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Should we try to do a 'hexbear history' post to try to clue the new arrivals in on any bits, emojis or other intracacies?
(hexbear.net)
I feel like we need to explain 
again, amongst other things
Our most famous meme is that the "40% of cops beat their spouses" study first went viral on r/chapotraphouse, our old subreddit.
The tag "Genocide Joe," referring to Joe Biden's support for the genocide of Palestinian people, may have originated here, from @VILenin@hexbear.net . I can't find earlier references, but it may just be one of those names that multiple people thought of at once.
Ask a better storyteller to talk about "Post hog."
I'll chime in a bit on the hog part. In the subreddit days of yore, we'd frequently get brigaded by the likes of r/The_Donald and other fascist hive minds, and when logic failed on them (logic always fails on fascists) we'd run them off with a bit of playful goading of their homophobia by asking them to post a photo of their "hog", or male sex organs. This led to an increased usage of the strategy of quickly dispatching would-be brigadiers with the phrase of "post hog". (As a quick aside, one especially clever Chapo once made a post entitled "Post hog" and the body of the post said "ergo propter hog", which was a silly reference to the logical fallacy "post hoc ergo propter hoc". Anyway, this is where my username comes from. No clue who that chapo was but I stole it because it was all I could come up with in the moment when making my account.) The hog business eventually led to other hog-adjacent shenanigans, such as responding to fascists with a picture of a pig with poop on its balls. This had a similar effect as the aforementioned homophobia goading.
Oh god, it's even better than that. The original "post hog," actually got a chud to post their hog. Somebody wore a chud down in an argument and eventually asked them to prove something-or-other by linking an image of their junk to reddit, and they went and posted their hog
Screenshots from 4chan saying "do not post on chapo. they don't get baited. they don't even get triggered. they just aggressively ask for pictures of your junk. honestly i feel really uncomfortable now."
I was there for that. It was extremely funny. The username of the chud was something like "jaredsw" which means there's probably some guy from the southwest named Jared and I've seen his dingus.
spend enough time in the southwest and you're gonna see a jared's dingus. it's inevitable.
And in some cases, even desirable
I hate to break this to you, but that username is probably a reference to "Jared at Subway."
To add to this, one of the commenters in that thread found his Grindr account almost immediately because the username was the same as his Reddit account. This incident predates the mods locking the subreddit the day that it hit 69,420 subscribers; I think we were in the high 40k range?
it isn't okay to close the sub for a joke.
I was so annoyed about that lock lol
Me too. CTH was about the only relief valve that I got after dealing with my rabid Trumper coworkers. Where the hell was I going to go, Twitter?
It was funny as hell looking back though
I can't believe we're getting the "closing the sub for a joke isn't okay" struggle session ityool 2024
subreddit got banned around 150k or 200k i think? i found the sub at 16k.
Sub went downhill after 16k users
Sub went downhill after users
Uphold CTH3 thought
R/cth popularised "ok boomer", though I think the demographics since then have massively shifted
Kissenger getting killed by one of us is fun too