If you don’t mind? Does anyone else find it at all peculiar that this new non-political usage of chud, which would be exactly the kind of thing the chuds would try to create, seems to come directly from the chuddiest site online, and sloshes over so frequently into our fine femcel fora? At this rate everyone will be a chud by the end of the year!
There’s a whole body of linguistic work about how “incel culture” rapidly infiltrates and influences discourse and how it’s very unique in the way and speed it happens. A rabbit hole I feel into a few months ago, I didn’t really come to any conclusions that were meaningful but it was interesting and I feel like I have a better understanding of how I want to speak and represent myself now, so that’s something
I’m not fussed about that word in particular. It’s been slang for “basement dweller” since the movie C.H.U.D. came out in the 80s, and I feel like each generation attaches new meanings to it.
IME, it’s one of those slang words that has found purchase more in online conversation than offline, which I think makes it a signifier of being “internet fluent” among people who find pride themselves on being knowledgeable about the internet. Combine that with it’s origin as a description of underground creatures despised by the broader society, and I think it makes sense that it would resonate with internet communities that self describe as losers e.g. 4chan, incels, femcels.
Here it’s basically being used in a context of like “Chud vs Chad” where the poster is falling herself a Chud as a shorthand to say she’s an unpleasant loser.
If you don’t mind? Does anyone else find it at all peculiar that this new non-political usage of chud, which would be exactly the kind of thing the chuds would try to create, seems to come directly from the chuddiest site online, and sloshes over so frequently into our fine femcel fora? At this rate everyone will be a chud by the end of the year!
There’s a whole body of linguistic work about how “incel culture” rapidly infiltrates and influences discourse and how it’s very unique in the way and speed it happens. A rabbit hole I feel into a few months ago, I didn’t really come to any conclusions that were meaningful but it was interesting and I feel like I have a better understanding of how I want to speak and represent myself now, so that’s something
Do you have any reading recommendations?
I’m not fussed about that word in particular. It’s been slang for “basement dweller” since the movie C.H.U.D. came out in the 80s, and I feel like each generation attaches new meanings to it.
IME, it’s one of those slang words that has found purchase more in online conversation than offline, which I think makes it a signifier of being “internet fluent” among people who find pride themselves on being knowledgeable about the internet. Combine that with it’s origin as a description of underground creatures despised by the broader society, and I think it makes sense that it would resonate with internet communities that self describe as losers e.g. 4chan, incels, femcels.
What is it even supposed to mean in this context, anyway? Never seen or heard it used in any way other than the political one.
Here it’s basically being used in a context of like “Chud vs Chad” where the poster is falling herself a Chud as a shorthand to say she’s an unpleasant loser.