• @SassyRamenOP
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      262 months ago

      Sorry bud, I’m not young enough to know what that means and I have too much pride to look it up.

        • @[email protected]
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          2 months ago

          Remember when it meant “damn, that is legitimately an unpopular opinion that you apparently actually stand by. Props.”?

          I remember.

          Now it just means “lol tru”

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        Copied from an older comment of mine:

        “Based” (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s

        Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following

        As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.

        • @IzzyScissor
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          62 months ago

          Huh. I thought it originated with “based in reality” or “based in fact” to refer to something that is inherently true.

        • @SassyRamenOP
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          52 months ago

          Wow, what an unexpected turn of events! Thanks for the history lesson!

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        Tough word to define. “Based” comes from black culture, if I recall correctly. To describe something as based means, essentially, “I see that you are strong in your convictions and I approve of your position”, implying perhaps that a person’s opinion is potentially controversial. It also could be, “You have strong views that align with my subculture.”

        I’ve seen “based” used to describe a lot of things in the last ten years. Teenagers describing their desire to overthrow the capitalist system. Ecologists feeling that we should ban cars and return to driving buggies. Neonazis acknowledging another’s dogwhistle. Usually, people are based, not ideas themselves.

        You think most social media is stupid and you think we should nuke the internet? That’s pretty based.

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          32 months ago

          So the OOP here was probably saying something like:

          “I disagree with Christianity, but I see your (possibly cynical) use of its principles as a way to combat a larger problem as good.”

      • GHiLA
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        22 months ago

        I don’t know something

        …ok, that was always allowed.