there’s a lot of random funny hexbear lore out there, like rock stacking, but that’s not what I’m asking about. I’m more asking about the really huge stuff, like the transphobe purging or the r/vcj onboarding that apparently almost ended the site. has anyone done any good writeups on those? really hoping for one about the r/vcj onboarding but I’ll take any i can get my hands on

  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    17 days ago

    • Black Mold Futures and his weird rants about insect eating and other stuff, and his 100 alts

    • Minnesota Dan Livestream (The really weird early Gen X that was far-right and hated anything that came out after 1999) (Also know as the “Back in the day I used to go to 4chan dot php because every website was php. I knew 4chan blew in 2003! 2003! You hear me?!” guy) (AKA Painbow)

    • FEW drops and the Moomin vs. Homestuck posting

    • That time Yugopnik was here

    • Infrared Hexbear account

    • Giggle (TERF social media app that would force you to take pictures of your vagina to use it) vs. Hexbear. Sall Grover (the owner of the APP) promised to go live on Australian TV to talk about Hexbear but she didn’t.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      17 days ago

      It was always weird to me how people took classic BMF posting. Maybe I’m just too situationism-pilled, but I largely found myself understanding/agreeing with the points they were hitting. Very distinctive rhetorical style, but not at all the incoherent foaming implied in most off handed mentions of their corpus.

      • ChicagoCommunist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        17 days ago

        Yeah part of the magic is they weren’t nonsense, they just required knowledge of both theory and internet memes to (sort of) understand. And deliberately leaned into obscure references and figures of speech.

        But if translated into common language most of them wouldn’t look out of place in leftist discourse, if maybe a bit extreme sometimes.

        • HexBeara [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          17 days ago

          Yeah. I felt like BMF was esoteric and hard to parse but could after a re read (or ten, am adult baebee). I think there was like two or three that I didn’t want to be bothered with and or had no frame of reference and couldn’t understand

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      17 days ago

      The really weird early Gen X that was far-right and hated anything that came out after 1999

      I’m old enough to know and be related to some Gen X fucks only slightly older than me and they’re like Animorph covers turning into grill-obsessed “peaked when MTV was relevant” junior boomers. grillman

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        17 days ago

        There are still some posts here. She got really pissed at an user named Comradebongwater for whatever reason, and wanted to sue him. Even though pretty sure they were American and were protected by free speech lol. She deleted all the tweets about it.

        CW: Suicide and Guns

        People sent her a bunch of “Lol, Die Terf” memes from that Anime girl that is from that zombie anime. AKA stfu-terf and Grover from sesame street killing himself which got her really anger.

        Then someone made a bit account pretending to be her here, at that time Hexbear dot net still was Chapochat and we used to hang around Cytube to watch Godzilla movies at 2:00 AM, and this bit account was like very cartoony and evil. Pretty funny tbh.

        • HexBeara [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          17 days ago

          What was the main reasoning of the Chapo vs hexbear naming debacle? To get away from the pod or to not meme el Chapo and glorify drugs? I was lurking then but more focused on the funnis than paying attention to drama…

          • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            17 days ago

            To get away from the pod

            Pretty sure it was this one. I will never forget that one user said we should have renamed the website to Lib dot Rehab. I think at the time most people kinda tired of the podcast and the people that didn’t even knew there was a podcast were confused by the website name.

            • destroyamericaOPEnglish
              6·
              17 days ago

              still never seen a reason for why hexbear of all things was chosen lol, it actually did come back to bite the site in the ass a little tiny bit because it shares a name with cryptocurrency so its dns banned in China xi pointing at the screen

              • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                5·
                17 days ago

                Pretty sure Hexbear always was the Chapochat Mascot. And yeah, it’s pretty funny theres a cyptocoin with this name. Once a youtuber came here, I think it was internet etiquette guy (Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik, I believe) and he basically joked saying that we were trying to sell him cypto.

                • destroyamericaOPEnglish
                  6·
                  17 days ago

                  i vaguely remember reading that thread, I don’t remember if I was reading as it happened or if it happened before I joined hexbear or grad lol

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        17 days ago

        I believe it was called Infared, but it was deleted from the modlog a long time ago. I think this was a bit before he got popular and before Maga Communism. He would spend the day getting angry at people who smoked weed and spamming his yt channel and livestreams

  • newmou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    18 days ago

    I think NPR is doing a podcast on it actually. They reached out to interview me but I just said PPB over and over and over

    • destroyamericaOPEnglish
      14·
      18 days ago

      you have failed us when we needed you most, we had a chance to convert NPR libs into hexbear posters and instead you used it as a chance to dunk 😔

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    17 days ago

    will have to write about what I can when I get home, so watch this space, I’ll prob write it in a different reply, not under this

    VCJ doesn’t get brought up because it effectively ended in a stalemate and there’s a sort of gentleman’s agreement not to agitate the wound after the fallout caused a group of sitemods (including me, initially, partly because I was overwhelmed and in high school at the time) to quit or temp-quit the site.

      • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        17 days ago

        Its also strange. I’m 26 now and cannot imagine even being close friends with a 19 year old. We’d have nothing in common. I don’t wanna talk about moistcritical or whatever streamer garbage drama is happening. I just don’t care.

        The focus on age of consent in the comments is also weird. My area has a 16 age of consent but few people would argue it’d be normal to fuck a high schooler.

    • destroyamericaOPEnglish
      14·
      17 days ago

      i’ve read this post before, another top tier one but like see liberal socialist is someone who needs a full writeup done on them, from what i can tell they were the main antagonist of the site for nearly half a year before they got banned

      • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        17 days ago

        I never minded liberalsocialist but yeah for some reason there was a lot of antagonism towards them. I think probably because they’d constantly enter threads and just not know what they were talking about, and because they explicitly identified as a “liberal.” A lot of people also thought the whole account was a bit.

    • destroyamericaOPEnglish
      8·
      17 days ago

      idk rule 4 on the comm seems fine to me, the person doing the write up just needs to do their best to stay relatively neutral about the whole thing

        • destroyamericaOPEnglish
          7·
          17 days ago

          i really hope someone does it was the whole reason I made this post and out of all the super major events on the site I feel like i know the least about it, all i know is somehow the vegan comm went from dooming saying that the mods were all out to destroy them and the site and then somehow ??? vegans make it onto the admin team (i think to the point where they were the majority?) leading to the status quo today

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            17 days ago

            There was an informal rule for a long time that mods would remove the comments and possibly ban (if you kept doing it) any comments relitigating it. And any comments about what happened tended to cause relitigation

            • destroyamericaOPEnglish
              6·
              17 days ago

              i mean I guess I get it but I’m so curious i wanna know what happened 😭

                • destroyamericaOPEnglish
                  5·
                  17 days ago

                  yes I’ve read that post, that’s what I’m referring to with the dooming, I assumed this was in the middle of the worst of it, but from my perspective it seems like most of the site’s vegans ended up feeling like the site was in a better spot? or was this a post mortem on everything that went down? at least that’s been my impression, i constantly see pro vegan comments and you have to cw pics of animal products and what not so if it was after everything went down I’m not sure what the poster meant by “The draconian measures against talk of veganism never went away.”

        • NewAcctWhoDis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          17 days ago

          I definitely couldn’t do a neutral write up but I can drop a few points that I think are often overlooked. I’ve been on hexbear since before the vegan comm existed (on other accounts) so while I haven’t always been the most active, I’ve seen the whole history.

          One key point is that hexbear vegans weren’t content before VCJ joined. We already had the sense that hexbear was anti-vegan but we were quieter about it. Example (EDIT: fixed link).

          There was already a strong cultural overlap between c/vegan and r/vegancirclejerk before the lifeboating. For example, dog diet crossed over here, and was to my memory the precursor to the VCJ hostilities. (c/dogdiet comm request, negative reaction to dogdiet posting).

          But I just noticed who I’m replying to so idk why I’m even bothering.

    • destroyamericaOPEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      I really need to see that post I always see it referenced and I don’t understand why people argued that letting cats outside was ok…

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    17 days ago
    • silver legion
    • Kerry posting
    • dox of beatnik
    • unreleased 9-11 footage guy
    • dasha from Red scare posting (or maybe that was in the discord?)
  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    17 days ago

    Surprised no one has mentioned two Hexbear legends:

    • BMF: He is everything I want to be when I grow up (nonsectarian tho)

    • The Fred Flinstone freakout over lattes or something.

  • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    17 days ago

    I once caused an argument in the mod team by posting my thighs. The post stayed up, i see that as an absolute win.

    I remember we had someone who would downvote every megathread who got banned which turned into a big argument.

    Idk why I’m struggling to remember any big events… early days of this site was wild but my memories are distant

    • destroyamericaOPEnglish
      12·
      17 days ago

      Idk why I’m struggling to remember any big events… early days of this site was wild but my memories are distant

      this is exactly why we need writeups so these memories don’t fade from the collective consciousness!!!