We don't? We changed the name years ago.

Also this is a fan site.

The tenuous connection that remains doesn't bother me. Did they say something cringe recently?

I probably listen more frequently than most, and I can't say I've noticed any racist jokes, Can you think of a specific one?

The opinions haven't changed much still mostly ok with smattering of bad takes but nothing outrageous that I haven't seen expressed here, maybe more lowbrow since maths absence

Bit they still get decent guests, and for someone outside the US I appreciate the perspective on internal politics that isn't too lib, although you can get all that elsewhere

My opinion on the matter is it does really matter anymore, but if it ain't broke don't fix it, like what is there really beyond associations other than this sub name and older users like myself who may still use the chapo.chat domain

Can't prove it but I think it's probably a driver of new users since I see here mentioned on places like the blackwolffeed reddit

Genuinely curious, what alternate universe version of the site have you been looking at? The chapotraphouse podcast is mentioned here in passing maybe once a week if that, sitewide

afaik main isn't called that because people actually like chapotraphouse, it's an extended bit because the chapos hated r/chapotraphouse so we kept the name out of mutual disrespect

that being said i wouldn't have any problem fully converting over to c/main or a different/funny comm name, it's site culture but it wouldn't be a loss if it was dropped

Idk I've listened to like the last 100 episodes and I haven't noticed any racist jokes. Maybe anti-semitic jokes from felix but even that's a stretch

I just strongly dislike the man-children aspect of their dynamic, especially Felix who seems to be stuck emotionally as a burnout turned 27 year old gamer. Just everything about his speech mannerisms, his vocal fry, the limited vocabulary and adolescent presentation, the revelations of his habits, hygiene, and "hobbies" (i.e, gaming & internet addiction).

All this is of course excluding Chris Wade who seems to be the only professional, and Matt Christman who seems to be the only one moving forward with building a life and family.

It's probably, most definitely if I was forced to make a decision and commitment, that I - perhaps you too - am just growing out of news podcasts as entertainment. Even long since 10/7, I kind of find these podcasts - Chapo, Trueanon, Trillbilllies, etc - to be a mix of "finding catharsis in the darkness via public broadcasting" and grifting the disintegration and decline of empire for affluence and notoriety.

Racist jokes? Huh? Are you confusing Chapo with cumtown?

Yeah tbh I’d support this. Having the chapo name still around is sort of nice for those of us who were on the subreddit, but I haven’t listened to the podcast in 4 years and so much of that “dirtbag left” moment has sort of imploded. The chapo guys are fine, but I’m thinking of the red scare girls becoming fascists, stupidpol becoming a reactionary cesspool, jimmy dore becoming a reactionary, Bernie sanders dead (in spirit), cumtown refusing to move on from edgelord humor, sevendeadlyfetishes banned from the site. Maybe some of that stuff was never good, but it was a moment, and an important one, both politically since it put to rest that distinctly apolitical period that preceded it, and I’d guess personally for a lot of people on this site. But moments end and that moment has surely ended. We sort of tried to move away from it by changing the name to hexbear, but yeah I think it’s time we complete that process and make our identity wholly our own.

imma be honest. I never, ever, listened to these guys or watched their show (is it a show? idek man)

i dont even remember how i even found this website, i vaguely remember typing "wtf is a chapotraphouse" and you fuckers showed up

Wait, a podcast? I thought we were radicals appealing to a drug dealer for material support in order to wage a protracted people's war.

frankly, I didn't even know that ChapoTrapHouse was a podcast before I joined. I thought it was just the subreddit name

So we're at this point of the hexbear discourse cycle again?

I don't really see the benefit to changing it, especially for most of the reasons you mention. I don't think the chapos are libs and I'm not sure what you mean by "cringe."

I agree it does feel anachronistic, but that's kinda how culture works. Things from the past hang around even after the origins are lost

Edit: honestly, the hexbear meme from the dying days of the subreddit becoming the site name seems stranger and more out of place to me. But I think we're kinda stuck with that too

What’s chapo trap house? Is that a drug thing?

unironically we should associate with instead.

i never listened to chapo, they seem like libs and idk why reddit bothered to ban liberals.

CTH are libs, this is a lib site

Think of it like the "Bechdel test". At this point it's no longer associated with the comic despite having the authors name

I haven't listened to them properly in like 4 years

I still listen. I agree they're kinda old and stale especially with half the hosts gone for various reasons but what can I say...I still have one of those parasocial relationships where I feel like I'm hanging out with my friends while I workout.

What they talk about the most is Israel and they do a pretty good job of that. I never understood why people are so revolted by it other than Felix being gross. There's basically no criticism you could make of their politics that you couldn't make of Citations Needed, e.g. if you're a Dengist you probably don't like how they basically never remark on China, but I've heard remarks occasionally from CTH and none from CN

What's chapotraphouse?

the pod is good