HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY TO HEXBEARRRR
(midwest.social)
WIIHAPPYFEW [any, any]
ChapotraphouseLook at our baby photo! Weren’t we cute?! (What IS a “Chapo”, anyway?)
Complimentary cupcakes and fruit punch are available on the obligatory plastic folding table at the back of the community center basketball court we rented out.
ChaCha then. ChaCha now. ChaCha forever.
Holy shit it's been six years
Happy birthday hexbears!
I'm happy to have been here.
Merry Hexmass, everybear!
5+ years, 0 instance or community rules read. You're welcome for my service
Next year we become Septbear right?
Good website
I've seriously been here for half this site's life? That's wild
Tony's monologue about being born after the good times ended, but it's hexbear, and you missed kerry posting and the silver legion.
Fuck 6 years already?
Happy Hexyear
To celebrate, we have to have a few China struggle sessions and some Kerryposting as a treat
Kerryposting is back in pog form
Cant wait for Hexcon 2026 later this year. Free Dort_Owl plushies for everyone
See you in the ballpit comrade
I'm here for the special guest speaker, black mold futures.
more like sexbear lmao
Volcel police, right here!!!
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
I am still curious about what exactly was said by the podcast that forced us to change our name from chapo.chat to hexbear. Not that I mind as hexbear is a better moniker, but I am curious.
It came down to wanting to do our own thing and half the people at the time weren’t even listening to cth anymore
I think besides what was already said, one of the main reasons given at the time is we had trouble working with outside entities by being named after El Chapo.
I really struggle to imagine it being that driven by breaking with the podcast on strictly ideological grounds when we have plenty of fuckers here who are way more reactionary than Chapo is. More likely that side of it is based on people disliking or not caring about the podcast (both of which are fair enough) and therefore it being used as an identifier no longer made sense.
I legit keep forgetting that Chapo was originally a cartel kingpin & the podcasters are just borrowing his name
https://hexbear.net/post/93094
“ChapoChat'' was always intended as a temporary name. When first building the site, we needed something to rally around and had to move fast. Until now, ChapoChat has been focusing on the practical of “what” the project did, but the “why” also needs to be part of the story and give reasons for our comrades to believe in it. We’ve outgrown the “ChapoChat” name and are at a new stage. [...]
Being strictly associated with the Chapo Trap House name has actively blocked us from being an option for a number of organizers as the pod is increasingly viewed by other leftists as more associated with stupidpol and SocDem politics than other more leftist causes.
This site and its community has grown into something far more dynamic than just the fans of a SocDem political podcast. We have comrades from every tendency and continent talking together, finding solibearity, and yes sometimes fighting to the death.
That's the official reason for the rebranding
I mean this place has far more in common politically with r/moretankiechapo but at the same time, most of those people have ended up in the stupid pol sphere.
Well that date explains why I missed it. That's when I want all eSports with WoW. Playing that game for 18 hours per day is not conducive to keeping up with what's going on around oneself. Thank you as well.
Glad you're doing better and stopped being a g*mer, comrade
I don't think it was any one thing specifically said by the hosts of chapo, just the general vibe, like hexbear moving more left past the BernieBro stuff of 2020?
IIRC someone was invited to do an AMA and we needed to do a lot of explaining that chapo.chat had no affiliation with the Chapo podcast
Ahhh, I was always under the impression that like Will told us to fucking stop it or something. Thank you for correcting my memory.
Hexbears would never listen to a lib.
Happy hexing! 🥳🪄🧸🎂
I wanted to make a joke about spelling out hexbear in maoist standard english but I'm stumped.
edit WAIT "heKKKSSb€ar" https://maosite.neocities.org/
how thematic
