I feel like we need to explain 
again, amongst other things
Our most famous meme is that the "40% of cops beat their spouses" study first went viral on r/chapotraphouse, our old subreddit.
The tag "Genocide Joe," referring to Joe Biden's support for the genocide of Palestinian people, may have originated here, from @VILenin@hexbear.net . I can't find earlier references, but it may just be one of those names that multiple people thought of at once.
Ask a better storyteller to talk about "Post hog."
I'll chime in a bit on the hog part. In the subreddit days of yore, we'd frequently get brigaded by the likes of r/The_Donald and other fascist hive minds, and when logic failed on them (logic always fails on fascists) we'd run them off with a bit of playful goading of their homophobia by asking them to post a photo of their "hog", or male sex organs. This led to an increased usage of the strategy of quickly dispatching would-be brigadiers with the phrase of "post hog". (As a quick aside, one especially clever Chapo once made a post entitled "Post hog" and the body of the post said "ergo propter hog", which was a silly reference to the logical fallacy "post hoc ergo propter hoc". Anyway, this is where my username comes from. No clue who that chapo was but I stole it because it was all I could come up with in the moment when making my account.) The hog business eventually led to other hog-adjacent shenanigans, such as responding to fascists with a picture of a pig with poop on its balls. This had a similar effect as the aforementioned homophobia goading.
Oh god, it's even better than that. The original "post hog," actually got a chud to post their hog. Somebody wore a chud down in an argument and eventually asked them to prove something-or-other by linking an image of their junk to reddit, and they went and posted their hog
I was there for that. It was extremely funny. The username of the chud was something like "jaredsw" which means there's probably some guy from the southwest named Jared and I've seen his dingus.
spend enough time in the southwest and you're gonna see a jared's dingus. it's inevitable.
I hate to break this to you, but that username is probably a reference to "Jared at Subway."
To add to this, one of the commenters in that thread found his Grindr account almost immediately because the username was the same as his Reddit account. This incident predates the mods locking the subreddit the day that it hit 69,420 subscribers; I think we were in the high 40k range?
Me too. CTH was about the only relief valve that I got after dealing with my rabid Trumper coworkers. Where the hell was I going to go, Twitter?
I can't believe we're getting the "closing the sub for a joke isn't okay" struggle session ityool 2024
subreddit got banned around 150k or 200k i think? i found the sub at 16k.
Screenshots from 4chan saying "do not post on chapo. they don't get baited. they don't even get triggered. they just aggressively ask for pictures of your junk. honestly i feel really uncomfortable now."
R/cth popularised "ok boomer", though I think the demographics since then have massively shifted
Do not mention a former Obama Admin Secretary of State who ran against Bush in 04.
I actually don't know the dprk soldier thing. But the only thing I been think of when I see the post pic is "look at this dumbass".
Someone uploaded the image and it broke the site. That might have also been what made the image look like that.
Yes, the image was corrupt in some way and it took down the entire site. I had a copy from that time and opening it on my computer instantly shot my cpu temp to 85C and took up something like 4GB of RAM
The image resolution size was absolutely massive and processing it was the reason the site crashed
Hexbear: A Website where everyone is friends with FlakesBongler and says they're cool and awesome
I'd love that and I'm not even as new as some of these other people.
Would also love to know what the deal with the beanis thing is.
[Sung to a thrumming new wave baseline]
🎵When a problem comes along, you must Beanis!
When there's something goin' wrong, you must Beanis!Show
I say Beanis
Beanis good🎵
A lot of things like beanis are just cause it's funny. I've been using hexbear lingo irl long enough my co workers know what 'treatbrained ' means but there is for sure some dense terminology going on even when it's dumb as hell.
'Treats' are shorthand for basically any luxury to an extent but and to be 'treatbrained' is to have some sort of fetishism for some form of consumable or entertainment product. It makes more sense when read in context consistently.
"treats" has an added connotation of... something like triviality, imo
like yachts are disgusting luxury but not a treat, treats are your cheesecake factory and video games
my co workers know what 'treatbrained ' means
Have you familiarized them with what 'bazinga brained' means?
/c/badposting sprung a leak in the most vegan-friendly way possible. That's it. That's the whole origin story. Someone made a shitpost and we're still running with it to this day, like many things in the Hexbear/CTH lexicon. (Hexicon?)
AOC is doing what the unions want her to do is from a legendary struggle session during the railroad strike 2yrs ago. A user called liberal socialist started spamming threads with it, eventually getting banned.
Also the photos of her crying at the border are basically a meme at this point considering all the compromise she's done since.
I forgot about president parrot until just now! We have deep lore, it's mostly silly and oddly bird based at times.
