On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image 
, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.
I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.
I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds
Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?
- 🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
- 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
- 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
- ☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
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Theory:
I like it. Dragonite has always been cute. Also if I had to guess I would say that the Pokémon game fan base veers slightly female but is fairly equal across that board and would have to also guess a LOT of the merchandise sales are from women. Dudes complaining about a cute Dragonite aren't buying the plushies. In general it's the biggest media franchise, so theres probably a Lil something for everyone to obtain such worldwide mass appeal. I like it when theyre more cute, Pokémon shouldn't be badass.
Anyone who complains about Dragonites design hasn't watched the og anime. The whole lighthouse segment builds it up to be this fearsome monster that ends up being a gentle giant
I don't need it to be badass, I just need the wings to not be on top of its head
They look like fluffy antlers
I thought this was a new cecily vid
It is now!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aU2wHMJBSpc
Hoowwwww did she tease her next video title or does thelastaxalotl have future sight???
She mentions that she got a lot of messages from people telling her it was similar to the Chikorita video she did, so perhaps a fan mocked up the thumbnail + title? Interestingly, the comment in the thumbnail is used in the actual video but with a different translation (apparently the original was in Portuguese).
Lol makes sense yeah. I queued up the vid of o watch at work but haven't gotten around to it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: