Hexbear, still going strong. Rest in piss, bozos.

    • disco [any]
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      2 years ago

      Their subreddit got banned at around the same time as ours, so they went to their own off-site reddit clone.

      Whereas chapochat was a nightmarish storm of endless struggle sessions, their site was quickly taken over by virulent racists. Honestly, I'm amazed that we outlasted them.

      Edit: also, I find it very charming that so few of the posters here seem to know about them. They were obsessed with us, and constantly having a low level red scare, with users accusing each other of being Chapo infiltrators.

      • AvgMarighellaEnjoyer [he/him,any]
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        2 years ago

        their site was quickly taken over by virulent racists

        honestly that was what the cumtown sub was by the end of it. the site was worse but the subreddit was pretty dogshit too.

        • queendeadsept8 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          The podcast was pretty shit just being honest, not as reactionary as redscare but they regularly said removed a lot.

          • disco [any]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah. It would make an interesting case study on the ways online communities become radicalized. Once it went private, a relatively small number of users were able to successfully shift the political ideology of the whole community.

            • queendeadsept8 [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              The cumtown hosts knew what kind of community they were fostering, the same could be said about opie and anthony if you ever listened to them.

              • AvgMarighellaEnjoyer [he/him,any]
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                2 years ago

                well, Adam and Stav kind of hated that part of the community because they'd be victims of their harassment. Nick thought it was funny in an extremely online, irony poisoned sort of way.

            • AvgMarighellaEnjoyer [he/him,any]
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              2 years ago

              even before it went private it was pretty dogshit. i only browsed it in its last year i think and the sub just got worse and worse. there were a bunch of frothing at the mouth extremely online racist shitheads who were able to kind of steer the sub into being worse and worse.

            • queendeadsept8 [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Nick Mullen has definitely said it a few times, usually though all three said removed and removed very liberally.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That's what made ours last, the true soul of this place was forged in a terrible crucible