Edisons DC lost. The man who died broke literally powers…		View
8 January 2026	247	1,652	Your goals should sound delusional to people operating at normal levels.		View
9 January 2026	232	2,898	(image)		View
21 March 2026	222	2,006	what motivates me is to become a man worthy of my future children’s admiration		View
7 March 2026	220	1,945	Colonel Sanders started KFC at 62. Genghis Khan was a slave at 16 and didnt build his empire until his 40s. Charlie Munger buried his son, went bankrupt, got divorced at 30, and didnt become a billionaire until he was 69. youre 27 its never over. its barely even started		View
18 February 2026	217	1,741	roll the dice		View
4 April 2026	216	2,724	“Everything will spike your cortisol if you’re a pussy” What a line. Gonna use this one.		View
29 January 2026	215	2,185	(image)		View
30 April 2026	207	1,460	Robert Frost, read it twice		View
6 March 2026	201	1,399	(image)		View
26 January 2026	199	1,792	Be delusional Run like you’re training for the impossible. Build businesses like you’re going to be a billionaire. Make movies like you’re Tarantino Be convinced everything will work out You get one shot Waste it being reasonable or spend it being delusional		View
15 January 2026	194	2,001	Sometimes you need to hold grudges. Julius Caesar was kidnapped as a kid. Pirates wanted a ransom. He mocked them and told them to get a bigger one. Once released he went back and killed them all.		View
26 April 2026	185	1,991	Being happy. Being funny. Being healthy. Being in shape. Being financially secure. Being mentally stable. Being consciousness. Being charismatic. Being sharp and witty in conversations. Not getting addicted to drugs or substances. Being opinionated yet open minded.		View
15 April 2026	178	1,642	(image)		View
26 May 2026	178	1,533	Attempt the impossible		View
4 May 2026	176	3,159	2 am and i just realised most of my problems would disappear if i simply stopped being a coward about what i actually want		View
9 May 2026	164	1,711	controversial: the best thing that can happen to a young man is total failure before 25. not small failure. catastrophic, humiliating, public failure. the kind where everyone sees. the kind where you cant hide from it. because it destroys the one thing that was going to hold…		View
26 February 2026	164	1,433	Just talk to yourself		View
21 February 2026	164	1,181	(image)		View
3 January 2026	162	5,549	POV you took the safe path.		View
15 May 2026	157	1,788	unpopular opinion: you should make every major life decision in under 72 hours. the person agonising for 6 months over whether to quit, move, start, or leave already knows the answer. they knew in the first 10 minutes. the remaining 5 months and 29 days is just fear dressed up…		View
18 April 2026	157	1,407	this will be you unless you start now		View
4 April 2026	152	910	(image)		View
31 May 2026	149	1,645	(image)		View
14 January 2026	144	5,882	Just remembered. Jon Jones was only 23 when he became a champion of mma. He started training mma at 21.		View
17 January 2026	141	2,024	Sometimes in life. Everything arrives at once. The career. The relationship. The income. The peace. Not sure why but usually after a period of trials and tribulations. A period of transformation of you becoming a new person.		View
4 May 2026	135	1,446	One should always prefer to make mistakes of ambition rather than sloth — Napoleon You can go harder		View
19 May 2026	131	1,186	(image)		View
11 January 2026	124	1,446	Private hours determine your public results. Reading becomes conversation. Diet and exercise becomes energy and body. Discipline becomes confidence. Overtime, what you did in private becomes known.		View
7 May 2026	122	1,045	ambition without execution is just daydreaming with anxiety.		View
19 March 2026	121	766	Learn to hate.		View
28 February 2026	118	1,335	closing out the month. simple reminder. you have one life. one shot. no respawns. no save points. this isnt a drill and there is no practice round. every day you spend not building the thing you want to build is a day you dont get back. and nobody is coming to save you. nobody…		View
19 January 2026	117	2,296	Sweet spot of life is 25-35, usually been humbled, zero fucks left. Working towards mastery. Too young have dreams and no scars. They crash out or learn. Most never make it. Nor the 40+ year old who's been comfortable too long. Too set in their ways to adapt or learn.		View
26 January 2026	114	1,125	Nietzschean penguin edits go hard		View
9 May 2026	112	1,282	this goes hard: "if everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti		View
18 January 2026	110	981	(image)		View
13 May 2026	108	1,231	read more books. send more DMs. take more risks. start more projects. have more conversations. visit more countries. meet more strangers. fail at more things. the answer to almost every problem in your 20s and 30s is simply: more.		View
15 April 2026	107	1,561	marketing is dead		View
14 January 2026	106	1,058	You'll always wish you started younger. But right now is the youngest you'll ever be again. The perfect time is a myth.		View
