Virgil's real first name is Justin, as accidentally disclosed by Jewish Insect Adam Friedland in this clip. It's noted how defensive he is of his real identity, which seems strange since he's such a public-facing figure.
After weeks of careful contemplation, I still think that getting paid $170K a month to bitch about how both America and capitalism sucks is fucking obscene.
Also, I guarantee that Virgil Texas guy sexually assaulted someone at some point. He seems 110% to be the type.
After weeks of careful contemplation, I still think that getting paid $170K a month to bitch about how both America and capitalism sucks is fucking obscene.
While simultaneously get rich off of being anti-American that you have to dupe guilt ridden Ivy League college students to buy into your gobbledygook because you’re smart for skimming through reading Rules for Radicals.
After weeks of careful contemplation, I still think that getting paid $170K a month to bitch about how both America and capitalism sucks is fucking obscene.
Also, I guarantee that Virgil Texas guy sexually assaulted someone at some point. He seems 110% to be the type.
As a long-time MDE fan, that stand-up routine was in early 2013, long before Sam Hyde became known as alt-right. In their early days, Sam Hyde used to spam MDE videos throughout SA and FYAD in particular and drew quite a following at the time (the same crowd that, as you probably know, a lot of weird twitter and the dirtbag left came from.) At the time, no one knew what his politics were, and I think most of the SA crowd assumed he shared their values. He was invited to a stand-up event with that crowd, and there he delivered his infamous monologue (Virgil can be seen/heard at 1:00-1:15), but even then it was an experiment to see how fast he can clear a room of insufferable irony-bros. Read the description of the video for more info. It wasn't until 2014-2015 that Sam Hyde's apparent politics went from "mildly apolitical guy who doesn't like political correctness" to bona fide shitlord.
As a long-time MDE fan, that stand-up routine was in early 2013, long before Sam Hyde became known as alt-right. In their early days, Sam Hyde used to spam MDE videos throughout SA and FYAD in particular and drew quite a following at the time (the same crowd that, as you probably know, a lot of weird twitter and the dirtbag left came from.) At the time, no one knew what his politics were, and I think most of the SA crowd assumed he shared their values. He was invited to a stand-up event with that crowd, and there he delivered his infamous monologue (Virgil can be seen/heard at 1:00-1:15), but even then it was an experiment to see how fast he can clear a room of insufferable irony-bros. Read the description of the video for more info. It wasn't until 2014-2015 that Sam Hyde's apparent politics went from "mildly apolitical guy who doesn't like political correctness" to bona fide shitlord.
As a long-time MDE fan, that stand-up routine was in early 2013, long before Sam Hyde became known as alt-right. In their early days, Sam Hyde used to spam MDE videos throughout SA and FYAD in particular and drew quite a following at the time (the same crowd that, as you probably know, a lot of weird twitter and the dirtbag left came from.) At the time, no one knew what his politics were, and I think most of the SA crowd assumed he shared their values. He was invited to a stand-up event with that crowd, and there he delivered his infamous monologue (Virgil can be seen/heard at 1:00-1:15), but even then it was an experiment to see how fast he can clear a room of insufferable irony-bros. Read the description of the video for more info. It wasn't until 2014-2015 that Sam Hyde's apparent politics went from "mildly apolitical guy who doesn't like political correctness" to bona fide shitlord.
About the homophobia: obviously MDE/Sam are not homophobic, in fact Sam is an FTM transsexual (not kidding) who's fucked all kinds of pansexual beasts and ugly little dykes. In fact as I am writing this, I am getting fucked by an asexual crippled Mujer with a feeldoe. I am about to stop so that I can hop on a Sybian and administer heavy oral to a mentally disabled black male furry. Gay people should be allowed to marry, shouldn't be treated as second-class citizens, yadda yadda. When transsexuals vandalize cop cars because they were the victims of some sort of police ineptitude or injustice--I forgot the details of the story--but that's a tale of justice in-line with the spirit of resistance and self-reliance The Founding Fathers (patriarchy alert) had, no shit. Queers prospering and not being messed with is a good thing.
hopefully this is still on topic, but I find it somewhat sad to read this. There's a lot of edge to this, but fundamentally it's about tolerance and acceptance and everything being said I think is genuine. If I remember this video correctly, he actually genuinely talks to the offended woman at the end without any irony or desire to undermine her.
2016 really destroyed everyones minds, while there's lots of clips of Sam talking to Nick where they're being completely genuine with each other, everyone is so far down their own rabbit hole that they know any debate with people outside your politics is completely pointless. Or doing anything other than wrapping yourself in 100 layers of non ironic irony will just result in fatal exposure.
