keep calm and chive on?

Can anyone explain what this is? I've seen quite a few car window stickers and t-shirts lately with either the #kcco hashtag or "Keep Calm and Chive On". And from what I can tell it's a website that mostly focuses on "funny" memes and half-naked girls. Is this just like a slightly less creepy reddit or something?

discussion on the zombies and moustaches thread.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22keep+calm+and%22&client=firefox-a&hs=fUH&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=chIxUuG7OoTPrQHG7oCoDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=898&dpr=1

http://chivefest.com/chicago/lineup

Welcome to Probably the Best Little Festival in the World. You are about to experience a global event, a gathering of citizens from over 40 different countries coming together to make new friends, pay it forward, and party like a runaway gravy train on biscuit wheels.

Chive Fest will have its own distinct signature. From the Nostalgia Tent (life-sized game of Operation anybody?), Oversized Ostriches, local foods, blimps, KCCO Beers, fireworks, cats, Chivettes, and enough glowing green you’ll be able to see Chive Fest from space. (More on that soon. The spectacle we have planned will actually be visible from space.)

(life-sized game of Operation anybody?)

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/chive-fest.jpg
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/chive-fest-3.jpg?w=920&h=613
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/chive-fest-9.jpg?w=920&h=613
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/chive-fest-5.jpg?w=920&h=613

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The fundamental 'chive' concept seems to consist largely of twenty-something female models of a rather restricted ethnic derivation.

I wonder what there is to say about magazines/websites/websites-that-are-sort-of-like-magazines, that have regular ... I suppose you'd call it 'sexual appearances' from people as a keystone feature. Usually semi-clothed rather than outright naked.

What kind of amazes me about the Chive thing is that the one or two times I've ever checked out the site directly, it scans as pretty misogynist and hevily reliant on half-naked women, but all of the people on my FB or Instagram feed that regularly post Chive stuff are female. So there must be something else going on to balance that stuff out?

There's always this weird disconnect between the earnest film reviews or articles or whatever, and the mouthy 'look at this person's body' parts

@ jon, yeah I dunno I'm wondering if now something like Chive can do that and be ... friendly?

Yeah, it's just weird seeing Chive stuff sneak into my periphery. There's a couple of guys I went to high school that regularly post cleavage shots and I wouldn't be surprised to see them post some of the same stuff I saw on Chive's main site. But instead there are a few female friends from college that seem very unlikely to put up with half-naked shots, but they keep posting pictures of themselves with their "Keep Calm and Chive On" mugs so I'm guessing there is some other draw going on.

Another angle on this. I am not a woman so I don't know how much my perceptions are worth here but these women associated with chive do seem to be owning what they're doing. They seem to be people who've turned up to do a job, and who know they have, and who people recognise and don't mess with, a bit like security guards at a night-club.

I've kind of always assumed that there exist a bunch of people, male and female, in America whose job it is to turn up and be sexy without necessarily doing porn. Would you call them glamour models? Promotional models? Might be wide of the mark there.

That seems notably different to Brit Lad Mag style 'get a normal girl off the street and convince her to strip for the lads' aesthetic.

this just seems like an extension of college life, like people who want a party hard kinda organization that gives lip service to charity and what not. not unlike the Greek system I guess. Not to be all "I sure hate those frat guys", but it jut seems like that.

The community aspect is weird because AFAICT there are no forums or online interaction between readers. It's like the Buzzfeed fan base decided to meet up instead of posting to Facebook.

xp:

http://thechive.com/2014/06/24/i-miss-college-40-photos-7/

the url says it all

drove past soldier field last night and saw a huge billboard for chive fest. i didn't stop or go in or take pics or anything, but it was loud and looked like it was a few hundred bros + bikini girls standing in the parking lot behind soldier field eating various fried foods. there were huge pics of bill murray in sunglasses and lots of chive on signage. looked pretty boring!

yeah that college thing rings true

I, too, have wondered what the fuck The Chive is. It seems to be a mainstay of Internet "Real Manliness" (TM), and I can only guess that it's been around longer than some of the "man rules" type blogs that have come around more recently. Combine that with the fact that people who follow this sort of thing are admittedly simple minded and like to follow things with slavish devotion (c.f. sports teams, certain brands of alcohol or fast food) to see how the site manages to maintain popularity for no apparent reason.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsMsFelCYAANvUL.jpg

someone should send me to this

it looks so pathetic

I would contribute to a fund to send maura

maybe for social curiosity, maybe I just want to pull off a sick burn on maura, you just have to guess

pitch vice a chivefest + legal w33d confluence

http://i.imgur.com/5nT3are.png

i would be the forever alone guy looking on from the back!

you know those women who enthusiastically try out for their local radio station's "rock girl" contest? kind of feel like they'd be down with the chive's ethos

(life-sized game of Operation anybody?)

http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/inside-the-chive

also they have some social buying pinterest-for-men-startup-thing http://pando.com/2012/09/26/tapiture-is-a-pinterest-for-bros-that-actually-has-a-chance/

we're overlooking the Pamplemousse/SnorgTees aesthetics at play here.

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.

There Are Sexy ilxors Among Us

non-Ivy college dude mindset

are you fucking kidding me

did the writer go to an ivy or smth

i dare say these chivers have the boorish manners of a yalie

Whoa Eddie sharpe and the mag 'ros, huge get bro

what the fuck is this

this is happening in Seattle this weekend (they got Girl Talk and Washed Out!) but I've seen almost no acknowledgement in any local media. If I hadn't seen maura's tweet I'd never have known about it. (To be fair everyone's busy covering the newly opened weed stores.)

i'd have to say, i'd probably draw the fucking line at playing at Chive Fest. These bands can't possibly be that hard-up, can they?

Not like I'm surprised to see Girl Talk on there tho

brohemia

Not like I'm surprised to see Girl Talk on there tho

Nobody who's ever been to a Girl Talk show could possibly be surprised by this.

are you fucking kidding me

did the writer go to an ivy or smth

actually u chicago per the author bio

yeah, saw that later. maybe there is secret ivy envy

it is basically an honorary ivy iirc

it is certainly more "ivy" than all but approx. 2 of the actual ivies

but less "chivy" than any of them in my assessment

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

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.

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So the site should have been called Forve, is what I'm reading there.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1639618512944010/?fref=nf

http://i.imgur.com/TI8xK9V.png

http://www.finecooking.com/assets/uploads/posts/5190/ING-chives-2_sql.jpg

I have to admit that at first I thought it was about people who really liked to use these in their cooking.

chives.jpg

Lugubrious Beard is an alternate universe Penn Jillette where he never meets Teller.

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i find i cannot keep calm nor chive on

30 seconds of watching chive tv at the gym sends me into a mood spiral

lol, the television version of muzak

Can’t remember the last time I saw a Jeep Wrangler with a Chive Bill Murray sticker, surprised they still have a TV presence.

CHIVE TV is the first ever TV channel built specifically for businesses. It is now FREE and can only be found on Atmosphere.

hmmm

Hence why so many cheap bars like in the back of bowling alleys that have no need to have television programming run it the most

The Chive feels like it was 100 years ago

In an alternate universe, Gavin McInnes would have become a harmless Chive.

I forgot this existed

I guess this is Barstool now? Or is that different?

barstool is much more explicitly right-wing I believe

That Cocaine Bear movie feels very chive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smlX2l9Fk

https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social/post/3lgqyon25i22p

did the chive anticipate the zynternet

r.i.p. to Edgar Maddison Welch, a chiver who could not keep calm

How in the world is this possibly from 2025???

yeah baby

so can we get an update on Lugubrious Beard or