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?

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?

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

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/us/amazon-package-cat-utah-california.html

There's a common gimmick that's been popular online where a content creator will try to make a bunch of sequential trades to turn a paper clip or a pencil into something more substantial like $1000, a car or a house.

In this case, known as The Trade House Project, a woman named Dana did exactly that, traded up from a paper clip all the way to a house.

However, she didn't really need a house so she decided to give it away, and in 2022 chose an 18 year old girl named Shay to receive the house, because Shay had a tragic backstory (mom died of cancer when she was 2, dad killed himself in the aftermath) and I guess that was all it took to win the contest, it's not exactly clear.

Here's a video of a shutterfly sponsorship video when Shay initially moved in

Not only did she get a house & $10,000 from Shutterfly, but people also started sending her tons of Amazon packages from a wish list that was set up so she and her bf could start a new life together

The drama started yesterday, when Shay posted a video crying and claiming that Dana had banned her from her own house and that the entire giveaway was a scam (video, along with Shay's entire account, has since been deleted).

Dana came back posting a video with receipts

TL;DW: Shay had moved in for a month, then disappeared for 14 months while continuing to text Dana that she would be back to live in the house any day now. Because Shay had been there for such a short period, she never actually received the title to the house. Eventually Dana went into the house and found garbage, maggots, cat piss and shit everywhere and generally the house had been trashed, and decided to reclaim it and ban Shay from the house.

Tiktok drama girlies are pretty much universally pooping on Shay to the point where she deleted everything. What do you think?

!familyman

Thanks to the libtard municipal government policy decriminalizing homelessness and defunding police in the past year, it has become necessary to resurrect this project by rigging up a new broadcast unit for the first time since 2021, to blast directly at a new homeless encampment on the other side of the property boundary.

I learned a lot from the original version of this project, so the new broadcast unit will be faster to set up since I have a refined design. I think I will start tomorrow and try to have the broadcast going by the end of the day. Also I have learned how to do some basic audio editing since 2021, so now I can add boost the volume/equalizer on music tracks that I previously would have excluded due to having too many quiet parts.

I will try to keep the new playlist relatively meme-y, but I cannot risk including any music of the 1933-1945 and 1861-1865 persuasion. During the original version of this project, I was able to shrug off most of the questions about that type of music from the local Karens, but it's more risky these days with moral busybodies and whiners.

But I feel confident in getting away with subversive music, especially if it's not in German or English.

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"

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

Reminder that economics is not a real science and econ professors deserve it.

(love that reddit has become a generic trademark for unfunny)

(TIL souls in the two lower heavens in Mormonism lose their genitals)

Feels cool 😎

For Further Reading

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear

!nooticers

A federal court has ordered Lolcow LLC to state:

TRANS LIVES MATTER

What's some use you guys have gotten out of the edit logging feature, lately? Have your feelings on it changed?

Aevann says the use case is for drafting effortposts and preventing time-wasting mistakes, but tbh I'm not convinced it's of much help when the text editor is naked and the preview feature doesn't really give you an idea of what your post will look like with half the features- better to work in notepad.

!effortposters this feature carries on in your name so definitely make your voices heard!

To the rest of us !dramatards and !poll_voters, edit logging affects everyone.