Look at our baby photo! Weren’t we cute?! (What IS a “Chapo”, anyway?)
Complimentary cupcakes and fruit punch are available on the obligatory plastic folding table at the back of the community center basketball court we rented out.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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Sixbear! So you gays started in the pandemic and during the Bernie elections?
Yeah, Hexbear is ultimately the offshoot of /r/chapotraphouse. The subreddit was quarantined for a time and then eventually banned. In the last few days people were spamming a discord server to serve as a lifeboat to carry the community until a site could be built. Not sure how people knew the ban hammer was coming, but a few thousand people hopped aboard and a few months later chapo.chat was born, initially a modified fork of Lemmy which precluded federation because of the extent of the modifications. At some point we renamed ourselves Hexbear to distance ourselves from the Chapo Trap House podcast. The name was derived from this picture of a bear
, which looks hexagonal, that was being posted about in the subreddit shortly before the ban with the title "check out this dope ass bear."
Iirc we knew the ban was coming because it was borderline impossible for a community to be unquarantined. You only get quarantined after you attract the attention of the admins and it's super unlikely that a community of I think 100k+ isn't going to include some people breaking the rules.
We'd already received warnings for 'advocating violence' for 'john brown did nothing wrong' comments & posts, and as the mod-team was (rightfully)unwilling to compromise and ban those who we're saying it it was inevitable
Yeah but we were quarantined for a while though. Felt like the discord started getting posted only days before the ban. That's just my recollection though, I didn't really participate in the subreddit.
An offshoot of what?
The fan subreddit for the podcast "citations needed", which was named r/chapotraphouse.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN PODCAST?
an audio program made available for automatic download over the internet
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wouldn't download a bear, w- would you?
A lot of the people here were berniebros, even active with the campaign afaik but then it became painfully apparent that he was controlled opposition and most see him as a sad joke now