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Anon is a T.A. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Here's the real answer for based:

"Based" (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s

Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following

As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.


Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." 

Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I always thought "based" was a contraction of "based on facts and logic" (or similar)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Historically based and KnowYourMeme-pilled