The shift from "ChapoChat" to "Hexbear" is going about as well as you'd expect. What exactly did they say on the podcast that pissed people off, anyways? Archive
They're having a huge fight about vegetarianism now.
Right now the big thing is whether or not meat posts need to be hidden away because images of meat are actually images of dead bodies/corpses or some shit. It's the same stupid bullshit they're always fighting over, and it won't end until the mods put their foot down, probably on the sides of the vegetarians. I've also noticed the site isn't doing nearly as well as almost any other lemmy. Cumtown.org has a much higher user rate.
If nobody here knows, hexbear/chapo is running it's own fork of Lemmy that's behind everything else. It's horrible behind the scenes and it's why it's behind in features and buggy as fuck. It's also why they can't 'federate' which is when you combine multiple Lemmies into one. The entire project is a shitshow from beginning to end and it starts internally with the sites code.
Healthcare pls. Workers rights pls.
I'm steadily becoming a nazbol. Stalin would have had these people shot and that's a good thing.
The pathetic thing about this is that the Chapos are incapable of being cool in any way. You can't have this persona of being hip and with it when you're a Brooklynite celebrity. You'll never be with the proletariat. You've never been among the workers. You don't go to DSA meetings. I don't think they were out there during the protests in the summer. In fact, I'm pretty sure they were largely silent during it?
Some of them come from rich backgrounds but at this point all of them are rich. They're the very bourgeoisie they rail against. Mind you, there were rich communists who betrayed their class. Lenin was a lawyer, Kropotkin was a prince, Engels was a factory owner. The difference? Those people didn't sit there and do a fucking podcast and make millions off arthoes and white men who really like to go on twitter and cancel you for being white and then login to wherever the fuck these people are and have the thousandth 'struggle session' over whether or not femboy is a slur or whichever argument of the day it is. That's what's pathetic: it's a bourgeoisie comedy podcast for similarly well off people. The 'Chapo Community' has had numerous polls on it's audience. It's almost entirely white men and trannies.
Exactly one kind of person interfaces with Chapo and it's not anyone part of the 'proletariat'.
Mind you, the argument isn't 'white people bad', the argument is that for a seemingly progressive podcast it has exactly one kind of listener from one sort of group and there's no actual diversity to be had, even though they'll harp on all day about it. I think it's extremely telling that nobody but these dorks have any interest. You just can't get black people into Chapo. They don't give a shit.
We got one on Virgil, someone really should do one on Matt Christman, he clearly is another one with a breakout fanbase and podcast (really more of a vlog) of his own.
Lol, they permabanned me from the discord last year. Expressed doubt over the direction of BLM, and one of the mods announced I was one some kind of list.
Mind you, all I said was that BLM is ineffective, and liable to frustrate people on both sides of the issue.
This is the state of politics now. You get banned from one forum after another. I probably wouldn't post here or in places with similar views if they hadn't buried me so deep.
Half the sitemod team has stepped away from the project.
Most of the core devs have now stepped away from the project. You should not expect any further development of new features or bug fixes for the time being.
Main has been locked because fuck it.
Registration is closed and will remain so for the time being.
I'll give the chapo traps this, they got good music tastes.
We got one on Virgil, someone really should do one on Matt Christman, he clearly is another one with a breakout fanbase and podcast (really more of a vlog) of his own.
All I know about Matt I have gleaned from listening to Chapo is that he is just an average person from the Midwest, dropped out of grad school, and basically became friends with Virgil, and felix through twitter (I am pretty sure they are the main brains behind chapo. Virgil in particular desperately wants to become a respected political commentator as seen by the fact that he is now doing that podcast that is essential Pod Save America for DSA types). I belive Matt is married but may it may be a situation like Will and his GF where a third is involved as I rarely hear him talking about her.
Honestly, Matt seems like a cool guy. He has his blindspots and his insufferable hipster pretensions like all the Chapos, but he is the only one that actually seems like an approachable down to earth guy who actually likes the fanbase. Then again he posts shit like this:
Chapo was such a successful podcast because they struck early in the Leftist podcast gold rush. Their first episode was during the 2016 primaries when there wasn't a ton of Left wing podcast that wasn't completely boring shit like Democracy Now. The fact that they did off the wall humor that was a little edgy by Leftist standards made them really standout. The podcast was actually funny for awhile and most of the humor came from making fun of terrible media pundits and the op ed pieces they wrote.
I think they have pretty much gone to shit after the Bern out of 2020 which they completely supported and were in denial about until the very end. Just listen to episodes from that era. Or better yet listen to them"solidarity forever" on the eve of the Iowa caucus. They really believed Bernie was ascendant and the working class (including Brooklyn podcasters) just needed to push him over the edge. They have kinda lost all credibility for me.
