boring as fuck jokes, liberal cringe opinions, 9 bad takes out of 10, and more galore. Should hexbear really keep associating itself with Chapo, it really seems that hexbear has outgrown it in general.
edit: by associating i mean using things like chapotraphouse com or askchapo or chapochat. maybe we’ve grown beyond it, maybe its a neat part of site culture and a nod to its roots while not connected to the cringe stuff.
We don’t? We changed the name years ago.
Also this is a fan site.
The tenuous connection that remains doesn’t bother me. Did they say something cringe recently?
Did they say something cringe recently?
I still listen from time to time. Not to my knowledge. Hell they’re one of the handful of left media figures who’ve been consistently good on Palestine.
Same, still listen very rarely (moved on to even more based/educational channels like Geopolitical Economy Report admittedly, or more informative ones)
TBH didn’t even know the connection between Chapo and Hexbear when I first joined a month ago- and this is despite having been around the old r/Chapo till- I think it got banned for saying death to slavers or some other based shit? (Ancient history). So the association isn’t very obvious (IMO).
Yeah iirc and i almost certainly don’t their excuse for finally axing us was people posting about killing slavers who were specifically already dead or something.
Yeah, I think everyone who was a fan of Chapo/Trueanon in 2016 has moved on to The Deprogram / Blowback / Democracy Now! etc.
I still tune in to Hasan and Chapo if a topic interests me, for things like movie reviews and stuff.
(Also Hasan has been blowing up in my feed because of all the Twitch drama atm)
I probably listen more frequently than most, and I can’t say I’ve noticed any racist jokes, Can you think of a specific one?
The opinions haven’t changed much still mostly ok with smattering of bad takes but nothing outrageous that I haven’t seen expressed here, maybe more lowbrow since maths absence
Bit they still get decent guests, and for someone outside the US I appreciate the perspective on internal politics that isn’t too lib, although you can get all that elsewhere
My opinion on the matter is it does really matter anymore, but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, like what is there really beyond associations other than this sub name and older users like myself who may still use the chapo.chat domain
Can’t prove it but I think it’s probably a driver of new users since I see here mentioned on places like the blackwolffeed reddit
self crit it was pointed out that i kinda mixed up cumtown and chapo so my annoyance with chapo deflated and my point about the racism stuff was wrong. Sorry.
i can see your side, especially since it is a reference to its roots, and its already here so why change it.
conversely, maybe in order to improve the site, and get rid of the reddit-ness that is so often causing issues, its necessary to move the site culture away from those things. Probably overboard though.
Genuinely curious, what alternate universe version of the site have you been looking at? The chapotraphouse podcast is mentioned here in passing maybe once a week if that, sitewide
That really hasn’t had anything to do with the podcast since before this site even existed though. We’re not associated with the podcast we’re associated with the subreddit which had basically nothing to do with the podcast by the end
afaik main isn’t called that because people actually like chapotraphouse, it’s an extended bit because the chapos hated r/chapotraphouse so we kept the name out of mutual disrespect
that being said i wouldn’t have any problem fully converting over to c/main or a different/funny comm name, it’s site culture but it wouldn’t be a loss if it was dropped
I don’t even think they hated us. What i remember is that they mentioned the sub in some negative joking way in like 2018 and we just kind of ran with it. I kinda doubt they even know we exist
They actually mentioned the banning of the sub briefly in a very recent episode, the one before the latest l think, but that’s the first time in years iirc but I haven’t listened to every episode so could be wrong there
Yeah I think I caught that, too. I almost care enough to go re listen to it. But I don’t actually care enough.
I recall recently I think amber mentioned people being upset by pig poop balls and I don’t know if there is any other context where that exists.
I remembered they celebrated that the sub got banned on the podcast. I don’t think they thought about r/cth all that much, but they seemed really happy to hear it got banned.
