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It is leakage from the weird inverted sexual landscape that MRAs and incel swim in - an internet in meme grown too large to contain. It also serves as a handy
by Qworg 9y ago
It is leakage from the weird inverted sexual landscape that MRAs and incel swim in - an internet in meme grown too large to contain.
It also serves as a handy handle to insult someone's virility or manliness that fits better in a tweet.
- Bartweiss 9y ago> fits better in a tweet I wonder how much Twitter influences which new slang catches on. 'Bae' is a convenient three letters. For that matter, 'SJW' and 'MRA' are nice and short. You can get each term into a tweet, twice even, without using up much space. Start throwing around 8 or 10 letter terms and no one is going to tweet them enough to quickly force them into culture.
- Qworg 9y agoInteresting point! Given the tools we have now to analyze corpus, I bet you could track the birth of memes - especially with an eye towards the question you posed.
- zeratax 9y agoI shorten lots of terms on irc and elsewhere as well, just because it's faster to type. I doubt this is really a twitter only thing, though of course twitter has a huge influence in spreading these things.