The goal of the name change is that people who come here won't take the podcast as seriously ("oh this is just that podcast nobody likes. They even changed the name of the site, see?"). It'll also be harder to find this site if "chapo" is not in the name.

You can already see the campaign to discredit the podcast on its way. They go for easy targets like the less serious episodes or anything with Amber, which preys on your internalised misogyny.

People making this post into a copypasta are also CIA btw.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    fr though I don't get why so many of you are so attached to the chapo name. The old sub wasn't some amazing gigantic hub of activity, you can find plenty of niche subs with 150k accounts subbed to it. By now we've probably gotten like 99% of all the people from the old sub who are gonna join anyway but also somehow would never find it if it didn't have the Chapo name. And yeah, the podcast is bad and represents a lot of what's wrong with the white left in the US and disassociating from it would be a good thing.

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The old sub wasn’t some amazing gigantic hub of activity

      Just addressing this one assertion: This is patently false. The subreddit was often in the top 100 most active subreddits, punching far above what its weight in subscribers would suggest it could.

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        4 years ago

        I get not wanting to idealize the old sub, but the push to avoid doing so has veered into this very weird "the old sub was just 15 redditoids and crabboi" revisionism.

    • zangorn [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Downvoting is disabled. So the number of upvotes above is the number of CIA operatives or suckers signal-boosting them in this thread.