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And again, generally completely detached from any of their original usage.

The term cucked also owes a great deal of its modern use to incels.

Although there's a lot of cross pollination with the alt right there.

I don't know that I'd say that's predominantly comes in as an incel term.

Cause I do feel like a lot of it comes out of like the alt right too, but I don't know.

We can, linguists can argue over that one.

Um,

Another incredibly influential term was maxing, which starts being used by the non-black-pilled chunks of the incel community to describe a variety of activities meant to increase their sexual market value.

Working out a lot and taking steroids is gym maxing.

Going under the knife to improve your looks is surgery maxing.

And the broader trend of lookism eventually evolves into looks maxing, which will bring us to clavicular before too much longer.

Before we get there, I've had to emphasize so many of these terms are not just in use across the internet.

They're like common slang for a lot of very normal Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids.

Adam opens his book, Algo Speak, by talking about a viral 2024 TikTok meme.

That's just somebody walking down a sidewalk in Arizona with the text above on the screen, it's so hard being a walk-pilled cardiomaxer in a car cell gas-cucked state like Arizona.

And like, it's a joke.

You're kind of both making fun of Arizona being so fucking focused, like dependent car dependent, but you're also making fun of incels and the way they talk.

That's part of the bit.

It's kind of fun to talk that way.

Um,