I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?


r/ChapTrapHouse was the left wing equivalent of r/The_Donald, constantly brigading and trolling other subs. And just like r/T_D, their sub got banned and they kept trying to remake the community only to be banned again and again.
IIRC, the r/ChapoTrapHouse folks eventually started up Hexbear on here, while r/The_Donald moved to ExplodingHeads. Both instances are often defederated by other instances, so you probably don’t see them a lot
Thank you for the helpful context!
Thanks!