Over the past year or so I’ve seen “chud” cross over from Chapo-adjacent online leftist spaces to general internet lingo. In the process it seems like the meaning has shifted though. To me it was a catch-all term for dumb and buffoonish right-wingers and fascists in general frothingfash

It seems in non-leftist usage chud is just the school shooter wojak and basically means “weird ugly unemployed redditor with mass murder fantasies and implied autism.” The chud is not worthy of scorn because of his far-right politics, but because he is cringe. The original political context of the word has been stripped and replaced by ableism

Are they gonna take large adult son away from us next oooaaaaaaauhhh

  • Arahnya [he/him, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    i encounter it as a soundclip trend / meme on tiktok, subsequently people refering to themselves as a

    fatphobia

    “fat fucking chud”

    for example : “fml im just a fat fucking chud.”

    “can anyone help me with x y z thing cuz im just a fat fucking chud”

    • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      yeah this, except due to my circles i’ve only encountered it from younger gen zs in a body-positive, reclaiming way. the whiplash of hearing a cool gay feminist nb socialist refer to themself as a chud and having to frantically wonder if they’re actually some kind of patsoc 4chan darkwoker 🙃 nah turns out i’m just old lmao