• ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      So I get what you're saying, but honestly I haven't seen a reference to pedobear in the wild in probably like ten years. I get the feeling only the channers and other terminally-online messageboard types know about it.

      • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        terminally-online messageboard types

        Like us

        Which is why it should have been considered and avoided in becoming the official site name

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          3 years ago

          No this is stupid, literally not even the place where that meme originated remembers it. The only people who would ever think such a thing are people who unironically call themselves "Internet/Meme historians".

          • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Bears are cool and good, but it's dumb to ignore the obvious connection to our sitename we're trying to spread and grow and the infamous pedophilia mascot.

            Site was better when it was called chapo.chat and the hexbear was just a logo meme.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I uh... never even considered this until you brought it up?

      I mean ____ bear isn't that uncommon, you got Panda Bears, Grizzly Bears, Drop Bears, Polar Bears, Sloth Bears, Sun Bears, Spectacled Bears, Kodiak Bears, Cave Bears, Cinnamon Bears, Glacial Bears, and now Hex Bears.

      Also after this Bear doesn't look like a real word.

      • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's one of the first things people think about when they hear about obscure internet forums suffixed with -bear.

        Which is why shifting to this name (especially after ousting our admin over false pedophilia claims) was a terrible idea.

        • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah I’ve never thought about that but I guess it could seem sus to people that don’t know