I’m sure I can find the answers to these questions in google individually, but other people in the fediverse might benefit from having these questions answered as well.

Why is Trump a “Wet Boy”?

Why is a defecating pig a “PBB”?

Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called “citations needed” instead of the chapo podcast?

How is El Chapo’s trap house in any way related to leftism?

Why are your emojis so big?

What’s the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?

To widen the topic of the post, feel free to post any other questions regarding Hexbear as well.

  • Trudge [Comrade]OPEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    So how did you guys fall out with the chapo podcast when you guys were formed as their discussion forum? Did they go liberal? I don’t listen to podcasts so I don’t know what’s going on with your side of the left.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      29·
      11 months ago

      By the time the subreddit was banned, it had already outgrown the podcast and become a general watering hole for leftist shitposting on Reddit. A lot of the cultural references and bits survived. The relationship between the subreddit and the podcast was always tenuous. They shittalked the subreddit a lot, the subreddit shittalked them a lot, but there was never really a split on ideological grounds.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      they and the old sub were a gateway leftwards for a lot of people but people soured on them when they kept moving left but the pod didn’t. personally, I’ve never been able to listen to a whole episode. it’s just not my cup of tea.

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        A lot of people either forgot or didn’t realize in the first place that CTH was and still is an independent podcast primarily built on armchair media criticism. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I saw a lot of people projecting onto it like it was supposed to be deeper or more activist than it was. The friction between the subreddit and the pod seemed to be a lot about how the armchair media criticism podcast run by unemployable Twitter posters wasn’t doing more for the cause.

        I say the above with affection for all involved. I like the podcast, and I like the community that sprung up around it and has largely moved past it.