I know it was originally a spin off of the chapotraphouse subreddit but I don’t know much else. Is it it still affiliated with the podcast? How has it grown etc? Why was the subreddit closed etc.
Give me the lore, baby
Latest iceberg as far as I know (updated 2023-06-18), courtesy of @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net:
Web version, in case you want to search for specific text. Originally posted at https://hexbear.net/post/273309.
Kwestley
I was there when he linked his 9/11 video in one of the early Ukraine megas. He said that someone told him it would be a good idea to post it here, but the site wasn’t what he expected. Weird shit.
Edit: Oh also, remember that AMA on the subreddit with a journalist who predicted that Epstein would be murdered in jail just a few days before it happened? That was pretty funny
I still say we don’t deserve orb gang, we threw away a perfect opportunity to court Marianne Williamson when she started making Evangelion references.
Hey, nice one! Thanks
Your missing something I just can’t remember what exactly.
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7DeadlyFetishes is under layer 4, Niche Obscurities. @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net got like everything
I don’t know how I missed that. I even checked the other site that was linked.
I ran in to them from time to time on twitter right up until i got banned (for saying kill all marketers)
embrace bill hicks thought
It started as a good subreddit. I was the only actual leftist on the subreddit though.
i absolutely did not think we were gonna get banned until we did. I was making john brown post and saying BAN US YOU COWARDS. and then they DID.
I think we still have parental rights on Matt Christman
Hex was conceived in a Paris brothel, fathered by a liberal priest and a notorious whoremonger from Brussel. As far as we know, there was no mother involved. From the beginning life was disturbing for young Hex, certainly it was no Paddington “bell vita”. At the age of 18 (months) Hex was placed into foster care by the French Aide sociale à l’enfance (ASE), which operates within a strong framework on a territorial basis, with priorities and protocols being decided in each of France’s 101 départements. Unknown to most, the agency is source of a notorious human trafficking network, and so it was that young Hex found themselves living rough, on the mean streets of René-Goupal, a notorious quarter of Montreal, or as the Chicagoans pronounce it, Moan-real… (TBC, should sufficient interest manifest itself…)
Hi I’m sufficient interest, you called?
affiliated with the podcast
yes this place is affiliated to a podcast
:the-podcast:
For OP, this joke is as old as the subreddit itself, even back then the association with the CTH pod was threadbare and sometimes mutually hostile
The pod always hated the subreddit too
Which is just so
they built a brand on being snarky assholes but their relationship to the pod was frankenstein to the monster if frankenstein mentioned the monster like three times in total.
Can anyone give me a quick non-biased rundown on the ‘vegan struggle session’?
I remember it all started because some vegans shitposted in c/food about how to cook a dog and some people took the posts too seriously until it affected all the site
It was specifically that they kept posting variations of it until it got a rise out of people. That’s also a lot of why indigenous practices became such a touchstone in the fight. Because someone finally replied to those posts that their culture actually did traditionally eat dogs and that was the spark that caught.
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Without going too deep down the rabbithole (because doing so risks re-igniting the whole thing), vegans basically said standard vegan type things about how eating meat is morally indefensible, and people who ate meat got very angry about it, and people on both sides engaged in argumentative tactics that were bad and offensive and got the other side very angry. It lasted like several days I think, across several threads, and led to a lot of mods, admins, and even devs burning out on this site, and even now there are still a lot of hard feelings about it on both sides.
Edit: I should probably clarify that while vegan struggle sessions had always been a thing here and there, this one was precipitated by an attempt to lifeboat the VeganCircleJerk subreddit, which was full of users who were very outspoken about veganism, often in ways that even many vegans would find abrasive.
For around its first year of existence (when it was still called chapo.chat) this site was a bit of a dumpster fire, despite having mostly great admins and users. Constant struggle sessions, user drama, some actual wreckers, and heavy-handed moding (some of it justified, some not as much) made for an often toxic environment that bled users. Capped off by one of the founders getting doxed and falsely accused by a rightist op.
Thankfully things have calmed down alot since then, and we’ve gone from regular exoduses of users to stable (if small) growth, with a considerably kinder and chiller community.
Even still I try to avoid dramaposts or struggle sessions just cause I remember how bad things can be when they dominate discussions.
Hold on let’s be real here, the subreddit was also a dumster fire. Chapo.Chat continued what was basically exactly the same thing that had been occurring on the subreddit.
The modding was actually significantly worse on the subreddit you had several mods that would just do shit because it was funny, which was great in its own way but in no way could you call it professionally run. The subreddit was “dirtbag” in every single way.
Any one have a copy of the “my dad works at reddit” post that predicted us getting bothsided by reddit a day later ?
That’s our lore.
Our founding document
check out this dope ass bear:
In the beggining there was a dope ass bear
The sub started as an unofficial sub for the pod. Over time it became a focal point for the " dirtbag left", unapologetically hostile and uncivil leftists who wnated to name names and apply blame where it belonged instead of playing the normal civility politics game. It was initially boosted by hope for the bernie campaign and then became a kind of maladaptive group therapy thing.
The sub culture was “all posting is good posting” and we posted a lot. We were the second or third most active sub by post velocity, in roughly the same bracket as the nba sub with millions of members. That made the sub extremely visible beyond it’s membership numbers. We also gained a notorious reputation for being bernie bros when the dems were going hard on discrediting bernie’s street level movement.
And when people would come on to the sub to complain at us we’d bully them ruthlessly.
All of this was embarassing to reddit. One of the far and away most active subs were a bunch of cruel leftist assholes who loudly supported bernie and were mean to everyone. Spez is a nazi, reddit is a psyop, and libs and fash alike are delicate in the face of critique, so we became the specter haunting reddit.
Seriously people were so fucking mad the subexisted. We were constantly accused of brigading although i don’t think we did much. The usual tactic was to @ shitheads to lure them in to the cth sub and then crucify them.
Evetually the admins quarantined the sub on some bullshit excuse, along with most of the other left subs. But that wasn’t enough to stop the red and black menace, so when /r/thedonald finally did enough terrorism to force reddit’s hand they banned all the left subs at the same time on bs pretenses.
That’s what eventually spurred the creation of this site.
The bullshit excuse was “calls to violence” against slave owners who have been dead for hundreds of years. It was “John Brown did nothing wrong” that got us quarantined, right?
so when /r/thedonald finally did enough terrorism to force reddit’s hand they banned all the left subs at the same time on bs pretenses.
IIRC; The Donald was closed months before that by the TheDonald mods, since they moved to their own Reddit spinoff. You could only view posts, but not publish anything. So it was the opposite, they closed the lefty subs and then closed the inactive TheDonald to look evenhanded.
CHAZ deserves a place on the list
The Volcels needed a vanguard.
Historical bit: Shoutout to
and the Kerryposters as well! I forget if the kerryposters were just mega-shitposters or actual wreckers, but the Silver legion guys (guy? I don’t know how many there actually were) were so fucking melodramatic about their wrecking attempts. Some of their self-aggrandizing quotes are still used as site taglines today!
My favorite one was when they gave a Hexbear apocalypse date prediction and then the site actually crashed on the date they gave
The Kerryposters were most definitely wreckers, and absurdly persistent ones at that.
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OMG the Silver Legion !! , that was great ! what a fun little period in Hexbear history…
Started out as r/cumtown