Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.
It’s shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think
Never heard of “Foid” (nor do I know what it means) but “-maxxing” has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term (“looksmaxxing”) wasn’t a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term “-maxxing” is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it’s not “their slang” anymore).
Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I’m from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.
All of the examples given are specifically terms that have to do with more conservative adjacent ideologies. If the words were things like “bet” and “cap” I’d have a different opinion. I believe you have missed the subtext of this meme entirely.
But that’s entirely the point the meme is trying to make. It’s pointing out that gen alpha has an alarming amount of it. It’s like saying “This is actually a dark comedy, there is a layer of irony over the humor” then you jump in and say “hey, it’s not their fault the director decided to mix sadness in!” I’m not even attacking them lol.
If you think dehumanizing women is just “kids speaking differently today” then I don’t know what to tell you…
The fuck you talking about?
Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.
It’s shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think
Never heard of “Foid” (nor do I know what it means) but “-maxxing” has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term (“looksmaxxing”) wasn’t a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term “-maxxing” is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it’s not “their slang” anymore).
Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I’m from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.
All of the examples given are specifically terms that have to do with more conservative adjacent ideologies. If the words were things like “bet” and “cap” I’d have a different opinion. I believe you have missed the subtext of this meme entirely.
It’s not CyberEggs fault that op chose slang from 4chan and called it genα slang
But that’s entirely the point the meme is trying to make. It’s pointing out that gen alpha has an alarming amount of it. It’s like saying “This is actually a dark comedy, there is a layer of irony over the humor” then you jump in and say “hey, it’s not their fault the director decided to mix sadness in!” I’m not even attacking them lol.