• pjwestin@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 days ago

    Look, Gen Z has some stinkers (“that’s fire,” sucks, and that’s coming from the generation that gave you, “hella,”), but their use of Chud is spectacular. A perfect encapsulation of every grubby, right-wing freak from incels to groypers. A near perfect onomatopoeia.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 days ago

        Yeah, but that doesn’t mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. “Lowkey,” has been around for ages, but it wasn’t slang until the late 90s, and it isn’t even used the same way. (“Keep it lowkey,” vs., “that was lowkey brilliant.”)

        • GorGor@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          I feel like it was though. Chode was maybe more common, but chud was used too. The movie followed the name afterall, not the other way around.

          Your example for lowkey is using it as an adverb as opposed to an adjective. A chud has always been a noun.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 days ago

      It doesn’t however, offset the sin that is “foid,” calling women “female humanoids” in casual speach is dehumanizing as fuck.

        • pjwestin@lemmy.world
          12·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, the casual way, “f*g,” was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        31·
        5 days ago

        I’m sorry, but it really wasn’t:

        The term originates from the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. In the film, the acronym refers to a group of humanoid, flesh-eating monsters that were once humans, but mutated due to radioactive waste. While the word may have started pejorative use in 2003 to describe any repulsive person, its usage shifted as it became popular in the 2020s on sites such as Twitter and Reddit, after the podcast Chapo Trap House frequently used it to describe those who are ignorant or far-right. Source

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          am familiar with the movie, saw it in the theaters lol. people started calling racist dickbags chuds soon after.

          What, you don’t get the resemblance?

          lol. cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Oh, I haven’t heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, “right-wing dumb-ass,” but sometimes more broadly as, “online dumb-ass.”

        • marzhall@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          Personally I’ve only just started seeing it used that way on telegram within the last month, seems to be a recent thing.