Difference between revisions of "Cirque du Twerque"

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Welcome to the CdT wiki!

Cirque du Twerque is a closed Facebook group with over 4,000 members. The group focuses on memes, some of which are tech-related because of the group's history with Hackathon Hackers.

This wiki is a dumpyard for all information on all the dankest memes in Cirque du Twerque.

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History

Old Circletwerk

Cirque du Twerque started out as HH Circlejerk, which was originally an HH humor subgroup. Due to complaints about the original title, the name changed to HH Circletwerk.

Migration to HH Cirque du Twerque

In July of 2015, admin drama caused many users to leave HH Circletwerk and create other subgroups, such as HH Circletwerk 2.0, demanding more fair moderation. The turning point for HH Circletwerk was when the owner of the group removed every admin and disabled posting with no notice.

Lily Sellers, a frequent memer in HH Circletwerk, decided to jump on this opportunity to spark a revolution and found a new meme group, HH Circlesmirk. This is why Lily is commonly referred to as "queen", "senpai", "mom", etc.

Once the new group was created, she informed her fellow revolutionaries – memers David Steinberg, Mike Huang, and Stephanie Smithson. The four of them together were the original mods of HH Circlesmirk. They, as well as many others before them, believed that moderation and any decision that may affect the group should be decided by majority vote.

The new group gained a considerable following over only a few days, after which the mods decided to create a poll to decide on what the community wanted the group name to be. Everyone was allowed to add options to the poll as well as vote. However, to keep everything fair and unbiased, the mods opt out of every vote. This is how HH Circlesmirk came to be HH Cirque du Twerque.

Removal of HH from Cirque du Twerque

In December 2015, the actions of a certain HH admin angered many people in the HH community, including many members of HHCdT. On December 13, 2015, said HH admin released the following statement:

For the past year and a half, I've had the opportunity to build this community with incredible people. They taught me so much.

When we built that team, I hoped that rule by committee of equals would be the most effective way to build the community. I was wrong.

The community suffered due to inaction. Marginalized people left the group en masse, many of the most active members left for the subgroups, and the team was ineffective at changing that.

My failure to communicate effectively with the team and the community itself caused this. I apologize for letting the community get to this point.

These changes should have happened long ago and they should have been communicated with the admin team. The fact that I felt the need to remove another admin unilaterally to make this change was my own fault. I made a mistake.

My intention isn't to take over as eternal dictator of HH. Nor is it to turn this into a business. I didn't do this for power or money. I did this because I thought it was best for the community. There was definitely a better way.

Moving forward, we’ll be transitioning power to the subgroup leaders and the community itself. You can read more about the plan here: https://medium.com/hackathon-hackers/giving-hackathon-hackers-back-to-the-community-c77cebda92e6#.mslxrqiv8

Community members can nominate moderators. Subgroup leaders will elect both the moderation team and the admin who will lead HH.

I won't be running in the election at the start of the New Year. My sole role will be to ensure that elections are fair, that the transition of power is smooth, and that no one is ever able to do what I did again.

This apology was not taken well by the HHCdT community, and as a result, this became a copypasta and HH Cirque du Twerque became Cirque du Twerque. Many other HH subgroups made changes as well, including:

• HH Hacker Problems -> Hacker Problems
• Real Singles of HH -> Sovereign State of Real Singles
• HH Cats -> Real Cats of CdT
• Hackathon Hackers (purist subgroup) -> Hackers -> HX

Dishwasher controversy

In January of 2016, the following meme, in style of the How Should a Dog Wear Pants? meme, was posted to CdT:

/hh the following link may offend some people

This meme caused a lot of controversy among CdT members, and many claimed that the meme was misogynistic. On the other hand, other CdT members, including women, claimed that such humor should not be taken seriously on a shitposting group. Others decided to leave CdT all together, claiming the environment "promoted sexism".

One member went on a full-blown rant defending their friend and threatening to leave if they "saw this misogynistic shit ever again", creating the Friend of Mine copypasta. However, CdT remains strong to this day.

Demographic

Cirque du Twerque is very popular among college-aged students, many of them being Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering majors, and some high school students. For an unknown reason, many of the college-aged members attend college or live in the state of Illinois. Some CdT members attend other state universities as well as Ivy Leagues, renowned engineering schools and even liberal arts schools.

Despite the lack of women in technology, CdT is an inclusive environment, and many of the moderators and top-tier shitposters are women. Thus, girls do like CdT.