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[–] sadie_sorceress@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

What is a chud? I'm guessing it's a play on the term Chad?

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think a tumblr post popularized it... Basically it went something like "I don't like insulting people by saying they live in a basement, so I use CHUD (Cannablistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, after the horror movie of the same name) instead"

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

there's cinema chuds and everyone else chuds. cinematic chuds are nyc sewer dwelling C.H.U.D.s and appear on the surface to kidnap and feed. everyone else - chuds has always meant racist fuckwits.

it's the bucket that holds your racist hicks, your KKK organized racist fucktype, capitalist-fetish racists, everything from someone who frequently worries about about miscegenation to the mormons who thought black people didn't get into heaven until the 70s when they decided god sent word that, well, maybe some. it's a big, handy bucket.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If the words are related, the relationship is the other way around; the earliest urban dictionary definition is from 2003

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

the movie CHUD came out in 1984

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but I don't know if the word was common slang between then and the urban dictionary entry, whereas I definitely saw it in the mid-late aughts.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

true, but I can attest that people were saying it in the 90s. It wasn't as popular, but chud was an insult when I was in high school, in the 90s.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago
[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So I guess 4chan is back already huh?

Yup. I got an "are you human" checkbox and wasn't sure if that would disqualify me from visiting.

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I swear just last week we were celebrating it's demise

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

It really depends on the board how toxic it is.

People don't realise how similar to reddit it is where there are dodgy subreddits like /r/thedonald or the incel-coded streamer ones that you just learn to avoid when using it.

I haven't checked if it was still up but one of the oldest posts on 4chan - it had been up for 10+ years - was on the papercraft and origami board following one person's progress in building an extremely complicated origami clock that actually functioned as a clock.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Websites are basic as shit to stand up now, especially when they dont do shit like 4chan.

They probably tossed that fucker up on wix.com. I bet it dramatically improved their security.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's gotta be some kind of physical gap in this anon's brain...

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I believe this might be what they refer to as a "shitpost"

[–] TinyHorse 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

being queer and on 4chan is an experience in cognitive dissidence.

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

A lot of the posts to the /lgbt/ board (some people refer to it as /tttt/ for certain reasons) are self-hatred posts, also most of the people who post there are nasty people who have been banned from other spaces for gatekeeping or attacking other queer people i.e. Transmedicalists, and Nonbinary exclusionists (people who don't believe that Nonbinary people are valid at all).

So yeah I do think there is a lot of cognitive dissonance in people posting there, either people who hate themselves and feel the hate is justified, or people who think they're the only real gay or trans people and everyone else outside their group is posing. Basically, either extemely misguided, or extremely nasty people.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

There was a time long in the past, where 4chan was the place you could find the most gay porn, and hate for gays, right next to each other.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

they had an entire /lgbt/ board

[–] knightly@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You probably meant "dissonance", but I love the phrase "Cognitive Dissidence" and I'm going to use it all the time now.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

i did, but i'm glad haha. spelling is not my strong suit, so i spelled it a way and then spell check corrected it to what i put and i just said "you know best spell check"