Look at our baby photo! Weren’t we cute?! (What IS a “Chapo”, anyway?)
Complimentary cupcakes and fruit punch are available on the obligatory plastic folding table at the back of the community center basketball court we rented out.
Happy birthday!!!
To celebrate, we have to have a few China struggle sessions and some Kerryposting as a treat
Kerryposting is back in pog form
But is it really worth running an electoral campaign on the issue of allowing cats outside with Chinese characteristics?
Cant wait for Hexcon 2026 later this year. Free Dort_Owl plushies for everyone
I’m here for the special guest speaker, black mold futures.
i wonder what bmf is doing these days
See you in the ballpit comrade
5+ years, 0 instance or community rules read. You’re welcome for my service
My funniest post was a bad post that was like “whoever reports this for the funniest reason in 24 hours is the official reason this thread is removed”
It lasted like 2 hours. I can only imagine that a mod looked at their computer, saw like 30 reports, and freaked out like they were about to go into defcon1. They looked, saw that they all said Reason: beanis, and rolled their eyes.
I believe the actual result was having it locked “at user request”
Next year we become Septbear right?
REVISIONISM
I am still curious about what exactly was said by the podcast that forced us to change our name from chapo.chat to hexbear. Not that I mind as hexbear is a better moniker, but I am curious.
https://hexbear.net/post/93094
“ChapoChat’’ was always intended as a temporary name. When first building the site, we needed something to rally around and had to move fast. Until now, ChapoChat has been focusing on the practical of “what” the project did, but the “why” also needs to be part of the story and give reasons for our comrades to believe in it. We’ve outgrown the “ChapoChat” name and are at a new stage. […]
Being strictly associated with the Chapo Trap House name has actively blocked us from being an option for a number of organizers as the pod is increasingly viewed by other leftists as more associated with stupidpol and SocDem politics than other more leftist causes.
This site and its community has grown into something far more dynamic than just the fans of a SocDem political podcast. We have comrades from every tendency and continent talking together, finding solibearity, and yes sometimes fighting to the death.
That’s the official reason for the rebranding
Well that date explains why I missed it. That’s when I want all eSports with WoW. Playing that game for 18 hours per day is not conducive to keeping up with what’s going on around oneself. Thank you as well.
Glad you’re doing better and stopped being a g*mer, comrade
I mean this place has far more in common politically with r/moretankiechapo but at the same time, most of those people have ended up in the stupid pol sphere.
I don’t think it was any one thing specifically said by the hosts of chapo, just the general vibe, like hexbear moving more left past the BernieBro stuff of 2020?
IIRC someone was invited to do an AMA and we needed to do a lot of explaining that chapo.chat had no affiliation with the Chapo podcast
Ahhh, I was always under the impression that like Will told us to fucking stop it or something. Thank you for correcting my memory.
Hexbears would never listen to a lib.
We should have kept the name just to annoy him personally
I think besides what was already said, one of the main reasons given at the time is we had trouble working with outside entities by being named after El Chapo.
I really struggle to imagine it being that driven by breaking with the podcast on strictly ideological grounds when we have plenty of fuckers here who are way more reactionary than Chapo is. More likely that side of it is based on people disliking or not caring about the podcast (both of which are fair enough) and therefore it being used as an identifier no longer made sense.
I legit keep forgetting that Chapo was originally a cartel kingpin & the podcasters are just borrowing his name
It came down to wanting to do our own thing and half the people at the time weren’t even listening to cth anymore
wait ppl on the sub listened to the pod?
I mean…i still do, the covid year was terrible, but they’ve picked up recently. The gas station fight bit has to be one of the best I’ve listened to in years.
Even back on Reddit, iirc there was a poll showing that only ~20% of us were actual Chapo listeners. I can’t imagine it’s gone up since then, the subreddit was far left of the pod and the hexagonal bear site is far to the left of the subreddit.
more like sexbear lmao
Volcel police, right here!!!
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
6 years as a boring straight white he/him and I’ve survived every struggle session and ban wave. Do you know how? Shutting the fuck up and learning something. Ty comrades I love this site and will continue to lurk for years to come.
As an official delegate of the “dipshit cishet white guys of hexbear” collation, I can back this up. If you actually listen to people on here and what they have to say and check your shit at the door, you too can have a good time on hb.
“dipshit cishet white guys of hexbear”
There are dozens of us.
Captain my captain
Only 4 years for me but it’s really easy not to get banned
Its called being a ‘grungler’ i think, and its easy if you’re not a bigoted asshole who thinks there the smartest person in every room
Happy Hexyear
Holy shit it’s been six years
One of the last few actually “alive” places online.
alive internet theory
Happy birthday to Hexbear and death to Amerikkka
Fuck 6 years already?
Sixbear! So you gays started in the pandemic and during the Bernie elections?
Yeah, Hexbear is ultimately the offshoot of /r/chapotraphouse. The subreddit was quarantined for a time and then eventually banned. In the last few days people were spamming a discord server to serve as a lifeboat to carry the community until a site could be built. Not sure how people knew the ban hammer was coming, but a few thousand people hopped aboard and a few months later chapo.chat was born, initially a modified fork of Lemmy which precluded federation because of the extent of the modifications. At some point we renamed ourselves Hexbear to distance ourselves from the Chapo Trap House podcast. The name was derived from this picture of a bear
, which looks hexagonal, that was being posted about in the subreddit shortly before the ban with the title “check out this dope ass bear.”Iirc we knew the ban was coming because it was borderline impossible for a community to be unquarantined. You only get quarantined after you attract the attention of the admins and it’s super unlikely that a community of I think 100k+ isn’t going to include some people breaking the rules.
Yeah but we were quarantined for a while though. Felt like the discord started getting posted only days before the ban. That’s just my recollection though, I didn’t really participate in the subreddit.
We’d already received warnings for ‘advocating violence’ for ‘john brown did nothing wrong’ comments & posts, and as the mod-team was (rightfully)unwilling to compromise and ban those who we’re saying it it was inevitable
An offshoot of what?
The fan subreddit for the podcast “citations needed”, which was named r/chapotraphouse.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN PODCAST?
an audio program made available for automatic download over the internet
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wouldn’t download a bear, w- would you?
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A lot of the people here were berniebros, even active with the campaign afaik but then it became painfully apparent that he was controlled opposition and most see him as a sad joke now
Only decent place on the internet, it’s been a ride
I wanted to make a joke about spelling out hexbear in maoist standard english but I’m stumped.
edit WAIT “heKKKSSb€ar” https://maosite.neocities.org/
