"The slang term "based" is used to describe someone who is confident in their beliefs and unbothered by others' opinions, especially when expressing controversial or unconventional views."

That's essentially the definition I get, but it's such a meaningless word.

I see transgender stuff being called based by leftists, and it's not like snowflake where they're trying to unsuccessfully co-opt it.

Based is literally a normie term that means "I like this".

When it can be used for any context anywhere by anybody to mean anything, it's not a word.

I mean, someone could say "well radical and tubular were catch all terms"

here's the difference. If anybody in the 80s saw two dudes kissing and said "that's rad" everyone would look at them and go "faggot".

If you called your grandmothers painting of a cat "radical", people would roll their eyes at that and think it was a bit embarrassing.

There were contexts where rad made way more sense than others.

If a guy landed a gnarly trick on a skateboard and you say "that was radical dude", that is 100% an expected use of the word.

If a guy has a girlfriend that is fun to talk to and someone says "You've got a rad chick", again, that would be an expected use of the word.

Rad was the 80s version of the word groovy. There's certain things you would call groovy, and certain things where if you called it groovy, you'd get some weird looks, because it's typically reserved for certain contexts. Like if you were listening to Pink Floyd and you said, "this is groovy, this is far out" people would think "that's the correct use of the word groovy.

You could personally like polka music, but if you called it "groovy" people would probably laugh at you. You could say "It's weird, but I kind of like it" and people would accept it even if they ragged you for liking Polka, but calling Polka "groovy" would get people mocking you full stop.

See, the slang even as catch all as they were, had pretty specific contexts in which you would expect to hear them.

Based gets used by everyone for everything and is thus completely meaningless. It's a slang that means "I like this thing according to my sesnibilities".

And here's the thing, based is one of the EASIER inferred words despite every normie using it for whatever purpose. I was on Twitter and someone made a vague post and the black people kept saying "This is loss"

That's not a typo, they kept going "Is this loss"

"This loss"

"This is loss"

and other variations of it. I could look up the slang, but I have no desire to. I'm tired of knowing things like "cap" and "keep it 100" and other bullcrap. I kept scrolling until I could figure out what "This is loss" means, and I never could figure out despite seeing dozens of examples.

I assume since these comments were posted on a vague post that "This is loss" means something like "I don't know what this means"

Which again, is like retarded code.

Wouldn't typing "???" three question marks express the same thing and not seem retarded. The question mark is the universal sign of "I'm confused by this. But "this is loss", like all the ghetto slang, sounds like someone half retarded and barely understands English had a stroke while trying to communicate an idea.

"The slang term "based" is used to describe someone who is confident in their beliefs and unbothered by others' opinions, especially when expressing controversial or unconventional views."

That's essentially the definition I get, but it's such a meaningless word.

I see transgender stuff being called based by leftists, and it's not like snowflake where they're trying to unsuccessfully co-opt it.

Based is literally a normie term that means "I like this".

When it can be used for any context anywhere by anybody to mean anything, it's not a word.

I mean, someone could say "well radical and tubular were catch all terms"

here's the difference. If anybody in the 80s saw two dudes kissing and said "that's rad" everyone would look at them and go "faggot".

If you called your grandmothers painting of a cat "radical", people would roll their eyes at that and think it was a bit embarrassing.

There were contexts where rad made way more sense than others.

If a guy landed a gnarly trick on a skateboard and you say "that was radical dude", that is 100% an expected use of the word.

If a guy has a girlfriend that is fun to talk to and someone says "You've got a rad chick", again, that would be an expected use of the word.

Rad was the 80s version of the word groovy. There's certain things you would call groovy, and certain things where if you called it groovy, you'd get some weird looks, because it's typically reserved for certain contexts. Like if you were listening to Pink Floyd and you said, "this is groovy, this is far out" people would think "that's the correct use of the word groovy.

You could personally like polka music, but if you called it "groovy" people would probably laugh at you. You could say "It's weird, but I kind of like it" and people would accept it even if they ragged you for liking Polka, but calling Polka "groovy" would get people mocking you full stop.

See, the slang even as catch all as they were, had pretty specific contexts in which you would expect to hear them.

Based gets used by everyone for everything and is thus completely meaningless. It's a slang that means "I like this thing according to my sesnibilities".

And here's the thing, based is one of the EASIER inferred words despite every normie using it for whatever purpose. I was on Twitter and someone made a vague post and the black people kept saying "This is loss"

That's not a typo, they kept going "Is this loss"

"This loss"

"This is loss"

and other variations of it. I could look up the slang, but I have no desire to. I'm tired of noing things like "cap" and "keep it 100" and other bullcrap. I kept scrolling until I could figure out what "This is loss" means, and I never could figure out despite seeing dozens of examples.

I assume since these comments were posted on a vague post that "This is loss" means something like "I don't know what this means"

Which again, is like retarded code.

Wouldn't typing "???" three question marks express the same thing and not seem retarded. The question mark is the universal sign of "I'm confused by this. But "this is loss", like all the ghetto slang, sounds like someone half retarded and barely understands English had a stroke while trying to communicate an idea.