How did this happen we’re smarter than this.
As one of the people moderating that comm, it was weird. I had a phase (like 10 years ago) where I was a full-on Swiftie with a stan twitter account and during that time I met the swiftie who later went viral on twitter for going to prison after she refused to join the IDF. I talked about that on here and then there was another user who brought up the idea of starting the taylorswift comm. From the way they pitched it it was semi-ironic I suppose, they wanted to turn Taylor Swift into a leftist icon and it was supposed to be a sort of ragebait, though I’m not sure who exactly was supposed to be baited by it. That’s where the
emote came from. Comms need two moderators to be started and I agreed to be the other one since I was the resident Taylor Swift expert. The bit got old pretty quickly. The user who originally pitched the comm left the site shortly after the comm was founded so that didn’t help. At the time I still had generally positive opinions about Taylor Swift but that has soured quite a bit since then.To be perfectly honest, I think both the other founder and me saw it as an opportunity to talk about a special interest of ours, one that would usually find very little resonance on hexbear, with the plausible deniability of “haha we’re just being ironic though look it’s Taylor as a communist”. In hindsight it’s kinda embarrassing that it existed but oh well. I still have the little moderator emblem on my hexbear UI so it was all worth it.
The other user left? That sucks. I remember them as being decent people and good poster.
Well they didn’t formally leave or anything they just stopped posting. Their last post was over 3 years ago.
Some say they’re still around, on another account 👻👻👻
(Im lying idk, nobody said that)
Wait until you find my secret Hamilton club
I think even just joking about that should be enough to get sent to the
You can’t do anything to me, all the mods are part of the secret Hamilton club. In fact, they’re the only members. I invented the club purely to contain them alone.
Daydreaming about the time I told my dad I didn’t care for Hamilton and he goes "because it’s not left enough?
"And I go “yeah pretty much”
I’m cheering for Lewis this year tbh
Did nobody in this thread bother to actually check out the tswift comm before speculating?
It was always ironic.
You can see how much this site genuinely and unironically loved taysway by all the posts of her music on the music comm:
This historical evidence would be lost if it weren’t for the collective memory of months-old accounts made by people banned during some struggle session.
Five posts over a range of six years. Damning evidence of hexbear harboring cishet white girls.
<_<
delete this
Disturbing.
I thought this was one of those, “this is a stereotypically feminine-coded thing so we’re gonna triple down on pushing back against anyone who doesn’t like it” things. Like the pumpkin spice latte discourse.
I forgot the pumpkin spice latte thread.
we’re smarter than this.
We had an anti-union comm. No, we’re not.
What was it called?
c/chapotraphouse
Biggest mistake on the site hands down.
C/main forever
Like the drug lord???
anti_union_aktion
Oh god I forgot about this. One of the dumbest times in our site history
This and the stock/finance comm are on up there
NFT comm when :^)
I mean it isn’t very active, but it seems to me that c/finance is mostly for news about financial markets, and not evangelizing the stock market or anything like that.
Iirc it started as a response to the wallstreetbets subreddit when that was first getting big, and my read was that it was less ironic than not. Then later it got sort of readjusted to the more reasonable comm it is now. But that’s also my vibes based recollection from years ago so maybe I’m kind of exaggerating how silly it was in my head
Now that you mention it I do remember that, and I may have actually been on the “let’s try and radicalize these guys” side at the time, which does seem silly in hindsight.
I stopped browsing the site for several months following this.
hm can’t blame you considering it was spearheaded by one of the site’s most persistently hostile, noxious, emotionally abusive memebers who coordinated harassment campaigns in their sad little discord, whateva happened there?
Melina stalks the mind of hexbears like Death Eaters stalk harry potter
our best poster; they hate me for saying it but its true
lmao one of many instances that makes me want to know what kind of dirt Melina had on the mods that they got that level of tolerance and accommodation
Presumably someone asked for it, and 50%+ of the purpose of Hexbear is to post about personal interests. Some people are interested in pop music, the poor souls.
Some people are interested in pop music, the poor souls
please don’t gulag me for liking carly rae jepsenHey, I just met you
And this is counterrevolutionary
But here’s my number
A call will be necessary
It’s okay, we’ll all be in the gulag together because of our cringe music tastes.
But that is a correct opinion. E.mo.tion is objectively one of the best pop albums ever. Definitely of the 2010s.
you really oughta stop
Further proof individualism is a scam this should not have been tolerated.
Taylor Swift outbreak is/was everywhere and the anti viral messures were not taken seriously so eventually every just kind of gave up and learned to live with it.
She’s basically the covid of music.
Exactly
I’m gonna make a risky statement and say speculation on this straight billionaire being ‘gaylor’ absolutely cooked some people’s brains
SHE IS GAY AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!
comm request c/kpop, and k/cpop to balance it out
The c in k/cpop stands for corn
Only if Kpop was a honeypot where everyone who posted on it was immediately banned. Cpop can stay but you’re on thin fucking ice.
K-pop? Like the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble?
it was a joke to ragebait. it also led to some very funny SEO where you could search taylor swift communist and hexbear showed up on google for it
good memories
Well that was an awful read
Irony and ragebaiting you are still falling for
(and perhaps some unironic enjoyment of walmart background music)
The t swift comm was not started ironically. I was there I remember
Stalin come back we need another purge.
Holy larp.
It was unironic ironic unironic
it was cool smh
Oh you didnt know ? We used to have a Jeff Bezos fancom. But Hexbear hates fun.
That at least was 100% ironic. The Swifty thing seems to have been real.
Wait. Hexbear was making fun of THE Jeff Bezos ? My favourite Billionaire ? That cant be right . Gonna have to have a serious talk with the mods.
I listened to the newest Taylor Swift album and I swear it sounds like it was generated by Suno
