I feel like we need to explain 
again, amongst other things
Man how has nobody mentioned “kill all slave owners” yet? That’s the whole reason the chapo subreddit got banned in the first place (ostensibly, of course)
that’s really part of the true origins: kill all slave owners, john brown did nothing wrong, spez is a paedophile who dreams of owning slaves, etc
In the beginning, Chapo Trap House is a podcast…
No one really even listened to it but for some reason posted on its subreddit… In the dark times.
While the hosts balked at their own subreddit, it grew in size and power, becoming one only spoken of in hushed tones by others who feared the wrath of the dreaded tankie/berniebro.
Haha. I remember digging up the last post will made on /CTH and it was some fucking dire stuff. Someone commented something pretty milquetoast about not liking to pay money for a left wing podcast only for the hosts to have a guy on talking about his reviews of fast food restaurants and will lost his fucking shit. It wasn’t like it was a bunch of people dunking on him, or even that the one commenter was being particularly harsh. He was just for whatever reason feeling especially thin-skinned that day.
It honestly cracks me up how they still bring up the subreddit, they dread it to this day
But the official podcast of the forum is citations needed
I’m so upset that I never got the chance to not post on CTH3
You can still not post on c/chapotraphouse3
Who has the iceberg? I feel like we could do another
But also: shrekland.net
Dang, no outdoor cat posting yet?
That must have taken a lot of restraint.
Of course, I’ve suggested this and immediately gone off to play games instead of wax lyrical about funny internet posts. But maybe we could have some freeform series of posts or some shit?
Some hexbearspectives, if you will. Explaining the origins, post hog, ppb, the dope ass bear, president parrot, DPRK soldier, silver legion, upholding tc69 thought, when the federation tap got turned on/preemptive last resort, classic struggle sessions etc
john kerry, BMF, why can’t you be open about your stalinism,
Silver legion
Our most famous meme is that the “40% of cops beat their spouses” study first went viral on r/chapotraphouse, our old subreddit.
The tag “Genocide Joe,” referring to Joe Biden’s support for the genocide of Palestinian people, may have originated here, from @VILenin@hexbear.net . I can’t find earlier references, but it may just be one of those names that multiple people thought of at once.
Ask a better storyteller to talk about “Post hog.”
I’ll chime in a bit on the hog part. In the subreddit days of yore, we’d frequently get brigaded by the likes of r/The_Donald and other fascist hive minds, and when logic failed on them (logic always fails on fascists) we’d run them off with a bit of playful goading of their homophobia by asking them to post a photo of their “hog”, or male sex organs. This led to an increased usage of the strategy of quickly dispatching would-be brigadiers with the phrase of “post hog”. (As a quick aside, one especially clever Chapo once made a post entitled “Post hog” and the body of the post said “ergo propter hog”, which was a silly reference to the logical fallacy “post hoc ergo propter hoc”. Anyway, this is where my username comes from. No clue who that chapo was but I stole it because it was all I could come up with in the moment when making my account.) The hog business eventually led to other hog-adjacent shenanigans, such as responding to fascists with a picture of a pig with poop on its balls. This had a similar effect as the aforementioned homophobia goading.
Oh god, it’s even better than that. The original “post hog,” actually got a chud to post their hog. Somebody wore a chud down in an argument and eventually asked them to prove something-or-other by linking an image of their junk to reddit, and they went and posted their hog
I was there for that. It was extremely funny. The username of the chud was something like “jaredsw” which means there’s probably some guy from the southwest named Jared and I’ve seen his dingus.
spend enough time in the southwest and you’re gonna see a jared’s dingus. it’s inevitable.
To add to this, one of the commenters in that thread found his Grindr account almost immediately because the username was the same as his Reddit account. This incident predates the mods locking the subreddit the day that it hit 69,420 subscribers; I think we were in the high 40k range?
I was so annoyed about that lock lol
I can’t believe we’re getting the “closing the sub for a joke isn’t okay” struggle session ityool 2024
Me too. CTH was about the only relief valve that I got after dealing with my rabid Trumper coworkers. Where the hell was I going to go, Twitter?
it isn’t okay to close the sub for a joke.
I actually don’t know the dprk soldier thing. But the only thing I been think of when I see the post pic is “look at this dumbass”.
Someone uploaded the image and it broke the site. That might have also been what made the image look like that.
Is there a link to the image? I must see it!
lol thank you
Yes, the image was corrupt in some way and it took down the entire site. I had a copy from that time and opening it on my computer instantly shot my cpu temp to 85C and took up something like 4GB of RAM
The image resolution size was absolutely massive and processing it was the reason the site crashed
c/bestofhexbear is mostly inactive, but has some site history stuff posted there. Of course more would be welcome
c/bestofhexbear is mostly inactive
owie
Shitbird, shrekland, and dave
That one was my favourite. I miss shitbird
Do not mention a former Obama Admin Secretary of State who ran against Bush in 04.
Reporting for doody!
We need a !lore comm where we have the source for every emoji, every tagline, even a bunch of the past pivots/struggle sessions/rule changes.
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