2. I don't see how word counts of made-up terms like 'cuck' amount to much more than "What's The Latest Fashion in Pinheaded Comments ?". If we can actually quantify quality of such things now, then I'd like to hear about that.
Nonsense, Michael. In London, they used to be able to figure out which street you grew up on just from your accent. Linguists can trace the histories of different dialects back many generations to specific locales. And today on the interwebs we can use the same methods.
I recall browsing MLW shortly after Trump won the presidency and seeing 3 or 4 Republican-boosters use the phrase "revved up economy" within a few days of each other. I don't know who used that phrase or which network it aired on, but I am 100% convinced that each of the Republican boosters watched the same video and watched the same talking head deliver the same talking point.
The premise is simple. If you talk like one of those
****, either you're one of those
****, or you've been influenced by those
****. Language like "cuck" and "kek" isn't mainstream. It became popular on particular forums. If you see people using this language, you can trace it back either directly or indirectly to those forums. If you see someone using "cuck" as if it's a real word, you can trace it back to the mooks at 4chan, or to the reddit "The_Donald" forum that borrowed it from 4chan, or to the Twitter users who picked it up from "The_Donald" or 4chan.
-k