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For real though is based just a new form speak like poggers and has no actual meaning to it?
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new form speak
has no actual meaning to it
dude, language is just random noises we decided on
except for a small number of simple baby noises like "mama" and "papa" that are inherent to our anatomy and found all over the world
they are the simplest sounds to make, you just close and open your lips, no fancy tongue technique needed.
https://youtu.be/AJMZ7rtsmTA
"Based" originated from people on KanyeToThe listening to Lil B "The Based God" and turning him into an enormous meme
A decent chunk of people from KTT crossposted on /fa/ and /mu/ and started to use based to refer to stuff that was, well, BASED
over time the rest of 4chan appropriated it and it morphed into a right wing thing when it was originally meant to be a very liberatory slogan:
"He describes his work as "based", a term which denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance; and is noted for his extensive use of social media to build an online cult following."
https://youtu.be/7zJa6FB5crk
This shit is super old, I knew people in highschool that knew Lil B (Bay Area represent loel) and it was a thing among black people in the Bay Area in like 2010 lol
non fash*ids were using it far before they did though, that's what I'm trying to say
I don’t really get what they mean either. Like I can define them and they both basically mean “good”, but it’s also obvious to me that I could not use them in the appropriate context if my life depended on it
Same, and you also have the new age online strasserists that parrot mainline worker populism but with that fash undertone.
that the majority of "based" internet dwellers are either ignorant kids or just straight up fetishistic fash (i.e. meaning whenever someone uses based and isn't citing leftist praxis)
I remember "based" being used extensively on 4chan around a decade or so ago. But back then, it was always used as part of the phrase, "thank you, based god" or based whatever; it wasn't used by itself, but strictly as an adjective.
I only heard it from Vinesauce Joel years ago because he would play Oblivion and refer to Todd Howard as "Based Todd".
That's the majority of my encounters with it as well like on :reddit-logo:
I thought it was al kaida's name translated to base. And it refered to sticking it to the system in socially unacceptable ways
