Folks, there a vibe in the American left before the pandemic hit, it was weirdly optimistic. I think the podcast this site is semi named after perfectly encapsulated it. There’s two parts to this story. The High Hopes Saga, and the Post Bernie Depression. Let’s start with High Hopes, which was peak chapo. I call it that because Pete Buttigieg used the high hopes song as his campaign themesong and he absolutely ate shit much like Chapo did. Let’s look at peak Chapo, there was the five main cast. Will, Virgil, Matt, Amber, and Felix. They had ran the podcast for years and were making bank while doing it. They had a whole community of leftist podcasts surrounding them like cumtown and redscare which not an endorsement here but they were popular then. Anyways they were interviewing presidential candidates, they voice acted in disco elysium, they were touring doing live shows, they were no longer dorks on Twitter but actual celebrities. I think it all culminated when they all sang solidarity forever while doing a makeshift Bernie rally not long before Bernie dropped out and the world was forever changed by the covid virus.
Post Bernie Depression Saga.
Chapo put its faith in electorialism and it failed. You could sense the depression in the air when Bernie dropped out. Then Virgil left the podcast for sex pest allegations and the Maoist friends/daily show monstrosity crumbled at the seams. Virgil left another podcast high and dry and now we don’t talk about Virgil anymore. Amber flirted the most with the stupidpol/terf crowd and she personally stepped back. Brandon James, or the guy behind the scenes editing the podcasts has become a semi regular now. Matt had a fucking stroke which sucks because he was the only one in that highly dysfunctional group of Brooklynite failsons who had personality. Felix has no personality, his personality is as malleable as wet cardboard, and Will, I fucking hate will. He is the dumbest, least funny, annoying Chapo, he would fit in much better with cumtown. And what about the other podcasts? Besides trueanon they all kind of fucking died. Trillbillies lost a host due to harassment, Proles of the Roundtable died because someone embezzled money from it, Red Scare needs to fucking die because they are just the bisexual hot chip version of Nick Fuentes at this point, Cumtown was never funny and it was recommended to people in the same way people in Chicago recommend out of towners drink Malort. Not sure if last podcast on the left fits into the dirtbag left but they fell off too, I think the patreon for chapo is so large still only because people forgot to cancel their subscriptions.
Part three: they shut down the subreddit as a joke and it was not okay
The only based thing reddit ever did was shut down Chapotraphouse. The “community” fractured at that point and it was funny. If I wanted to listen to daily show marvel quips by people who weren’t funny enough to get on snl I would probably still listen to the daily show which I don’t because im not stuck in 2004 hopelessly watching the invasion of Iraq on a loop like some millennial boomer. No, im perpetually stuck in 2020 reliving the what ifs of the only significant event in my lifetime so far I seem to remember. And what did I get from this experience of being a chapostan during the years of 2016-2020. Random internet jokes I cannot get out of my head, whenever I see a cat i intrinsically think in my Bernie Sanders voice that that cat can have a little a salami. I don’t even eat meat, why would I fucking think that? My mind is filled with all this useless esoteric knowledge only known by the most insufferable people on the planet, like a perpetual afterparty in purgatory. I just wanted socialized healthcare my guy and now im forever jaded towards society.
Ands what’s the worst part of this? Pod Save America is still fucking going.