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  • I knew a woman that would declare, early on in a relationship, that she didn’t want any funny business ever but would very much want funny business a month later. I always assumed it was to filter out people that were only after funny business, or to gauge how their partner respects consent. Granted its not the same dynamic as in the OOP.






  • Yosmonkol@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldTrippy
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    19 days ago

    A lot of slang are either african american vernacular english or from incel/4chan culture in origin but over time they become divorced from their origins. If you were to ask a kid about “sigma” they’d likely have no idea that it came from incel circles. To the typical kid these terms are ‘how all my friends talk’ and the origins aren’t a consideration.







  • To your second point you might find some explanations in film studies. The rise of viscerally violent zombie/horror movies of the 2000s has been widely discussed. Its typically attributed to: political instability (911/war on terror); fear of diseases (2002 SARS/1999 west nile virus); natural disasters (Huricane Katrina 2005/climate change); and economic crisis (dotcom bubble 2000/2007 economic recession). Essentially widespread fears and anxieties shape our media and I think (some) video games being darker, grittier, and more violent in that time period reflect this.