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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.
chud has been around a long time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D
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.")
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.
It doesn't however, offset the sin that is "foid," calling women "female humanoids" in casual speach is dehumanizing as fuck.
But only chuds do that. We're not listing 90s slurs up there either.
Yeah, the casual way, "f*g," was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.
chud's always been a descriptor for racist dickbags
I'm sorry, but it really wasn't:
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
"Chud" went from "terminally online right-wing freak" to "fatass"/"overeater".
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."
Personally I've only just started seeing it used that way on telegram within the last month, seems to be a recent thing.
I mean, if it's Telegram, then it's probably a bunch of chuds trying to shift the meaning of, "chud," because they're tired of being called chuds.
Honestly my vibe as well