• whimsy@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Ooh interesting, what do you mean by the 4chan speak? Is it the maxxing thing?

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      These terms were originally heavily used as heavy right wing 4chan terms, largely circulating in hate circle jerks (which is like 50% of 4chan anyways). Largely associated with millenial incel culture.

      Gen Z proceeded to take these terms and parody the fuck out if them, effectively mocking incel culture and turning it into a huge joke. Thus then became mainstream and its largely acted as a very successful humiliation tactic towards the hateful groups.

      Think stuff like all the “chad” memes but applying it to silly stuff, like intense cuts of a random chair or a porta-potty, x-pilled terms, etc.

      All their terms have been mocked into oblivion, you cant really use the terms without just sounding like a gen z meme now.

      An example of when millennials did a similiar thing was mocking the shit out of gen x biker/trucker hyper masculine culture and turning it into an ironic joke. IE the skeleton “my body is a machine that turns x into y” jokes, or ironic memes of edgy skeletons/wolves/etc. Three moons shirt, those things.

      10/10, I fucking love how culture can do stuff like this over time lol

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        Think stuff like all the “chad” memes

        To think, those memes probably originated from 4-chan trolls using them unironically

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        4 hours ago

        I turned my bathroom into a spare bedroom that I now rent out to VRBOmaxxing my life. It more than covers the porta-potty rent since I because porta-potty pilled.

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      8 hours ago

      “Maxxing,” “mogging,” “-pilled.” Amongst many others. I’ve even seen this language on billboards and the seepage of sewage into the mainstream is mind-boggling.

      Then again those stupid psyop fucks infiltrated Xitter, tumblr, etc. over a decade ago.

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      8 hours ago

      Is that where spelling goes to die? People were ‘maxing’ their caffeine decades before whatever vapid influencerati re-coined the badly-written version. I still am not sure it was spelled wrong knowingly.