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.
I think there should be a good even mix of genuinely good movies/documentaries, and meme shit. Same with the community spotlights.
I nominate This "masterpiece". MLs get to laugh at Trotsky, Trots get to laugh at how awfully the idea of Trotskyism is represented, and Anarchists are completely ignored.
I want some Maoist movies like the Red Detachment of Women to help uncoil the rage I feel towards the land "lords" these days.
Mosfilm stuff is up on YouTube legally with decent English subtitles. I vote old Soviet comedies :grinning face:
You should appoint/elect/whatever someone to do community shit like this.
The cool thing about having a community-run site is that you can create positions to do all sorts of stuff, even if those positions are as small as ‘movie night officer’.
Hell, you don’t even have to give them special tech powers. Just a note saying ‘mods, sticky this person’s movie night thread’.
These 4 movies all look quite insane and cool: http://exmilitai.re/film.html I started watching the first one already, want to watch it all but alone it sucks a bit :(
I'd really like to see a documentary movie night, as I mentioned in my other comment.
Fidel: The Untold Story looks like a good one, and there are plenty of other highly rated ones that I could suggest.
Salvador Allende is another I've been wanting to watch recently.
I still despise LetsStudyLamarck for not sticking my shitpost about kotor 2 because he didn't have the guts, that shit would've popped off crazy
lol what was the post.
i wasnt a fan of the random stickies which is why i didnt.
lol it was about how kotor 2 was better than 1 in every aspect and that bioware never made a good game apart from baldurs gate 2 and it got some really good comments ranging from people agreeing completely to guys being red mad and nude about it and you made a comment that you'd sticky it if you had had the guts of the old mods lmao
Before Trilly was a mod, they used to spam over and over variations of shit like "I WILL SUCK ELIZABETH BRUENIG'S GAY PENIS"
It made sorting by the sub new extremely annoying.
Watching Trilly, Odnarb, Geralt and others manically shitpost increasingly more absurd and self-referential memes at each other in /new for hours on end was basically how I spent all my time at work for most of 2018.
Odnarb's shitposts were sublime. Closest thing we got to actual dril on the sub.
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.
Planning to do these with c/anime. If any anime fans aren't there yet.
but pretty soon Trilly started pinning low-effort shitposts as some sort of middle finger to the admins
Hold up, are you telling me that's why stuff like Luigi x Garfield Mpreg or whatever would get pinned? I thought that was just, like, part of Chapo culture the same way as Pig Poop Balls.
Those posts were always part of chapo culture (mods are revisionist for removing hornyposts that aren't explicitly porn imo), but stickying them was all Trilly
I love for a while people though trilly was one of the trillbillies because they'd post trillbilly content and had "trill" in the username.
Trilly constantly stickying Trillbillies was a big part of why I started replying with "sticky the pod"
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.
I was tweaking on amphetamine one night and wrote a huge effort post about the Russian Civil War and it got pinned. Was the peak of my reddit posting career.
Well shit I think it was nuked with the sub. Is there any archive? It was quite awhile before the ban so if there was an archive it would likely be there.
I am so down for some kind of movie night or other interactive stuff like that.
