keep calm and chive on?

― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life)

I didn't get enough credit for this dn.

https://www.quantcast.com/thechive.com

what's interesting about that is that when I hear about something for the first time from, like, two or three different places, it's usually because it's rapidly growing. But from that chart it looks like Chive plateaued two years ago. Except for some reason huge uptick in mobile use without any corresponding change in web use over the last month? So maybe the point is they just launched an app or something? Somebody who knows the business, explain this to me.

everybody uses their phone in 2014

Yeah but I don't think five times as many people uses their phone in June 2014 as did in May 2014.

you're hearing about it because they're having actual festivals in the world etc. kcco bro

also how great is it that their "mascot" is somebody they have no relationship with who made movies they identified with 20 years ago and their slogan is a ripoff of a meme popular like four years ago and most of their content is photos somebody grabbed from reddit or something.

its sort of amazing

iirc it was s1ocki on the other thread who deployed "normy-net" in a wonderful turn of phrase.

The other interesting thing I've noticed is that both people (female) that regularly post Chive related stuff on my social media also post tons of religious/Christian stuff (God quotes, Christian music links, etc). Wondering if these are just outliers, or if there is more of an overlap there as well (which seems unlikely, but worth noting).

Feels like two overlapping parts of Red State goodwill, the same friendliness that hands a stranger a beer at a frat party.

"Uncritical ppl who want to belong" is the shared category here probably.

Basically fits in with the party dudes and dudettes who never wanted college life to end

i'm still a bit confused as to where exactly that sense of belonging lies. quite a weird quirk that one of the biggest communities on the internet is a website that has little in the way of user communication.

that might be part of the key; actually communicating is a bit scary

It's not communication that indicates belonging, it's seeing ppl who look like you, consume the same things, and being able to locate yourself in the security of that mass.

my chivette friend is one of the kindest and friendliest people i know

i wonder if there was ever a convention held for readers of cracked magazine

sylvester p. smythe cosplay

alfred e. baumsworld

hasn't the online Cracked version pretty much turned into something a lot like The Chive anyway?

no one identifies as a cracker though

http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/artists/uncle_kracker/unclekracker08-280x210.jpg
how quickly they forget

Is this the saddest cracked article of all time?
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-weird-personality-changes-that-happen-when-you-live-alone/

wow

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bros.jpg

Oh holy shit that's creepy.

So being the man I am I couldn't help it...

Wait where's the bit where he says he's the guy she's sending the texts to.

So creepy.

keep calm & ruin someone's life

ya i bet that totally happened, and isn't a made up story at all

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEu6xvFWoAE9FYq.jpg:small

this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a chive on

hooligans, misfits, sexy creatures

http://i.imgur.com/NMKzfa7.png

just a picture of an american flag

http://i.imgur.com/obXMxBn.jpg

Man, I was expecting something terrible when I clicked on this thread, but...

https://twitter.com/bigBkcco/status/574788136493961216

what the hell

in related news, i saw a family of man, woman and three small kids all wearing 'keep calm and chive on' tshirts at disneyworld a couple of weeks ago, it was weird and creepy

Thank you for this thread. I recently happened upon a pair of magic sunglasses that allow me to finally fully register this 'KEEP CALM AND CHIVE ON' thing that is everywhere but that I'd somehow previously managed to ignore. Glad to see some confirmation that it's just as sinister as its vague, jovial ubiquity would suggest.

Is Chive Fest basically just a milquetoast Gathering of the Juggalos with less makeup?

isnt' this just a website? how is it so er... subculty?

chivers are when juggalos grow up and get jobs, right?

My wife shared some chive image on fb the other day, but as far as I can tell she was just sharing it from some other fb friend. She has a long-standing crush on Bill Murray though, so who knows, maybe I should just sign her up?

wait until you come home and she makes you play beer pong before you can eat dinner

#boredchivettesatwork

So much in one paragraph:

The Chive’s founders, brothers Leo and John Resig, have so effectively branded a certain kind of lifestyle and identity that the membership, from giving to submitting, does most of the work itself. (Leo Resig declined to comment for this article, though he said he was a “big fan” of The Awl.) They live in Venice, California, and the site's name, by the way, is apparently a contraction of Chicago and Venice; the Resigs were born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They have other interests as well: John Resig is a recurring minor character on "True Blood." Their sisters, Emily and Megan, are the editors of the sister site the Berry, which "gives ladies a much needed one-stop destination to peruse hot male celebs, funny photos, daily gossip, fashion, viral videos and adorable animals," and features an "eye candy" section of dudes in the same space where The Chive features its Chivettes. The Berry gets a bit more than 10% of the traffic of The Chive, according to Quantcast. The company's other sub-sites, The Throttle—pictures of hot cars—and The Brigade—tagline "In 'Merica We Trust," with lots of photos of guns, tanks and uniforms—skew even more male, about 80%, and are about the same size as the Berry.
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:11 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait so is is pronounced Shyve then

chivers are when juggalos grow up and get jobs, right?

90% fratbros IME

I thought that Tweet was going to be this:

https://twitter.com/jonny_is_good/status/636878792716365824