That's right folks the year is drawing to a close so it's time to rehash last year's bit, nominate, and vote for your 2024 Hexies! These are the Hexbears you think exemplify what it means to be a real Hexbear hexbear-retro

Here's how it works:

  1. Pick from the below categories

  2. Nominate someone for that category by tagging them

  3. If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it

  4. Most upbeared accepted nomination in each category wins!

What do you win? The esteem of your fellow Hexbearian comrades of course. What more could you want?

The categories for this year's 2024 Hexie awards are:

  1. Best Effortposter of 2024

  2. Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance

  3. Most comradely Hexbear

This year we have a special bonus category to commemorate some of the new comms we added:

  1. Best bad poster (this is not the worst poster, this is the best poster that is bad at posting)

We got a lot of new posters this year and have a lot of great comrades visiting from federated instances, feel free to participate too! We love all of our great posters, don't we folks?

Alright comrades that's it from me, be sure and do your democratic duty and vote for your 2024 Hexie winners and congrats in advance to the winners of this highly coveted and prestigious award!

And for one small trip down memory lane, here's last year's Hexies! https://hexbear.net/post/1477104

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This bit was fun last year so I hope folks enjoy doing this bit again this year too, as a bit though

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  • Piment [they/them, comrade/them]
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    9 days ago

    I had the thought of something like this, but nominating the YouTuber Jessie Gender for worst video-essay of the year with her 4 hour long video about Palestine which boils down to "what's happening in Palestine is really bad, but liberal Zionism is valid". She also managed to include a quote from "Son of Hamas" in the original video. Maybe the biggest display of BreadTuber sophistry I have ever seen, not to mention it is the length of two entire movies, while saying almost nothing worth hearing. It has just stuck with me how phenomenally bad this video was.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmvJZCn-IE

    Hexbear post discussing the video https://hexbear.net/post/3104950

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      9 days ago

      I was following her channel when it was absolutely tiny and was stoked to see it goes, I like star trek and she had done good shit before in the general video essay genre. There was an earlier essay she did that she sourced a reactionary freak and she and her co-writer for the video got really defensive when I pointed out she was basing her point off of information provided by an extreme reactionary, the replies were that they thought really hard about including the dude but decided to cause it supported their point, I replied that a reactionary source that supports your point of view either means you could find another less shitty person to cite or examine your point cause if only a reactionary's works support your point, it's probably a reactionary point. I forget the specifics and the video cause it was over a year prior to this one, but it was a huge red flag. She wouldn't re-examine her point when and argued to hell and back and made excuses why it was OK to promote reactionaries abd then makes a 4 hour video about how we should be nicer to zionists. The radlib mind in action. If you're on nebula and not patrick h willems, I've got no damn time for you.

      Edit: it was her Andor video

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      9 days ago

      Has anything meaningfully changed with the edited version? Obviously the title is different, but other discussions make it seem like it’s actually good and her points are being misrepresented. I do not wish to watch it

      • Piment [they/them, comrade/them]
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        9 days ago

        It was just really tone deaf and disrespectful ultimately, there was something in it about how IDF members are drafted so it's not really their fault for having served, clearly ignoring that you can just choose not to be an IDF member and do the relatively short prison sentence, in regards to her saying people shouldn't be boycotting some IDF soldier. I don't have the heart to watch whatever changes were made, I doubt they were transformative though given the original.

        • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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          9 days ago

          Eye roll emoji, that Taylor swift Stan was the biggest win against this argument because she went to prison, had weed edibles and gay sex, and left! Easy! No participation in genocide!

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          9 days ago

          Worked with a dude who was born in Israel, he's cool as hell and left as Doom as he could. He ended out getting a park ranger gig for his military service and decided to do it instead of go to jail cause at the time he figured he wasn't going to be doing any personal harm and jail seemed scary. He regrets it now for not doing the time out of principle. So yeah, ex IDF guy has told said he was a coward for signing up but those who willingly join are the greatest cowards

        • frauddogg
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          7 days ago

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