• Wheaties [she/her]
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    361 year ago

    In 2020 reddit banned a donald trump subreddit. In an attempt to appear ‘even-handed’, they also banned the subreddit for the podcast Chapo Trap House. Hexbear started as a liferaft for that subreddit, briefly going by the name chapo.chat. Hence the name, /c/askchapo

    El Chapo was not a socialist, and it took every ounce of willpower I have to not ‘yes, and’ that title

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      261 year ago

      To be exhaustive, the subreddit was for the podcast Citations Needed, it was just called r/chapotraphouse for historical reasons.