I’m also curious about c/chapotraphouse
Check out this dope ass bear
Chapo trap house is a podcast which had a subreddit where most of us congregated before it was banned.
When the sub got banned a popular meme was a rather hexagonal bear
ah yes my favorite website [old-meme-no-one-cares-about].com
Ignoring that, it does actually work for the name of a random mastadon/lemmy type website. It’s clean of pre-conceptions, low probably of getting mentally clobbered by similar terms/phrases (e.g. sexbear does not exist in any vernacular or memespace). It’s also witchy if you’re desperate to make up reasons to retroactively justify the decision.
yourethemannowdog.com was so popular, how could we not follow in their footsteps?
Sometimes I still deadname the site
The site used be chapo.chat because it was setup by a lifeboat discord server from r/chapotraphouse (which despite the name only had the most tenuous historical link to the podcast and was just a general leftist sub that managed to avoid being sectarian).
Eventually there was an open discussion about a new name to establish the site as its own standalone community and to drop the chapo reference in the name due to there not being a link to cth anymore, and hexbear either was the most popular or just got picked by admin fiat, I can’t remember which. I do remember some people being mad about it, but that went away quick one way or another.
It wasn’t admin fiat or the most popular, it was a weird middleground. it was the result of a long discussion in user union, but a lot of people who didn’t go onto user union much had no idea that discussion was even happening.
I was one of those people and I felt blindsided and hated the change at first. But it’s definitely grown on me since then
Did the vegan struggle sesh of (2020?) not have anything to do with the name change either? I remember this place was in shambles when that was happening, with all the brigading and what not. The name changed def coincided with with the mass ban wave of the time.
But maybe this is just my own revisionist history or something idk
