Recently, @Eugene_V_Dabs deleted all their posts & comments following the termination of their youtube account. This is only hours after their ukranian video was taken down after the guardian didnt want people watching some interview that would be inconvenient for the current narrative.

Frustration is understandable in the face of fascist propaganda, and it is 100% healthier to walk away from it than to engage in it. Still, I am going to miss watching their videos, which were a source of humor & light in a time of nonstop worldwide libel & propaganda.

I really hope this isn't the end, but I totally get it. Mr Dabs, thank you for your service :rat-salute:

:meow-hug:

  • Eugene_V_Dabs [des/pair]
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    2 years ago

    @KermitTheFraud left me a message saying I had posted 212,000 words since November and 2 hours of video. In the face of that information, I felt that it was best for my health (and general opsec) to log off.

    Perhaps in the coming days I will post an archival link of my videos.

    thank you for the appreciation

    :ancom-heart: :heart-sickle: :trans-heart: :palestine-heart: :soviet-heart:

    • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I don’t know if this was more an opsec concern or more a health concern, but I hope you’re able to take a break and continue doing what you do in a healthier and sufficiently anonymous capacity. Much love, comrade :ancom-heart:

      • Eugene_V_Dabs [des/pair]
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        2 years ago

        I don’t know if this was more an opsec concern or more a health concern

        neither do I tbh

        but I hope you’re able to take a break and continue doing what you do in a healthier and sufficiently anonymous capacity. Much love, comrade

        i've been doing a lot of posting but I hope to do more reading

        edit: and direct action, the most important thing of all

    • Mabbz [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :meow-hug: glad that youre taking care of yourself and not disappearing under mysterious circumstances

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      2 years ago

      :hero-of-socialist-labor: :order-of-lenin:

      :left-unity-2: Been an honor posting with you and sharing your content. We pissed off a lotta cops with that they live meme.

    • discontinuuity [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :fidel-salute: Thank you for your service., your videos are my favorites for dunking on libs. I hope you find yourself in a healthier place.

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Dabs is the one true leftist here because they're actually logging off

    • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I really hope you do, I have a playlist of your stuff that I use to turn my succdem friends into commies. I consider you the Hattori Hanzo of left memery, each post somehow even more honed and cutting than the last. You are a shitpost legend, and all thats left for me to say is ":bugs-stalin: Take it away, Fidel":fidel-salute-big:

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      At some point I hope there can be an effort to spread media production across a group of several people, to increase both reach and output, and prevent a single node from being taken down. If this happens I would be honored to take part in it or support it somehow.

      'Cause I was so hooked on your videos that the algorithm started noticing.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        2 years ago

        Yea I think that we must have pushed them into the main stream of the algorithm with the small but rapid rate of engagement we gave them.

      • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        This was actually why I messaged them originally. I thought a core group of posters could expand an operation like that and make it more sustainable and more able to be pointed at specific issues. But also there’s a lot to be said about the distributed nature of how this site spreads around attention

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Your videos were the one single YouTube channel I actually hit that bell on after I liked and subscribed. This is a huge loss; I sincerely hope you upload an archive somewhere.

      • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        For Reddit there’s metis search stuff that you can find. For Hexbear I pulled all of the comments via the api and just wrote my own word count function

          • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Reddit:

            https://redditmetis.com/user/[YOUR USERNAME HERE]

            Hexbear:

            (Python script using @congressbaseballfan as an example since she asked originally)

            USERNAME = 'congressbaseballfan'

import string
import json
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen as fetch

def fetch_json(url: str):
    request = Request(url)
    request.add_header('User-Agent','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)')
    request.add_header('Content-Type','application/json')

    with fetch(request) as response:
        return json.load(response)

def word_count(s: str) -> int:
    no_punctuation = s.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
    return len(no_punctuation.split())

url = f'https://hexbear.net/api/v1/user?username={USERNAME}&sort=New&limit=5000&saved_only=false'
data = fetch_json(url)
comments = [c['content'] for c in data['comments']]
total_count = sum(word_count(c) for c in comments)
account_created = data['user']['published'][:10]

print(f'{USERNAME} has written {total_count} words since {account_created}')
            • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              What do I do? Press enter? Lmao

              According to Google looks like I’ll need a computer for this. Yuck.

              • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                I have a Python interpreter on my phone but yeah it’s not ideal without a desktop. For the record the output is:

                congressbaseballfan has written 87798 words since 2020-07-26

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      :rosa-salute:

      Comrade Dabs, you've been a true poster for the people, and I know I'm not the only one who's learned a lot from your posts and delightful slops.

      Hope the grass you touch treats you well. Love and solidarity, best of luck with everything :stalin-heart:

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      :heart-sickle: :heart-sickle: :heart-sickle: :heart-sickle: :heart-sickle:

      Love your posts

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Hope to see you back here regularly again :rosa-salute:

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      i've always known you as a powerful, highly entertaining and intelligent poster. take care, thank you for your service :rosa-salute:

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Nothing I can say that hasn't been said better already by other comrades, I just wanted to add one more voice expressing appreciation and gratitude to you. I'll be looking forward to seeing your videos again if you do post that link, but infinitely more important: take care of yourself comrade!

      Love and solidarity.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      take care of yourself comrade! hope to see you around again sometime and glad you're ok :kim-salute:

      (and if you feel like it, an archive of the videos would be extremely dope they're very good, but no rush, take care of yourself first, we'll be here)

    • D3FNC [any]
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      2 years ago

      Hey man I wanted you to know I watched all of your videos on YouTube immediately as soon as I stumbled across the first one. Each and every one of them was amazing. I think you're brilliant and wish you the best. You have truly been a ray of light in a dark world right now. Thanks for posting.