Based was a thing those on the right would say.
Now I see leftists and normies calling anything they like based.
And it's actually caught on and it's been thoroughly co-opted. Here's the thing though, it's not because they ran a successful campaign to get it to catch on. The left has been trying to co-opt snowflake and red-pilled for years and can never make headway. We all just laugh when we see the left trying to call someone with righteous indignation a snowflake.
There are two reasons based caught on.
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It wasn't that good to begin with. Unlike snowflake which is targeted and specific, and you pretty much get the picture immediately, based never made any sense. Even looking it up didn't provide much clarity. It would be something about some rapper or something called basedgod or something? I don't know. The point is, it was lame to begin with.
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Because it was so vague, the right barely knew what it meant, and the leftists and normies definitely don't know what it means, especially nowadays. It's not like snowflake where they know exactly what it means and they hate it. No one really knows what based means, nor ever did. It was inevitable that a retarded ebonics lexicon would find itself diluted into the sea of retarded ebonics lexicon'.
The right has had some great and pointed terms through the years. Red-pilled, NPC, Snowflake, etc. Based was not one of our better efforts. It was always lame.
never heard anyone say "based" unironically outside of the chans and here.
Based was a tongue in check mockery of the left unironically using words like woke I thought. At least that’s what I always saw it as. Most times people used based whenever a leftist accidentally said something honest.
it definitely predates "woke", at least in its current incarnation.
That's a fair point. It wasn't ever taken that seriously and it was rarely used unironically.
It gets used a little on Twitch, which is definitely a leftist space, but I would say it's mostly a right-leaning word.
This is old news. I started seeing this over a year ago. They don't use the term much, but they do use it correctly at least in the context of their retarded worldview.
I remember a time when “woke” meant you had caught on to the system of debt slavery used to harvest human suffering, I still don’t know how they flipped that one
The Trump campaign even had "Woke" merchandise for a hot minute before it came to solely describe regressives who can't grammar.
My understanding is that "enlightened" was too long of a word for black people, so somebody came up with "woke" when Black Lives Matter was gestating.
Based is the opposite of Woke, pretty much by definition.
The challenge now is: whenever you see a Leftist using the term "based", find a way to tie whatever they're commenting on to racism, sexism etc, and compliment them on it. Make them realize that they were the bigot all along.
Yeah these days that’s about all it is. I totally forgot about that basedgod guy and just assumed it meant “foundational” lol.
But back in the day (2012~2015), I saw (conspiracy-type) people using woke positively, basically to mean “awakened” or something along those lines but not wanting to sound so pretentious I guess lol. I still sometimes see it around, like in the so-called Great Awakening
I don't think this is the case. "Snowflake" just means that someone thinks they're very, very special and unique ... like a snowflake. The only time I've ever seen leftists use it is as a euphemism for "fragile".
It's multi-layered. They're oh so special and unique, but they're still uniform in their uniqueness to the point they look the same as any other. They also melt when exposed to the slightest heat or pressure
Fair enough, fragility is also indeed implied, but I've never seen one use the "special" part of the insult.
Yeah as u/Cyberguy64 says, being delicate is baked in.
Calling kids special little snowflakes is something unironically done by kindgergarten teachers or pre-school teachers. The term snowflake while having the "you're unique and special" thing, also is saying they have the delicate sensibilities of a small child that will start crying if their favorite color in their crayon set is missing.
In their defense that's what I thought it meant, fragile. Melts easily, etc. The unique aspect never even occurred to me until.your comment.
Still, they use it retardedly. If I say a word like nigger they freak out. If a righty gets mad that a store gets looted or a building gets burned down, the same leftoid calls them a snowflake. They use it more as "anyone who is displeased with Anything"
I remember seeing someone on 4chan propose "keyed" as a replacement for "based". They had a whole infographic for it.
Trannies and other faggots on discord use it. Then I inevitably get banned for telling them what I think. I'm not even on weird servers, just official ones for games I play.
Aye, it's used basically by everyone, Even I as the Chud I am wound up using it to describe fucking everything, and this even translated to other frens up mine picking it up in that way lmao
Yeah no. I've never even seen a leftoid use based. Not even mockingly. Where are you hanging out?
Lol, they invented the term "agecuck".
If you want to promote pedophilia, you'll probably get a lot more traction with that crowd than here.
Even incels have the moral integrity not to lust after children.
You pedos can't meme.