Proof:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19880834
posted 12/21/2024
@chadmctruth@lemmy.world
created 01/06/2025
Uh Oh:
The community’s existence alone -without a clear satire label- has made a fair number of people uncomfortable. I hope ‘uncomfortable’ is the greatest extent of harm caused, though to be clear, greater distress not encompassed by this word is a valid response that I don’t take lightly. I’m currently working on a way to make the community’s intent clear without “ruining the magic”.
Please feel free to DM me if you don’t feel comfortable commenting publicly
Edit:
Good morning! What a sad thing to read upon first waking lol. Everyone is pretty much saying the same thing, so I’ll clarify this bit
The purpose of Chad is to be a hated vector for general satire and high effort shitposting. The purpose of the community is to be a circlejerk-style platform for content that requires a level of moderator scrutiny I can’t expect from the mods of regular shitposting communities.
A lot of the content that seems to ‘fall flat’ are basically inside jokes and obscure references. I’ve made a post that’s only funny if you’re a law student; one that’s only funny to opera nerds and/or French speakers; some etymology/language gags; two best enjoyed by people with ADHD; one for people who read leftist theory. I include references to ITYSL, Monty Python, Napoleon Dynamite, and more. Much of it is parody of obscure Lemmy things that only the chronically online will catch.
This doesn’t mean I think your opinions and feelings about it are in any way invalid. The thoughts shared here have given me a lot to think about, so thank you
There’s a lot of negativity in here and I want to share a different perspective.
First of all, it is extremely, overwhelmingly obvious that your posts are satire. Looking through your posts, I found it basically impossible to imagine thinking you were serious, even if I had agreed with the things you were saying.
Second, all of the criticism here seems to be about how folks are sensitive when it comes to stuff about modern politics. That’s understandable - a fresh wound will be sensitive, after all. But I think that “this kind of humor makes me feel bad about the world” is the sort of use case the block button was made for. A better argument against what you’re doing would be that you’re causing harm, doing things like radicalizing people or antagonizing oppressed groups, which I haven’t seen anyone argue that you’re doing. (If anyone here believes that chad is causing harm, I’m open to having my mind changed, but you’d have to explain why.) I don’t think “this isn’t how I want to react to awful politics” is a reason to make you stop what I’m sure is a cathartic exercise on your end.