There was a relatively brief period of time when Reddit user Trilly_n was a mod of r/chapotraphouse. Trilly did a few rather unique things with the community during this period.

One of these was community spotlight posts. u/QuillQuote recently made this post about these. Every so often, a popular post was selected and pinned to the front page of the sub. At first there were a few genuinely good posts, but pretty soon Trilly started pinning low-effort shitposts as some sort of middle finger to the admins (this was right after the quarantine I believe). These were funny at first but got old pretty quick. This was when I started replying "sticky the pod" to every Trilly post I saw. I even got my own post calling out Trilly's bad stickies stickied as a community spotlight. But I digress. The point is we should do these community spotlights again.

The other thing Trilly started, which I personally feel was more impactful, was Chapo Movie Nights. I remember one specific time that Trilly hosted some shitty apocalypse docudrama on one of those "watch together" sites and pinned the link. It was entertaining to watch this while riffing in the comments with other chapos. There were a few more of these movie nights, but I wasn't online for them. I really missed the movie nights after Trilly was removed as a mod.

I think our small fledgling community would really benefit from these sorts of things.

EDIT: If anyone knows Trilly, please tell them I say hi. If they remember me at all, they probably remember me as the asshole who kept telling them to sticky the pod, but I genuinely respect the things they did for the community and hope they're doing well.

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    I would be so down for movie nights. There's a pretty long list of documentaries I need to watch, as well as some that I've seen and would recommend.

    In particular, a documentary I've been wanting to see recently is Fidel: The Untold Story.

    Here's what one online review has to say about it:

    This film is nothing but a puff piece for Castro. It was obviously produced and written by leftists. I kept waiting for some sign of non-biased reporting of Castro, but it never came. It made no mention of any of Castro's atrocities, murders and crimes against humanity. There was no mention of his murder of two Americans over international waters, no mention of the lack of voting rights in Cuba or absence of the right to protest. The film shows interviews with a number of leftists and Castro sympathizers, but no serious comment on the damage Castro's revolution has done to the island and its people. I am sure that if you are a leftist you will like the movie. I personally thought it was garbage.