"Coin Boys" Story

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About

"Coin Boys" Story refers to a viral post on Reddit's /r/teachers subreddit in which a teacher laments that several of his students have developed an entire identity around flipping coins, such as using coin flips to make vital decisions like whether or not to do assigned work. Though the teacher felt exasperated by the apparent fad among his students, many social media users thought the concept of "coin boys" was humorous and cheered on the students. However, the story is potentially fictional and made up, as the person behind the account is the creator of several other posts in weeks prior in which they discussed having different professions unrelated to teaching.

Origin

On July 28th, 2023, Redditor LuciusDickusMaximus made a post in /r/teachers^[1] lamenting some of his high school freshman students calling themselves "coin boys" and leaving all of their life decisions to the flip of a coin. This included whether or not the "coin boys" would do their assignments, among other things. The post gained over 11,000 points in four days (seen below).

Posted by u/Lucius Dickus Maximus 4 days ago 11.5k Every year these kids come back with a new annoying quirk... "coin boys" 3 are apparently the new thing Classroom Management & Strategies In my tenth year of teaching mostly freshmen and I s2g ever since the pandemic (and honestly like 5 years before that) there's always a new "thing" students bring to school that they learned over the summer from the internet or wherever. D The newest thing here is a flock of self-proclaimed "coin boys" who carry a quarter on hand at all times and constantly flip it. They have their entire personality revolve around coins, coin flips, and chance. When we went around doing an ice breaker, 4 or 5 of the kids said some variation of "I live by the coin and die by the coin" as their fact. Just about an hour ago, when I assigned the first assignment of the school year, one of the coin boys was bold enough to say "heads I do it, tails I don't." I told him if he flipped the coin he would be getting a call home on the first week of HS. He flipped it anyway and it came up heads (thank god for that at least). But then the other coin boy in that class flipped his coin and it came up tails. He said the coin has spoken and he's not doing it. I say very well, enjoy your 0 and your call home- what a great way to start off the school year and your high school career. I really hope this dies off soon. I haven't seen anything online about this when I googled it, so I'm guessing it's just a local friend group thing, unless one of you has some more info...

Spread

The story was widely reposted on social media, where many found themselves enjoying the coin boys' hijinks. For example, on July 28th, 2023 (the same day the story was posted), it was reposted to Twitter by user @EuologyEternal^[2] with the caption "Dudes rock," where it gained over 1,800 retweets and 24,000 likes in four days (shown below, left). On July 29th, user @junestrings^[3] reposted the story with the caption "this rules axtually," gaining over 2,800 retweets and 35,000 likes in three days (shown below, right).

aravict @EULOGYETERNAL Dudes rock. r/Teachers Lucius Dickus Maximus 8h Join Every year these kids come back with a new annoying quirk... "coin boys" are apparently the new thing Classroom Management & Strategies In my tenth year of teaching mostly freshmen and I s2g ever since the pandemic (and honestly like 5 years before that) there's always a new "thing" students bring to school that they learned over the summer from the internet or wherever. The newest thing here is a flock of self-proclaimed "coin boys" who carry a quarter on hand at all times and constantly flip it. They have their entire personality revolve around coins, coin flips, and chance. When we went around doing an ice breaker, 4 or 5 of the kids said some variation of "I live by the coin and die by the coin" as their fact. ...

junie strings X @junestrings this rules axtually r/Teachers u/Lucius Dickus Maximus 10h •. Join Every year these kids come back with a new annoying quirk... "coin boys" are apparently the new thing Classroom Management & Strategies In my tenth year of teaching mostly freshmen and I s2g ever since the pandemic (and honestly like 5 years before that) there's always a new "thing" students bring to school that they learned over the summer from the internet or wherever. :

LuciusDickusMaximus' Reddit History

In the weeks prior to posting the "coin boy" story, Redditor LuciusDickusMaximus claimed to have various professions in numerous subreddits. Professions they have professed to have include culinary associate at a retirement center,^[4] working for an import/export company^[5] and a "ventriloquist hitman"^[7] (shown below). He also claimed in a separate post to be a rising high school senior.^[6]

In November 2022, the account also went viral for a story in /r/TIFU^[8] about inviting his plumber to his wife's Thanksgiving celebration.