> This leads to the conclusion that "cuck" in its shortened form was popularised on 4chan or a similar imageboard, corroborating the argument made in the Mel Ma

> This leads to the conclusion that "cuck" in its shortened form was popularised on 4chan or a similar imageboard, corroborating the argument made in the Mel Magazine article. Yeah, this is true. I remember it being used as a generic insult (almost replacing the classic *-fag from old 4chan yore) maybe in 2011-2012? For a while I thought it was just a random word someone started using and it caught on - no idea it would get this "big".