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I wonder if it’s because you have an in-culture that they don’t understand. I haven’t bothered to look it up, but like what is chapotraphouse? I think it was a podcast, then a subreddit, but what does it mean?
I don’t hate you tho, just saying.
Chapo Trap House is a leftish comedy podcast with three (later four, then five, now back to three) hosts that knew each other from twitter. It mostly commented on happenings in politics with regular segments going over the latest right wing bullshit, and was one of few places that would criticize the democrats as well. The /r/chapotraphouse subreddit was nominally for discussion of the podcast but it quickly outgrew that and became a general-purpose left-wing subreddit with a focus on irreverent shitposting and hostility towards outsiders. Fast-forward a bit and the podcast hosts remark that they don't like the subreddit anymore because people were criticizing them for various things, but nonetheless the subreddit continued to grow. A long-running joke that the "official podcast of the subreddit" was actually an entirely different podcast called Citations Needed began.
/r/cth was getting too big for the admins at reddit (one of whom thinks he'll own slaves in the post-apocalypse to give you an idea of their politics) and was banned for ill-defined reasons of "promoting hate" against slave owners (perhaps the reddit admin was insulted by this). In the aftermath of the banning, some people got together on a discord channel and a variety of volunteers got to work creating the website chapo.chat using lemmy. A couple months(?) later, chapo.chat was complete, though it forked from lemmy relatively early on and would be unable to federate for some time. A variety of comms were made, including /c/chapotraphouse, which then was ostensibly for discussion of both Chapo Trap House and Citations Needed, though this wasn't enforced or anything.
After some time, the admins decided to change the site name from chapo.chat to hexbear.net, because they no longer wished to associate with the podcast. In a completely failed attempt to encourage the growth of other communites on the site, the default "Main" comm was closed. Rather than this leading to the increased use of other comms that the admins were hoping for, /c/chapotraphouse became the new default comm. And finally, after much work from the dev team, hexbear.net reverted back to lemmy and was able to federate.
In summary: Chapo Trap House is a podcast.
This is revisionism
smh everyone knows that c/Main had to die so that the $~~1200~~600 checks could go out the door immediately.
I hope everyone remembers I made that post lmao, very proud of that one
It was very good
If I'm not mistaken this same admin used to be a mod for the infamous jailbait sub too
There was a period where it was the biggest sub, so an admin would de facto be moderating it
This was back when being a mod for a sub was treated as a permission rather than a role. You didn't have to accept it, existing mods could just make you a mod of a sub unilaterally. Various celebrities were technically mods of random subs by this (useless) definition.
Spez is a fucking freak but he probably never actually moderated the jailbait sub
Definitely partially true. Some people have read posts here and made posts elsewhere saying things like "they're right wingers pretending to be leftist" because they can't understand satire and irony without having it spelled out to them and they're automatically trying to assume the worst instead of realising that the entire instance is irony poisoned.
the redditors whose most common reply on reddit was "/s?!?!" all moved to the lemmyverse
CTH is a podcast, the subreddit was originally about it but quickly became its own thing. The podcast is your typical Brooklyn leftist hot couch thing where you get a bit of theory mixed in with a lot of jokes and parasocial relationships.
A long running joke is that the subreddit/Hexbear is actually a Citations Needed fanclub, because it's a much a better podcast.
Personally I only listen to podcasts that read myths and legends and I've been here ages
got any recommendations?
Norse Mythology: The Unofficial Guide is a good one about the Norse myths. I just started it but the guy behind it does a good job explaining the stories and offering insights based on what information we have.
The greatest bit of irony is that in an attempt to explain the podcast, you used a super deep reference to the hot couch gag, almost like the in-jokes are completely involuntary for us at this point.
I remember on the old sub you'd frequently get people bragging about not listening to the pod who would then 5 minutes later make a really obscure reference to it.
So much of the language we use starts from the podcast. I think there's the listener elite that start using the terms then others just pick it up. No matter the distance to the podcast, the new terms leak through.
From the same episode you also have the college camping trip and Stav's grandpa, the greek failson bird collector. Definitely one of my most relistened to episodes.
Do you know what # it is? I don't think I heard the other two stories.
Its from 241 "Hot Couch Nation". Here's the story about Stav's grandfather
I would just like to be an anecdotal nuisance and say that I found this community without knowing or interacting with the chapotraphouse podcast or subreddit
me too.
That’s the correct way to find us. We’re like a witch’s hut in the woods.
:0 How'd you find it then?
I think I found it from GenZedong
GenZedong gang hell yeah
same
same, I've listened to a couple of episodes and can't stand it. the community is something else.
I have never listened to Chapo Traphouse.
There is quite the in-culture for sure. I’ll laugh at something on here and my partner will ask what’s funny and I have to give like ten minutes of back story.
Never heard of it
it's
the main podcast of the community
No it's the drug dealer
Chapo is the podcast that started it all. It’s a pretty decent socialist podcast with our smart boy Matt on the rants radicalizing a lot of people from 2016-2020. A lot of us have politically moved beyond it, but it definitely colors our culture in that we use the same insults and heightened irony that the original pod did. Very early Chapo episodes had a section where they would read a couple articles from major papers and decide which authors get fired out of a cannon and which ones get jail for life, for example and pull up pictures of the writers and mock them. We very much do not care about polite frivolities or “umm akshually” pedantry and debate shit. We know we are communists and we mock anyone who isn’t
It's a podcast where a self loathing edgelord, a fat Greek, and a Jewish guy talk about working in the racism factory.