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Hey all. I'd like to open an official discussion regarding the upturning of the prior Hexbear party line on an :israel-cool: emote proper with the unambiguous Zionist flag.

I want to preface this by saying this is not in a 'ceding the issue' way. Over the past year I've been trying to engage in self-crit w/rt the chauvinism I've internalized growing up in a Liberal Zionist household, and my personal viewpoint on it did a 180 some months back, so I want to reopen this discussion proper in my personal capacities as Self-Appointed Emote Czar.

The reason it's taken long enough beyond that is prior to July, I was essentially half-engaged with the site in order to finish out my degree. After that, it’s been mostly inertia of confirming with the admins and other /c/Judaism mods, as well as having to be rigorous about my job search personally giving me little free time to coordinate this.

I do not want to center myself in this conversation more than I inadvertently already have, so I will leave my own opinion on the issue as a comment rather than explaining further here.

The consensus we've roughly come to is to open up the discussion in an official manner for a day or so. After that, I'll weigh the discussion in an entirely vibes-based manner (sorry Dean Norris enjoyers) and we'll alter Hexbear party line on it accordingly.

lea-bounce

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[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Counterpoint nerd: All emojis rebus-1rebus-2 should be banned no-fun-allowed stalin-shining to address the literacy wtf-am-i-reading crisis on this website hexbear-specter

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Maybe we can earn emojis like gold star stickers for participating in reading groups

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh that's actually a good idea. Combine that with emoji monetization for new account tier called hexbear+ for unlimited emoji access after watching a 30 second ad per emoji use and it'll be perfect to roll out to the masses such as the dearly beloved reader parsing these words right at this very moment.

Thank you for reading this. penguin-love (this emoji costed $2.99 to deploy, before tax)

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

That can be the lucky star ad that let's users access two emojis for the price of one, after digital shipping and handling, which by doing so adds a gacha element to our ad reels thus ~~pulling in even more rubes~~ attracting additional potential valued customers to the site as a whole and improving the site culture with a level of competitiveness that can only come from turning hexbear into a live service.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit, yes

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

All ads have to be hosted on tankietube for maximum Comrade profit.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

don't make the emojis cost money, that might discourage their usage, you have to abstract it out i.e. each emoji somehow requires chatgpt to burn a portion of the rainforest, that way the cost gets externalized. More emojis get used and that ugly rainforest (getting in the way of more beautiful cows!) goes away, i think that's called killing two birds to get stoned

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe we'll gameify money and convert the raw usd prices to Poweruser Play Bits or [PPBs] for short. That way we can monetize killing birds with three AI generated stones.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i already posted a non-AI generated idea for hexbear branded PPBs so I guess youse guys need to discuss how you want to use that trademark

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot to pay some random trademark fee and let it expire and go to auction. I bought it for $69.420 buttcoins and turned it into an exploitative live service agony-deep

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

This but for real lol. I'd read up for my rat-salute-2 and yes-honey-left emojis

[–] OnlyTrueLiberal@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

angery

noooo you cant make me read theory

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Monetisation option. We can pay $5 to burn any flag

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I got a good pull. A foil america AND a shiny england

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

all users shpuld be banned and replaced with chatgpt that can only output emojis and anime gifs

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The robots will free us from the tyranny of posting

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Send this to the hedge fund that owns deepseek

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought that was chinese owned

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah, but it's a hedge fund