Now they are in a rock and a hard place where they can't really give brutal critiques of Biden with out losing segments of their audience, so they have pretty much gone back to reviewing dumb hollywood movies with a political bent. Almost like RLM with a political bent. Pretty safe harmless stuff that doesn't threaten their patreon bux. I dont blame them given their fanbase.
All I know about Matt I have gleaned from listening to Chapo is that he is just an average person from the Midwest, dropped out of grad school, and basically became friends with Virgil, and felix through twitter (I am pretty sure they are the main brains behind chapo.
The main brains behind Chapo are Will, Felix, and Matt (and to some degree their first producer Brendon, without which the show would have been unlistenable). Virgil and Amber joined much later.
edit: actually I think Virgil was technically the last person to join.
r/Chapotraphouse / chapochat is a leftist shitposting forum vaguely related to the snooze inducing communist podcast Chapotraphouse, but mostly having to deal with contemporary politics, the lives of the users and internet culture. There's many trannies, former nazis, emotional teenagers and genuinely mentally unwell people that inhabit the website. To define Chapo as a ideology, it'd be "Dirtbag left" but with absolute control over society. Outside of Parler, there's nowhere you're more likely to find death threats towards politicians or police. They lash out every time they don't get their way and are constantly scheming on how enact the revolution. There's also many "male feminists" who use the site. View attachment 1938571 View attachment 1940216
Early years
A lot of Chapos older days are lost and I wasn't around. However, Chapo was quarantined on reddit in 2019 after the admins were told repeatedly to delete posts advocating for violence against police. Specifically it was quarantined for encouraging violence(which is pretty deserved, the admin was talking about shooting capitalists), requiring an account to get on. It was later banned in june 2020 in a wave of bans due to a change in rules, there was just too much fedposting on chapo for it to remain. Chapo is controversial to say the least, with even some of the podcast members (high as shit on codeine) openly expressing their disdain. Sadly a lot of posts a lost since the subreddit is banned and nobody archives anything. View attachment 1940131
You can find some older posts around, like this one advocating for the death of white people View attachment 1940180
Beatnik Allegations of underage grooming and stalking
Recently Chapo has come back under the attention of people because Beatnik, the founder of Chapo chat and a mod for r/chapotraphouse who was accused of grooming, masturbating in front of, stalking minors and begging 14+15yos for nudes. Beatnik has also apparently been calling this girl which led to this situation. Beatnik did this from an alt account, however he revealed himself to be the same person apparently due to mentioning family crests. View attachment 1940233View attachment 1940234 https://archive.md/A29mB
I don't know why Beatnik was calling this girl over and over, that part is pretty much confirm and that's very weird. The post screams like attention whoring but i'd like to know how he got her discord. I think Beatnik was acting really weird, but there's little proof he went any further besides allegations. I'll wait to see if any more info pops up,
Chapo during the democratic primary to Bernie dropping out
To introduce you to the typical content you'd see on Chapo, imagine mix salt, a bit of irony and autism, pour in mental illness and you've got an average post. Upon facing any challenges their first ideas are to A: kill themselves or B: violently lash out. If you want to see full documentation, I organized it all here.
Chapofags will talk about all the trolls poisoning the well, then upboat the most divisive, pointless posts View attachment 1938998
They were so upset over Bernie losing they were trying to call for Biden losing View attachment 1939170
"You can’t bench the bar. How can you lead a revolution you beta bitch" View attachment 1938960
"I feel like naked white supremacist violence from the police state is the only thing holding this country together. It’s clear so many of us, particularly those over 40, have nothing but absolute contempt for our fellow human being." View attachment 1938993
Biden winning over Bernie means i'm gonna die and I have a heccing wiferino! View attachment 1938570
They love coming up with battle plans for Bernie and saying how he can still win View attachment 1938892
The Selfie Thread
Back in the day, they use to have selfie threads where they'd post their beautiful, gender non conforming selves View attachment 1940136
Chapo Today
Due to the allegations and general left infighting, chapo is transforming as reality hits them. Most users are defending Beatnik and acting like stalking a 15yo is normal. Generally it's just unfunny as fuck, boring and gay. However once in awhile you can find a magically autistic thread. View attachment 1940204
Sometimes they cry over how liberals love marvel moves and how Iron Man gave them PTSD View attachment 1940208
Observe how none and I mean NONE of them proposed actual socialist countries to move to, not venezuela, not "based" cuba, not even china or vietnam which arent as shit as the other two. They also didn't mention one non-white country besides japan and korea, afraid of the browns and the blacks? dont like to be a minority living in what the post-white country you want would be like?
Nope, its all overwhelmingly white rich first world countries, and ones with safety nets for all these losers who cant stand working a day in their lives