Steven Underwood
5 min readJul 6, 2021

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Inside ChimpMania: Racism Thriving During #BLACKLIVESMATTER and George Floyd

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash

6/2/2020

The first rule of ChimpMania, is that ChimpMania is “for bashing: (1) niggers, (2) traitorous coal burners and oil drillers; and (3) nigger lovers — ONLY!!” And as a testimony to its grand humanity, “there will be NO bashing of humans and/or religions allowed.” It is the safest place for anti-blackness, one of the few and final residencies for such racism on the public net.

I don’t know why the universe guided my friend’s hand to send this link to me. I know it had something to do to the residual clout retained on social media through the discussion of race and ethnicity. I know it had something to do with the protests of the last May and opening of June — where Black men and women and “nigger lovers” have risked maiming to stand against the racism of Law Enforcement.

I open the Forum to a blank page, guided into the recesses of its evil through “Duckduckgo.com” to protect the sanctity of my history and private information. I did not see the simple UI and graphics of chimps, monkeys, sambos chicken eating black mammies and anything and everything in-between, designed in a desparate parody of the racism they’ve likely festered in. The Header is a line-up of Black men and babies at a police line-up with a simple tag line: “Because it is a zoo.”

The first forum post discusses and spits on the death of one Black man and another discusses a Black child murdered. There’s another that looks at how a “Google Adds Nigger Loving to Its Homepage”. Another forum post, immediately after, is topical: “Niggers rioting in Minneapolis”.

“Whip_Cracker,” a forum Super Moderator and self-titled “chimpologist” from “far from niggers” (who joined around my 17th birthday) sets the tone 3 days ago with a simple address:

“After discussing this among the other fine Mods and Admins, it has been decided to allow a thread on this subject. Members must follow all forum rules about posting anything that violates the rules and please avoid negative remarks about the LEO’s involved.”

Whip_Cracker states, “We the mod/admins believe the nigger died from conditions unknown and unforeseeable by the LEO’s and not from something directly attributable to the officers actions. If the nigger hadn’t struggled, it would still be stealing our air. The officer was charged in an attempt to appease the rioters and the leftist libtards.

Please keep this in mind and post responsibly. Now go bash the niggers!”

Immediately following, “Bar Fairy” an unkind woman from Illinois who joined March 2015 and described as an “Assistant Veternarian” states: “No nigger should be allowed to steal anything, especially air. I am really tired of libtards trying to justify all the looting and comparing it to The Boston Tea Party.

24 “Chimpmaniacs” thanked Bat Fairy for her comments. The protests are likened to a situation they described as “Eric Garner ‘ah ca’nt breave’ Garner” where the protests for Black life are simply mitigated at “mass chimpouts” where Black people “cause destruction and mayhem in their cities.”

The usernames are all a direct attack against Black people. ““Anti-Groid”, “COONoravirus,” “Ghetto_scum,” “Whip_Cracker,” “Liberals_are_stupid,” “Paddyroller,” “BackToAfricoon”,” and, of course, “Seven1”. Not a Black person is called by their name. They’re all Niggers. Unless you’re a child, then you’re a “sprogg”. Or unless you’re a woman: then you’re a “Boon Bitch” or a “Sheboon”. There isn’t all hate. Two weeks ago, “Drew” commented on a thread from 117 days ago as of this article that a “Nigger has found [a] cure for Coronavirus.”

The Rules also stipulate that obligations for the protection of the members. In its rules, it is stated: “9.) Do NOT post pictures of yourself or information that can personally identify you. Please note that many digital cameras and smartphones put the GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken into \”EXIF\” data which is embedded into the image itself, and readily viewable from the posted image.

10.) There are to be NO member names, avatars, profile pictures and/or signatures that suggest and/or promote any \”group and/or organization\” that bashes humans and/or promotes violence towards niggers. Any name that \”suggests and/or promotes violence\” towards niggers in general are also not allowed. Any member with a name endorsing the above will be asked for a name change and any avatars, profile pictures and/or signatures will be deleted without notice. Failure to submit a new name, should a name change be requested, will result in the deletion of your account.”

It is notable that members aren’t discouraged from inspiring violence on Black folk (clearly, it is actually a requirement for membership), but the names and actualities here dictate that members are merely to protect itself for say if a Black person with a friend who has too much free time sends him a link, and he is able to progress his way on.

Or say, if that same Black man, is able to post the link on their widely trafficked social media account during intense protests for Black Lives and allowed the numerous followers with skills ranging from IP tracing to ample free time to run wild through it. That similar act is capable of ruining the careers and potential livelihoods of everyone populating the site, rightfully so. I would hate for that to happen. HATE.

There’s a question as to why I decided to shed light on this in light of so much Black people have lost as of recently. It’s a dangerous slope to slide when you care about Black liberation in the face of an execution that is the legal system. However, as I slip through these topics and through these names it becomes apparent that of these people are the same “LEO”‘s forbidden from criticism in the chat. We walk a fine line through our world as Black people, where everyone is potentially these people.

At the time I am online, there are 55 members online (including one “A World without Niggers” and 1366 guests. There is an estimated 70k members on the website total. We are facing a tipping point where we must address that racism is not a hidden issue. It is not a secreted thing that is only social. This website exists and has heavy traffic.

People want African-Americans dead. Or banished. Or harmed. We are not people on this site, we are “it”. We have no identity and we have no baring and we are not given the lee-way and they do not care.

They expect the Police to harm us, because it’s their role. For once, I have to address the opulent candor of the situation: that Law Enforcement are designed to harm and restrict Black people, and there are Law Enforcement who exist who are aware of this. This is the poison in the system and it cannot be saved.

Abolish the Police.

Crash the website.

Use DuckDuckgo.com to access their site

Minneapolis Protests: chimpmania.com/forum/showthread.php?131310-Niggers-Rioting-In-Minneapolis

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Steven Underwood

Writer on Black Masculinity and Digital Culture. Columnist at Cassius Life. Twitter Fool. Bylines: Oprah Mag, LEVEL, BET, MTV NEWS, LGBTQ NATION, Essence