A steady stream of beans memes over on lemmy.world, interesting timing.

EDIT:

Since this wasn’t clear enough before, the term “normie” is the term chosen by the Dev of Tesseract. In their own words:

https://lemmy.world/post/49817942

To be blunt: Tesseract is designed to attract and retain normies.

DISCLAIMER: This meme is just a joke I have no evidence for this actually happening, please don’t take it seriously.

  • Tonuka@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    idk about philosophically, but historically it’s a term used by terminally online racist 4chan users to describe people who don’t subscribe to their lifestyle. I’ve always disliked that it became a popular term because I always have that origin in mind.

      • Tonuka@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yes, but before 2000 it was used sparsely and in a dramatically different context than today. I suggest reading the Wikipedia page for “Normie (slang)”.

          • dadarobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            to put it more politely:

            it started being used online in the early 2000s to describe an “outgroup”. 4chan was using it basically the same way as everyone else, except their ingroup is racist.

            even the wikipedia says as much. the disabled groups and the alcoholics used it to describe an outgroup.

            4chan did not invent the term. they just used it like everyone else did.