hexbear major lore posts?
there's a lot of random funny hexbear lore out there, like rock stacking, but that's not what I'm asking about. I'm more asking about the really huge stuff, like the transphobe purging or the r/vcj onboarding that apparently almost ended the site. has anyone done any good writeups on those? really hoping for one about the r/vcj onboarding but I'll take any i can get my hands on
where beatnik?
We don't talk about Beatnik nor their fursona
It was always weird to me how people took classic BMF posting. Maybe I'm just too situationism-pilled, but I largely found myself understanding/agreeing with the points they were hitting. Very distinctive rhetorical style, but not at all the incoherent foaming implied in most off handed mentions of their corpus.
I actually know a few Gen Xers who are quite cool but they are mostly libs except for the one who came out as trans
I think it all happened some months before you created your account back in 2021 lol. The guy wanted to debate some Hexbear user on twitch but then we all went there and begun spamming him with "Can't Corner the Dorner" memes since this guy was like very anti-change and hated BLM.
I can't believe I missed giggle v hexbear, that had to have been incredible.
There are still some posts here. She got really pissed at an user named Comradebongwater for whatever reason, and wanted to sue him. Even though pretty sure they were American and were protected by free speech lol. She deleted all the tweets about it.
Then someone made a bit account pretending to be her here, at that time Hexbear dot net still was Chapochat and we used to hang around Cytube to watch Godzilla movies at 2:00 AM, and this bit account was like very cartoony and evil. Pretty funny tbh.
Does anyone have a link to the infared account getting clowned on? I can't believe I missed that one
I believe it was called Infared, but it was deleted from the modlog a long time ago. I think this was a bit before he got popular and before Maga Communism. He would spend the day getting angry at people who smoked weed and spamming his yt channel and livestreams
I think NPR is doing a podcast on it actually. They reached out to interview me but I just said PPB over and over and over
you have failed us when we needed you most, we had a chance to convert NPR libs into hexbear posters and instead you used it as a chance to dunk 😔
will have to write about what I can when I get home, so watch this space, I’ll prob write it in a different reply, not under this
VCJ doesn’t get brought up because it effectively ended in a stalemate and there’s a sort of gentleman’s agreement not to agitate the wound after the fallout caused a group of sitemods (including me, initially, partly because I was overwhelmed and in high school at the time) to quit or temp-quit the site.
Holy shit I forgot about this and am sitting here laughing my ass off all over again lol. Legendary posting
I forgot about Shrekland and the shrek comm and I was Shrek lmao
I hate that the most memed on LS thread is the one where they were the most correct; pursuing teenagers in your late 20s is fucking gross.
Its also strange. I'm 26 now and cannot imagine even being close friends with a 19 year old. We'd have nothing in common. I don't wanna talk about moistcritical or whatever streamer garbage drama is happening. I just don't care.
The focus on age of consent in the comments is also weird. My area has a 16 age of consent but few people would argue it'd be normal to fuck a high schooler.
i've read this post before, another top tier one but like see liberal socialist is someone who needs a full writeup done on them, from what i can tell they were the main antagonist of the site for nearly half a year before they got banned
I never minded liberalsocialist but yeah for some reason there was a lot of antagonism towards them. I think probably because they'd constantly enter threads and just not know what they were talking about, and because they explicitly identified as a "liberal." A lot of people also thought the whole account was a bit.
Nobody mentioned the corrupted DPRK soldier jpg?
that's one of the best pieces of lore but I also don't think it it's one of the ones that needs a writeup, it's pretty simple to explain lol
I made a comm for this, and there are a few things posted on there, but it never really took off
Doing write ups on struggle sessions tends to restart the struggle session and would probably get mod action for shitstirring
idk rule 4 on the comm seems fine to me, the person doing the write up just needs to do their best to stay relatively neutral about the whole thing
Kevin Westley iirc
!bestofhexbear@hexbear.net might have some but could probably use more writeups
ah yeah forgot about that place thanks for that!
Outdoor cats
I really need to see that post I always see it referenced and I don't understand why people argued that letting cats outside was ok..
I once caused an argument in the mod team by posting my thighs. The post stayed up, i see that as an absolute win.
I remember we had someone who would downvote every megathread who got banned which turned into a big argument.
Idk why I'm struggling to remember any big events.. early days of this site was wild but my memories are distant
Idk why I’m struggling to remember any big events… early days of this site was wild but my memories are distant
this is exactly why we need writeups so these memories don't fade from the collective consciousness!!!
