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
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.
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.
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
BMF would usually include at least one link and assume the reader engaged with the source. This filters a lot of people.