9 January 2026	105	1,109	High emotional intelligence means you take nothing as personal. Most people are reacting to their own past, fears, and unresolved trauma. Don't take on their problems. Their bad day doesn't need to be yours.		View
28 May 2026	105	864	MOST MEN ARE MEAT. THEY ARE EATEN ALIVE BY THE TIMELINE, BY CONSTANT SLOP There is another option, embrace the chaos. lean into it RIDE OR DIE		View
5 March 2026	103	1,045	(image)		View
25 March 2026	103	976	(image)		View
28 January 2026	100	2,684	thinking about this...		View
13 February 2026	99	4,114	the guy who won the 1 million dollar article posted this in a gc like 2 years ago		View
13 May 2026	99	1,237	(image)		View
1 February 2026	97	1,096	Going to the gym consistently was one of my highest ROI decisions Good for health/ aging /Mental health /stress tolerance and extremely neuroprotective BUT biggest is the mindset shift via realising the impossible can be achieved through consistent persistence Compounding		View
6 May 2026	97	695	the man who waits for certainty will die waiting.		View
6 January 2026	96	943	Stop being soft about what you want. Playing it safe is just slowmotion failure. Get aggressive or get left behind.		View
21 February 2026	96	711	we are living through the biggest crisis of agency in human history. infinite information. infinite tools. infinite opportunity. and people are more paralysed than ever. its not a knowledge problem. its a courage problem. everyone knows what to do. nobody does it. the…		View
21 March 2026	95	902	Negative thought patterns reduce your iq. Literally.		View
22 May 2026	94	879	be the guy who does the thing. not the guy who talks about the thing.		View
28 January 2026	93	1,157	LinkedIn has found out about retardmaxxing		View
27 January 2026	93	834	The ones who actually win are obsessive students of the game. They don't just learn rules. They master them. Then break them. They don't stay in their lane. They study everything. Psychology. Philosophy. Art. Business. The body. The mind.		View
29 January 2026	92	810	What are you afraid of? Death? Coming either way. Shame? No one remembers past next week. Losing everything? You'll rebuild with better blueprints. There's nothing actually stopping you except the story you keep telling yourself about what might go wrong.		View
6 February 2026	91	1,108	(image)		View
13 January 2026	89	710	Momentum is everything. Action creates information. Information creates better decisions. Better decisions create more action. The compound effect is exponential. One win creates two opportunities. Two opportunities create four wins.		View
2 May 2026	86	857	You can go harder		View
22 May 2026	84	625	Whatever you do, you must pay.		View
31 January 2026	83	2,701	(image)		View
27 April 2026	82	569	Tolkien a lesson for us all		View
13 May 2026	79	992	take a chance, roll the dice. stop lurking send a post twitter WILL change your life		View
9 May 2026	78	1,273	Become unreasonable.		View
26 February 2026	75	725	(image)		View
23 March 2026	73	594	"So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions." - Paul Graham		View
4 March 2026	70	1,322	Every ai company is looking to open an office in London. unreal levels of bullishness here. yet the oversocialised extremely online influencers keep fear mongering about the state of the UK and london....		View
19 May 2026	69	943	God will often put you through a desert before the promised land. not to punish you. to prepare you. because the person you are right now cant handle what he has planned for you next. trust the process.		View
23 February 2026	69	767	dudes will spend 4 hours researching the perfect productivity system and then not do a single productive thing for the rest of the week. brother the system is: do the thing. do the thing. do the thing. the best productivity hack in existence is starting. not planning to start.…		View
12 January 2026	69	761	Might fuck around and try something new.		View

Month by month

GritCult posted 2,150 times in 2026: 589 original posts and 1,561 replies. The first post of the year went up on 1 January 2026 and the last on 1 June 2026; May was the busiest month, with 593 posts.

See also

Chronology portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (8 May 2026). Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (17 February 2026). Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates at 25. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 February 2026). Genghis Khan was sold into slavery as a child. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (1 January 2026). The great lock in begins today. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 January 2026). reframe discipline as self-worship and watch how easy it gets. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 March 2026). blackpilling and doomerism literally reduces your iq. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 February 2026). In the age of ai The future belongs to the agentic high energy and physical. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (20 February 2026). this is the perfect time to have kids...cost of the best education is going to go to 0 - ai tutors. X.

Further reading

• Short Airbnb, Long Hotels, an essay by GritCult

External links

• Top posts from 2026 by GRITCULT on X