The goal of the name change is that people who come here won’t take the podcast as seriously (“oh this is just that podcast nobody likes. They even changed the name of the site, see?”). It’ll also be harder to find this site if “chapo” is not in the name.
You can already see the campaign to discredit the podcast on its way. They go for easy targets like the less serious episodes or anything with Amber, which preys on your internalised misogyny.
People making this post into a copypasta are also CIA btw.
Changing this site’s name to Hexbear is a bad idea especially after your founder is accused of pedophilia, hopefully for obvious reasons.
Chapo is the name this site is founded on and how new users find it, it’s what sets this apart from some Mastodon site or any random forum set up that claims to be the new home for whatever Communist Online Utopia. We’re here from chapo, this is a replacement for that, just please let it be that.
As far as the shit with Beatnik
Weren’t those allegations concluded to be fake?
in fact we pushed it off because we were going to do it the week that
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love too rename pepsi to “brad’s drink” so nobody knows what it is