(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values.
Synonym: unwoke
based and redpilled
My last account got banned for being too based.
I’ve mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive
It’s the opposite of “cringe”
Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.
well that’s what it originally meant
I’ve mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive