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Comment by rblatz

1 year ago

For those like me who had no idea what coomer means, it’s a weird meme about men that failed no nut November. It seems popular in alt-right circles.

It's so strange because that must be what people who don't know about the term think, but those who do all know it's not really an alt-right meme at all even if it's technical origins are as such.

It's like if someone moved to America and said "Oh Thanksgiving? Never heard of it but I looked into it now, and it's a weird holiday based on whitewashing the murder of Native Americans". Technically it's true but you aren't a supporter of that or blind to that fact when you celebrate it with your family, and the insinuations about you from that are likely incorrect.

Not sure where you're getting that alt-right circle from, it's just regular Internet lingo. Unless you consider people like Hasan alt-right too? Would be mind-blowing for sure, but hey, to reach their own.

Got popular during the pandemic, though it predates it

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coomer

  • Many people still believe that 4chan et al are Alt Right.

    They’re just what 14-28 year old boys are up to, sans filter algorithms. It’s the whole spectrum.