What year do you think was the summit of the old CTH sub? I would say 2017. The response to the Charlottesville riots were fucking epic.

  • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Don't know when exactly it was, but there was a long run where our spectre absolutely haunted reddit. We lived so rent-free in lib redditors' minds that receiving any pushback whatsoever would result in them accusing Liz Warren stans of being "chapos".

    You can sorta see the same thing beginning to happen with "tankies" now. You know you dominate their brain space when people feel the need to preemptively ad-hominem you before you even show up.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The best time at CTH was when we would @ ping chuds and bully them off the platform. It’s also how we got that one dude to show us his dick

        • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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          4 years ago

          this is the right answer it was legendary a classic moment in internet history

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I think the best one was some guy who was like "oh, I guess I was wrong actually" and then he became a regular and just became farther and farther left over the next year. It was a great redemption arc.

        Edit: dunking on devavrata so hard he orchestrated a mass purge of leftists from a bunch of lib subs was also great, and some of the power-mod freaks who were part of his conspiracy are AHS mods now too.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I literally saw someone doing the "chapos bad" thing yesterday.

      Still living rent-free in their heads after almost a year.

      :cat-com:

    • obamanator91 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah that period absolutely ruled - it almost, but never quite got to the point of gamergate era SRS, but Chapo was waay better at out posting the CHUDs thanSRS ever was. I swear the rest of reddit became slightly more bearable for a while as well.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          And tankies/genzedong don't come close to how mad CTH made them.

          By homogenizing over time Reddit has killed everything that's fun to argue about in the comments.

          • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Dunno about this. They're already screaming "fuck off tankie" at anarchists & have 15 subreddits dedicated to attacking stawmen of us.

            At most, they've known the word "tankie" for 6 months. Outside of r/MoreTankieChapo, that word did not coexist with the Sanders campaign. Give it more time.

            Wait until the midterms and tankies are in r/politics saying Biden and Pelosi haven't delivered on anything. Libs are going to go into all-out rage mode, peaking the day after the midterms when Dems get destroyed.

            Inb4: "HOPE YOURE HAPPY TANKIES, YOU COST US THE ONLY CHANCE WE HAD TO MAKE PROGRESS UNTIL 2024!!!"

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Exact same situation for me in terms of being deep in an r/politics thread and constantly hearing people bring it up. I started out on the subreddit rolling my eyes at some political stuff on it but I embrace it all now. That kind of potent radicalization is absolutely why it was banned from Reddit. You basically read some liberal BS'ing about how insane and evil the subreddit is and then you go to it and find it to be nothing like what they say. Liberal joe shmoes are so dumb and bad at convincing people of stuff that they hurt their own cause.