I'll start.

I know there's nothing inherently wrong with "based" as a slang word and it's said plenty of times on Hexbear about good things, but when I see it in the online wild, it is 95% of the time about something bigoted or hateful.

:frothingfash: MECCA SHOULD BE GLASSED

:le-pol-face: BASED

:stupidpol: BASED

:jordan-eboy-peterson: BASED

:grillman: BASED

As weird as it may sound, people that say "vitriol" a lot in online discussions tend to be vitriolic themselves. It's commonly used among civility obsessed :LIB: s when they want to superficially follow the rules while baiting dissenters into getting selectively enforced bans.

:maybe-later-kiddo: "Um, what you just said about entrepreneurial philanthropists was so full of vitriol that I will not dignify it with a proper response. sigh I wish more of you ungrateful kiddos would stop LARPing as tankie fascists and would crack open an Econ 101 book instead. Maybe you would have less vitriol then. Vitriol much?"

:fedposting: "You have been banned for posting on /r/bootlicking. You may contact the moderators if you believe this was in error. No vitriol will be tolerated."

The last one is "human." Yeah I know, weird. But its most common online usage in my experience isn't far off from the usage (and users) of "feeemale" when referring to women (or girls). Also it tends to said a lot by creepy techbro types, both in advertising ironically dehumanizing and alienating tech products and when fanboys go to bat for the same.

:capitalist-woke: "Remember the human!" as a slogan, for example, instead of maybe "don't be an asshole."

Or my least favorite kind of usage:

:so-true: ":melon-musk: is just a better human that wants us all to be better humans! Humans must become an interplanetary species!"

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    my mom is like 50+ and sometimes she says stuff about content and she DOESN'T EVEN POST it just is so present in online media that you get it big bummer