The internet has transformed how Gen Z communicates. Our language is built on memes and a collective sense of wry existentialism, with our humor often turning dark or potentially dangerous, as it has when borrowing from the online community of men called “involuntary celibates.”

Incels (as they're known) are infamous for sharing misogynistic attitudes and bitter hostility toward the romantically successful. Their ideology has even turned deadly: The 2014 Isla Vista and 2018 Toronto incel terrorist attacks killed a collective 17 people and injured another 29. Yet, somehow, incels' hateful rhetoric has bizarrely become popularized via Gen Z slang.

In certain circles, for instance, it's common to hear the suffix “pilled” as a funny way to say “convinced into a lifestyle.” Instead of “I now love eating burritos,” for instance, one might say, “I'm so burritopilled.” “Pilled” as a suffix comes from a scene in 1999's “The Matrix” where Neo (Keanu Reeves) had to choose between the red pill and the blue pill, to experiencing only that illusion., but the modern sense is formed through analogy with “blackpilled,” an online slang term meaning “accepting incel ideology.” Similarly, the popular suffix “maxxing” for “maximizing” (e.g., “I'm burritomaxxing” instead of “I'm eating a lot of burritos”) is drawn from the incel idea of “looksmaxxing,” or “maximizing attractiveness” through surgical or cosmetic techniques.

Then there's the word “cucked” for “weakened” or “emasculated.” If the taqueria is out of burritos, you might be “tacocucked,” drawing on the incel idea of being sexually emasculated by more attractive “chads.” And, finally, we have the word “sigma” for “assertive male,” which comes from an incel's desired position outside the social hierarchy.

So how did we get here? How did these words travel from a fringe, misanthropic internet subculture to relatively widespread use?

I've heard women quote this book like it's the freaking Bible, and be like "my love language is acts of services and gifts..." and I remember thinking "wow that's kind of convenient"

Like, I know Redditors like to be smug and pretend to not understand that headlines have different gramatical rules to enable them to be short, concise, and alluring, so that they can complain about the headline being misleading because they want to comment without reading the article and without getting all the facts wrong.

But is this guy just applying the circlejerk to clear headlines like this (that are actually written like a full sentence) for updoots or are they just a genuine moron?

Bypass the stupid age thing:

https://piped.video/watch?v=G5luZedgnHg&embeds_referring_euri=https

i’m in an elementary school and a student did a simply gorgeous rendition of the chad meme pic.twitter.com/E7wUYWojsV

— quasimatt (friendship agriculturist (f/ag)) (@quasimatt) April 28, 2024

Lmao imagine being a cis man and having a peepee so small that you have to wear a fake peepee at all times like moids wtf?

As a trans man I don't understand the need for so-called packers. Like are people really going around analysing random fully clothed men's crotches? Weird.

Let me know. I might be getting unknowingly clocked because it's normal human nature to stare at men's crotches even when they're wearing jeans and I've just never got the memo.

So I have a condition where I have a micropeepee and some other issues as a result (still waiting on surgery atm).

I bought a prosthetic to help with confidence and I can't really go without it now until I get surgery.

However I have to fly from the Uk to Spain next week and am wondering if anyone knows if there will be any issues with me wearing the prosthetic through security?

Does anyone have any advice, as I'd rather not take the prosthetic off if possible, but also don't want to be embarrassed.

Hope I'm not intruding, just thought here would be the best place to ask

Feels cool 😎

https://old.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1cgf1xm/soyjoke/?sort=controversial

All Chads and Stacys (Kings and Queens) are debuffed permanently.

Automatically posts to reddit when you lose and blames some mechanic of the game.

!familyman

Expose this POS. Make him famous. pic.twitter.com/qZKOss7V4I

— Steve Zissou technical support (@PortsideSully) April 27, 2024

I thought Donkey Kong December was forced and unfunny. Therefore, if I block everyone who participated in it, I'll stop seeing unfunny posts, and only ever see gems

I called this idea COMEDY EUGENICS and I still stand by the principle of it, but ohmyGOD Kongs were the WORST target You guys carry this website. Seriously, my feed is absolutely dry and desolate now. It's magnatudes slower, and the posts that get through are less funny.

I'm sorry Kongs. You were right and I was wrong. I am reversing the ban

I'd still consider this experiment a success though. Why? Because, by making my feed a boring stagnant swamp, I learned who the real enemy is.

Wanna know who is really killing rdrama? The true coal miners of this site?!?

THE UNBLOCKABLES

THAT'S RIGHT!! THEY'RE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO I DIDNT BLOCK!!! And when you see nothing but their post, oh my GOD is it a chore!

I am starting a new initiative. A NEW FRONTIER FOR COMEDY EUGENICS. I will be making a browser plugin that blocks ALL THE UNBLOCKABLE, UNTOUCHABLE SWINE!!! Then, and ONLY THEN, will my feed be pure!

in the meantime, I have some apologies to write.