Surprised no one has mentioned two Hexbear legends:
BMF: He is everything I want to be when I grow up (nonsectarian tho)
After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
(I am kind of joking, but I do feel like the sectarianism was kind of inherent to bmf-posting)
Fred Flinstone being mad about pumpkin spice lattes was peak surreal comedy
power dynamics
7 Deadly Fetishes clean Wermect final arc
https://hexbear.net/post/189946 - Hexbear Iceberg 2022
https://hexbear.net/post/273309 - Hexbear Iceberg 2023
https://icebergcharts.com/i/Hexbear_Lore
With the iceberg chart, you can hover your mouse over a topic for a couple lines of explanation
those are very useful actually, thanks!
You're welcome
it's about time to start thinking about a 2024 edition
I don't know about any specific posts but we should have been lib.rehab
i've been found out...
The real lore gets removed.
Like foxes being part of my family crest.
in a span of three days, one guy made (and had subsequently lost) over 300 accounts in which they solely spammed the opening line of Peter Singer's wikipedia page to any comment they saw.
we used to have an emote that simply did not load, mystery-emote. this was, in fact, a bomb. I uploaded the actual 53kb DPRK soldier jpg (original acc passed a MEGA link to me with it) to the repo with the idea that if it rendered we were fucked. the refork broke it, so in its honor i named the blank space emote after it
what the hell? was there any context to this?
Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.
Like literally like that or?
By transphobe purging do you mean the blanket removal of accounts that didn't sufficiently upvote the mods posts?
possibly? I wasn't around back then so all I can go based off is how people talk about it and people normally post pretty fond things about the beginning of the site where all transphobes were purged, idk how much friendly fire was involved in this or whatever
I thought it was less that you didn't upvote those, and more the stuff you DID upvote?
If you want I could direct you to the first Beanis post. That's some important Hexbear lore tbh
i didn't even know it was a post
It was. The entire post was...
Beanis.
That's it. That's the post.
Posting about the VCJ time is dangerous lol. To say there were split opinions about various things, not only then but now, would put it mildly.
Shitbird, shrekland, and Dave is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
genuinely think it needs to be in the sidebar as like an example of what all posters should ascribe to be. It's a bit so good that it's amazing both real and fake (although I pray to gods i dont believe in that it's real)
How the hell has nobody mentioned outdoor cats?
https://hexbear.net/comment/5319583 you must utilize the power of control+f more my good hexbear.
side note: do you have have a link to the post to this I've only ever seen it mentioned I never see the link to it shared
I tried to CTRL+F and it failed me, must be cuz not all the comments were loaded.
I do not have a link to the thread but I do have a link to the Giggle terf lady's twitter post complaining about us.
https://x.com/salltweets/status/1356827530032943104
Bonus points for the fact she very nearly went on Sky News australian TV to be totally not mad about it.
That is probably the closest this place ever came to mainstream relevance and it was one of the most glorious days in site history.
Also people failed to mention that Yugopnik came here specifically looking to hire @EugeneVDabs@hexbear.net as an editor and the fact that Dabs got banned by Youtube specifically for pissing off the BBC by calling out their blatant pro-Nazi coverage of Ukraine.
Also not worth a writeup but I am the original creator of the viral meme of the NYC funeral they live glasses Nazi edit so that is my claim to fame.
I remember this like it was yesterday... good times
If you look back at my post history I made one of the threads during the Vegan debocle and it's still up if you wanna do some struggle session archeology. It's still crazy to me that we didn't win that one and we are just at a permanate cease fire like it's the DMZ.
looking for the post real quick (it was the one in main right)? and always funny to randomly stumble upon someone who plays league. random question for no particular reason: is self harm vegan? /j
Yes, to all your questions, lol
Didn't Internet Comment Etiquette aka Big Money Salvia stop by to post for a while?
ur not gonna believe the comment i literally just responded to lol https://hexbear.net/comment/5321686
There was Brookebaybee. Are they still around or?
no clue what the context of this is. I see she hasn't posted in 2 years but idk, was she one of those posters you would be able to recognize their alt account pretty quickly?
I'm not sure. I remember her (can't remember the exact pronouns, so imma go based off of your assumption) I
my trans comrades posts and I miss em sometimes.
When we had downvotes and users got banned for downvoting trans comrades was funny.
Some guy on here his boss Dave found the site and we all clowned on Dave for the day.
I was here for that and it was amazing. Uphold TC69 thought
It was so funny and cool seeing transphobes seethe
No the funny one was the guy who insisted that he would downvote any pinned post regardless of topic and would continue doing so on principle even if he got banned for doing on transpositivity posts
That guy making a hundred alt accounts to whine about his god-given right to downvote stickied threads is probably the only reason I that I still remember being here for the downvote bans.
Forgot about Dave.
yes but is there a write up...?
Here's the dave stuff https://hexbear.net/post/107136