pjwestin

The Captain Planet super villains are actually pretty accurate. Looten Plunder still looks like the average Fortune 500 CEO (minus the 80s fashion sense), and Hoggish Greedly is basically just the President.

I'm sorry, but it really wasn't:

The term originates from the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. In the film, the acronym refers to a group of humanoid, flesh-eating monsters that were once humans, but mutated due to radioactive waste. While the word may have started pejorative use in 2003 to describe any repulsive person, its usage shifted as it became popular in the 2020s on sites such as Twitter and Reddit, after the podcast Chapo Trap House frequently used it to describe those who are ignorant or far-right. Source

I mean, if it's Telegram, then it's probably a bunch of chuds trying to shift the meaning of, "chud," because they're tired of being called chuds.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. "Lowkey," has been around for ages, but it wasn't slang until the late 90s, and it isn't even used the same way. ("Keep it lowkey," vs., "that was lowkey brilliant.")

Oh, I haven't heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, "right-wing dumb-ass," but sometimes more broadly as, "online dumb-ass."

Yeah, the casual way, "f*g," was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.

Look, Gen Z has some stinkers ("that's fire," sucks, and that's coming from the generation that gave you, "hella,"), but their use of Chud is spectacular. A perfect encapsulation of every grubby, right-wing freak from incels to groypers. A near perfect onomatopoeia.