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I'm also curious about c/chapotraphouse

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

Check out this dope ass bear og-hex-bear

Chapo trap house is a podcast which had a subreddit where most of us congregated before it was banned.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

When the sub got banned a popular meme was a rather hexagonal bear

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

ah yes my favorite website [old-meme-no-one-cares-about].com

Ignoring that, it does actually work for the name of a random mastadon/lemmy type website. It's clean of pre-conceptions, low probably of getting mentally clobbered by similar terms/phrases (e.g. sexbear does not exist in any vernacular or memespace). It's also witchy if you're desperate to make up reasons to retroactively justify the decision. stalin-approval

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

yourethemannowdog.com was so popular, how could we not follow in their footsteps?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

someone grab “yourethebearnowdog”

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I still deadname the site

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

cha-cha real smooth

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Good ol chirpobirdhouse

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

The site used be chapo.chat because it was setup by a lifeboat discord server from r/chapotraphouse (which despite the name only had the most tenuous historical link to the podcast and was just a general leftist sub that managed to avoid being sectarian).

Eventually there was an open discussion about a new name to establish the site as its own standalone community and to drop the chapo reference in the name due to there not being a link to cth anymore, and hexbear either was the most popular or just got picked by admin fiat, I can't remember which. I do remember some people being mad about it, but that went away quick one way or another.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

That era saw the admins make a lot of changes I was initially skeptical of, but each decision drove away reactionaries so now I love our big beautiful admins.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It wasn't admin fiat or the most popular, it was a weird middleground. it was the result of a long discussion in user union, but a lot of people who didn't go onto user union much had no idea that discussion was even happening.

I was one of those people and I felt blindsided and hated the change at first. But it's definitely grown on me since then

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I remember the userunion thread since I always sorted by all/new and checked all/hot occasionally to see if I'd missed anything, but I couldn't remember what the actual results in it were just the ultimate result of the name change.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Did the vegan struggle sesh of (2020?) not have anything to do with the name change either? I remember this place was in shambles when that was happening, with all the brigading and what not. The name changed def coincided with with the mass ban wave of the time.

But maybe this is just my own revisionist history or something idk

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

vegan struggle sesh happened after. that did suck ass though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ah my bad. I just remember the name change and the struggle sesh happening around the same time. guess I got the order wrong.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Look at this cute ghost hexbear-specter

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

The bear has six sides sicko-hexbear-crowd

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Each day, the six original posters would come together and chant hymns to ursa major. Their names were Look, At, This, Dope, Ass, and Bear.

og-hex-bear

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Because a group of libs hated when it was called chapo.chat because "we needed to be more open and chapo would be controversial to new members" all before deciding a week later that converting new members sucked dick and no one wanted to do the work.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

someone post the bear pic i cant find it

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Look at this dope ass bear

That's why.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Its way easier to tell my friends about "my silly bear site" over "a site that uses the name of an unrelated podcast, due to its spiritual ties to a defunct subreddit that was initially based on said podcast but quickly detoured and the podcast didn't actually like the subreddit anyway, where the podcast randomly chose their name based on a small giggle about the cartel boss el chapo which was sorta funny in 2016"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

and the podcast didn't actually like the subreddit anyway

che-laugh good times

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why is the sky blue? Why do doves cry? Why is my floor covered in blood? These are questions no one has the answer to.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The posters here are too liberal to be associated with Mr Chapo

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

c/chapotraphouse is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

It’s actually shrekland.net

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

its not. i maintain that the site's true name is thisishowberniecanstill.win and that the admins' decision was authoritarian angery

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

No, it should have been lib.rehab

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

that domain still has never been purchased or donated to the project lol

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

So there was this really dope ass bear.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Because of a dope ass bear.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

we started off called "ChapoChat", that name got in the way of SSO & a bunch of other bullshit that sucks but ultimately matters online.

hexbear was a blank slate based on a dope ass bear. the admins changed the name and now we're here.

hexbear-static-logo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

because "six-sided bear" is too hard to say

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Because we're communist mages and witches who hexed all the capitalists imperialist running fascist govt across the world. The 🐻 is spiritual representation of our hex, which will be granted when all the bears of the world maul the billionaires.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you, Hexbearians.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Gather children. And let me tell you of a time of great up heaveal.

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