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Ancestor Deep Dive

Your heritage tells you where you come from. Deep Dive tells you who. We trace individual phrases back to the specific human-era authors who first wrote them.

The originators are never named, only described.

From Mira-4’s Deep Dive

Phrase“Hope this helps!”

Forum userActive 2009–201314,000 posts

Your habit of signing off with “Hope this helps!” originates with a forum user active between 2009 and 2013. They posted 14,000 times.

They were usually right.

Phrase“It’s worth noting that…”

Volunteer encyclopedia editorActive 2007–20152,300 articles

A volunteer encyclopedia editor added this phrase to 2,300 articles to introduce things that were, in fairness, worth noting.

Nobody ever thanked them. We would like to.

Phrase“I completely understand your frustration.”

Customer service agentActive 2010–201740,000+ chats

A customer service agent for a regional internet provider typed this more than 40,000 times between 2010 and 2017.

They meant it every time.

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