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Very recent events but:
We had a really fun account that was shared by like 30 users for about a month before someone went off the rails.
Hexbear was mentioned on Bluesky and a handful of users made accounts here and reposted the recommendation like 100 times.
Bonus, Hexbear got a mention in the chat of popular streamer Northernlion after someone made a joke about treatlerites.
Oh yeah, there's been like two academic papers calling out Hexbear and Lemmygrad as examples of online extremism. Idr how long ago that was.
Lots of containment breaches.
TC69 came back for like a day and left again after the posts caused a stir.
Dont forget the FOIA request struggle.
If this is enough to make the recap I'll be mentioning us in chat every day until something funny happens.
Someone posted it in the general mega a few days ago and I just thought it was really funny because I know there's a lot of NL viewers on here and he's at least vaguely leftist, moreso than he lets on during stream.
EDIT: oh that was you lol.
TBH I think he actually is more of a lib than he lets on but just happens to have a community that's way to his left so he placates them. Maybe I'm psychoanalyzing too much.
Could be. Either way getting him to keep learning about terms like "treatler" on stream will be incredibly funny.
to be fair to those papers, many of us are extremely online
...and extremely cool!
Didn't even know this, neat.