If you just keep hitting “random definitions” you get such an insane spread of internet and non-internet culture. I didn’t realise UD was almost 20 years old.
One definition will be some scene kid trying to be random xD in 2007, another will be a weird sex act invented by someone trying to be funny in 2010.
There’s references to extremely online shit, extremely niche subculture shit, or just general things you’d hear in the wider discourse. There’s A LOT of people putting up extremely specific things about a person they’re into or the place they live as if they’re common parlance but they are clearly used exclusively by that one person.
I had no idea urban dictionary captured such a large time range and such a wide cross section of society. Truly fascinating. Although it is definitely mostly 12 year olds trying to be funny - but it’s interesting to compare 12 year old’s sense of humour over the last few decades I guess.
The internet had a really rough edgy phase around like the mid aughts that like you said crystalized into the neo-fascism we have today. You can track it's growth from Urban Dictionary, to 4chan, to ED, to gamergate, to cringe reddit and public freakout, to neo-fascism.
An online space without moderation will become filled with fascists. That's why you got to salute your moderators and advocate for them to get living wages.
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Never heard of it, what's that?
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Hexbear is honestly the first time I can think of there being a solid site like that for the left, and it's twenty or thirty years late