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.
So we’re at this point of the hexbear discourse cycle again?
I don’t really see the benefit to changing it, especially for most of the reasons you mention. I don’t think the chapos are libs and I’m not sure what you mean by “cringe.”
I agree it does feel anachronistic, but that’s kinda how culture works. Things from the past hang around even after the origins are lost
For that matter why is this place named “Hexbear”? I remember it was chapo.chat but I didn’t join up during that time, later decided to try it only to find it’s now Hexbear
It was because the mods at the time were mad that people only used c/main and had voted not to rename c/main to something other than c/main (I voted for c/slop) so then they stopped having elections about things like that. Next thing you know we change the name of the site to hexbears because some the then mods/admins thought the association with Chapo was bad and decided to name/brand the website after a stale, but wholesome meme (look at this dope-ass bear)
This was around the same time they were hosting Matt “abolishing police is bad” Taibbi and agreeing with him.
Sure, but that would require I listen to the podcast to know that
Look at this dope ass bear
This site was initially chapo.chat but they decided to change the name (shortly after I joined, so I dont really know all the details) presumably because they wanted to distance themselves from chapo (see op). Why they chose the shortlived ‘hexbear’ meme for the name? I’m not sure.