Keep calm and Chive on

I keep seeing this bumper/window sticker. Am I correct that the people who have them are fans of The Chive? If so, it seems strange that so many cars are sporting these stickers.

Chive On.

So from that link, “chive on” involves scantily clad babes, with an occasional guest appearance by Captain Picard and Darth Vader?

Oddly enough, I don’t have a great problem with that.

Yes, it’s just people who enjoy The Chive. There are t-shirts too (my husband and I each have one). You may see similar promotion of Reddit as well.

I’ve never seen Redit stickers on cars. The Chive stickers – particularly the CC&CO ones – seem to be extraordinarily popular in the Seattle area.

Yes, I’ve seen Chive stickers with increasing regularity here in Calgary too. I’d say it’s probably double the amount of Reddit stickers (I’m more talking about the Reddit logo stickers than anything else).

Ok now that we’ve established that it’s about The Chive, what the hell is The Chive?

See post #2.
Or, here.

“Keep Calm and Chive On” velcro patches for combat fatigues were popular when I was deployed to Afghanistan. Never worn when anyone important enough to care might be nearby, of course. That’s the beauty of velcro patches. Pretty sure I saw a green flag with the slogan on the back of an MRAP too.

Post #2 doesn’t answer the question, though. TheChive.com is a website devoted to funny pictures, pretty girls etc. kind of like Break.com.

The Chive has 1.2 million followers on Facebook alone. It is quite popular. It is also extremely populular among the US Military. The Army’s Infantry is fanatical about it. In the Seattle area you have over 40,000 Soldiers stationed at JBLM, including 2nd Ranger Battalion and 7th Infantry Division. I would bet money that a majority of those bumper stickers belong to soldiers.

ETA: And most Soldiers have no idea what Redit or 4chan are.

They’ve cleverly marketed the “Random Acts of Kindness” that encourages people to identify publicly as Chivers so others will buy them drinks, feed their parking meter, etc. So people buy t-shirts, stickers, etc

This one has puzzled me, too. I’m aware of The Chive. I’m just surprised it has so many super fans.

They’ve combined pictures of attractive women with a catchy meme (“Keep Calm and Chive On” of course is derived from an old British wartime motivational poster that recently went viral decades after the war in question ended).

For those so inclined, there is also a section of the website devoted to photos of attractive men, and another section devoted to generally awesome stuff like pictures of airplanes and artillery and such.

KCCO: cool, and nice photos.

Yes it did. I have never heard of the Chive before. but after hitting the Web selection after seeing the link in post #2, it took me about six seconds to figure out what was being talked about here.

And I am not that smart. It rather alarms me that there are, apparently, lots of people who cannot figure this out despite being given generous clues.

Linking to pictures of tshirts doesn’t answer the question for someone who is asking the question. If they figured it out on their own that’s great. But if they’re asking, pointing to a screen of shirts as an answer is less than helpful.

It’s not about how smart the asker is, but about providing a helpful answer.

Qapla’!

I thought of this thread idea awhile back, I swear! The issue that I and the OP have is not where the shirts are from, but why they’re so popular when the website seems only moderately so. For example, I don’t see Cracked shirts despite that website being more popular according to Alexa.

I saw lots on St. Patrick’s Day. The green was obvious, as well as the popularity of that meme, but it was still odd that that specific shirt was so common.