I have infected this site with birds.
I should bring back bird posting
Birds are cool as hell. I'm a crow guy rn but working my way to other birdwatching. There is just an amazing and kinda exemplary crow community city right in the trees of my neighborhood that I've been keeping an eye on for almost 2 years now. We could learn from crows. They're the real neighborhood, the people are alienated units. I spent a day last year watching them build nests and not only were they strategically building nests so each one could get a view of other nests they were sharing materials, I'd see the same crow bringing stuff to different nests and kinda cross referenced it with what they wee carrying and it was pretty clear they were tsking what was needed to where it was needed even if it wasn't their nest. They built a community together. Crows are literally comrades.
My first bit on this site, possibly my worst lmao.
Fake news stories about a parrot (President Parrot, shortened to PP) being president and managing to be better than a real politician despite being a chaotic neutral parrot that just wants crackers.
Beware, these are pretty cringe (but let's be real I've always been cringe) lmao:
https://hexbear.net/post/61555
https://hexbear.net/post/61583
https://hexbear.net/post/79474
https://hexbear.net/post/61856
https://hexbear.net/post/61531
Ngl, it's a pretty dumb bit and I love it! Genuine lol
Thanks for sharing your PP with all of us, my feathery friend.
This is gold and the comments are gold too
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bring back pp. Maybe give it some long stockings.
Did you write this at the lathe?
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Ah yes, President Parrot
Narrowly edged out President Porpoise in the election of '18
Awww, now I miss Enver. Also, BASED_BALL is redundant with the outdoor cat struggle session.
Edit: And it's missing "UlyssesT killed Kissinger"
I have struggled for years to remember Prince Kropotkin's name.Thabk you SO much, I can finally sleep
u/Prince_Kropotkin was a notorious poster on various leftist subreddits. I remember him mostly for posting an actual gameplan to persuade liberals on the evils of capitalism, but he often got in arguments with leftists as well, about the usual sorts of things leftists argue about.
just reminded myself that i literally got an emoji created because of how often i pointed out the officer down emoji was broken
Same goes for this one
someone pointed out it was messed up after an update and we got this commemoration
c/bestofhexbear is mostly inactive, but has some site history stuff posted there. Of course more would be welcome
Of course more would be welcome
Make Hexbear Best Again
No one really even listened to it but for some reason posted on its subreddit.. In the dark times.
While the hosts balked at their own subreddit, it grew in size and power, becoming one only spoken of in hushed tones by others who feared the wrath of the dreaded tankie/berniebro.
Haha. I remember digging up the last post will made on /CTH and it was some fucking dire stuff. Someone commented something pretty milquetoast about not liking to pay money for a left wing podcast only for the hosts to have a guy on talking about his reviews of fast food restaurants and will lost his fucking shit. It wasn't like it was a bunch of people dunking on him, or even that the one commenter was being particularly harsh. He was just for whatever reason feeling especially thin-skinned that day.
It honestly cracks me up how they still bring up the subreddit, they dread it to this day
That we dared to listen to the podcast and critique it's contents, and not just lavish praise on every episode Will decides they're going to just be lazy and read their twitter mutuals bullshit tweets for an hour lol. I still remember that post OP references, with Will personally logging on to tell people to "just don't listen, then" in a huff.
They really didn't like redditors, with generally good reason. That they had a section of the fandom they didn't have much influence over, like on twitter, seemed to get under their skin especially.
They are absolutely right to hate the subreddit, it's just that the reasons they hated it were pathetic. The weird shit Nick Mullen said guesting on Chapo after the sub was banned was a bit of a final straw for me. Just incredibly clear that Will, at least, had completely lost touch with what the project had been at that point.
I found the subreddit first, didn't listen to the podcast for like a month because I assumed it would suck, then discovered that it was considerably funnier and less lib than most of the sub.
I found the subreddit first, tried to listen to the podcast because I had friends who were fans, but didn't like it.
It is funny that cth was known as the radical left subreddit despite the fact that early on it.. really wasn't
But the official podcast of the forum is citations needed
TrueAnon rule 42069ppb: this is a citations needed fansite
Of course, I've suggested this and immediately gone off to play games instead of wax lyrical about funny internet posts. But maybe we could have some freeform series of posts or some shit?
Some hexbearspectives, if you will. Explaining the origins, post hog, ppb, the dope ass bear, president parrot, DPRK soldier, silver legion, upholding tc69 thought, when the federation tap got turned on/preemptive last resort, classic struggle sessions etc
Let them discover outdoor cats and other sessions the natural way - By being confused by an obscure reference.
Who has the iceberg? I feel like we could do another
But also: shrekland.net
me reading this chain
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