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Internet slang term analyzed as part of irony-poisoned online culture evolution, contrasted with earlier terms like 'win'

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"Kino's meaning isn't clear if you don't know its etymology, and the origin of based is shrouded in the recesses of Lil B's mind. (Hence the mock-befuddled response: 'based on what?') Each has evolved from an obscure in-joke to common chan and chan-adjacent parlance, but retain some of their obscurit"
Discerning cultural change from internet slang · u/futarinijahbless · ↑74 · 2021-03-11
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