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[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have seen the word chud used but the context never made it clear what it means.

[โ€“] tmyakal@infosec.pub 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It literally stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller but is used colloquially for any people considered sub-human or monstrous because of their negative/predatory attitudes toward other people.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

I mean I know the name from the movied it was more its modern usage. Honestly your def difers enough from another persons that now im less sure.

[โ€“] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I view it as the right wing equivalent of a soyjak. A derogatory name (and drawing) for someone who's terminally online and politically obsessed.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now see I did not know it was right wing and now I apparently know what a soyjak is even though its the first time I have seen this. Kinda funny that anyone moving in social media circles has a name for folks who are online all the time and politically obsessed and are not themselves. Its feels like one of those things in a cartoon where the clearly nerdy character is yelling nerd at a nerdier character.

You might recognise a soyjak if you see one, even if you wouldn't know the name of them. It was based off another meme (wojaks) and took off alongside the COVID-era conspiracy theories. It's actually interesting that you can notice how the early ones just had a couple of nerdy traits, like a Nintendo Switch, some glasses, and some facial hair, but as it became less of a meme and more of a propaganda technique, they had to become uglier and uglier to clarify that they represented the "wrong opinion"

[โ€“] DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I read that as politically obese, and I think it still fits.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd like a definition too, I'm an old dude and don't get the new fancy words.

[โ€“] tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How old? Because C.H.U.D. came out forty years ago.

A chud is a vicious sub-human monster.

[โ€“] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A movie so bad I've never seen the end.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

well I mean some you can sus out from context and I sorta used that word intentionally because from context I used it like I did above to figure something out but I also have seen it used to mean something is suspect. chud though I have generally just seen it thrown out as some degrogatory noun which is really hard to figure out in context .

[โ€“] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Calling them fancy is a stretch.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Get out of my lawn!!